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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Mergent Adds Barchart Commodity Yearbook to Historical Document Archive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
FBI Investigating Cyber Attacks on US Banks
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is working with the Secret Service, in order to investigate recent cyber attacks on American banks.
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Datacenter
CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the former Savvis hosting and network business subsidiary acquired by internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink, has opened a new datacenter in Markham, Toronto.
Israeli Bourse Mulls Trading Week Change
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is considering a change in its trading week that will see it line up with standard practice at other exchanges.
Nasdaq PHLX Adds Data Specs to Options Feeds
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) is updating the specifications for three options data products, to include additional data in existing order exposure alerts and a solicitation mechanism.
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Liquid Triples Datacenter Rack Space
The buy-side trading and risk management system provider says it has achieved three and a half times previous capacity at its Equinix datacenters in support of client growth.
Data Audit Recoveries Boost Moscow Exchange H1 Revenues
The Moscow Exchange has reported a 42 percent year-on-year increase in first half information services revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, to RR (Russian rubles) 241.7 million ($6.7 million), from RR170.7 million ($4.7 million) in 2013.