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Risk professionals suffer fall in compensation packages
Risk Talent Associates, the New York-based risk management executive search firm has published its fifth annual Professional Compensation Survey - Asset Management . It reveals that total compensation packages for risk professionals in the asset…
Direct Access adds compliance app to services
Direct Access Partners, the New York-based institutional agency brokerage that provides hedge funds with institutional trading support services, will add C3's compliance software to its suite of services. C3's compliance reporting and communications…
Deutsche Postbank Financial Services implements BarraOne
Deutsche Postbank Financial Services, part of one of Germany's leading retail banks, is now using BarraOne to help it identify and manage risk across its equity and fixed-income portfolios.
Stockhouse Shutters EU Mobile Business
Canadian market data provider Stockhouse is transitioning European clients of its pager and smartphone mobile data products to other providers, following the vendor's decision to close its business in the region last month, officials say.
Infobolsa, CarryQuote Ally for Mobile Data
Spanish data provider Infobolsa, a joint venture between Deutsche Börse and Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), is using Swiss mobile data provider CarryQuote to provide its institutional clients with real-time, on-demand quote data…
Cognitive Capital Takes Orc for Low Latency
NEW YORK-Chicago-headquartered proprietary trading firm Cognitive Capital has selected FIX protocol connectivity and risk management tools from trading platform and market connectivity provider Orc Software, officials announced today, Aug. 31.
Activ Boosts Content Management, Sales
Low-latency data vendor Activ Financial is building a content management team to support its growing number of exchange data sources, and has expanded its sales team in response to growth in the high-frequency trading space.
Fixnetix, RTS Eye Further Data Deals
UK-based data vendor Fixnetix and trading technology provider RTS are exploring further opportunities to jointly leverage their data and technology assets, following last week's launch of a hosted Direct Market Access service integrating low-latency…
Caplin Steps Up Quality Focus
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Caplin Systems has recently bolstered its software quality assurance (QA) function, which officials say has become of increasing strategic importance as a result of changes to the vendor's product focus and…
Deutsche Börse Hit by Index Glitch
German exchange group Deutsche Börse experienced an 18-minute outage for some of its benchmark DAX indexes last week, as a result of technical problems with its index data distribution systems.
GFI, Quick Expand Japanese Data Deal
Interdealer broker GFI is increasing its penetration of the Japanese market with an extended currency data redistribution deal with local information vendor Quick Corporation, officials tell sibling publication FX Week .
MSCI Barra Unveils Risk Reports
Index and analytics provider MSCI Barra rolled out a new reporting module as an add-on to its BarraOne risk analytics platform at the beginning of August, to provide more detailed, time-series risk reports on clients' trading data.