Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
Markit Reaches South Africa with IQ Partnership
Markit has announced that it has entered into a commercial partnership with consulting firm IQ Business, to market its analytics products to the country.
What Does the Partnership Between BlackRock and MarketAxess Say About Aladdin?
BlackRock made big news last year by opening up its Aladdin corporate bond trading platform to the broader market. Some feel that its recent alliance with MarketAxess means it has already thrown in the towel.
Backstop Acquires PerTrac CMS
Backstop Solutions Group (BSG) has announced the acquisition of PerTrac's CMS product line, which provide customer-relationship management tools for institutional, buy-side clients.
Caplin, OpenFin Partnership to Drive HTML5 Adoption
London-based Caplin Systems, a provider of web-based development framework technology, and New York-based OpenFin, a provider of finance-grade runtime technology, have announced an alliance that combines the firms’ offerings with the objective of…
SmartStream, Trustlink Partner to Service Southern Africa Market
London-based SmartStream Technologies, a provider of financial transaction management technology and services, and Pretoria-based Trustlink, have agreed an alliance that will see Trustlink distribute SmartStream’s Reconciliations and Cash & Liquidity…
Markit Acquires DTCC Stake in MarkitSERV
Markit has announced that it will buy out the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) from their joint venture, MarkitSERV.
Officer on Deck
The face of UK regulation changed yesterday.
Nasdaq OMX to Acquire eSpeed Platform from BGC
Nasdaq OMX has announced that it will purchase BGC Partners' US treasuries-trading platform, eSpeed,for $750 million and contingent stock issuance.
Multi-Bank Group Aims for Client Enablement Standardization
A group of major sell-side institutions have launched a working group, the Trading Enablement Standardization Initiative (TESI), in order to facilitate client and trader enablement on electronic trading platforms.
The FCA Wants You to Know That It Knows Technology Exists
With the split of the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) into two component parts rapidly approaching, one arm has released its business plan and risk outlook, where it touches on technology in strokes so broad they're almost invisible.