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iLevel Opens UK-Based Datacenter
The software provider to private capital markets has opened a new European datacenter at Rackspace's UK facility to support a growing client base and presence in the region.
Euroclear, Six Securities Partner on Enhanced Global Fund Servicing
Six Securities Services and Euroclear Bank have joined forces to offer Swiss asset managers with an end-to-end fund services platform.
BVL Extends Relationship with CameronTec
The Peruvian Exchange, Bolsa de Valores de Lime (BVL), will further expand its relationship with CameronTec by using its VeriFIX automated testing tools on its new Millennium trading platform.
Sparinvest picks SunGard
Denmark-based asset manager Sparinvest will use SunGard’s XSPrisa to automate its global corporate actions processing.
Barchart Adds Commodities Prices to OnDemand Web Services Data
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has begun distributing global commodities and futures price data via its Barchart OnDemand suite of web services-enabled datasets that leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
Russian Depository Launches LEI Data Site
The National Settlement Depository has debuted lei-code.ru, a website providing data on legal entity identifiers in the Russian market
1010 Says 10-4 to ‘Easy-to-Use' Analysis Interface
1010Data, a New York-based provider of Big Data analytics tools for fixed income and other markets, has released a new interface to its database, to allow bond traders to more easily perform loan-level analysis on mortgage-backed securities, in addition…
Dion Debuts AlphaClick
Dion Global Solutions has announced the launch of AlphaClick, a portfolio analytics tool aimed at venture capital and private equity firms.
Sparinvest Chooses SunGard’s XSPrisa for Corporate Actions Processing
International asset management firm Sparinvest will implement SunGard's XSPrisa software-as-a-service offering to help mitigate its operational risk and more efficiently process corporate actions events
Exceed, Nasdaq Ally for Structured Investment Indexes, Data Distribution
New York-based boutique financial services firm Exceed Investments is launching a new family of indexes, dubbed the Nasdaq Exceed Structured Indexes, in partnership with Nasdaq OMX. The new indexes are designed to deliver the predictability of structured…
StatPro Taps Thompson for Client Integrations
Data and portfolio analytics provider StatPro has hired Ian Thompson as client integration director, responsible for helping the vendor's product development teams to smoothly transition clients to its cloud-based StatPro Revolution analytics platform…
Voltaire Keeps Up with the Jones
London-based valuation risk advisory firm Voltaire Advisors has appointed Peter Jones senior partner, with responsibility for creating and growing its online community of valuations and risk professionals, and for producing its Valuation Risk Briefing…
RBS Adopts Single-Platform Transaction Messaging for Corporates
Royal Bank of Scotland will now support Swift's Corporate Access (SCA) members using the MT798 messaging standard for corporate-to-bank trade transactions.
City Index Rolls Out Velocimetrics for Data Quality Monitoring
City Index, a provider of equities, options, indexes and contracts for difference trading and financial spread betting, has implemented technology from latency monitoring provider Velocimetrics to monitor the quality of market data feeding its equities…
Singapore Exchange Upgrades Reporting
The exchange, working with a market practice group, is requiring completion of structured data fields to better support corporate actions reporting
PDQ Rolls Out New Auction Venue
Alternative trading system PDQ has unveiled Auction1, an electronic equity auction designed for larger orders with heightened sensitivity to market impact.
Brazil's Valemobi Taps Numerix for Pricing Analytics
The São Paulo-based brokerage will use Numerix's advanced analytical framework to produce pricing and portfolio analytics across multiple asset classes for its buy side-focused Valebroker platform.
Teknometry Names Howland as Director
Performance analysis vendor Teknometry has appointed Anthony Howland as a director.
FX Manipulation Targeted with b-next Release
Surveillance vendor b-next has announced the release of a tool for its Capital Market Compliance (CMC) offering, aimed at detected suspicious trading activity around the foreign exchange (FX) fix.
BATS Makes Early Move on ETF Reporting
BATS Chi-X Europe has announced the impending launch of a centralized reporting service for exchange-traded funds (ETF), set for October 1.
ICE Completes Nyfix, Metabit Sale
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Group has announced that its sale of the Nyfix and Metabit businesses, instigated after its purchase of NYSE Euronext, have been completed.
SunGard Introduces APT Enterprise
The technology mainstay says its updated buy-side offering, APT Enterprise, now includes a risk dashboard for a single view of market and liquidity risk that can incorporate multiple trading strategies and metrics covered under several global reporting…
BCS Financial Taps Horizon’s Market-Making Platform
Russian broker BCS Financial Group has selected Horizon Software's derivatives market-making capabilities and exchange connectivity throughout Europe.
VWD Grows Index Content with iQ-Foxx Data
Frankfurt-based market data vendor VWD has added data on Austrian index provider iQ-Foxx’s smart beta indexes to its data products, in a move that officials say will allow users to reduce portfolio volatility, allowing them to increase their holdings in…