Inside Market Data/News
UPDATE: Cloud Network Operator GTT Buys Perseus for $37.5 Million
The deal, completed last week, sees GTT aquire Perseus and its ultra-low-latency international data and trading infrastructure.
Investment Firm Exotix Hires Ex-Roubini CEO to Lead New Research, Analytics and Data Division
Standalone RAD unit will help European clients prepare for MiFID II by unbundling research from investment banking operations
Red Deer, TheySay Partner for 'Deep Text Analytics'
Red Deer will leverage TheySay’s NLP technology to help buy-side clients extract investment signals from swathes of Big Data.
S&P Eyes Buy-Side Performance with Portfolio Analytics Tool
S&P Global Market Intelligence’s new Portfolio Analytics platform combines the vendor’s data with clients’ own proprietary content to allow portfolio managers to assess and communicate the drivers of their performance, officials tell Joanne Faulkner.
Net Vet Cubbon Saddles Up at Colt
Cubbon brings a career of networking technology experience, including at other financial extranet providers.
Nasdaq Launches Analytics Hub for Buy Side
Joanne Faulkner reports on Nasdaq’s new hub that allows investors to apply machine intelligence techniques to proprietary and third-party datasets to create new signals that they may not have been able to access on their own.
Thomson Reuters Integrates Eikon with Symphony
Joint customers will be able to share Eikon content directly via the messaging platform.
Brazil’s B3 Exchange Enlists Perseus for Trader Time Synch
The agreement is exclusive for an initial two-year period, and marks the first deployment of a Grand Master clock in a southern hemisphere financial center.
Sentieo Snares Carreras, Gore to Drive Data Desktop
The pair will contribute to creating new views of Sentieo's data, and to demonstrating its value to clients.
CJC Taps Sym, Porter for US Expansion
The pair will contribute to UK-based CJC expanding its business development activities in the US
Data Vet Ikel Joins 3di, Resigns from IPUG
Former BNP Paribas market data manager John Ikel named head of data compliance and licensing at 3di
Bats Europe Expands Index Business
Bats Europe launches 18 benchmarks spanning European regional, single country and sector indexes.
Infront Preps for Oslo IPO
Vendor says IPO will help support its growth plans by providing financing for acquisitions.
Maude Ditches Fitch for S&P
Maude joins S&P after a 20-year career in the industry, working at data vendors, marketplace operators, and brokers and asset managers.
Metamako Launches Triple-FPGA Devices; Slashes Latency
The configuration enables multiple performance-sensitive applications, such as market data processing, trading algorithms and pre-trade risk checks to run on a single device.
NovaSparks Adds Bats Options Feed Support
FPGA ticker vendor claims processing speeds for Bats options markets of less than one microsecond.
Macrobond Lures Danske Chief Economist
The vendor says Josefsson will bring a greater "user perspective" to its business.
Colt Adds Equiduct Connectivity
Officials say that connectivity to Equiduct─alongside the other venues to which Colt already provides connectivity─will support firms' best execution requirements while expanding Colt's regulatory services.
ESMA Fines Moody’s €1.24M for Credit Ratings Breaches
ESMA says that between June 2011 and December 2013 Moody’s failed to explain decisions for 19 ratings.
ICE Acquires BAML Fixed Income Indexes
Following the London Stock Exchange’s acquisition of Citigroup’s fixed income indexes and analytics business, Intercontinental Exchange bolsters its fixed income assets with the acquisition of the Global Research Index Platform from Bank of America…
Screen Enlists AFO for South Africa Support
Screen is partnering with South African startup AFO to provide local support for its managed services to its growing client base in the country.
Red Deer, Westminster Ally for MiFID II Research Solution
The end-to-end solution will remove potential conflicts in research valuation and payment.
SIX Group CEO to Step Down at Year-End
Ruegsegger has served as CEO since the creation of SIX Group in 2007 from the SWX Exchange, SIS Group and Telekurs.
Burton Taylor: Sentiment Survey Predicts Positive Growth for 2017
The survey highlights pricing and reference data, valuations, risk and regulation-related spend as having the strongest sentiment for growth in spend.