Brazil
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.
Brazil's Valemobi Taps Numerix for Pricing Analytics
The São Paulo-based brokerage will use Numerix's advanced analytical framework to produce pricing and portfolio analytics across multiple asset classes for its buy side-focused Valebroker platform.
Opening Cross: Make the Right Entrance and You Won’t Need a Graceful Exit
The ability to make a graceful exit is a talent I don’t have: ask anyone who’s participated in a fire drill with me. Nor, it seems, does the annual SIFMA technology exhibition, which straggles doggedly on this week, despite a much smaller exhibitor list…
Icap Taps Perseus for Brazil Data, Trading Link
Interdealer broker Icap has engaged low-latency fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom to provide infrastructure to carry market data and trade order flow between its New York operations and Brazil and other countries in Latin America, in…
Brazilian Asset Manager Switches to Eze OMS
Rio de Janeiro-based asset manager Dynamo Administração de Recursos is now live on the Eze Order Management System (OMS).
Brazil's CGD Securities Taps Valdi for Market Access
CGD Securities, a Brazilian division of Portugese bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos, has selected SunGard’s hosted Valdi solution for access to the BM&FBovespa financial markets.
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…
MNI Indicators Builds BRICs
MNI Indicators, the macroeconomic data division of Deutsche Börse's Market News International, has released new consumer and business confidence indicators for Brazil, India and Russia, expanding on its existing MNI China consumer and business sentiment…
ATG, Risk Office to Build Clearinghouse in Brazil
Americas Trading Group (ATG), a liquidity center and provider of exchange technologies in Latin American markets, says it has partnered with Brazil-based Risk Office to build out clearing functions ahead of its 2014 launch of ATS Brasil.
ITG Brings Posit Alert to Mexico
Agency brokerage ITG has launched Posit Alert─its platform for sourcing large block orders of liquidity─for Mexican equities.
Citi Adds Brazil to Total Touch Platform
Citi announced that it has added Brazilian equities to Total Touch, its block electronic execution platform.
As Clientele Grow, LatAm Wealth Managers See Tech Chasing Behind
Ernst & Young’s second survey of wealth managers found that firms in the region are far more likely to use proprietary solutions and a pooled organizational approach than their counterparts—even, in some cases, within the same global firm—to the North. A…
Itaú BBA Taps Broadridge for Sec Lending, Repo
Brazilian bank Itaú BBA, which is adding the US dollar-based products to its Itaú BBA USA Securities arm, is set to use Broadridge's comprehensive business process outsourcing (BPO) solution, which includes both technology provision and services hosting.
Perseus Joins FPL
The connectivity provider says it will join the High Performance and Latin America Working Groups of industry group Fix Protocol Limited, adding insight to discussions about layer-2 networking.
Mexican Broker Gives the Skinny on LatAm
Colocation and regulation are good in Latin America, but market data feeds are failing, says Mexican technologist.
Perseus Shores Up LatAm Presence with ETradeLab Deal
The global connectivity provider says it has acquired ETradeLab, a Brazilian financial services support provider based in São Paulo.
Brazilian Regulator Weighs Breaking BM&FBovespa Monopoly
CVM held a hearing last week to solicit opinions on a study about exchange competition in Brazil. Yet the regulator gave no clues as to how it plans to proceed.