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DTCC Adds Trade Reporting for Australia, Singapore
The US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced the extension of its Global Trade Repository (GTR) service to Australia and Singapore.
Capco Appoints Steve Vinnicombe as UK CEO
Consultancy Capco has announced that Steve Vinnicombe will be replacing Andrew Tarver as its UK CEO.
Swift Launches Compliance Analytics Tool
Messaging provider Swift has announced the launch of Compliance Analytics, a tool that helps banks in monitoring and dealing with financial-crime risk.
Eze Castle Integration Links with SunGard
Eze Castle Integration (ECI) has announced that its UK buy-side clients using the ECI Link Private Network will now have access to the SunGard Global Network (SGN).
Volant Expands Execution Services through REDIPlus
Market-maker Volant Trading has rolled out extensions to its execution services for options traders, allowing them new capabilities through the REDIPlus execution management system (EMS).
Pyrford International Goes Live on Charles River’s IMS
Pyrford International, a London-based asset manager owned by the Bank of Montreal, has gone live with Charles River’s cloud-based Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), the vendor has announced.
BlueBay's Willis Joins Algomi as Strategic Advisor
London-based fixed-income technology provider Algomi has appointed Hugh Willis as a strategic advisor.
Markit Plans Relaunch of Corporate Actions Service
Markit Corporate Actions will move to a web-based platform, offering more data sourcing flexibility and timelier processing
J&J Publishes RFP for UTP Processor
New York-based management and market data consultancy Jordan & Jordan has distributed a request for proposal (RFP) for companies interesting in becoming the SIP processor for the UTP/Tape C consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Nasdaq-listed…
Dash Departs Bloomberg Indexes
Srikant Dash has left his role as global head of indexes at Bloomberg, Inside Market Data has learned.
Data Vet Farrell Joins FX Trading Tech Vendor Integral
Palo Alto, Calif.-based foreign exchange trading technology provider Integral Development has hired Richard Farrell as managing director in charge of new client segments, with responsibility for expanding the vendor's products into new business areas.
CME Europe Goes Live
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) has launched its new London-based derivatives venue, CME Europe.
Nasdaq OMX NLX Expands Board of Directors
London-based derivatives trading venue Nasdaq OMX NLX has appointed Anthony Belchambers, Rod Banus and Andrew Chart as non-executive directors of NLX.
Wall Street Horizon Readies ETF Calendar Feed
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon has launched a new ETF Calendar Data Feed to provide institutional traders and market makers with access to announced, projected and historical exchange-traded fund…
WorkFusion Gains Funding
Venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures is leading $15 million in funding for the crowdsourcing data operations company, including investment by former Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer
Belzberg Founders Hatch Twitter Analysis Tool
Infinigon Group, the social media analytics startup created by Belzberg Technologies founders Sid and Alicia Belzberg, is beginning to roll out its financial markets-focused Echo service that monitors Twitter activity to identify price-impacting…
Liquidnet Expands Market Surveillance Team in Europe
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has expanded its market surveillance team in Europe with the appointment of Christopher Wall as head of market surveillance in Europe and David Stockwell as market surveillance specialist.
Swift Unveils Revamped Payments Reference Data Tool
International payments utility Swift has unveiled a new version of its Bankers World Online directory─part of its SwiftRef payments reference data suite─that now includes broader coverage and datasets, such as Business Identification Codes (BICs),…
SIX Exchange Bows New Index Data
The SIX Swiss Exchange is to roll out real-time, delayed and historical data on a new index that tracks the 20 stocks from its Swiss Performance index with the highest dividend payments and profitability.
Instinet Makes Necakov CTO
Instinet, the equity execution services arm of the Japanese bank Nomura, has appointed Tony Necakov as CTO.
ConvergEx Survey: Market Not “Fair For All Participants”
A recent survey on US equity market structure conducted by New York-based broker ConvergEx found that 70 percent of respondents do not believe that equity markets are “fair for all participants.”
Alasdair Haynes Named Chairman of Neonet
Swedish agency broker Neonet Securities has appointed Aquis Exchange founder Alasdair Haynes as its non-executive chairman, replacing Peter Melbi.
BI-SAM Unveils Structural Changes to Support Growth Plan
Paris-headquartered buy-side performance, attribution and risk management vendor BI-SAM has made a number of executive appointments.
Cordium and Indus Valley Partners Team Up for AIFMD Compliance
UK-based compliance specialist Cordium is partnering with New York-based technology provider Indus Valley Partners (IVP) to offer a solution for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive’s (AIFMD) Annex IV reporting requirements.