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Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Integrated Front-Office Platform—Bloomberg
In this perennially close-fought category, Bloomberg has emerged as the top provider of integrated-front-office technology for the second straight year, thanks to its Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) platform. With this win, the vendor gains…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Buy-Side OMS—Bloomberg
This year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards will be remembered for a number of firsts: it’s the first year that the investment book of record (IBOR), data analytics, and low-latency trading network categories have been on offer; there were first-time winners…
Vendors Prep for SSE–HK Stock Connect
Thomson Reuter, Bloomberg both create data pages to display Shanghai-Hong Kong data, despite delay to link's go-live
ASC X9 Standards Group Names Director, Board Member
Harden Stevens, a longtime ASC X9 official, has been named executive director, and Bloomberg's Corby Dear joins the organization's board
ITRS Adds Bloomberg B-Pipe Monitoring to Geneos
ITRS Group, a provider of performance monitoring technology for real-time systems, has launched an interface that provides monitoring support for customers of Bloomberg's B-Pipe real-time market data feed within ITRS' Geneos monitoring platform via a new…
Bloomberg to Carry U.Michigan Consumer Data from 2015
Bloomberg will begin distributing consumer sentiment index data created by the University of Michigan from January 2015, in a non-exclusive partnership that runs until 2019, with provisions to extend the deal longer.
A/S/L?
Chat pushes, Sibos, and regulatory moves lead this week's coverage.
Opening Cross: Getting the Message, Loud and Clear
Who would have thought that in the age of algorithmic trading, where computers trade with other computers, there would be so much interest in chat tools for human traders to communicate, share information and negotiate trades. Nevertheless, with…
Symphony CEO David Gurle Discusses Goldman Sachs/Consortium Deal, New Platform
Yesterday it was announced that a consortium of 14 financial institutions led by Goldman Sachs had acquired Palo Alto-based software vendor Perzo for $66 million. The resulting acquisition led to the new company Symphony Communication Services, whose…
Symphony CEO David Gurle Discusses Goldman Sachs/Consortium Deal, New Platform
Yesterday it was announced that a consortium of 14 financial institutions led by Goldman Sachs had acquired Palo Alto-based software vendor Perzo for $66 million. The resulting acquisition led to the new company Symphony Communication Services, whose…
S&P Boss Eccleston Resurfaces as TMX CEO
Canadian exchange group TMX has appointed former S&P and Bloomberg exec Lou Eccleston as chief executive, effective Nov. 3, replacing Thomas Kloet, who announced his retirement earlier this year.
TABB Group Launches Equities Market Trading Venue and Routing Analytics Service
Research and consulting firm TABB Group announced the launch of Clarity, a U.S. equities market trading venue and routing analytics service designed to help money managers, institutional investors, brokers and trading venues standardize, gather,…
Buy Them! Buy Them All!
ICE's acquisitive mood and T2S lead this week's coverage.
Opening Cross: Teenage Takeover!
I can still recall my first days at then-Risk Waters Group in 2000 as a greenhorn researcher working on Risk magazine and FX Week, trying to quickly learn new industries and lingo, while at the same time trying to hide my inexperience. One of my earliest…
A Legend Returns—But to a Different World
This week, Michael Bloomberg's officially-announced return to the company bearing his name surprised many. Welcoming him back, Tim says, is easy — the difference he'll make requires a little imagination.
Doctoroff to Depart Bloomberg at Year-End
Bloomberg president and chief executive Dan Doctoroff is to leave the data giant at the end of this year, to be replaced by his predecessor, Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg, officials announced Sept. 3.
Doctoroff Stepping Aside as Bloomberg Rejoins
Michael Bloomberg will resume the post of CEO at the eponymous company he founded in 1981, having finished his term as mayor of New York City.
Corlito's Way: BTG Pactual COO Dayna Corlito
Thousands of miles from Copacabana Beach, BTG Pactual is doing things a once-small banking partnership from an emerging market shouldn’t be able to—managing a diverse group of admired hedge funds. Yes, the firm’s successful foray into asset management…
Kilburn's Comment: Fear is What Keeps Us on the Plateau
As anyone who has tried to get in shape will know, there comes a point in any exercise regime when our bodies start to get used to whatever form of exercise (or torture) we are subjecting it to. Those ten pushups that left you sweating and shaking and…
SunGard MarketMap to Focus on 'Unique Content'
SunGard MarketMap, the market data arm of technology giant SunGard, is embarking on a new initiative to build out unique and proprietary content sets that leverage other areas of SunGard's business, in a bid to better differentiate itself from…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Portfolio Management System Provider — Bloomberg
For the second consecutive year, Bloomberg AIM has been recognized as the best portfolio management system by Waters’ readership, following on the heels of its win in last year’s Buy-Side Technology Awards for the best integrated front-office platform.
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Sell-Side OMS Provider — Bloomberg
For the fifth year in a row, Bloomberg’s Trade Order Management Solutions (TOMS) has won the Waters Rankings award for best sell-side OMS. The platform, which provides fixed-income cash and derivatives trading firms with a multitude of tools to manage…
Waters Rankings 2014 Winners’ Circle: Bloomberg
In this year’s Waters Rankings, Bloomberg won three categories—best sell-side OMS provider, best portfolio management system provider, and best EDM system provider. James Rundle speaks to the heads of those three business units about their technologies,…
Bloomberg Touts New Toronto Ticker
Bloomberg has gone live with a new ticker plant in Toronto, to provide financial firms with faster access to data captured from Canadian exchanges, reducing latency by 71 percent compared to its previous offering.