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Saxo Appoints Ex-FOA CEO
Saxo Capital Markets UK has announced that Anthony Belchambers, former CEO of the Futures and Options Associations (FOA) will join the firm as a non-executive director.
Interactive Data Lures Vendor Vets Babarinde, Burtsal for EMEA Sales
Interactive Data has hired data industry veterans Olakunle Babarinde and Richard Burtsal as head of sales for real-time feeds and 7Ticks EMEA, and sales manager for trading solutions, respectively.
ITB Unveils New Data Display in Updated Trading Interface
ITB, a New York-based provider of fixed income liquidity aggregation and trading software, has rolled out a new trading interface with enhanced data displays geared towards better serving the data requirements of institutional bond traders and creating…
EEX Switches on Power Transparency Data Site
Leipzig, Germany-based European Energy Exchange has rolled out a new website, eex-transparency.com, to provide users with access to fundamental data and information on wholesale energy trading, in response to new requirements derived from the Regulation…
State Street Appoints Keogh Head of Alternative Investment Solutions for APAC
State Street Corporation has appointed Bob Keogh as its head of Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) for Asia Pacific on the back of rising demand for alternative investment servicing in the region.
Ex-Millennium Partners CTA Spinoff Taps Liquid
The Mada Group, a recently-launched commodity trading advisor (CTA) specializing in energy, agriculture, and metals futures, has chosen Liquid for its investment processes and middle-office operations.
Deutsche Bank Singapore Taps Avaloq for its Wealth Management Back Office Services
Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management, a division of the Deutsche Bank Group, has selected Avaloq Sourcing Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of Avaloq Group, to provide back offices services to its wealth management arm in Singapore.
Thomson Reuters Debuts European ESG Indexes
Thomson Reuters has rolled out a new suite of indexes that measure environmental, social and corporate governance practices of European companies, in an effort to expand its existing ESG indexes and index data offering.
Fenergo and BMO Continue Compliance Partnership
Software provider Fenergo and Bank of Montreal Capital Markets (BMO) are preparing to launch phase two of their onboarding project, designed to meet regulatory deadlines in July.
Asset Control Finds its Feet in Singapore
Asset Control's consolidation of its offices in the Asia-Pacific region is generating positive feedback from clients, according to Franck Peltier, MD of the New York-based data management technology and services provider.
Deutsche Bank Appoints Massion as Japan GTB Chief
Deutsche Bank has appointed Peter Massion as its head of global transaction banking (GTB) and head of trade finance and cash management corporates (CMC) in Japan.
Barclays Plans Texas Tech Center
Barclays will open a technology campus located in McKinney, Texas, and aims to move in by fall 2014, the town's development body has announced.
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
BondHawk Launches Fixed-Income Platform
BondHawk Systems has announced the release of its BondHawk Trader platform, focusing on fixed-income trading on both the buy and sell sides.
Morningstar iPad App Ups Content, Capabilities
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar recently updated its Morningstar for iPad research, market monitoring and portfolio management app with new content and capabilities.
KRX Adds Real-Time Price Banding
The Korea Exchange (KRX) has announced new safety measures for its derivatives market, introducing real-time price banding to prevent mass fluctuations.
Interactive Data Makes Evaluated Pricing Continuous
The data services provider adds updated evaluations with continuous fixed-income evaluated-pricing service
Dagens Industri Taps Finwire for Swedish News, ‘Social' Content
Swedish daily financial news site and newspaper Dagens Industri has signed an agreement with Swedish news provider Finwire to distribute the vendor's small-cap Swedish company news and curated content from social media streams about global events,…
IDC Expands Real-Time Bond Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has expanded its continuous fixed income evaluated pricing service to provide users with real-time evaluated prices for US Treasury, agency and corporate bonds, TBA mortgage-backed securities, and mortgage-backed securities pass-through…
Mergent Adds Barchart Commodity Yearbook to Historical Document Archive
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart's Commodity Research Bureau division has made the 75-year archive of its CRB Commodity Yearbook available via company data provider Mergent's Mergent Archives, an online database of more than 180,000 indexed corporate…
FCA Fines Deutsche Bank for Extensive Reporting Errors
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has levied a fine of £4.7 million (approximately $7.8 million) on Deutsche Bank for submitting nearly 30 million incorrect trading reports over a number of years.
Thomson Reuters Wins Taipei IBOR Benchmark Calculation Role
The Taipei Foreign Exchange Market Development Foundation has named Thomson Reuters the calculation agent for its CNT TAIBOR offshore renminbi benchmark, the Taipei Interbank Offered Rate.
Dalglish to Head SmartStream’s Transformation Services
SmartStream Technologies has announced the appointment of Tom Dalglish as a senior vice president and global head of transformation services.
Wipro Makes Impact With Collective Knowledge Service
Impact Accelerated Client Transformation (ImpACT) has saved customers $15 million in costs over four months through collectively developed data-management and processing improvements