Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
IDC Adds BCG FX, IRS Rates to OTC Data
Interactive Data will this week make pricing data for foreign exchange and interest rate contracts from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over-the-counter sources worldwide, as…
Markit Eyes Front-Office Push with thinkFolio Acquisition
Markit has acquired London-based portfolio management system (PMS) provider thinkFolio, in a deal that will see the buy-side stalwart join Markit’s enterprise software division.
Deutsche Börse Continues Asia Push With CLTX Grab
Deutsche Börse’s Leipzeg-based subsidiary, The European Energy Exchange (EEX), has taken on a majority 52 percent share in ClearTrade Exchange (CLTX), a futures exchange based in Singapore. The move completes a deal that was agreed to in Q4 of 2013.
Deutsche Börse Buys Impendium Systems for Compliance Offering
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has acquired Impendium Systems, a London-based firm that deploys cloud-based compliance software solutions. The deal was completed on Jan. 10 for a price "in the single digit million euro range," according to the…
Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
TMX Atrium Connects to IXcellerate Moscow Datacenter
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has expanded its connectivity network to Moscow with a new low-latency access to Russian datacenter provider IXcellerate's Moscow One datacenter.
JPMorgan Takes Chi-X Stake
JPMorgan has joined the ownership consortium of Chi-X Global Holdings by acquiring a stake in the firm, the alternative trading venue operator has announced.
Virtusa Takes Over TradeTech Consulting Business
Global IT services provider Virtusa Corp. has acquired all outstanding shares of Swedish IT consulting and services provider TradeTech Consulting and its subsidiaries.
Borsa Istanbul Takes Nasdaq Data, Trading Platforms
Nasdaq OMX will supply Turkish exchange Borsa Istanbul with technology and advisory services─including the provision of a new market data distribution system─under the terms of a deal that will also see Nasdaq take a five percent stake in the exchange,…
Eurex Takes Small Taifex Stake
Derivatives bourse Eurex has announced that it has taken a five-percent stake in the Taiwan Futures Exchange (Taifex).
Borsa Istanbul Signs Landmark Deal with Nasdaq OMX
Borsa Istanbul, the Turkish stock exchange, has signed an agreement with Nasdaq OMX to strengthen its position as financial hub in the Eurasia region.
Energy Data Hub Taps Sapient
Houston, Texas-based energy data processing utility Energy Data Hub has enlisted Sapient Global Markets to contribute to the development of its EDH Platform central repository for global energy trade data, to help EDH provide improved data transparency…
Thomson Reuters, SGX Ally on Bond Indexes
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a suite of Singapore dollar bond indexes, developed with the Singapore Exchange, to help fund managers, asset owners and custodians benchmark investment performance and to provide increased transparency into local bond…
IBM Takes ADTS Stake
IBM has taken a controlling stake in Associated Dexia Technology Services (ADTS), a company that provides IT services to firms that were formerly part of the Dexia group.
Tora Trading Taps Activ for Asia-Pac Data
Asia-focused trading platform provider Tora Trading Services has selected US-based low-latency data vendor Activ Financial to deliver market data from Asia-Pacific marketplaces to its customer base of traders at hedge funds, long-only funds and sell-side…
Xeno, Aqumin Ally for Data Quality Visuals
UK-headquartered data management and analytics technology provider Xenomorph has integrated Houston, Texas-based data visualization provider Aqumin’s “landscape”-style heatmap displays into its TimeScape database and analytics platform, to provide visual…
EuroCCP, EMCF Complete Merger Transaction
Cash equities clearing houses EuroCCP and EMCF have completed the transaction to combine the two firms, following regulatory approvals, with the changes in name taking effect from early 2014.
eVestment Adds HFR Hedge Fund Data
Atlanta, GA-based investment analytics software vendor eVestment is integrating alternative investment data and indexes from Hedge Fund Research-a Chicago-based provider of hedge fund industry databases, reports and indexes-into its suite of analytics…
ICE Plans to Divest NYSE Technologies; Will Keep Data Centers
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) plans to sell much of the NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies data and technology business, following its acquisition of the New York-based exchange group, said ICE chairman and chief executive Jeffrey Sprecher on a…
Sprecher: ICE to Keep Datacenters, SFTI; Will Sell NYSE Technologies Assets
IntercontinentalExchange plans to divest much of the NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies data and technology business, following its acquisition of the New York-based exchange group, said ICE chairman and chief executive Jeffrey Sprecher on a conference…
Morningstar Bolsters Fund Data with eVestment Deal
Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar will make fund management software provider eVestment's database of more than 22,000 separate accounts and 23,000 hedge funds data available to users of its Morningstar Direct investment…
Clarus Taps Icap Data for SEF Data Analysis
Clarus Financial Technology, a London-based provider of swaps benchmarks, reporting and analytics software, and risk management tools, is distributing benchmark derivative pricing from interdealer broker Icap as part of its SDRView Professional service…
South Africa's McGregor BFA Buys I-Net Bridge
Cape Town-based financial data provider McGregor BFA has acquired fellow South African data vendor I-Net Bridge from Johannesburg-based publisher Times Media Group for 112.7 million rand ($11.1 million) to create an "unmatched" financial database of…
Thomson Reuters Buys Kortes for Russian Commodities Data
Thomson Reuters has acquired Russian energy data provider Kortes to expand the level of insight into Russian commodities markets available on its Eikon desktop with the addition of Kortes' data and analytics on the Russian and CIS (Commonwealth of…