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Nasdaq’s Twin Pillars: Brad Peterson and Lars Ottersgård
In a period where most stock exchanges are facing uncertain futures and are eyeing consolidation with rivals, one of the world’s largest is hitting its stride.
Archax And Aquis Enter into Tech Partnership
Aquis will provide a matching engine and surveillance technology when the project commences.
MarkLogic Names Apama Co-founder Nelson Finance CTO
Nelson, who has previously served at Software AG, Progress Software, and Apama, will be an evangelist for financial services within MarkLogic.
Trade Ideas Ltd Taps Research Vet Jowers as MD
Jowers has held senior research positions at RBS and Dresdner Kleinwort, and previously served on Trade Ideas' board.
Adaptive Adds Tradition, Former Citadel, Saxo Execs to Board
The new board members will provide expert guidance strategic growth and technology development.
StatPro Names Canada Director Ahead of New Structure
The appointment of Coetzee reflects the importance of Canada as a growth market to StatPro, officials say.
State Street Exec: Data Quality Poses Challenges for ESG-Conscious Investors
State Street Global Exchange’s head of research says investors still struggle to measure ESG impact on their portfolios, despite growing demand for ESG insights.
Trax Taps TR Data for SI Volume Alert Service
The data will support Trax’s MiFID II and SI determination service, which indicates a firm’s potential to become an SI before the assessment period.
Archax Advances Toward Authenticated Crypto
The London-based exchange is partnering with Custom House for AML/KYC verifications on cryptocurrency exchange participants.
Derivatives Vet Tessier Named Minium CEO
The news comes one week after parent company Cinnober also changed leadership
Credit Benchmark Grows Bank Contributors, Eyes Non-Bank Credit Data
The vendor plans to collect and create consensus rating datasets from other types of companies besides banks.
OpenFin Hires Ex-Deutsche Data Exec Wood to Boost Enterprise Business
Wood, former head of market data services at Deutsche Bank, will be responsible for growing OpenFin's adoption among end-users and vendor partners.
Lloyds CDO Maranca Departs Finance for Schneider Electric
Maranca will be responsible for executing a global data strategy at Schneider Electric.
IHS Markit Expands EDM to Non-Financial IHS Data
After expanding its EDM platform to cover the energy industry, IHS Markit now aims to apply it to data on other relevant industries from IHS..
Thomson Reuters Taps Dealerweb for US Treasury Data
The Dealerweb content will provide a like-for-like replacement for Brokertec data, which was previously provided by Icap.
Cobalt Goes Live on BT Radianz Cloud
Cobalt provides peer-to-peer and blockchain services to BT Radianz Cloud clients.
Smartkarma, CorpXSasia Partner on Corporate Access, Research
Independent research provider Smartkarma and corporate access provider CorpXSasia plan to create larger corporate access events together.
Blackstone Outlines Blueprint for Thomson Reuters F&R Spin-Off, Refinitiv
Blackstone executive Martin Brand describes some of the areas where it plans to invest once Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk unit is spun off later this year.
Thomson Reuters Rebadges F&R Unit Refinitiv, Names Craig CEO
Craig has led the F&R division since 2012, and will preside over its transition to a standalone company.
EuroCCP Picks Nagel as CEO
Former LCH executive to take over as chief executive of cash-equities clearinghouse.
Investment Vet Read Joins MSCI to Cement Client Focus
Read joins MSCI after 25 years of holding senior roles at buy-side firms.
IMD/IRD Awards 2018: SmartStream RDU Boss Moss on two award wins
IRD editor Jamie Hyman interviews Peter Moss, CEO of SmartStream Reference Data Utility.
Euroclear Invests in Algomi
CSD expects to increase client transaction volumes in illiquid fixed-income securities.
Duco Expands into Singapore, Wrocław and Edinburgh
The London-based data engineering company is opening three new offices.