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Bloomberg Vault Partners with Salesforce
Bloomberg is now part of salesforce.com's partner program, allowing the pair to team up on support for Salesforce1 for financial services.
Tradier Bows No-Cost ‘Sandbox' Environment for Startup Developers
Tradier, a cloud-based brokerage platform operator and provider of a supporting data, trading and analytics application hosted environment, has unveiled a new service, dubbed Tradier Developer Sandbox, aimed at startup developers that find it hard and…
OFR Names Advisory Committee Members
Interactive Data's Stephen Daffron and Northern Trust's Kay Vicino are among the new appointees to the US Treasury unit's advisory group
EAM Investors Taps Charles River Data Service
The '40 Act boutique fund manager will use the service for batch reference and issuer data, real-time pricing, new security setup, and the recently-offered constituent-level benchmark data.
Rocaton Takes RiskFirst for Analytics
Rocaton Investment Advisers has selected RiskFirst's PFaroe platform to provide greater insight into pension plan risk, the vendor has announced.
BME to Provide Bolivian Bourse with Tech
Madrid-based Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) has signed an agreement with the Bolivian Stock Exchange, where the former will upgrade the latter's trading platform with its Sibe-Smart technology.
TS-Associates Enters Administration, Velocimetrics Takes Over IP, Tech Team
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has acquired an exclusive license to sell and maintain the Precision Instrumentation product range developed by UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates, which has entered…
Diliger Hires Data Vets Clark, Humby, Cartledge
Startup London-based market data procurement platform provider Diliger has hired three market data industry procurement and consulting experts to bolster its team and support an "aggressive agenda" for its data solutions sourcing business, officials say.
Eccleston Departs S&P Capital IQ
Lou Eccleston, president of S&P Capital IQ and chairman of the board of S&P Dow Jones Indices, left the companies' parent group, McGraw-Hill Financial, on Monday, July 14.
Waters Rankings 2014 ─ All the Winners
At a luncheon held on July 16 at the Hudson Hotel, New York City, the winners of the 2014 Waters Rankings were revealed.
Black is the New Black for MSCI Canada
Index provider MSCI has hired Lindsay Black as vice president of its equity index business in Toronto, responsible for relationship management with local asset managers, broker-dealers and hedge funds.
Nomura AM Chooses NRI for Data Warehousing, Client Reporting, Back Office
Nomura Asset Management has decided to use Nomura Research Institute's technology to help manage Japanese investment advisory reporting requirements
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Dials Mobile Data App
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has launched a mobile application designed to provide investors with a selected and user-friendly view of trading data.
Asset Control Hires SunGard Exec to Manage New Asian Hub
Franck Peltier has been hired by Asset Control to head the "full-service hub" it is creating in Singapore to serve the APAC market
Cloud Computing Remains Tough Sell For Data, Study Finds
A survey of 21 firms conducted by Aite Group found that security and privacy concerns are barriers to more widespread adoption of cloud computing resources for data operations
Options Partners with Orchestrade for Cross-Asset Platform
Options has announced that vendor Orchestrade's risk management and operations platform has been integrated with its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering.
Raymond James Implements GBST for Middle-Office Processing
GBST has announced that the implementation of its Syn~ product at Raymond James Financial's Equity Capital Markets division has been completed, and that the broker is now live on the system.
Bloomberg-Rebranded UBS Indexes Continue Availability on Rimes BDS
Managed benchmark data services provider Rimes Technologies has added Bloomberg index data from Bloomberg to the range of data sources available via its Benchmark Data Service, which provides cloud-based data collection, validation, transformation,…
Boston Consulting Group Hires McGraw-Hill Exec Teschner
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has hired former McGraw-Hill strategy executive Charles Teschner as head of capital markets for North America, to lead the consultancy's team advising financial institutions in the region.
Tep Joins Element 22 As Partner
Methea Tep, most recently a managed services executive at SmartStream, joins the advisory company as a partner
Nomura Asset Management Selects NRI T-STAR for Back Office
Nomura Asset Management, Japan's largest asset management firm, has adopted Nomura Research Institute's (NRI) T-STAR back office suite, including the RX, GX and ReportAssist tools.
ITG Launches FX Trading Cost Index App
Broker and research provider ITG has released a tool that provides foreign exchange traders and portfolio managers with liquidity costs for 20 currency pairs.
OTAS Bows Real-Time TCA
London-based analytics provider OTAS Technologies has rolled out a new transaction cost analysis platform that provides traders at buy-side firms with real-time analytics on trade performance in changing market conditions.
GoldenSource Appoints Senior European Sales Manager
Eric Bassot has been given responsibility for sales in Italy, Spain and French-speaking countries