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Markit Adds FT News to Hub
Markit has added news and analysis from UK daily finance publication the Financial Times to its Markit Hub market data platform, which aggregates research, strategy and news content from leading global banks, independent data providers and news agencies.
Société Générale Gets Cheuvreux Back Office
Société Générale Securites Services has migrated reference data details for thousands of accounts from Kepler Cheuvreux, the equity brokerage firm which was created when Kepler Capital Markets acquired Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux
Citi Clients to Get DMA and Algos Trading in Moscow
Citi plans to begin offering clients algorithmic trading and direct market access (DMA) to securities traded on the Moscow Exchange this month.
Rimes Partners with EDI for Fixed Income Data
Customers of the managed data services vendor can now access Exchange Data International's Worldwide Fixed Income Service, which includes terms and conditions data and corporate actions data from 170 countries and supranational organizations
Barchart Unveils New Data-Trading Terminal
Chicago-based data and analytics vendor Barchart has released Barchart Trader, a new data workstation built from scratch to deliver a new and modern interface that can broaden the vendor's potential audience and make it easier for traders to access…
Singapore Displaces Japan as FX Market Tops $5tn Daily
The foreign exchange (FX) market's daily turnover has reached an estimated $5.3 trillion, according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), with over half of the volume accounted for by electronic trading.
InfoReach Integrates "R" Language and Bloomberg Data
Electronic trading technology provider InfoReach has announced it has integrated the R programming language and Bloomberg data with its trading platforms.
Princeton Financial Updates Investment Management Solution
Princeton Financial Systems, part of State Street Global Exchange, has enhanced its investment management software solution MIG21 ahead of UCITS regulatory changes.
Hillman to Consult After Leaving LSE
Jarod Hillman, former head of real-time data at the London Stock Exchange Group, who left his position over the summer, is setting up an independent data consultancy to provide market participants among trading venues, redistributors, and consumer firms…
FactSet Buys Revere
FactSet Research Systems has acquired San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data for an undisclosed sum.
Code Red Hires President, Preps Expansion
Boston-based research management system provider Code Red has made two executive appointments in preparation for a hiring spree designed to increase the vendor's capacity to win and support larger deals for its Core Red RMS (formerly called Red Alerts)…
ISITC Europe Aims to Foster Fatca Collaboration
The industry body has established a working group to explore efficient ways of addressing common challenges created by the US anti-tax evasion regulation
LSE Launches Bulk Registration For Pre-LEIs
The London Stock Exchange expects large firms and fund managers to take advantage of the option to request pre-legal entity identifiers for multiple entities in a single process
Lime Rock Partners on iLevel for Reporting
The $5 billion private equity manager, a specialist in oil and natural gas projects based in Westport, Conn., will use iLevel's cloud-based Private Capital Data platform for portfolio monitoring and centralized data collection.
Malaysia's KIB Picks SS&C for Investment Ops
Kenanga Investors Berhad (KIB), an asset manager based in Kuala Lumpur, has selected SS&C Portia, a middle-to-back office investment operations platform, to support its investment management business.
Instinet Extends Nighthawk Algo to Japan
Instinet, the New York-based agency-only broker, has introduced Nighthawk VWAP, a variant of its Nighthawk algorithm, which provides buy-side firms with aggregated access to the pre-market volume-weighted average price (VWAP) crosses in Japan.
Wainwright to Head SAP Financial Biz
Data management and analytics technology provider SAP has named Ross Wainwright global head of financial services industries in Chicago, responsible for the vendor's banking, insurance and capital markets clients worldwide.
Wainwright Takes Over Financial Services Business at SAP
SAP, the Walldorf, Germany-based software company, today announced the appointment of Ross Wainwright as its global head of financial services industries.
Artesian Chooses eFront for Funds Management
Venture capital specialist Artesian Venture Partners has selected eFront to manage data and communication across its portfolio of funds.
Post-EMIR, Sapient Clients Want Reporting in the Cloud
Just eight months after debuting a product without a cloud version that no one wanted, Sapient is seeing a surge of demand for its hosted solution.
BGC Partners Joins Cadre of SEF Applicants
The electronic and voice brokerage is the latest in a number of financial services firms to apply to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to become a swaps execution facility, or SEF.
eVestment Adds Morningstar Data to Analytics Suite
Atlanta-based data and analytics provider eVestment will now include Morningstar data in its own suite of analytics solutions, including the recently acquired platforms from PerTrac and Fundspire.
Berenberg Bank Rolls Out 100 VWD Terminals
Hamburg-based private bank Berenberg Bank has rolled out German data vendor VWD's Market Manager data terminal to around 100 of its client advisers, to provide access to real-time price information and news.
eVestment Integrates Morningstar Data
The data provider, which mostly collects and distributes its own institutional investment information, is easing Morningstar data into its mix, through past acquisitions