Emerging Technologies
Hazlitt: The View of Enterprise Social Media Needs to Evolve
At this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in Manhattan, Simon Hazlitt looked at how his firm has turned to enterprise social media solution tibbr to revolutionize its internal communications, even if the platform, itself, is not about…
Nasdaq Promotes Four to Support Growth Across its Market Technology and Listings Units
Nasdaq has announced a series of appointments in order to maximize future growth potential across its Listing Services and Market Technology businesses.
Sinara Expands Data Integration Offering
UK-based data software vendor Sinara Consultants has expanded its consulting services to include analyzing, designing and enhancing clients' market data repositories and data warehouses.
Metamako Taps Covington to Drive European Expansion
Metamako, an Australian provider of low-latency switch appliances for high-frequency trading, has enlisted data industry veteran Kevin Covington to set up a European infrastructure to support an expansion of its business into the region.
Opening Cross: Will Cost Concerns Neuter Future Litters of CATs?
Belgian beer-maker Stella Artois’ long-running “Reassuringly Expensive” ad probably didn’t win fans among market data managers, who continue to shudder at the thought of any kind of cost increase.
CTA, UTP Revisit Consolidated Tape Fees
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) and the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan, which together oversee the collection and distribution of the consolidated tapes of quote and trade data for US equity markets, have proposed new fee policies for the…
China Opens Up Capital Markets with Hong Kong Connection
With the impending launch of the Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connect program, China has begun allowing foreign investment into its capital markets to an unprecedented degree. But what does this mean for institutional investment firms, and are there still…
Kx Names Quill Global Head, Sales Engineering
Tick database provider Kx Systems has promoted Fintan Quill from senior engineer to global head of sales engineering, expanding his prior role beyond just North America and to cover more technical sales and support the vendor's push into new industries,…
Post-Launch and Funding, Vetr Eyes Institutional Clients for Crowd-Sourced Ratings
Crowd-sourced stock ratings provider Vetr has completed the second stage of a $1 million investment round, and is now focusing on attracting more users and contributors to its portal, to make its content more appealing to institutional traders and hedge…
MDSL Taps Ex-Deutsche Bank Data Exec DeMaio as COO
UK-based cost and inventory management software vendor MDSL has hired Lou DeMaio, former global head of market data service delivery at Deutsche Bank, as Americas chief operating officer to spearhead growth of the vendor's MDX (Market Data Expert)…
NY Fed: Capital Markets Must Be More Wary of Data Cyber Threats
Capital markets firms must take more steps to protect sensitive information and market data from cyber-terrorists intent on stealing and reselling valuable data, including carefully guarding their internal data architectures and external providers,…
NY Fed: Capital Markets Must Be More Wary of Data Cyber Threats
Capital markets firms must take more steps to protect sensitive information and market data from cyber-terrorists intent on stealing and reselling valuable data, including carefully guarding their internal data architectures and external providers,…
ICE Completes SuperDerivatives Acquisition
The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Group has completed its acquisition of SuperDerivatives, in an all-cash deal worth $350 million.
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.
Neuberger Berman's Ganim: CISOs Have Their Work Cut Out
Bob Ganim, chief information security officer (CISO) at Neuberger Berman, a $250 billion New York-based asset manager, delivered the keynote address at this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit, held today at the Marriott Marquis in Times…
Société Générale Names Jacquemin CEO of German Unit
Pascal Jacquemin, an executive at Société Générale Securities Services who has worked at the firm since 1998, takes over as chief executive of SGSS Deutschland
IHS Adds SIX FI Equities Pricing
Market and economic information provider IHS has added global daily and historical equities pricing data from SIX Financial Information to its market intelligence, economic forecasting and research services.
BGC Partners Taps Hirschhorn as CIO
Brokerage BGC Partners announced Eric Hirschhorn will take over as the firm's chief information officer immediately.
Hillier-Brook Launches MCO Europe as McObject Tech Distributor
Data industry veteran Ian Hillier-Brook has established a new company, MCO Europe, to act as the exclusive European distributor for Issaquah, Wash.-based in-memory database provider McObject's eXtremeDB Financial Edition data management technology for…
Nomura Research Builds Mumbai Unit
The Japanese consultancy has hired Chiragra Chakrabarty, formerly a director at Deloitte and PwC, to lead its NRI FinTech unit in India
Kiseleva Joins Russian Repository From UBS
The National Settlement Depository appoints Anastasia Kiseleva as managing director, following two other director-level appointments made in August
Jonathan Rose Joins Capco UK as Partner
Global technology consultancy Capco has appointed Jonathan Rose as a partner, joining the UK office.
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…
TFG Financial Systems to Acquire RTS
TFG Financial Systems (TFG) has announced it has acquired US-based Risk Technology Solution (RTS) to support its portfolio risk management system and expand in the US.