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ConvergEx Upgrades MillenniumSM ATS
New York-based agency broker, ConvergEx Group, has upgraded its MillenniumSM Alternative Trading System (ATS), reducing its trading latency by 75 percent.
UBS Exec Outlines Fatca Strategy
The bank's global head of client data policy and quality assurance told delegates at this week's North American Financial Information Summit that clearly defined data definitions and roles and responsibilities for data users are at the heart of its…
Bloomberg Releases IB Dealing for FX Traders
The chat-based platform, called Instant Bloomberg (IB) Dealing, is now being used for trade negotiation and execution by more than 100 banks globally.
Westpac Taps Broadway Technology for Global FX
The Sydney-based bank's institutional arm says it will deploy Broadway's high-performance TOC software platform to back increased trading activities in Australian (AUD) and New Zealand (NZD) dollars, key Asian currencies, and the mainstay G3: US dollars,…
Calypso Opens Beijing Office
Treasury and capital markets software vendor Calypso Technology has announced the opening of a new presence in Beijing.
IRD Awards Results
The results of the Inside Reference Data Awards for 2013 were announced at a dinner in New York on May 21
SunGard Extends FoxRiver Algo Suite to Japanese Equities
SunGard Financial Systems has extended the international reach of its Fox River algorithm suite to support trading in the Japanese equities market.
Orc Americas Appoints Jeremie Bacon as President
Stockholm-based technology and services provider Orc Software has named Jeremie Bacon as new regional president to consolidate the firm’s growth strategy in the Americas region.
S&P Capital IQ Extends QuantLINK Solution to HKEx
S&P Capital IQ’s Real Time Solutions has extended QuantLINK, its high-performance global trading infrastructure and co-location hosting service, to the Hong Kong Exchange's (HKEx) datacenter to capture the growth still occurring in the region.
Gill appointed CEO of Millennium IT
Trading technology firm Millennium Information Technologies (MillenniumIT) has appointed Mack Gill as its new CEO to support the firm's global expansion.
Temasek Officially Takes Stake in Markit
The deal signed by the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, which had been speculated upon for a couple weeks, was previously reported by the Financial Times and Reuters to be worth about $500 million, with the stake bought from existing investment banking…
Hoppe Joins b-next
Market surveillance and compliance software provider b-next has added Stefan Hoppe as a sales manager.