Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
MarketAxess integrates Markit's CDS quotes to e-trading platform
MarketAxess and Markit have agreed an alliance to integrate Markit Quotes into the MarketAxess client-to-multi-dealer trading platform. Markit Quotes is a real-time quote parsing service that extracts indicative over-the-counter prices from electronic…
Merged Thomson Reuters Breaks Cover
One of last year's big talking points-the takeover of Reuters by Thomson Corp.-came to fruition this year, creating a combined data vendor larger than rival Bloomberg and with a diverse set of products and services beyond just financial markets, such as…
I Now Pronounce You Merged!
I'll admit, I sometimes get a little teary-eyed at weddings. There's something particularly moving about watching a happy couple exchange vows and prepare for a long future together. So you can imagine how excited I was at a sudden uptick in M&A activity…
Vhayu partners with Alphacet for alpha generation
Vhayu Technologies, a provider of enterprise tick data solutions, has partnered with Alphacet, a developer of quantitative tools, to provide users with an integrated tick database and alpha generation platform. This, according to Vhayu, will help firms…
CGI Group, StatPro announce alliance
CGI Group, a Fairfax, VA-based provider of wealth management technology, and StatPro Group, have announced the integration of StatPro Market Data into CGI's StarSource Managed Data prod-uct. StarSource is a component of MSuite, CGI's wealth management…