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Bloomberg Buys UBS Aussie Bond Indexes
After 25 years of calculating a family of Australian bond indexes, Swiss investment bank UBS has sold the indexes─including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index─to data giant Bloomberg.
Delaware Investments Goes Live on Charles River’s Cloud-Based IMS
Philadelphia-based asset management firm Delaware Investments, part of Sydney-based Macquarie Group, went live on Charles River’s cloud-based Investment Management Solution (IMS) to support its portfolio management capabilities, equities trading and…
FWI Taps MDSL for Market Data Management
Fidelity Worldwide Investment, the non-US asset management spinoff from Fidelity Management and Research, has selected market data usage and contract management software vendor MDSL's Market Data Manager (MDM) inventory management platform to improve the…
National Australia Bank Taps Misys for Trade Finance
One of Australia's four largest financial institutions, National Australia Bank (NAB) is now using the vendor's TI Plus to automate trade finance and supply chain finance processing for its Australian, Asian, and New Zealand-based operations.
MarketPrizm and Fusion Join Up for Asia-Pac Market Gateway
MarketPrizm, a UK-based provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, is teaming up with Fusion Systems, a Hong Kong-based trading systems provider, to offer a low-latency market gateway and trading risk management solution, deployed in co…
MarketPrizm, Fusion Ally for Asia Managed Low-Latency Data
London-based market data and trading infrastructure services provider MarketPrizm is partnering with Hong Kong-headquartered technology vendor Fusion Systems to offer a joint low-latency trading gateway and risk management solution for Fusion's clients…
Nasdaq, Chaikin Ally for Alpha-Enhanced Indexes
Philadelphia-based investment analytics provider Chaikin Analytics has partnered with Nasdaq OMX to develop three new equal-weighted US equity indexes that are designed to outperform their respective benchmarks.
BCS, Orc Partner on Russian Market Access
Technology vendor Orc and broker BCS have announced a partnership whereby the former's clients can send orders to Moscow Exchange and the London Stock Exchange through the latter.
EuroCCP Gains Emir Authorization
Cash equities clearing house EuroCCP has announced that it has received European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir) authorization.
Rimes Swipes Swinhoe for Canada Sales
Benchmark managed data provider Rimes Technologies has opened a Toronto office and has hired Paul Swinhoe as a sales manager in Canada to support the vendor's efforts in the country.
Markit Readies Swaps Identification for September Launch
Markit plans to expand its RED codes to handle reference requirements set by ISDA for credit default swaps, in an effort to better support the credit event process.
Rimes Welcomes Swinhoe to New Toronto Office
Paul Swinhoe, a business development executive with middle-office and market data experience at several service providers, has joined Rimes Technologies as sales manager in the company's new Toronto office
Hong Kong Trust Chooses Linedata for Fund Admin
The Hong Kong Trust Company has implemented Linedata Admin Edge to provide fund administration servicing for their client base.
Nasdaq Adopts SevOne Latency Performance Monitoring
Nasdaq OMX will roll out Wilmington, Del.-based network performance monitoring provider SevOne's platform to monitor its datacenters and low-latency networks in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
DTCC Adds Four to Board
Executives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs join the 20-member board of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
iMeta Adds Credit and Legal Functions to Entity Data Platform
A new module providing legal and credit information now sits alongside the know-your-customer and standing settlement instruction data functionality of iMeta's Assassin platform
Kx Launches Developer Site, Offers Free Software Access
Tick database and time-series analytics provider Kx Systems has unveiled a developer community website to support developers using the vendor's Kdb+ database.
UPDATE: Canadian Data Vets Found CFSI Advisory, Development Firm; Win Activ Canadian Distribution Deal
Toronto-based startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc, a provider of services that include business development consulting for companies seeking to enter the Canadian market, and an ecosystem of integrated partner products and development…
Calypso Selected by Central Banks for Capital Markets Operations
Calypso Technology is to provide the French and Spanish central banks, Banque de France and Banco de España, with its capital markets operations system.
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Taps Anderson
The fraud detection and systems surveillance provider, formerly known as BAE Systems Detica, has hired James Anderson as president for the Americas region.
Mark Forman Joins Knadel in London
Knadel, the London-based buy side-focused management and technology consultancy, has appointed Mark Forman as head of practice to lead the firm’s expansion into the retail and distribution markets.
Molten Markets Fully Live With FX Trading Platform
Molten Markets, which launched in April 2012, is now fully live with its multi-dealer FX platform, dubbed InstiFX.
Bank of the West Hires Goldberg
David Goldberg, a veteran of data management roles at Santander USA, BNY Mellon and JPMorgan Chase, has relocated to San Francisco from New York, to become chief data governance officer at the firm
EBS Rolls out White-Labeled NetDania App
EBS, the foreign exchange brokerage platform of interdealer broker Icap, is rolling out a white-labeled version of Danish foreign exchange data display and trading technology provider NetDania's FX and stocks mobile app.