Acquisition
Silver Lake Sells IPC to Centerbridge for $1.2Bn
Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire data network and trading telephony provider IPC from current owners Silver Lake Partners for about $1.2 billion.
Confluence Buys Fund Analytics Vendor Orfival
Deal will allow US-based Confluence to expand its range of services and international reach.
Ipreo Buys Shareholder InSite to Build Private Company Dataset for Private Equity Markets
New York-based information and technology vendor Ipreo has acquired shareholder workflow tools provider Shareholder InSite for an undisclosed sum to provide investors in privately held companies with data and analytics tools to support valuations and…
Moody's Acquires Pricing, Analytics Vendor Lewtan Tech
Moody's Corporation, the parent company of credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics, has acquired Waltham, Mass. -based structured finance analytical tools and market data provider Lewtan Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
First Derivatives Spends £36M to Up Kx Stake
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data technology provider First Derivatives has increased its shareholding in Palo Alto-based time-series database provider Kx Systems, giving the vendor a majority stake in the company.
Numerix Preps for IPO, Mulls Acquisitions
Over-the-counter derivatives pricing, analytics and risk management software vendor Numerix is gearing up to go public, and is weighing potential acquisitions that will help the vendor boost its scale ahead of an IPO, officials say.
Thomson Reuters Bows M&A Arbitrage Data
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new collection of mergers and acquisitions data within its Deals database targeting the needs of event-driven hedge fund managers.
Gurle: Goldman Consortium's $66M Symphony Will Make Harmony with Markit Messaging
Symphony, the secure messaging platform being created by the $66 million acquisition of Palo Alto-based software vendor Perzo by 14 major financial firms, will complement──rather than compete with──data vendor Markit's Collaboration Services suite of…
Tiger Sinks Claws into Hudson Fiber
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investing in mid-market infrastructure assets, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Paramus, NJ-based low-latency network provider Hudson Fiber Network, to expand the vendor's…
ICE's SuperDerivatives Buy Welcomed, Though Integration Details Still Unclear
Less than a calendar quarter after selling one data technology business──NYSE Technologies' Wombat platform──to SR Labs (IMD, June 18, 2014), Intercontinental Exchange acquired another in the form of derivatives pricing and risk management vendor…
ICE to Buy SuperDerivatives for $350 Million
Intercontinental Exchange has announced plans to acquire derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives for $350 million in cash to "accelerate the expansion of ICE's comprehensive multi-asset class clearing strategy."
CME to Buy GFI's Fenics and Trayport Pricing, Trading Tech Businesses
CME Group has announced plans to acquire interdealer broker GFI Group's Fenics suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software and its Trayport commodities and energy trading technology.
TS-Associates Enters Administration, Velocimetrics Takes Over IP, Tech Team
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has acquired an exclusive license to sell and maintain the Precision Instrumentation product range developed by UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates, which has entered…
UPDATE: LSE Eyes FTSE-Russell Index Data Combo
The London Stock Exchange plans to consolidate the index calculation and data distribution platforms of its FTSE index subsidiary with those of US-based index provider Russell Indexes—and may migrate the index platforms to proprietary LSE technologies,…
LSE Lays Out Russell Acquisition Proposal
The London Stock Exchange has agreed to buy US-based index provider and asset manager Russell Investments from the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company for $2.7 billion, in a move to diversify its revenue streams and expand into the US market.
Twitter Buys Tweet Data Distributor Gnip to Grow Social Data Biz
Social media microblogging site Twitter has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based social media aggregator Gnip for an undisclosed sum.
Pico Buys SpryWare for Data Tools; Preps Integration, International Expansion
New York-based agency broker and trading infrastructure provider Pico Quantitative Trading has acquired Chicago-based ticker plant, feed handler and historical data store vendor SpryWare, in a move to strengthen its data technology assets and expand its…
Bloomberg Buys UBS Aussie Bond Indexes
After 25 years of calculating a family of Australian bond indexes, Swiss investment bank UBS has sold the indexes─including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index─to data giant Bloomberg.
FactSet Buys Revere
FactSet Research Systems has acquired San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data for an undisclosed sum.
Progress Agrees Apama Sale to Software AG
Progress Software has reached an agreement with Software AG over the sale of its complex events processing (CEP) arm, Apama.
