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Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
Apcon Releases Sub-10ns Timestamping Blade Switch
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon has released a new aggregator blade, dubbed the Intellaflex Timestamping and Packet Slicing Blade, which will enable financial institutions to timestamp message packets with sub…
SimCorp Study Notes Legacy Systems' Stubbornness, R&D Disparities
The research note from Ingo Walter, an NYU Stern Professor, surveyed 500 buy sides - finding that around a quarter of the world's top investment managers are still operating on legacy systems, despite their inherent challenges.
IMD Chicago: Exchange Data Fees, Policies Hindering New Entrants
The high cost of exchange market data─combined with unscheduled fee increases and a proliferation of new fees for previously free-of-charge data─continues to burden consumers, and is preventing newer firms from entering the market, according to a panel…
Panel: Firms Must Master "Dark Art" of Data Analytics to Gain Competitive Advantage
The faster a trading firm can analyze datasets that are growing in both size and complexity to extract meaningful "data about the data," the greater competitive advantage they will have, said participants on a panel discussing how analytics can be…
Nino Options Takes TBricks
Nino Options has selected Tbricks for its market-making software, covering options on German and Dutch equities and indices.
SmartStream Debuts TLM SmartRecs
SmartStream has announced the release of TLM SmartRecs, a new system for the loading and delivery of documented reconciliation results.
First Derivatives Picks Pruett for US Growth
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data management technology vendor First Derivatives has appointed former SIX Financial Information executive Jonathan Pruett head of strategic business development for the Americas, responsible for expanding the vendor's…
Tradition Taps Bloomberg Price Fixings for Volatis Trading Platform
Interdealer broker Tradition is to use daily price fixing observations from Bloomberg's independent valuation services for derivatives and structured notes, to provide prices that more accurately reflect realized volatility to Volatis, the broker's newly…
Xignite Grows Market Data Cloud Cover
San Mateo-based on-demand data provider Xignite has added two new services-CloudFiles and CloudStreaming─to its Market Data Cloud service, in addition to its existing CloudAPIs for applications and developers to access the vendor's data.
QED Adds Varden Reporting to its Toolbox
QED Financial Systems, a portfolio management solutions provider based in Marlton, New Jersey, has signed an agreement with Boston-based Varden Technologies to resell Varden’s reporting and communications platforms.
Bloomberg Supplies Fixings Valuation for Tradition's Volatis
Volatis, the interdealer broker's newly-launched hybrid platform for negotiation and trading of realized volatility futures, will use daily fixing observations from Bloomberg.
Calastone Gets $18 Million Expansion Funding
The provider of a global fund transaction network is investigating how its superannuation products in Australia can be adapted for Europe and Asia-Pacific markets
Fenics to Provide FX Options Analysis to Shanghai Bank
Bank of Communications (BoC), a financial services group based in Shanghai, has licensed Fenics Professional, a pricing and risk management system for foreign exchange (FX) options from GFI subsidiary Fenics.
MarkitSERV Connects to Nasdaq for FX Clearing
MarkitSERV, Markit’s electronic trade processing service for over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions, will be the first middleware provider to deliver foreign exchange (FX) trades for clearing to Nasdaq OMX.
Top Sales Role at Misys for Brienzi
Misys, the Paris-headquartered provider of capital markets technology and services, has appointed Frank Brienzi as its new president and chief sales officer.
DCCC Deal Extends Euroclear's Collateral Highway to Middle East
Euroclear has announced that the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has joined its Collateral Highway network, the first firm from the Middle East to do so.
BCS Takes b-next for Market Abuse Surveillance
Russian brokerage BCS Financial Group has announced that it will implement b-next's CMC:Suite, in order to boost its market abuse surveillance and insider trading detection capabilities, at its London trading room.
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
Mariner Trawls MSCI ESG Data for Alpha
New York-based alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group is to use ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings and portfolio analysis tools from MSCI ESG Research, to support the incorporation of ESG factors into Mariner's investment…
S&P Cap IQ Expands LatAm Offering With Mexico Office
The data and analytics vendor says its new office in Mexico City will benefit both customers in Latin America and around the world
ML Bond Index Adds Fitch Ratings
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added credit ratings content from Fitch Ratings to its ML Bond Market index, as an additional factor in the assessment of investment-grade and speculative-grade bonds.
BME Preps Real-Time Volatility Indexes
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles will begin calculating a new family of eight target volatility indexes on Sept. 24, dubbed the IBEX Volatilidad Objetivo or IBEX 35 Target Volatility, expanding the exchange's existing IBEX 35 index…