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LCH.Clearnet's CDSClear Now Handling Single-Name CDS
LCH.Clearnet has announced that its credit-default swap (CDS) clearing service, CDSClear, will now offer single-name CDS clearing.
Interactive Data Adds GFI, Icap, Commodities to FutureSource
Interactive Data is adding new commodities datasets from interdealer brokers GFI and Icap, UK-based agricultural specialist Informa Agra and pricing and news provider OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) to its FutureSource market data and analytics…
VWD Preps Metals App for iPhone, iPad
Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD will this week launch a new iPhone and iPad app for metals traders, in a move designed to meet increasing demand from its desktop users for more targeted mobile products.
Quandl Bows Crowd-Sourced Data, Curation
Quandl, a Toronto-based startup search engine covering financial, economic and sociological datasets is preparing to roll out Quandl-as-a-Service, enabling firms to curate and add public data to the site.
Russell Revamps, Unbundles Index Pricing
Russell Indexes, the index provider subsidiary of asset manager Russell Investments, is introducing a new pricing model for its RussellTick real-time feed of US and global consolidated index data, reflecting enhancements made to the product as part of an…
2013 Review: Budgets Drive, Hamper End-User Innovation
End-user firms continued to struggle with budget concerns in 2013, while striving to embrace innovative ways to view and use data.
Oslo Børs Nibor U-Turn Irks End-Users
Norwegian exchange group Oslo Børs last week began calculating the Norwegian Interbank Offered Rate (Nibor) benchmark rate, after being appointed the calculation agent by Norwegian financial industry association Finance Norway. However, end-users are…
ESMA Seeks Data Expert Advisors
European regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is recruiting market data reporting experts to advise on potential complications stemming from the overlap of recent EU financial regulation.
Empirasign Adds to Dealer Run Quotes
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of dealer offerings and "trade color" for mortgage and asset-backed securities, is adding new datasets covering bids and two-way markets to its database of fixed-income pricing, in response to client…
WFE Creates Global Cybersecurity Committee
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has announced the formation of a new committee tasked with developing best-practice guidelines for information security when it comes to market infrastructures.
Commerzbank Taps Regis-TR for Trade Reporting
Commerzbank, has selected European trade repository Regis-TR to ensure its trade reporting service is in line with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) obligation to report over-the-counter and listed derivative transactions.
SIA-Colt Wins Monte Titoli T2S Connection Mandate
The SIA-Colt partnership will connect Italian central securities depository (CSD) Monte Titoli to the Target2-Securities (T2S) platform for the first wave of migration, the firms have announced.
Thomson Reuters Adds ANZ Bond Pricing
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun contributing prices for more than 2,700 credit bonds denominated in Australian, New Zealand and US dollars as well as pounds sterling and euros on Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading bond platform.
Daiwa Europe Transfers Repo Business to Torstone’s Inferno
Torstone Technology, a London-based provider of derivatives processing software, announced it has migrated Daiwa Capital Markets Europe’s clearance and settlement repo business onto its back-office processing platform, Inferno.
Calypso Extends Clearing Solution to Support SEF Connectivity
Software vendor Calypso Technology has announced it has extended its over-the-counter (OTC) clearing solution for end-users to support swap execution facility (SEF) connectivity.
Energy Data Hub Taps Sapient
Houston, Texas-based energy data processing utility Energy Data Hub has enlisted Sapient Global Markets to contribute to the development of its EDH Platform central repository for global energy trade data, to help EDH provide improved data transparency…
Markham to Head Updata's Houston Office
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has named William Markham senior vice president of business development at of the vendor's new office in Houston, Texas, which is due to open in early 2014 to meet the needs of a growing customer base in…
Integral Readies FX Benchmark Rate Fixings
Foreign exchange trading software vendor Integral Development Corp is preparing to launch a set of benchmark rates for major currency pairs, updated at one-second intervals and made available at the end of every trading day, to provide more reliable data…
SpryWare Adds Data to Cloud Ticker Plant
Chicago-based low-latency feed handler and ticker plant provider SpryWare has expanded its Proximity Cloud hosted ticker plant to include full order book data, including 45 days of historical full order book data and a calculated top-of-book price, with…
B-next Taps Data Vet Rhoden
Market surveillance and compliance software provider B-next has hired Mike Rhoden as product consultant, based in London, to strengthen the vendor's UK operations and expand its international client base.
Bank of Beirut Extends Misys Relationship with Value Implementation
One of Lebanon's largest commercial banks, Bank of Beirut will use Misys' Sophis Value platform to support its expanding treasury, asset management, and brokerage functions.
DataArt Adds AIFMD Reporting to Form PF Solution
The new software enables automated filing for the alternative investment fund managers directive (AIFMD), and can also be fit into customized, back-end data integrations.
SimCorp, TechMahindra Collaborate on Contingency Service
The vendors are preparing to pilot a new service that will help asset managers improve their contingency planning by providing critical data points if one of their service providers fails
Xenomorph Integrates Aqumin Data Visualization Technology
Integration of Aqumin's data visualization functionality will allow users to view data in multiple dimensions and gain a deeper, contextual understanding of it