This Week: Refinitiv; State Street/BlackRock; SteelEye; SimCorp; FEX Global/TT
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Refinitiv suffers outage in Eikon platform
Refinitiv was hit by a five-hour-long outage on Thursday morning, April 8, which knocked out its Eikon platform for market prices at approximately around 7.30 GMT. The service was fully restored by 13.00 GMT, Refinitiv said in an email sent to customers.
“The services were stabilized for customers connecting to the APAC and EMEA data centers as of 13.00 GMT,” said the email. “Authenticating servers in the AMER [Americas] region had been stable since
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