Data consumers
Danske Bank Hires Vindal, Promotes Persson
Bank strengthens market data management team.
Commodities Firm Glencore Expands Use of WSI Xceptor Data Integration Platform
CIO John Herd outlines how commodities firm began using Xceptor for confirmations and expanded to data processing.
FME Taps Object Trading for Normalized Data, Trading
Object Trading will provide the trading firm with data from 13 markets immediately, and can add up to 60.
TrailStone Deploys MDX Tech Collaborate For Curve Sharing
MDX's Collaborate tool will enable Trailstone to share data between offices worldwide.
Blackstone Takes Stake in Data Management-as-a-Service Startup MDI
Investment and public backing provides growth funding and validation of MDI's business model
UBS Taps Orc for Real-time CME, ASX Derivatives Market Data, DMA
UBS has expanded its use of trading technology provider Orc's Electronic Execution direct market access service, to connect to the Australian Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for derivatives market data and trading access.
Custodians, Spaulding Create Benchmark Data Cost Transparency Principles
BNY Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust, along with performance measurement provider The Spaulding Group, have created a set of principles to improve transparency around fees associated with the use of benchmark indexes and their data, to help asset…
2014 Review: Firms Stretch Tight Budgets to Meet Regs, ID New Data
Data consumers continued to feel the pressure of tight budgets and new regulation in 2014, but also faced the added pressure of trying to find ways to generate alpha from data within those budgetary constraints.
Waters USA Panel: Traders, Vendors Eye Convergence of Latency, Analytics
Panel says it's not just how fast you are, but what you can analyze that fast that counts
BMO Bows Xignite Data Distribution Platform
Canada's BMO Financial Group has rolled out San Mateo-based web services data provider Xignite's cloud-based Enterprise data distribution platform for centralizing and distributing vendor market and reference data.
ETAS Panel: Future Analysis Needs Drive Clean, Fast Data
Panel weighs challenges of managing and analyzing anticipated future data volumes to gain insight.
Rimes Panel Tackles Rising Data Management Costs
Cost, data quality and data management needs drive managed services debate.
APFIC 2014: Firms Must Focus on Data Integration to Meet Risk Regs
Banks have just over a year to address data integration challenges of Basel's new risk requirements
AFPIC 2014: Data Managers Highlight Need for Standards, Compliance
Lack of contract standards hinders firms' ability to switch to cheaper providers, panelists say.
South Africa's Prudential IM Deploys StatPro Analytics
Cape Town, South Africa-based Prudential Investment Managers has begun rolling out products from UK-based data and portfolio analytics vendor StatPro to support cloud access to sophisticated portfolio analytics.
De Telegraaf Taps VWD for Financial Data
Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf has rolled out stock and financial data from the Dutch subsidiary of German market data vendor VWD Group, building on an existing deal to carry the vendor's data on its website with a new package that officials say…
BRED Taps SunGard for Euronext Data, Trading Access
Paris-based BRED Banque Populaire, the cooperative commercial bank of French banking group Groupe BPCE, has rolled out SunGard's outsourced Valdi Market Access platform to connect to market data and trade on Euronext's equities market.
EFIS 2014: Tighten Inventory Controls, Seek New Sources to Combat Cost Pressures, Says User Panel
Trading and investment firms still facing budget pressures are being more proactive about managing data costs, but are also being forced to be more proactive about seeking out new, cheaper alternative sources of data and managing their data usage to…
DirectFN Signs Five for Decypha Market Intelligence App
Mizuho, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Riyad Capital──the investment arm of Saudi Arabia's Riyad Bank──and Dubai-based trading firms Tharwa Capital and Al Mal Capital have rolled out Dubai-based data vendor DirectFN's Decypha browser-based market…
Allianz Allies with Thomson Reuters for Bond Pricing
German banking and insurance giant Allianz is to use Thomson Reuters' independent pricing service to meet the firm's fixed income pricing data needs around valuation and meeting international accounting standards.
Bangladesh Broker LankaBangla Taps DirectFN for Data-Trading Platform
Dhaka, Bangladesh-based broker LankaBangla Securities has enlisted Dubai-based data provider DirectFN to integrate datafeeds from Bangladesh's Chittagong and Dhaka stock exchanges into a trading platform to enhance the firm's online trading capabilities,…
Aegon AM Unifies Global Data Procurement
Aegon Asset Management, the investment management arm of Netherlands-based multinational life insurance, pensions and asset management company Aegon, is embarking on a project to centralize vendor management, market data and IT procurement across its…
Citic Taps Fincad F3 for New Equity Derivatives Unit
Chinese investment bank Citic Securities has rolled out Canadian OTC derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad's F3 analytics platform to support the bank's growing equity derivatives business in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Capita Begins Rolling Out StatPro Revolution Analytics to Asset Managers
London-based fund administrator Capita Asset Services has begun providing clients with access to portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro's Revolution cloud-based analytics tool, to offer its customers more interactive reporting and analysis…