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Industry ‘Advocate' Tom Jordan Wins FISD Lifetime Achievement Award
At the World Financial Information Summit event in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday, industry association FISD presented its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award to Tom Jordan, founder, president and chief executive of Jordan & Jordan-perhaps the best-known…
Fenergo Wins Backing For US Expansion
Client onboarding and entity data services provider Fenergo plans to use €4 million Investec Ventures funding to serve North American clients
LSE to Institute First Wireless Connection to Datacenter
London Stock Exchange (LSE) will debut in November a millimeter wave (MMW) link between its City of London datacenter and the Equinix datacenter in Slough, cutting latency by a third compared to some fiber links.
Banco Carregosa Rolls Out NYSE Tech SuperFeed
Porto, Portugal-based private bank and online brokerage Banco Carregosa has signed up to use the SuperFeed consolidated feed of market data from US, European and Asian markets from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, to…
Korea Exchange Taps Solace Appliances
The Korea Exchange is to roll out Ottawa-based hardware-based messaging provider Solace Systems' appliances as the data delivery infrastructure for its upcoming Exture+ next-generation, low-latency trading platform for equities, bonds and derivatives,…
eFront Expands PE Coverage with AnalytX Acquisition
eFront, which provides technology to private equity (PE) and alternative investment firms, has acquired AnalytX in a move to expand its coverage to small and mid-sized firms.
Arqa Tech Integrates S&P Cap IQ Feed
Russian financial software vendor Arqa Technologies has integrated S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions' ConsolidatedFeed product into its Quik front-office trading terminal for brokers and dealers, to provide clients with access to a global consolidated…
Russia's Arqa Technologies Integrates S&P Feed
Arqa, technology provider to a range of Russian and Eurasian trading houses and energy firms, has integrated a consolidated market data feed from S&P Capital IQ's real-time solutions service in its QUIK front-office product.
LSE Preps Wireless Data Net to Equinix Slough
The London Stock Exchange will next month go live with low-latency wireless connectivity between its datacenter in the City of London and Equinix's datacenter campus in Slough, west of London, which many market operators and trading firms have chosen to…
SS&C Appoints Ex-IBM Exec as Director of the Board
SS&C, the Windsor, CT-based provider of investment and financial software-enabled services, has appointed Michael Daniels, an ex-IBM senior executive, as director of its board.
Markit Builds Streaming Data TCA Tool
With the current regulatory landscape requiring more careful analysis of trading and risk at the forefront of traders’ minds, technology suppliers such as UK-based data vendor Markit are finding ways to perform critical trade analysis in real time,…
ANZ Automates Wholesale Lending with Misys
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has implemented Misys' Loan IQ platform for its core commercial loan management operations as it grows its wholesale lending globally.
Hargreave Hale Goes Live with Dion's Corporate Action Workflow Solution
UK stockbroker and investment manager Hargreave Hale is live on Dion Global Solutions' Corporate Action Workflow platform in order to decrease the operational risks associated with managing corporate actions.
Munich Re's Asset Management Arm Selects SimCorp
Munich Ergo Asset Management GmbH (MEAG), the Bavarian insurance provider's $228 billion asset manager, will install SimCorp Dimension at its home office in Germany, as well as in Hong Kong and New York.
Boldizsar Builds Brazil, LatAm Advisory Biz
Luis Boldizsar, a former sales and business development executive for Latin American markets at Thomson Reuters and Interactive Data, has set up LatVance Assessoria Comercial, an advisory firm focused on helping international companies understand and…
Eagle Alpha Launches Twitter Tool
Eagle Alpha has launched Social Sonar, a tool that identifies data on stocks and global macro topics published on Twitter, with the aim of giving traders the information ahead of mainstream news.
Eagle Alpha Switches on Sonar to Swoop on ‘Social' Financial Data
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has unveiled Social Sonar, a service that compiles lists of key sources and influencers on Twitter to give sell-side, buy-side and individual investors read-only access to market-moving information on stocks…
Thomson Reuters SEF Goes Live
Thomson Reuters has announced that its swap execution facility (SEF) has officially started trading today.
Scivantage Taps Tousignant for EVP Role
The Jersey City, N.J.-based technology provider says Jim Tousignant will join its ranks as executive vice president for sales and business development.
Deutsche Börse, BSE Ally on Data Sales, Development
Deutsche Börse's Market Data and Services division has struck a deal to become the exclusive licensor of the Bombay Stock Exchange's data products to international customers.
S&P Capital IQ Launches Company Credit Risk Data Service
McGraw Hill Financial-owned data, research and analytics provider S&P Capital IQ will this week launch a new tool for assessing the probability of default for all public and private companies, dubbed PD (Probability of Default) Model Fundamentals, to…
Empirasign Expands Agency Mortgage Data
New York-based Empirasign Strategies, a provider of dealer offerings and “trade color” for mortgage and asset-backed securities, has expanded its database with the addition of data on Agency Fixed Rate Specified Offerings, to complete its coverage of…
Markit Confirms Federated Chat Partners
Data vendor Markit has named Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and GFI Group as official partners in its Federated Chat initiative, joining Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Thomson Reuters,…
StatPro Preps Expanded Revolution Data-Sharing Capabilities
UK-based portfolio analytics and investment data provider StatPro has added new permissioning capabilities to its Revolution cloud-based analytics platform, to allow users to share portfolio data with others within their organization, as well as with…