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CITIC Selects Fincad for Analytics
Pricing and risk provider Fincad has announced that CITIC Securities, one of China's largest investment banks, has selected its F3 analytics platform to support its Asian equity derivatives operation.
IDC Names Goldman Sachs' Black Infrastructure CIO
Interactive Data has appointed former Goldman Sachs executive James Black as chief information officer for infrastructure, a newly created role reporting to company CIO Alex Goor.
S&P DJI to Manage Mexican Exchange Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed all the indexes produced by Mexican stock exchange Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), and will assume responsibility for marketing and commercially licensing the indexes, while working with BMV on the development of new…
Bahrain Bourse Goes Live with Nasdaq Tech
Bahrain Bourse has implemented and gone live with a new trading engine built from Nasdaq OMX's X-stream technology, the two exchange groups have announced.
Interactive Data Adds Support for AIFMD Classifications
The pricing and data vendor has added coverage of the data that alternative investment fund managers will need to comply with new classifications mandated as part of the European Union directive
INTL FCStone Selects Duco
London-based INTL FCStone Ltd has chosen Duco Cube to handle reconciliations for its exchange-traded derivatives and London Metal Exchange businesses.
Autilla Outlines Data Plans Ahead of MiFID 2
London-based precious metals market Autilla, which announced last week that it has migrated to a new electronic trading platform from Swedish exchange trading and market technology provider Cinnober, is leveraging the platform to create a repository of…
Solace Adds to Sales in UK, Asia
Canadian messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems has expanded its sales teams in Europe and Asia with the hires of David Eden as regional account director in London and Danny Papadatos as regional vice president of sales for Asia and Australia in…
Market Prophit Preps Full Launch, Fees
Social media sentiment analysis provider Market Prophit is preparing to emerge from its beta testing phase and begin charging fees for its service in September, chief executive Igor Gonta tells Inside Market Data.
Ballintrae Unveils BMAP Data Compliance Tool
UK-based technology and market data consultancy Ballintrae has released a new compliance tool, dubbed Ballintrae Map (BMAP), which enables banks, asset managers and other institutional investment firms to map market data flows within their organization…
Kimsey: Developing Markets Driving Data Growth
Global spending on market data is poised to grow by just under 4 percent over the next two years to around $23.6 billion, driven by growing data consumption in new markets, according to an analysis of the trading technology sector carried out by UK-based…
Notenstein Takes SimCorp for Front and Middle Office
Notenstein Private Bank has selected SimCorp's dimension platform, the vendor has announced.
GFI Selects Torstone for Reconciliations
Torstone Technology has announced that GFI Group will use its Inferno platform to handle reconciliations.
9W Search Integrates IBM's Watson for Natural-Language Queries
Financial search engine provider 9W Search is developing a new component of its web-based financial information search platform that will leverage IBM's Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer to allow investors to query 9W's structured and…
Fitch Hires Vendor Vet Filanowski as Global Product Head
Fitch solutions, the software and data arm of ratings agency Fitch, has hired former Bloomberg exec Brian Filanowski as managing director and global product head, responsible for the delivery and expansion of current and new analytical tools from Fitch…
CoreSite Rolls Out Perseus' Time Synch in VA Datacenter
Carrier-neutral datacenter and co-location provider CoreSite Realty Corporation has deployed connectivity and managed services provider Perseus Telecom's High-Precision Time certified timing service at its facility in Northern Virginia, to enable…
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.