North America
Vela Trading Continues Growth Strategy with Object Trading Acquisition
This Vela move follow’s its acquisition last month of futures and options trading specialist OptionsCity.
Commodities Data Vet Browne Joins Barchart’s Agricharts Biz
Browne will leverage his 16 years of experience serving the commodities markets with data to expand AgriCharts' presence.
PE Firm TCV Buys Into AxiomSL
Senior executives of TCV--which has invested $9 billion in tech companies over the past 22 years--will advise AxiomSL's board.
Former Bank Data Execs Santiago, Armando Unveil Data Consultancy
The pair will target financial firms based in South Florida that may not have dedicated market data resources.
UPDATE: Data Error Hits Nasdaq Tech Stocks on Key Finance Websites
Several technology stocks listed on Nasdaq were reset to $123.47 after third-party data providers sent out incorrect information.
FactSet Selects ChartIQ’s HTML5 Charting Technology
FactSet had previously built its own charts, but decided to look at third-party options for this iteration
Data, Tech Sales Exec Wood Joins Horizon
Wood has more than 25 years of experience in banking and data and technology sales.
Curium Taps ICC for North America Implementations
The partnership will enable London-based Curium to grow while maintaining its focus on support.
Donnelly Financial, ICE Data Services Ally for Fund Filing Tool
ICE Data Services' reference data, taxonomies and evaluated prices will be key to fund firms correctly filing N-Port forms under next year's regulation.
Redline Adds Thomson Reuters FX Feed to InRush Ticker
The new handler supports Thomson Reuters' high-frequency Binary Multicast Feed
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 74: The Regtech Craze & Clearing Concerns
Anthony and James look at why London clearinghouses may be in danger and the use of cognitive tools to monitor employees.
Sentieo Snares Carreras, Gore to Drive Data Desktop
The pair will contribute to creating new views of Sentieo's data, and to demonstrating its value to clients.
Former Omgeo, DTCC Data Head Arthus Gets New DTCC Role
Arthus has spent a dozen years at DTCC and Omgeo, following a 25-year technology career at JP Morgan.
CJC Taps Sym, Porter for US Expansion
The pair will contribute to UK-based CJC expanding its business development activities in the US
Liquidnet Unveils Tool to Help Capture Post-Block Event Opportunities
The offering adds an additional 19% of volume to the original block execution and will absorb 9 out of every 10 blocks that appear in the minute following the initial block, according to Liquidnet.
Open Platform: Don’t Drop EDM Efforts Based on Deregulation Assumptions
Asset Control's Martijn Groot explores how US proposals for lighter regulatory reform and Brexit negotiations may impact EDM and data management professionals in the coming months.
Maude Ditches Fitch for S&P
Maude joins S&P after a 20-year career in the industry, working at data vendors, marketplace operators, and brokers and asset managers.
NAFIS 2017: Industry’s Late ‘Thaw’ on Machine Learning Leaves Much to be Done
Joanne Faulkner reports on NAFIS panelists' views on machine learning and its current and future applications for the capital markets.
London Stock Exchange Bolsters Fixed-Income Presence with Citi Yield Book, Indices Acquisitions
$685 million deal for analytics platform and indices business first acquisition by LSEG since collapse of Deutsche Börse merger.
NAFIS 2017: Evolving Data Science Key to Effective Data Mining
Integrating data science projects will be key for institutions to get the most out of data in the future, but skillsets and the role of data scientist teams are still evolving. Joanne Faulkner reports.
NAFIS 2017: Firms Dip Their Toes into Data Lakes for Analytics
Panelists at the North American Financial Information Summit described the transformative potential of “data lakes” for supporting firms’ ever-increasing analytics and alternative data storage requirements. Joanne Faulkner reports.
NeoXam Appoints Execs to Head New Regional Structure
The vendor has shuffled its existing team and hired new executives to support the new structure.
State Street, TruValue Ally for ESG Data Standards
State Street and TruValue Labs have announced an agreement to promote the adoption of industry-standard ESG data.
Money.Net Bolsters News Content with Dataminr, MT Newswires Upgrade
Money.Net says the Dataminr content will fill a gap in the market for social media data that is not being addressed by other terminal vendors.