Organization & strategy
Former Calastone Asia Head Joins UBS Asset Management
Sebastien Chaker will lead the Asia expansion of UBS’ wholesale funds platform.
Velocimetrics Taps Ex-Goldman Sachs Research COO as Director
A 20-plus-year veteran of the banking and research industy, Tufft will be actively involved in Velocimetrics' industry positioning and new business initiatives.
T. Rowe Price Taps Former BlackRock Strategist for APAC Strategy Role
Shen will focus on creating solutions for institutional investors in the Asia-Pacific region.
EDM Council Names John Bottega Interim Managing Director
Former EDM Council chair John Bottega takes over from Mike Atkin, who will shift his focus to research and education.
Data, E-Trading Sales Vet Watson to Head Tradition Data Sales
Watson has spent more than 30 years selling market data and trading floor technologies and services.
Ex-Thomson Reuters Bauman Joins TIM Group Sales Team
The trade ideas provider has added Jeff Bauman to its New York sales team.
AxiomSL Taps Data, Tech Vet Tierney in Asia
Tierney brings 25 years of experience in the financial technology and data industries to AxiomSL, including senior roles at DTCC, NYSE Technologies, BT Radianz and Omgeo.
North Capital Partners OneVest on Private Placements
Broker-dealer platform to distribute early-stage investments.
Corporate Actions Spend on the Rise
While investment in corporate actions never suffered a slow-down, experts say it is now set to increase even further. Carla Mangado explores firms' strategies around corporate actions, and how the financial crisis has affected investment patterns
DirectFN Targets MidEast Institutional Data
Dubai-based data provider DirectFN is targeting institutional investors and trading firms with a new desktop data display and datafeeds, in a bid to expand its client base both within and beyond the region.
Jordan & Jordan Bolsters London Staff
New York-based consultancy Jordan & Jordan is beefing up its London operations to support an unnamed, London-based bank client that has engaged J&J to perform outsourced business management for its market data billing and reporting functions, including…
Interactive Data Buyout Drives IT Integration
Interactive Data plans to accelerate a project to adopt a common technology platform for supporting the storage and distribution of its data products and services, following the vendor's acquisition last week by private equity firms Silver Lake and…
Hedgehogs Curls Up With MoneyScience
UK-based private equity firm Thematic Capital, which owns hedge fund information and networking community portal Hedgehogs.net, has acquired a majority stake in MoneyScience, a niche information portal that aggregates content for quantitative investors…
Kohler Quits Icap to Head CMA
Antoine Kohler, head of information services at Icap, is leaving the interdealer broker to become chief executive of London-based derivatives data vendor Credit Market Analysis.
Gmarkets Taps Hestiun for Growth
Canadian data vendor Gmarkets is planning a major global expansion with new offices and additional content, as a result of receiving a funding injection of an undisclosed amount from private equity firm Hestiun Capital, officials say.
Thomson Reuters Readies ‘Re-Platformed' Services
Thomson Reuters is changing its service model to support new products and services being rolled out over the coming weeks and months, and to respond to evolving client needs resulting from changes in the financial markets since the credit crunch and…
YCharts Investment to Fund Tech Hires
Chicago-based fundamental data analysis provider YCharts is planning to beef up its technology group to accelerate development of its Web-based fundamental analysis platform, using funds acquired via a recent Series A financing round.
FactSet Integrates Dow Jones IB Content
FactSet Research Systems is gearing up to unveil a new version of its market data display platform that integrates Dow Jones' Investment Banker news and content, to give mutual clients more in-depth data and allow them to access the Investment Banker…
29West Buy Boosts Informatica Data Plans
Calif.-based data integration software provider Informatica will integrate the messaging framework of middleware provider 29West-which it bought last week for an undisclosed sum-with its existing platforms to deliver "zero-latency" exchange of data…
Icap Taps WHSS for Garban Feed Migration
Interdealer broker Icap has enlisted New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland Support Services to assist clients migrating to Icap's new IP-based datafeed from its legacy Garban feed, which the broker plans to retire…
Algo Tech Readies Low-Latency Feeds
The new venture of Hirander Misra, former chief operating officer of pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X, plans to launch ultra-low-latency market data services by this summer, as part of a suite of services including smart order-routing and…
Reuters Deal Drives CJC Asia Push
UK-based data consultancy CJC is planning to open offices in Hong Kong and Singapore and hire staff in the Asia-Pacific region, to provide support for Thomson Reuters' hosted service offering and to support CJC's own push into the region.