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People Moves: Cboe, Broadridge, DTCC, Liquidnet, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Stephanie Renner (pictured), who has been named senior vice president of international finance at Cboe Global Markets.
GTCR Agrees to Sale of Dash Financial
Flexpoint Ford is backing a management buyout of Dash Financial Technologies from private-equity firm GTCR.
AFTAs 2017: Best IT Integration Initiative—Cowen
When Cowen announced that it was acquiring Convergex in April 2017, it was looking for a swift close to the deal—in just three months, the agency broker would become a full part of its new parent, renamed and rebadged to reflect that change. For CIO Ann…
Colas, Rabe Set Up Big Data, Tech Research Firm
The pair of former Convergex research professionals left teh firm earlier this year to start DataTrek.
Red Deer, Westminster Ally for MiFID II Research Solution
The end-to-end solution will remove potential conflicts in research valuation and payment.
Convergex Taps Ancoa for AWS-Hosted Market Surveillance Platform
Agency-only brokerage taps Ancoa for hosted platform in response to increasing regulatory demand for market surveillance tools.
Dash, LiquidPoint Merge to Form Dash Financial Technologies
Peter Maragos, current CEO of Dash, will serve as CEO of new entity.
Waters Rankings 2016: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider — Convergex
If, as a capital markets firm, you aren’t using trading algorithms to at least some degree, there are two possibilities: Either you’re based in some backwater and you route your trades to your brokers by phone calls and faxes and they execute them on…
SR Labs Catches Cacciola
Cacciola joins SR Labs after holding various sales and account management roles at content and technology providers.
AFTAs 2015: Best OTC Trading Initiative—Convergex
The ultimate result of streamlining requests for quotes (RFQs) means that a formerly manual process that could take upwards of five minutes to complete is halved.
Broker Commissions: The Great Unbundling Bungle
Handling sell-side research and commissions has typically been a mundane and relatively simple function for investment managers. But regulatory authorities in Europe are about to turn the process upside down with a little-known but potentially impactful…
Convergex Launches Buy-Write Algo For Equities, Options
Leverages VWAP, Pulse algos for dual-asset strategies.
Convergex to Launch ETF Direct Platform
Agency broker expands to quote-sourcing for exchange-traded funds.
Wall Street Horizon Names CMO, Adds Sales
The hires will raise the company's profile and contribute to "accelerated growth," officials say.
Convergex Vet Daspin Joins Triad
Daspin was previously at Convergex
The Scripture of Python: An Inside Look at the Use of Scripting Programming Languages on Wall Street
Anthony speaks with 10 Wall Street firms to find out how they're using the Python scripting language.
Convergex Names Ann Neidenbach as CIO
Agency-broker and technology provider Convergex has named Ann Neidenbach as its new chief information officer (CIO).
Patch and a Prayer: An Inside Look at the Art of Patching
Anthony walks through the challenges of patching systems & servers.
ConvergEx Launches IEX Order Routing Strategy
New York-based broker ConvergEx Group has launched a dynamic order routing strategy developed in collaboration with IEX that will allow its clients to split their orders between IEX’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) and ConvergEx's Darkest algorithm.
ConvergEx Enhances Open-Close Algorithms
New York-headquartered brokerage ConvergEx has upgraded its opening and closing auction algorithms for the NYSE, NYSE Arca and Nasdaq exchanges.
With Three Hires, ConvergEx Refreshes Electronic Trading Leadership
Greg Voetsch and Charles Galligan have both joined the firm as CEO of ConvergEx Execution Services and head of program trading, respectively. Oliver Sung comes onboard in September as head of US electronic execution.