Emerging Technologies
Buy-Side to Benefit by FactSet’s Portware Acquisition
Existing buy-side clients set to benefit by acquisition due to FactSet's extended reach, larger headcount, and data assets.
Activ Joins IPC Sytems' Financial Markets Network
IPC is focusing on growing its coverage of market data providers
Fidessa Embarks on Partnership Program, Taps OTAS Technologies For Analytics
The program will provide added value to traders
Euronext Taps Shanghai Stock Exchange For Chinese Dales Sales
European exchange group Euronext has selected SSE Infonet, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Shanghai Stock Exchange, to act as the exchange's market data provider in China to enhance the visibility and accessibility of Euronext's listed companies,…
BBH Enhances Settlement Functions via Omgeo Hook-Up
Brown Brothers Harriman becomes the first global custodian to go live on Omgeo’s ALERT GC Direct service.
Opening Cross: Is Your Board on Board with (Or Just Bored by?) Data Governance
Are you a data guv'nor or a govenor?
The Waters Weekly Wrap: September 14-18
Each Friday, Waters editors and journalists pull together a quick-hit series of the best analysis pieces, features, and video interviews from across the five brands-just in case you missed them.
EFIS 2015: CDO Panel Says Data Quality Needs Board-Level Sponsors
Good data governance rests with the entire organization, not just the CDO, panelists said.
Airex Adds InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis to Online Content Mart
The vendor joins a growing range of sentiment providers on Airex's platform.
Symphony: Incipient Challenger or Bloomberg Duplicator?
After a worldwide launch that included announcements of content partnerships with three firms, Dan DeFrancesco looks at the future of Symphony and if it's really as different as it is being touted.
Nicola Hortin Joins AxiomSL
Company appoints new head of regulatory analysis team
EFIS 2015: After Cuts, Regulations, Firms Eye Smart Analytics as New Frontier
Innovation overall may have slowed as firms focus on cost and regulation, but smart analytics are gaining ground.
Hacker-Hedge Funds, Hiding in Plain Sight
Pairing cyber with insider trading is a nasty business, and apparently not always a profitable one.
ING Hires Bannocks For Data Role
Chris Bannocks, founder of Grasp Associates, joins as chief data management officer
EFIS 2015: Panel Weighs Cost vs. Value of Data
Managing costs, quality and compliance remains top of data consumers' agendas.
TheScreener Nabs ABN Research Vet Roth for Asia Growth
Roth makes regular TV appearances as a high-profile equities analyst in Asia.
Bloomberg Preps Deeper Twitter Data Integration
Bloomberg will add data such as tweet volumes and sentiment corresponding to its market data.
EFIS 2015: Capgemini Lays Out Principles for Navigating the New Data Landscape
Firms must evaluate and leverage new data sources to deliver insight at the point where action needs to be taken.
SR Labs Relocates SuperFeed PoPs to Equinix's LD5 and NY2 Datacenters
The move will reduce latency for customers in the new datacenters accessing the consolidated feed.
EFIS 2015: Deutsche Bank's Rangaswami Describes Challenges of Evolving CDO Role
The CDO role is evolving from data management to data ownership, Rangaswami said.
FactSet Begins Carrying Trendrating Momentum Reports
The Trendrating reports will be available to buy-side cleints of FactSet's Research Connect service.
Rimes Adds China Data to BDS Service
The agreement will provie investment managers with access to benchmarks covering the Chinese markets.
BT Announces Availability of Ethical Hacking Service
BT's team of security specialists test IT systems by imitating hacker attacks.
UPDATE: Iress Buys Proquote Terminal Biz from LSE
The LSE exits the data terminal business after buying Proquote 12 years ago.