Indexes
Index Provider Solactive Grabs Grabbe for COO
Frankfurt-based custom index calculator Solactive AG has named former bank exec Christian Grabbe chief operating officer, to oversee operational processes at the company that will contribute to continued growth.
OTC Markets Adds Benchmark Indexes
New York-based over-the-counter equities exchange operator OTC Markets Group has begun distributing data on three new US dollar-denominated benchmark indexes comprising US and international companies listed on OTC Markets' OTCQX platform.
Custodians, Spaulding Create Benchmark Data Cost Transparency Principles
BNY Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust, along with performance measurement provider The Spaulding Group, have created a set of principles to improve transparency around fees associated with the use of benchmark indexes and their data, to help asset…
NYSE Hit by FTP Data Issues
Outage impacted clients of FTP-delivered index and weightings data from NYSE
Thomson Reuters Bags Sproehnle for Benchmarks
Tobias Sproehnle has joined Thomson Reuters in London as global head of benchmark services to head the vendor's global fixings business, responsible for administering more than 70 global benchmark indexes, including the LBMA Silver Price and the Libor…
Icap Bows End-of-Day Equity Derivatives Pricing Curves
Service will provide investment managers with valuation tools to conduct portfolio analysis and hedge risk.
Deutsche Börse to Disseminate African Bond Indexes, Pricing
Data will cover indexes and pricing from 12 African countries.
BM&F, S&P DJI Ally for Brazilian Indexes
Indexes will serve as the basis for the creation of investable products and potential asset class expansion.
Rimes Panel Tackles Rising Data Management Costs
Cost, data quality and data management needs drive managed services debate.
FactSet Embeds Revere GeoRev Data into Portfolio Analytics
FactSet Research Systems has integrated San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data's Geographic Revenue (GeoRev) Exposure data into the portfolio analytics section of its workstation, after procuring the dataset as part…
Markit, Hang Seng Indexes Roll Out Offshore RMB Bond Index
Markit and Hong Kong's index provider Hang Seng Indexes have launched a bond index series that track the performance of offshore renminbi-denominated sovereign and corporate debt, in response to increased demand from regional and international investors…
SGX Unveils Derivatives Index Business to Boost Interest in Traded Contracts
The Singapore Exchange is rolling out the first phase of a new index calculation engine, initially to create indexes of SGX-listed derivatives, which officials say will add value to SGX's Asia-centered offering by expanding its index business while…
Rimes Adds Thomson Reuters Indexes to BDS
Economic and benchmark data provider Rimes Technologies has added support for Thomson Reuters' equity and fixed income indexes to its Rimes Benchmark Data Service to meet demand for diverse index data from buy-side clients.
Nasdaq Index Head Jacobs Announces Retirement
John Jacobs, executive vice president of global information services at Nasdaq OMX and head of the exchange's index business, has announced he will retire from his current role effective Jan. 2, 2015.
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…
TeraExchange Launches USD-Bitcoin Price Index
Registered swap execution facility TeraExchange has created a new spot bitcoin price index, dubbed the Tera Bitcoin Price Index, as part of the launch of a new regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives trading to meet demand from global merchants,…
Trendrating Unveils Index Strategy Optimization Module
Swiss momentum ratings and analytics provider Trendrating has added an Index Builder module to its recently launched Momentum Analytics Platform, to support alpha-capture strategies for active fund managers and beta models for index fund managers by…
Thomson Reuters Debuts European ESG Indexes
Thomson Reuters has rolled out a new suite of indexes that measure environmental, social and corporate governance practices of European companies, in an effort to expand its existing ESG indexes and index data offering.
Quandl Adds Nasdaq Index Data to Free Financial Search Portal
Toronto-based online economic and financial data search engine Quandl has added Nasdaq OMX's global index family to its web-based platform for financial, economic and sociological datasets, to provide analysts, traders and economists with daily index…
S&P DJI to Manage Mexican Exchange Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed all the indexes produced by Mexican stock exchange Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), and will assume responsibility for marketing and commercially licensing the indexes, while working with BMV on the development of new…
Black is the New Black for MSCI Canada
Index provider MSCI has hired Lindsay Black as vice president of its equity index business in Toronto, responsible for relationship management with local asset managers, broker-dealers and hedge funds.
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Dials Mobile Data App
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has launched a mobile application designed to provide investors with a selected and user-friendly view of trading data.
Bloomberg-Rebranded UBS Indexes Continue Availability on Rimes BDS
Managed benchmark data services provider Rimes Technologies has added Bloomberg index data from Bloomberg to the range of data sources available via its Benchmark Data Service, which provides cloud-based data collection, validation, transformation,…
Opening Cross: Looking for Data (and Beer) in All the Right Places
Over the July 4 long weekend, I strolled around the new residential skyscrapers built along the Long Island City waterfront, and the redeveloped Gantry Plaza State Park overlooking the East River and the UN building. A few blocks inland, in a parking lot…