Data
BRED Taps SunGard for Euronext Data, Trading Access
Paris-based BRED Banque Populaire, the cooperative commercial bank of French banking group Groupe BPCE, has rolled out SunGard's outsourced Valdi Market Access platform to connect to market data and trade on Euronext's equities market.
Born Taps NYSE's Dimtsis for Canada Sales
Born Technology, a Chicago-based exchange connectivity and co-location technology provider, has hired Paul Dimtsis as managing director of sales, based in Toronto.
Markit, Genpact Plan Expansion of KYC Service
Architects of Markit I Genpact KYC Services plan to add an automated interface enabling direct consumption of client profiles starting in early 2015, and expansion to serve more markets
Options Grows Velocity Feed Coverage, Eyes Wider Reach
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has added new European markets to its connectivity and managed co-location platform, providing customers with direct access to equities and derivatives feeds from Spanish exchange group…
LEI: Looking for the Horizon -- Webcast
On September 18, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about progress in implementation of the legal entity identifier and the work to be done to complete the LEI system
ISDA, Markit Launch Derivatives Reporting Tool
ISDA Amend, a joint ISDA-Markit solution, adds a feature to facilitate OTC derivatives trade reporting in three Canadian provinces facing an October 31 deadline
Tiger Sinks Claws into Hudson Fiber
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investing in mid-market infrastructure assets, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Paramus, NJ-based low-latency network provider Hudson Fiber Network, to expand the vendor's…
OMD Builds Social Media Data ‘Sandbox’
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData has launched a new web-based social media analysis platform that combines market data, reference data and social media sentiment scores with analytics and visualization tools, to…
Thomson Reuters Integrates Markit Directory into Eikon Messenger
Thomson Reuters has integrated the Markit Directory "phone book" component of Markit's Collaboration Services messaging platform into its Eikon Messenger chat tool, as part of an ongoing industry project to build an open messaging network for financial…
Barchart Adds Commodities Prices to OnDemand Web Services Data
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has begun distributing global commodities and futures price data via its Barchart OnDemand suite of web services-enabled datasets that leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
Russian Depository Launches LEI Data Site
The National Settlement Depository has debuted lei-code.ru, a website providing data on legal entity identifiers in the Russian market
1010 Says 10-4 to ‘Easy-to-Use' Analysis Interface
1010Data, a New York-based provider of Big Data analytics tools for fixed income and other markets, has released a new interface to its database, to allow bond traders to more easily perform loan-level analysis on mortgage-backed securities, in addition…
Sparinvest Chooses SunGard’s XSPrisa for Corporate Actions Processing
International asset management firm Sparinvest will implement SunGard's XSPrisa software-as-a-service offering to help mitigate its operational risk and more efficiently process corporate actions events
Exceed, Nasdaq Ally for Structured Investment Indexes, Data Distribution
New York-based boutique financial services firm Exceed Investments is launching a new family of indexes, dubbed the Nasdaq Exceed Structured Indexes, in partnership with Nasdaq OMX. The new indexes are designed to deliver the predictability of structured…
StatPro Taps Thompson for Client Integrations
Data and portfolio analytics provider StatPro has hired Ian Thompson as client integration director, responsible for helping the vendor's product development teams to smoothly transition clients to its cloud-based StatPro Revolution analytics platform…
Voltaire Keeps Up with the Jones
London-based valuation risk advisory firm Voltaire Advisors has appointed Peter Jones senior partner, with responsibility for creating and growing its online community of valuations and risk professionals, and for producing its Valuation Risk Briefing…
City Index Rolls Out Velocimetrics for Data Quality Monitoring
City Index, a provider of equities, options, indexes and contracts for difference trading and financial spread betting, has implemented technology from latency monitoring provider Velocimetrics to monitor the quality of market data feeding its equities…
Singapore Exchange Upgrades Reporting
The exchange, working with a market practice group, is requiring completion of structured data fields to better support corporate actions reporting
VWD Grows Index Content with iQ-Foxx Data
Frankfurt-based market data vendor VWD has added data on Austrian index provider iQ-Foxx’s smart beta indexes to its data products, in a move that officials say will allow users to reduce portfolio volatility, allowing them to increase their holdings in…
Opening Cross: The Challenge of Achieving True Data Transparency
Transparency has been a focus for regulators and market participants in the wake of the financial crisis as they try to combat the potential impact of illiquid assets and imperfect market structures. And transparency—albeit of a different sort—was also a…
Cost Optics Taps Ex-Arcontech Exec Dass for Growth
Singapore-based expense management specialist Cost Optics, which provides a software-as-a-service platform for large expense categories, including market data, has hired Chandra Dass as global head of business development, responsible for building the…
WSI Eyes Expense Management Tool Expansion
London-based data management technology vendor Web Services Integration is expanding the coverage of its Vendor Data Manager expense management tool──a module of its Xceptor data management platform──to cover data services from vendors besides Bloomberg.
EFIS 2014: Hanna Urges Exchange Contract Standardization
To simplify and standardize the growing number and complexity of exchange data contracts and policies, exchanges should form an independent industry group to standardize contract terms and language, and how exchanges enforce their contract terms, Rafah…