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MSCI Names ex-UBS' Corrado CIO
Index provider MSCI has appointed Chris Corrado to the newly created position of chief information officer, responsible for ensuring the vendor provides "leading-edge products and services" that help clients achieve their business goals.
IRD's Editor on Centralization
Michael Shashoua points to several areas of data management where centralizing data is becoming prevalent
Thomson Reuters Adds IIR Energy Refinery Info to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added data on planned maintenance of oil refineries from Houston, Texas-based IIR Energy to its Eikon next-generation desktop, to provide oil traders with supply chain data about maintenance at more than 600 refineries worldwide in…
Kelly to Succeed Phillips as Morningstar Research Head
Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar has named Haywood Kelly its new head of research, effective Jan. 1, 2014, taking over from Don Phillips, who is stepping down from the role, but will remain a managing director and board…
Industry ‘Advocate' Tom Jordan Wins FISD Lifetime Achievement Award
At the World Financial Information Summit event in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday, industry association FISD presented its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award to Tom Jordan, founder, president and chief executive of Jordan & Jordan-perhaps the best-known…
Fenergo Wins Backing For US Expansion
Client onboarding and entity data services provider Fenergo plans to use €4 million Investec Ventures funding to serve North American clients
Banco Carregosa Rolls Out NYSE Tech SuperFeed
Porto, Portugal-based private bank and online brokerage Banco Carregosa has signed up to use the SuperFeed consolidated feed of market data from US, European and Asian markets from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, to…
Korea Exchange Taps Solace Appliances
The Korea Exchange is to roll out Ottawa-based hardware-based messaging provider Solace Systems' appliances as the data delivery infrastructure for its upcoming Exture+ next-generation, low-latency trading platform for equities, bonds and derivatives,…
Arqa Tech Integrates S&P Cap IQ Feed
Russian financial software vendor Arqa Technologies has integrated S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions' ConsolidatedFeed product into its Quik front-office trading terminal for brokers and dealers, to provide clients with access to a global consolidated…
LSE Preps Wireless Data Net to Equinix Slough
The London Stock Exchange will next month go live with low-latency wireless connectivity between its datacenter in the City of London and Equinix's datacenter campus in Slough, west of London, which many market operators and trading firms have chosen to…
Boldizsar Builds Brazil, LatAm Advisory Biz
Luis Boldizsar, a former sales and business development executive for Latin American markets at Thomson Reuters and Interactive Data, has set up LatVance Assessoria Comercial, an advisory firm focused on helping international companies understand and…
Eagle Alpha Switches on Sonar to Swoop on ‘Social' Financial Data
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has unveiled Social Sonar, a service that compiles lists of key sources and influencers on Twitter to give sell-side, buy-side and individual investors read-only access to market-moving information on stocks…
S&P Capital IQ Launches Company Credit Risk Data Service
McGraw Hill Financial-owned data, research and analytics provider S&P Capital IQ will this week launch a new tool for assessing the probability of default for all public and private companies, dubbed PD (Probability of Default) Model Fundamentals, to…
Empirasign Expands Agency Mortgage Data
New York-based Empirasign Strategies, a provider of dealer offerings and “trade color” for mortgage and asset-backed securities, has expanded its database with the addition of data on Agency Fixed Rate Specified Offerings, to complete its coverage of…
Markit Confirms Federated Chat Partners
Data vendor Markit has named Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and GFI Group as official partners in its Federated Chat initiative, joining Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Thomson Reuters,…
StatPro Preps Expanded Revolution Data-Sharing Capabilities
UK-based portfolio analytics and investment data provider StatPro has added new permissioning capabilities to its Revolution cloud-based analytics platform, to allow users to share portfolio data with others within their organization, as well as with…
Panin AM Follows Flows Data with EPFR ChartBook
Indonesian investment manager Panin Asset Management has begun using fund flows data provider EPFR Global's recently launched ChartBook service to monitor investors' risk appetites and decisions about what regions and asset classes to invest in.
Swift's Janssens on CICI Changes: PART 1
Paul Janssens, Swift's legal entity identifier program director, explains the changes that have been made to the pre-local operating unit it manages with the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, including the removal of 18,000 codes
Swift's Janssens on CICI Changes: PART 2
Paul Janssens, Swift's legal entity identifier program director, explains how the messaging services provider and its partner, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, are helping users manage recent changes to the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier…
Credit Benchmark Readies Launch for 2014
London-based startup consensus credit ratings provider Credit Benchmark has begun its proof-of-concept phase with an undisclosed number of contributing banks, ahead of a full production launch scheduled for early next year.
Alliance News Launches UK Equities Newswire, Partners with DPA-AFX, Proquote
UK-based newswire startup Alliance News will launch a real-time equities news service covering all listed UK stocks today, Friday, Oct. 4, to meet demand from traders and investors for UK-focused news to inform investment decisions.
Interxion to Host ASX London PoP
The Australian Securities Exchange has set up a point of presence for its ASX Net Global connectivity network at European datacenter provider Interxion's facility in the City of London, to provide UK and European trading firms with cross-connect access…
Lucena Adds Intra-day Event Detection
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has added support for intra-day signals to its QuantDesk Event Analyzer module, a machine learning event study technology for identifying buying and selling opportunities based on…