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IDC Adds BCG FX, IRS Rates to OTC Data
Interactive Data will this week make pricing data for foreign exchange and interest rate contracts from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over-the-counter sources worldwide, as…
Zürcher Kantonalbank Taps Corvil for Enhanced Trading Performance
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), has deployed Corvil’s Operational Performance Monitoring (OPM) system to monitor the performance of its market making and foreign-exchange (FX) business, including market data quality, transaction analysis and FX order flow.
S&P Cap IQ Adds SGX Data to Low-Latency Feed
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions (formerly French low-latency data vendor QuantHouse, which S&P acquired in 2012) has added the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to its QuantFeed consolidated datafeed and QuantLink fiber-optic network.
Financial Machineries Buys Data Contributions Ahead of Aggregated Repository Data Launch
Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics provider Financial Machineries is preparing to launch a feed of cleansed, aggregated data from trade data repositories, dubbed GTR Analytics, and has acquired London-based contributed data consultancy…
REDI Adds Credit Suisse's AES to its Multi-Broker EMS; Pushes Forward with Citadel OEMS
REDI Global Technologies has added Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services (AES) to it REDIPlus execution management system (EMS).
iLevel, Atlantic-Pacific Capital Seal Strategic Partnership
The technology provider to private investment firms says it has signed a formal partner agreement with Atlantic-Pacific Capital, an independent global placement agent for private equity that has raised around $50 billion.
BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley Join Eurex OTC Clear
BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley have joined Eurex Clearing's central counterparty service for OTC derivatives, Eurex OTC Clear, for interest rate swaps (IRS).
Traiana Embeds Reconciliation Engine to Address US Swaps Rules
Traiana has integrated Duco's reconciliation engine so it can reconcile reference data from central counterparties, swap execution facilities and futures commission merchants ahead of the introduction of new regulations for the US swaps industry
AQR Capital Management Selects Fidessa Sentinel
Connecticut-based AQR Capital Management has implemented Fidessa's Sentinel pre- and post-trade solution to automate its trade compliance management across all business lines.
Principal Global Investors Taps Vermilion
The Des Moines, Iowa-based money manager and provider of specialist boutique funds with approximately $300 billion under management, will use Vermilion's reporting suite to back its expanding European operations.
Deutsche Börse Continues Asia Push With CLTX Grab
Deutsche Börse’s Leipzeg-based subsidiary, The European Energy Exchange (EEX), has taken on a majority 52 percent share in ClearTrade Exchange (CLTX), a futures exchange based in Singapore. The move completes a deal that was agreed to in Q4 of 2013.
Deutsche Börse Buys Impendium Systems for Compliance Offering
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has acquired Impendium Systems, a London-based firm that deploys cloud-based compliance software solutions. The deal was completed on Jan. 10 for a price "in the single digit million euro range," according to the…
Launching the Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Sell-Side Technology Awards, Waters is happy to announce that the 2014 program will take place on April 15 in New York City.
IPC: Firms Eye Managed Data Services in ’14
Firms will continue to increase investment in new managed services offerings for market data in 2014 to increase competitive advantage, trading efficiency and productivity, according to a survey from network and trading turret provider IPC.
Waves of Senior Appointments at Euronext
Euronext NV, now part of the IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE), has restructured its senior management team to reinforce its leadership in the region as the company is preparing to go public in the coming months.
Exegy Readies Software-Based Trading Application Platform
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy is preparing to launch a lightweight version of its ticker plant, dubbed Trading Application Platform (TAP), that will enable users to quickly deploy data and trading applications in globally…
Dow Jones Sues RANsquawk for $5 Million
Dow Jones has filed a lawsuit against London-based news aggregator and audio "squawk" provider RANsquawk, accusing the vendor of systematically stealing Dow Jones' news headlines and stories without a license to distribute its news, and seeking at least …
ORATS Adds Quarterly Analysis to TOES, Readies Enhanced Dividend Forecasts
Chicago-based options analytics provider Option Research and Technology Services has rolled out new quarterly analysis as part of its TOES (Tested Option Environment Strategies) service, to enable users to back-test US equity option strategies over…
WSE Bows Short, Leveraged Index Data
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has begun distributing data on two new indexes based on the exchange’s WIG30 blue-chip benchmark.
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
Spread Connects NYSE Mahwah Datacenter to Chicago
Ridgeland, MS-based low-latency fiber network operator Spread Networks has set up a point of presence for its wavelength data network between New York and Chicago at NYSE Euronext's datacenter at Mahwah, NJ, creating roundtrip latency of around 14…
Russian, Armenian CSDs to Cooperate on Cross-Border Settlement
The National Settlement Depository (NSD) in Russia and the Central Depository of Armenia (CDA), the central securities depositories (CSDs) of their respective nations, have signed a memorandum of cooperation related to cross-border settlement.
IBM Signs DBS to Fledgling Watson Group
Singapore-based DBS has signed IBM's Watson Group to handle big data requirements in its wealth management division.
Eagle AM Goes Live with SimCorp Dimension
Eagle Asset Management, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, has selected the buy-side technology provider's Dimension platform to cover investment accounting, performance measurement, client reporting, and compliance.