Market Data & Data Analytics
Way Fund Managers Taps OTCFin-Morningstar Combo for Priips Compliance
The UK-based fund manager selected the OTCFin-Morningstar joint service following a "rigorous" selection process and proof-of-concept, officials say.
The Dark Art of Pre-Trade Analytics
Financial firms commonly review trading activity after the fact to improve their execution strategies. But what they’d really love to do is perform that in real time, pre-trade. Max Bowie looks at how far along market participants are in pursuit of this…
After Building an AI Black Swan Detector, Compellon Mulls Path Forward
The California-based company has built a quantitative analysis engine using machine learning to help score sell-side analysts and search for potential black-swan events.
Sentieo Lifts Ex-ETF.com CEO Lichtblau
Before joining Sentieo, Lichtblau has previously served as a senior executive at ETF.com, Thomson Reuters and StarMine.
ESMA Preps for Machine-Readable Financial Reports for 2020
Officials say the new reporting standard will eliminate manual processing and re-keying of data from EU-based issuers' financial reports.
ADVFN Adds CME Bitcoin Data
ADVFN has made bitcoin futures data from CME available on its websites, which the vendor says serve four million registered users.
Cboe Stocks Data Shop with FX, Bitcoin Data
The historical FX and bitcoin data will be available via Cboe's Data Shop marketplace, which the exchange acquired as a result of its purchase of Livevol last year.
Eze Software Teams with Wise Trading to Boost FX Capabilities
One asset manager is about to go live on the joint solution, which marks another major partnership by Eze with a third party this year.
Integral Adds Crypto Data to OCX Viewer
The vendor will make real-time data on popular crypto pairs available immediately through its app.
ING Sharpens ‘Katana’ for AI Bond Pricing Boost
ING says its new artificial assistant will help traders price bonds faster, more accurately, and more consistently. Joanne Faulkner reports on how the bank will wield Katana to combat rising RFQ volumes in electronic bond markets.
BondWave Hires Former DPC, Ipreo Exec Newman
Newman previously worked witth BondWave CEO Michael Ruvo at DPC Data.
Estimize Hires Former Telerate, Reuters Exec Geisenheimer as COO/CFO
Officials say Geisenheimer--who has served as a board advisor since July 2016--will bring decades of experience to the young vendor as it scales up.
Panel: Buy Side Should Build Consolidated Tape for FX
Speakers at a conference organized by Inside Market Data stablemate FX Week believe a consolidated tape of FX data is needed to support increasingly data-intense analytics. FX Week editor Eva Szalay reports on the arguments behind calls for an…
TruValue Bows ESG Scores Data Service
TruValue's tests show that stocks with good ESG scores plucked from the S&P500 outperform the index as a whole over five years.
Selerity Nabs Former Goldman Sachs Exec Nakai for BizDev
Before joining Selerity, Nakai spent more than a decade in sales roles at Goldman Sachs, involved in automation and digitization initiatives.
Quantitative Brokers Taps Roth for CEO, Ascher as Chairman
Between them, new CEO Roth and chairman Ascher have more than 50 years of experience in financial markets and technology.
PitchBook Goes Public with Morningstar Data
PitchBook has integrated more than 50,000 public datasets from its parent company Morningstar.
Debt Platform Overbond Hires Ex-Bloomberg Exec Harrington
Before his most recent role at Eris Exchange, Harrington spent a decade at Bloomberg.
BMLL Hires Activ's Collins to Lead Sales Push
Former Activ Financial sales head joins BMLL Technologies.
Börse Stuttgart Acquires Data Startup Sowa
The acquisition will boost the exchange’s data analyticsand innovation capabilities, officials say.
UBS Hires Former MTS Data Head Linwood
Linwood has almost 20 years' experience in the debt markets, including senior roles at MTS Markets and Interactive Data.
EPFR's Ringrose Moves to Wall Street Horizon
Ringrose joins the events data provider after a decade at Informa-owned EPFR, following stints at Reuters and Bridge.
RSRCHXchange Adds Quant Insight Macro Research
Officials say Quant Insight's quantitative analysis will complement the traditional research already available via RSRCHXchange.
Money.Net Buys Scout Finance to Grow Mobile Apps, Debuts HTML5 Web Terminal
The acquisition of Scout's apps and development of a new interface will bolster its mobile presence nad facilitate client adoption.