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Style Research Incorporates RavenPack News Indicators
Global investment research and portfolio analysis application provider Style Research has integrated Spanish news analytics provider RavenPack’s Company Sentiment and News Volume Indicators into its web-based Enterprise platform to enable fund of fund…
Growth in Reference Data Spend Continues to Slow
Following double-digit increases between 2006 and 2011, growth of spend on pricing, reference and valuation data slowed to under 8% in 2012 and 2013, according to research by Burton-Taylor International Consulting
OptionsCity Updates its Futures and Options Trading Platform
OptionsCity Software, a Chicago-based provider of futures and options trading solutions, has released version 5.0 of its flagship trading and market-making platform, Metro, designed to better manage risk.
ICSDs, Custodians Develop Asset-Servicing Model for T2S
A group of international central securities depositories (ICSDs) and custodian banks have announced the joint development of a common model for asset servicing under the Target2-Securities (T2S) project.
Electra Taps Rhodes as COO
A software solutions provider for asset managers, Electra Information Systems has appointed Scott Rhodes as chief operations officer, to be based in New York.
Thomson Reuters Unveils Benchmark Rates Subsidiary
Thomson Reuters will this week unveil a new business, Thomson Reuters Benchmark Services (TRBS), set up as a regulated entity that can provide benchmark rate and index calculation and administration services separately from its parent’s in-house rates…
IDC's Russell Takes ‘Evangelist' Role at Tradier
Tradier, a provider of cloud-based brokerage infrastructure platforms and applications, has hired Craig Russell as senior vice president of product and chief evangelist to lead the vendor's sales, marketing and client and partner engagement activities…
Interactive Data Adds Bloomberg Open Symbology
The pricing and data services company joins a growing number of providers offering Bloomberg's securities identification system
Fidessa Preps BMV Feed, Further LatAm Growth
Trading technology and market data vendor Fidessa is integrating a new market data feed from the national stock exchange of Mexico, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), into its trading platform, as part of ongoing plans to expand its coverage in Latin…
Fixnetix Co-Founder Moore Becomes Non-Exec
Alasdair Moore, a co-founder of UK-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Fixnetix is stepping down from his executive role as business development director at the vendor and will take up a new non-executive position on Fixnetix's…
SMA Increases Coverage, Frequency of Sentiment Scores
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals based on social media sentiment, is expanding its asset class coverage and increasing the frequency of its intraday sentiment scores, to meet demand for data from traders…
TCW Group Implements Bonaire for Revenue and Expense Management
Investment manager TCW Group has signed Bonaire for its revenue and expense management platform, the vendor has announced.
Clearstream Bolsters Global Liquidity Hub with OTC Collateral
International central securities depository Clearstream has announced the introduction of OTC Collateral, a bilateral collateral management service, to its risk and liquidity management platform Global Liquidity Hub.
ZE PowerGroup Improves Data Platform Navigation, Display; Opens Netherlands Office
Energy data management software provider and consultancy ZE PowerGroup is adding new functionality to its ZEMA data management and analytics suite to enable users to better navigate the capabilities of the platform, and has also opened a new office in…
MTS Buys Bonds.com
Electronic fixed-income trading platform MTS, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, announced it will acquire Bonds.com pending regulatory clearance and stockholder approval. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of this year.
Basel Committee Points to Shortfall Drop Under Basel III
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision states that its Basel III capital adequacy rules have produced a decrease in capital shortfalls among one group of banks.
Options Reduces Latency on New Jersey Fiber
Options, the New York-based private financial cloud provider, has upgraded its route between the NJ2 Savvis facility in Weehawken, New Jersey, and the NY4 Equinix facility in Secaucus, New Jersey.
RepRisk Adds Italian-Language ESG Risk Data
Swiss environmental, social and governmental (ESG) risk data provider RepRisk has added Italian-language sources and analysis to its coverage of ESG risks to meet growing demand from Italian customers for information on ESG risk factors related to public…
Kellner Replaces Kondo as Instinet CEO
Instinet, the New York-based agency-only broker arm of Nomura, has appointed Jonathan Kellner as CEO. He replaces Fumiki Kondo, who has been made head of Nomura Asset Management’s overseas client division in Tokyo.
Corvil Names Partner Program Participants
Dublin-based latency monitoring technology provider Corvil has unveiled an Industry Alliance Partner Program to drive development of solutions for analyzing and storing real-time data by providing timestamped data capture from firms' networks, lossless…
OpenGamma Gets ReMatch: CDS Risk Service Taps OpenGamma Analytics
Icap-owned credit default swap portfolio rebalancing and market risk mitigation service Rematch has selected risk management and analytics provider OpenGamma's platform to provide on-demand market risk analytics for single-name credit default swaps.
Options Upgrades NJ Datacenter Connectivity
Managed technology services provider Options (formerly Options IT) has upgraded the connectivity between its hosting presences in the NJ2 Weehawken, NJ datacenter operated by CenturyLink Technology Solutions (formerly Savvis) and Equinix's NY4 datacenter…
eVestment Adds Nasdaq Index Data
Nasdaq OMX has begun distributing data on its Nasdaq Global Index Family and Nasdaq Dividend Achiever Indexes via fund management software provider eVestment’s suite of analytics products.
Infront Adds Morningstar Mutual Funds Data, Fund Search Tool
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added new mutual funds content to its data terminal to meet increasing demand from portfolio managers and financial advisors for coverage of the US and European funds markets.