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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…
Panin AM Follows Flows Data with EPFR ChartBook
Indonesian investment manager Panin Asset Management has begun using fund flows data provider EPFR Global's recently launched ChartBook service to monitor investors' risk appetites and decisions about what regions and asset classes to invest in.
Credit Benchmark Readies Launch for 2014
London-based startup consensus credit ratings provider Credit Benchmark has begun its proof-of-concept phase with an undisclosed number of contributing banks, ahead of a full production launch scheduled for early next year.
Alliance News Launches UK Equities Newswire, Partners with DPA-AFX, Proquote
UK-based newswire startup Alliance News will launch a real-time equities news service covering all listed UK stocks today, Friday, Oct. 4, to meet demand from traders and investors for UK-focused news to inform investment decisions.
Global Prime Partners Takes Liquid OEMS
The London-based boutique brokerage known as GPP, which focuses on small buy-side shops such as hedge funds and family offices, will now offer clients Liquid's cloud-based front office and data management services.
Interxion to Host ASX London PoP
The Australian Securities Exchange has set up a point of presence for its ASX Net Global connectivity network at European datacenter provider Interxion's facility in the City of London, to provide UK and European trading firms with cross-connect access…
Lucena Adds Intra-day Event Detection
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has added support for intra-day signals to its QuantDesk Event Analyzer module, a machine learning event study technology for identifying buying and selling opportunities based on…
Perseus Offers Timing Service at CME Datacenter
Perseus Telecom and CME Group have announced a new service offering, High Precision Time, that enables customers to synchronize their time systems across datacenters where Perseus offers this service. It is available at CME Group’s datacenter in Aurora,…
Nasdaq Debuts iPad App for Document Management
Nasdaq OMX has launched a WorkSpace application, enabling business and document management process, for iPad.
Three LEI Utilities Endorsed, 3,000 CICIs Sidelined
Pre-legal entity identifier utilities in the US, Germany and France have become the first to be admitted into the official interim LEI system, but 3,000 CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers will not be globally recognized
Turkish Pre-LEI Utility Launched
Takasbank has begun to issue pre-legal entity identifiers and plans to launch an online registration portal before the end of the year
Markit Announces CDS Index Licensing to SEFs
The financial information provider will license its credit default swap indices, including CDX North America IG, HY and iTraxx Europe, to any swap execution facility (SEF) under a single set of commercial terms.