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Flexenet Acquires Network Services Division from Speakerbus
Communications provider Flexenet has announced the acquisition of Speakerbus's Network Services division.
Corr Appointed Scivantage CFO
The provider has tapped Jim Corr as executive vice president and CFO.
Thomson Reuters Taps Celoxica Tech for FPGA Feed
Thomson Reuters has rolled out Elektron Direct Feed, a hardware-accelerated datafeed, using FPGA cards from UK-based data technology vendor Celoxica to deliver single-digit microsecond latency.
StockViews Eyes Institutional Market for Retail Ratings, Research Platform
London-based startup crowdsourced investment platform StockViews plans to start selling its product to institutional investors within the next 18 to 24 months, to respond to demand for cheaper and more accurate research, officials say.
Vienna Exchange Debuts Intraday Corporate Actions
Wiener Börse's new Corporate Action Service offers data from more than 300 firms on an intraday basis, including those in six other markets covered by its central and eastern European parent group
Wiener Börse Bows Intraday Corporate Actions Data to Grow Trader Appeal
Wiener Börse, the Vienna Stock Exchange, has released a new service designed to attract new investors to the region's markets, by providing data vendors, analysts, traders and index trackers with timely, intraday access to corporate actions data from…
Milestone Group Appoints BNP Exec to Head Asia-Pacific
Milestone Group, a provider of fund processing solutions, has appointed former BNP Paribas executive Enrique Gonzales as head of product management for the Asia-Pacific region.
Eagle Promotes Sales Executives
Greg Farrington, a US executive at Eagle Investment Systems, gains responsibility to cover the Americas, while John Boggis expands his European role to include the entire EMEA region
Aspect Enterprise Expands Commodities, Shipping Data
UK-based commodities data and technology vendor Aspect Enterprise plans to expand the coverage of its AspectDSC data and analytics solution with the addition of data from marine fuels and shipping prices provider Bunkerworld, and chemical, energy and…
Quandl Adds Nasdaq Index Data to Free Financial Search Portal
Toronto-based online economic and financial data search engine Quandl has added Nasdaq OMX's global index family to its web-based platform for financial, economic and sociological datasets, to provide analysts, traders and economists with daily index…
Update: HP Vet Potter Joins Solarflare Board
High-performance network technology provider Solarflare has appointed Mark Potter, senior vice president and chief technology officer of hardware supplier HP's Enterprise Group, to its board of directors, to help "guide" the company to a leading position…
Top Sales Role for Eagle’s Farrington
Wellesley, MA-based Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of investment management-focused technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, has promoted Greg Farrington to head of sales, Americas.
ITG Acquires RFQ-Hub
Agency broker ITG has announced the acquisition of derivatives platform RFQ-hub.
Lombard Risk Looks to Leckie
London-based Lombard Risk Management, a provider of regulatory compliance, reporting, and collateral management technology to the capital markets, has appointed George Leckie to lead sales and business development for ComplianceASSESSOR, the firm's web…
Zschach Joins CLS as CIO
Tom Zschach is set to join the foreign exchange (FX) risk-mitigation utility CLS Group as its chief information officer come September 1.
Redline Gets $5M VC Funds, Adds Ex-Thomson CEO Harrington to Board
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has raised $5 million in new funds from Cue Ball Group, a Boston-based venture capital firm chaired by Richard Harrington, the former president and chief…
Bloomberg Touts New Toronto Ticker
Bloomberg has gone live with a new ticker plant in Toronto, to provide financial firms with faster access to data captured from Canadian exchanges, reducing latency by 71 percent compared to its previous offering.
Barchart Rolls Out Canadian Securities Exchange Data
Chicago-based data and analytics vendor Barchart has added market data from the Canadian Securities Exchange to its data services.
GLEIF Sets Fees For LEI Licensing
The foundation, which is responsible for legal entity identifier infrastructure and principles, is relying on the licensing fees to fund the central operating unit administering LEIs
Fincad Snaps up Garfield for Product Marketing Role
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad has hired Rob Garfield as global head of product marketing.
CME to Acquire Trayport and Fenics from GFI Group
The CME Group has agreed to acquire Trayport, a trading software provider for the European energy market, and Fenics, a suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software, in a two-step transaction with inter-dealer…
GE Capital Names Casper as New CDO
Rob Casper, previously a managing director at Morgan Stanley, has been hired by GE Capital as its chief data officer
CME to Buy GFI's Fenics and Trayport Pricing, Trading Tech Businesses
CME Group has announced plans to acquire interdealer broker GFI Group's Fenics suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software and its Trayport commodities and energy trading technology.
GE Capital Names New CDO
Rob Casper, previously a managing director at Morgan Stanley, has been hired by GE Capital as its chief data officer