Inside Market Data/News
RavenPack Adds Sentiment Analysis on Alliance News as Brexit Raises Focus on UK
Alliance News' content will help RavenPack meet demand for UK-specific news following the "Brexit" vote, officials say.
Digital Contact Eyes Broker Clients for Custom News Feeds
The vendor's product will make it possible for retail brokers to create customized news feed for clients, based on their own data.
Smartkarma Uses Funding to Grow Content, Staff
The vendor will invest some of last month's $4.7 million funding in expanding the content it provides to contributors, and in building out its international sales operations.
ESMA Fines Fitch for Ratings Rules Breaches
Over an 18-month period, ESMA found nine instances where Fitch analysts shared information with Fitch's parent company, in breach of ESMA rules.
LPL Financial Rolls Out Money.Net into ‘Affinity' Vendor Program
Inclusion in LPL's Affinity vendor program exposes Money.Net to more than 14,000 LPL advisors, as part of a suite of affordable technology solutions.
TMX Taps Ex-ICE, NYSE Tech Exec Rajarathinam as CIO
In a career spanning almost 20 years, Rajarathinam has worked at exchanges, banks and technology vendors.
Oekom Nabs Durha for London Office
The new London office will provide better local support for clients, and follows the opening of a New York office last month.
Thomson Reuters, Imperial College Ally for FinTech, Data Research
The vendor's content in partnership with the university's research prowess will create an environment where other market participants will also want to contribute thir expertise, officials say.
Vela Hiring Spree Boosts Sales, Marketing Ops
Officials say the new hires will bring a wealth of experience to Vela's sales, marketing and account management functions.
Mexico's GBM Expands Solace Platform to Market Data
Migrating its trading infrastructure to the Solace-based platform will enable GBM to better spot trends and trading opportunities.
Thomson Reuters: Eikon Trading Capabilities Tackle Duplicate Data Fees
By incorporating trading capabilities from OptionsCity Software, clients can eliminate duplicate applications and data fees.
ASX Taps Metamako Switches for Data Monitoring, Timestamping
ASX is using Metamako's MetaMux switch appliance to monitor timestamping and time synchronization of data across its new trading platform.
Quandl Adds CLS FX Trade, Volume Data to Online Platform
The data provides greater granularity and frequency than CLS' existing offerings, and will appeal to traders, risk and portfolio managers and those managing currency risk.
Screen Opens London Office to Support Local Client Demand
The vendor is setting up a dedicated presence in London to serve its growing local base
ADM Taps Screen to Control Contracts, Costs
The firm has enliested Screen InfoMatch to help it to move to a more efficient process for managing data contracts and invoices.
XPansion Expands XMon Bloomberg Support
The vendor has added support for Bloomberg's latest pricing matrixes and discount factors, as well as for requests for data from Bloomberg's BVal service.
Markit Unveils ‘Digital’ Biz, Chartworks Suite
The vendor is revamping the former Markit On Demand business with a packaged charting product suite, in addition to its existing custom offerings.
Aqumin Supports Snapshot Data Download
Buy-side clients can now download underlying data behind teh vendor's charts for historical analysis.
TMX Adds FX Analysis to Analytics Suite
The new analysis service provides real-time and historical data covering 24 base currencies and more than 500 currency pairs.
Equinix Outlines Expanded London Presence
The vendor's acquisition of Telecity's locations will provide added capacity in the London area as Equinix brings phase two of its LD6 site in Slough online.
Citi Fined $7M by SEC for Trade Data Errors
The fine is the highest imposed by the SEC for violations relating to reporting of "blue sheet" data, which encompasses various types of trade data.
Thomson Reuters, CME Integrate IM Networks
The integrated instant messaging platforms will support collaboration between 300,000 users, officials say.
Disclosure Tech Vendor Certent Buys Reporting Provider DisclosureNet
The acquisition will improve the reporting and filing process, while making it easier for clients to extract information from disclosures.
OptionMetrics Adds Staff to Support Growth
Kim and Villanueva are two of a number of new hires appointed to support the company's growth after experiencing three quarters of record revenue.