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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…
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
Thomson Reuters Files SEF Application
Thomson Reuters has filed an application with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to register as a swap execution facility (SEF).
Charles River Integrates SJ Levinson & Sons for TCA
Charles River Development has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with SJ Levinson & Sons, whereby the broker's equity transaction-cost analysis (TCA) technology will be integrated with the vendor's Investment Management Solution …
Lombard Risk Upgrades Colline
Lombard Risk has announced the release of Colline version 12.3, its collateral management and clearing product.
CQG Adds FastMarkets Metals Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG has added London-based FastMarkets' Premium Metals News to the metals market data and trading capabilities already available in CQG's platform.
Mors Survey: Intra-day Liquidity Risk Projects Still Incomplete
Helsinki-based Mors Software, a provider of integrated real-time treasury and risk management technology to the sell side, has published the results of its annual liquidity risk management survey, carried out between May and July this year.
PensionsFirst, WinTech Partner on Corporate Liability Risk
The new strategic partnership will leverage WinTech's asset liability modeling tool ProVal, with PensionsFirst's analytics software, PFaroe, allowing CFOs and treasurers to more easily migrate external data, monitor daily funded status, and dis-aggregate…
Nasdaq's Genium INET to Power German Exchange
Boerse Stuttgart, a 150-year old exchange serving private investors, has selected Nasdaq OMX’s Genium INET trading technology to power its market.
Fund Managers Say Good Tech Boosts Credibility
Portfolio managers say sound technology enhances an alternative buy-side firm’s credibility, according to new research from SunGard and Aite Group.
Tradition Taps Corvil for Monitoring
Interdealer broker Tradition has rolled out Dublin-based latency and performance monitoring technology provider Corvil's CorvilNet monitoring platform to provide real-time visibility into data and execution latency and operational performance statistics…
Pricing Vet Kelsey Moves to Mortgage CRM Vendor
Former Reuters exec Michele Kelsey has joined Vantage Integrated Production, a provider of CRM, workflow and data management tools for mortgage lenders, as regional vice president of sales for the Midwest US, based in New York.
Rimes Appoints New French Head
Renaud Larzilliere has been appointed director general for the French operations of the managed data services vendor, after four years at the company
TriOptima Turns on DTCC Data Link
TriOptima─a provider of post-trade infrastructure, processing and risk management solutions for over-the-counter derivatives, owned by interdealer broker Icap─has gone live with a link to capture market data on OTC derivatives trades reported to the…
Quants Get New Analytics with RTS Update
RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a Frankfurt-based trading solutions provider, has launched version 2.0 of RTD Tango Quant, which designs and executes automated trading strategies for quant traders.
Markit Targets APAC Growth as Top Execs Move to Singapore
Kevin Gould and Brad Hunt have been sent to Singapore to help the data vendor capitalize on opportunities that are being created across the Asia-Pacific region as a result of regulatory change
Vermilion Sets Up Singapore Shop
Already on the ground, the London-based reporting software provider to the buy side intends to grow its staff in Singapore to 10 in the coming year as it targets growth there, in Australia, and Hong Kong.
Succession Selected by BCS for Market Access Risk Management
BCS Prime Brokerage has announced that TripleCheck, Succession Systems' ultra-low-latency risk engine for direct market access (DMA), will be implemented at the firm for clients accessing Russian markets.