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Dickey to Direct OPRA
Market data industry veteran Steve Dickey has been appointed director of the Options Price Reporting Authority, which manages the OPRA consolidated feed of US exchange-traded options quote and trade data.
ICE Starts Clearing for Markit iTraxx Financials Index
The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Group has announced it has begun clearing for Markit iTraxx Senior Financials Credit Default Swap (CDS) index instruments.
Deutsche Börse Launches Economic Indicators Alert Feed
Deutsche Börse has launched AlphaFlash Risk Signal, a notification feed that helps automated traders and other market participants improve their risk management by informing them of upcoming economic indicators, and alerting them when the releases are…
New FX Liquidity Hub From Tullet Division
Foreign exchange (FX) agent and Tullet Prebon division Chapdelaine FX has deployed a liquidity hub, supported by UK-based First Derivatives’ Delta Flow technology.
Deutsche Börse Replaces Steinicke with Freis in Compliance Top Spot
James H Freis Jr will become the new chief compliance officer at Deutsche Börse, replacing Michael Steinicke in the role, effective from April 1, 2014.
Bloomberg Partners With FMDQ for Nigerian Bonds Platform
Bloomberg and venue operator FMDQ OTC have announced the launch of a platform and market surveillance system for the electronic trading of Nigerian government bonds.
AQX Selects BNP Paribas for Settlement
AQX Securities has selected BNP Paribas Securities Services as its central settlement partner for all trades, both firms announced today.
Moscow Exchange Preps Unified Data Policy
The Moscow Exchange is expected to approve a new fee policy document within the next two months that will standardize the contract terms and costs of market data usage by its trading members, data vendors and other users, exchange officials say.
MarketPsych Readies Revamped V2.0 of TRMI Sentiment Indexes
Los Angeles-based behavioral finance and analysis provider MarketPsych is preparing to launch a new version of its Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indexes (TRMI) machine-readable news service, which will incorporate sentiment on global equity indexes and…
Byrne Leaves SunGard for Confluence
After almost 20 years at SunGard, Hugh Byrne has taken responsibility for Confluence's European sales
CNSX Mulls ITCH Feed, Continues Equinix Migration
Canadian exchange group CNSX Markets is considering rolling out new versions of its market data feeds based on Nasdaq OMX's ITCH protocol in a bid to grow its membership base of market makers, algorithmic traders and low-latency trading firms.
StatPro Revolution Adds Commitment Approach for UCITS, AIFMD Compliance
StatPro Group has announced it has added ‘commitment approach’ to its Revolution portfolio analytics and reporting tool for compliance with Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities (UCITS) and Alternative Investment Fund…
Esma Examines HFT, CSDs in Risk Report
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has released its first report on trends, risks, and vulnerabilities for 2014, choosing to focus, in part, on the effects of high-frequency trading (HFT) and the potential systemic risks posed by…
Confluence Taps SunGard Vet Byrne for EU Sales
Pittsburgh-based fund data management software vendor Confluence has hired former SunGard executive Hugh Byrne as managing director of sales, responsible for driving Confluence's strategic sales and growth strategy in Europe.
S&P Real-Time Debuts FPGA OPRA Feed
The Real-Time Solutions division of S&P Capital IQ (formerly QuantHouse, prior to its acquisition by S&P in 2012) has unveiled QuantFeed FPGA for OPRA, a hardware-accelerated version of its consolidated datafeed that delivers additional processing power…
Charles River to Enter the IBOR Fray
Later this year Charles River is set to unveil a module that will allow its buy-side clients to manage their investment book of record (IBOR) activities. The IBOR functionality will be deployed along with version 9.2 of the Charles River Investment…
Investment Consultancy Citisoft Launches Know-Your-Outsourcer Tool
Investment management consulting firm Citisoft has launched a service, KYO-40, to help asset managers keep oversight of their outsource service.
CounterpartyLink Partners with RDC to Streamline Due Diligence
CounterpartyLink will now screen its clients' counterparties against the sanctions lists and risk intelligence maintained by Regulatory DataCorp to help them simplify due diligence processes
Ladd Replaces Spanbroek to Lead Prop-Trading Body
The European Principal Traders Association (Epta), a subsidiary of the Futures Industry Association (FIA), announced today that Johannah Ladd has taken on the role of secretary general at the lobby group.
Thomson Reuters, Cambridge Associates Aggregate Private Fund Benchmarks
The financial information provider and global investment firm have collaborated on a jointly-developed online platform to provide benchmark pricing on a range of alternative funds.
Thomson Reuters Adds Cambridge Assocs Fund Performance Benchmarks
Thomson Reuters is to begin making private fund performance benchmark data from investment firm Cambridge Associates available via its Eikon data desktop to provide "a next-generation benchmarking system for the [financial] industry," officials say.
MarketPrizm Partners with Object Trading on DMA
MarketPrizm, a London-based provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, will offer Object Trading’s managed FrontRunner direct market access (DMA) on its data-enabled platform, allowing firms to reduce the resource constraints of market…
Azul Takes Aim at Java Warm-Up Issues with ReadyNow!
Azul Systems has announced the inclusion of ReadyNow! in the latest iteration of Zing, its Java virtual machine (JVM), designed to mitigate time delays that occur when Java applications can't reach optimal efficiency during intense periods of market…
Lombard Risk and Broadridge Strike Collateral Management Alliance
Lombard Risk, the London-headquartered provider of collateral management, regulatory compliance, and reporting technology, and Lake Success, NY-based Broadridge Financial Solutions, have formed an alliance that will address capital markets firms’…