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Groetch Lands Top US Role at Lombard Risk
Lombard Risk Management, the London-based provider of regulatory reporting, compliance and collateral management technology to the capital markets, has promoted John Groetch to MD for the Americas.
DTCC Partners FS-IAC for Cybersecurity Venture
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the Financial Services Information and Analysis Center (FS-IAC) have announced a joint venture, Soltra, for cybersecurity offerings.
KCG Launches HotSpot QT
KCG Holdings has debuted a dark crossing venue for foreign exchange (FX), HotSpot QT.
Bred Banque Populaire Chooses SunGard’s Hosted Trading Services for Euronext Access
BRED Banque Populaire, the commercial arm of Groupe Banque Populaire Caisses d’Epargne (BPCE), one of France's largest banking groups, has extended its relationship with SunGard and is now using the vendor's Valdi Market Access platform to add hosted…
Updated Version of Linedata Global Hedge Released
Linedata announced an upgrade to its technology platform for hedge fund managers, Linedata Global Hedge.
ISDA, Markit Launch Derivatives Reporting Tool
ISDA Amend, a joint ISDA-Markit solution, adds a feature to facilitate OTC derivatives trade reporting in three Canadian provinces facing an October 31 deadline
ConvergEx Launches IEX Order Routing Strategy
New York-based broker ConvergEx Group has launched a dynamic order routing strategy developed in collaboration with IEX that will allow its clients to split their orders between IEX’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) and ConvergEx's Darkest algorithm.
OptionsPlay Ideas Available on Scivantage Investment Platforms
Scivantage will offer OptionsPlay Ideas, an equities and options investing tool, through its Scivantage Investor and Scivantage Professional platforms.
Tiger Sinks Claws into Hudson Fiber
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investing in mid-market infrastructure assets, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Paramus, NJ-based low-latency network provider Hudson Fiber Network, to expand the vendor's…
SEC Taps SmartStream for Reconciliations Data
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has selected SmartStream's TLM Reconciliations Premium and SmartRecs products to enhance its front-line oversight division's capabilities.
OMD Builds Social Media Data ‘Sandbox’
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData has launched a new web-based social media analysis platform that combines market data, reference data and social media sentiment scores with analytics and visualization tools, to…
Thomson Reuters Integrates Markit Directory into Eikon Messenger
Thomson Reuters has integrated the Markit Directory "phone book" component of Markit's Collaboration Services messaging platform into its Eikon Messenger chat tool, as part of an ongoing industry project to build an open messaging network for financial…
Eczacıbaşı Securities Selects Catalys for Market Connectivity
Turkish broker Eczacıbaşı Securities has chosen CameronTec's Catalys FIX gateway for connectivity to Borsa Istanbul's equities and derivatives markets.
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…