Emerging Technologies
Eagle Picks Cullen as New Chief
Lehner moves to chairman role as head of Americas takes CEO spot.
Rimes Nabs Interactive Data Vet Beith
Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed services for benchmark and economic data management, has appointed long-time Interactive Data exec Brendan Beith head of sales for the world excluding the Americas, focusing on sales in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific…
Misys, Intex Ally on Structured Fixed Income Data
Users of financial software vendor Misys' FusionInvest portfolio and risk management, analytics, order raising and pre-trade compliance platform will now have access to deals data on US, European, Asian and Australian collateralized loan obligations and…
West Ham's Shirt Will Never be the Same Again
SNB's CHF decision claims a few scalps.
JPX and Nasdaq Deepen Ties
Nasdaq to develop derivatives trading system for Osaka Exchange
FactSet Adds Markit Global ETF Data to Workstation in Buy-Side Push
FactSet Research Systems has integrated data on more than 5,000 global exchange-traded funds from data vendor Markit into its workstation, to provide clients—particularly buy-side firms—with fund-level and constituent-level data on ETFs to inform their…
Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…
The GFI Story to Date
Chronicling a lesson in corporate disruption.
The Waters Weekly Wrap: January 12-16
A look back at the best content published across all the Waters brands
Bidding War for GFI Surges
Both sides increase their offers for interdealer broker.
FIF's Kimmel Named to SEC Market Structure Committee
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a new Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee, staffed by senior executives from the trading and financial technology industries, including Manisha Kimmel, managing director of market data industry…
1010Data ‘Facts' Launch Marks First Foray into Market Data Vendor Space
Proprietary and third-party data moves vendor away from just providing analytics platforms.
New SEC Rules Increase Transparency in Security-Based Swap Market
Reporting rules, guidance on security-based swap transaction proposed
Fiserv and HedgeACT Announce Hedge Fund Alliance
Collaboration will allow investors access to hedge funds for as little as $100,000.
BGC Proposes Contingent Increase in GFI Offer
Interdealer broker ups the stakes as crunch time approaches for rival bid.
TPI Grows Asia, MidEast Teams for Regional Sales Push
New regional appointments include two hires from Thomson Reuters
BondWave Adds SunGard's Daley, DPC's Chintala to Exec Team
BondWave, a Wheaton, Illinois-based provider of trade support, monitoring, alerting and reporting software for fixed income investors and financial advisors, has hired Paul Daley as managing director of its Fixed Information Lab, the vendor's research…
Calypso Hires Ramasamy as SVP for Business Services and Utilities
Calyspo creates new role, hires Ventakesh Ramasamy as SVP
Fico Acquires Financial Crime Firm Tonbeller
Deal moves Fico firmly into growing financial crime and compliance space.
Bohrman Takes Over SIX US as Raskin Departs for New Role
SIX global head of client support Roger Bohrman, also a veteran of the company, succeeds Barry Raskin in US leadership role at data services provider
Bohrman Takes Over SIX US as Raskin Departs for Undisclosed New Role
SIX shuffles US executive team in wake of Raskin's departure.
SEC Equity Market Structure Committee Full of Tech Faces
New group formed to tackle growing issues
Nasdaq Taps Ex-Lewtan Tech's Donde for Global Data Head
Nasdaq has appointed Salil Donde executive vice president and head of global information services, responsible for leading the strategic direction of the business and managing the growth of Nasdaq's current data and index products, effective Feb. 5.
Societe Generale Hires Analytics Manager
Olivier Doublet, who had worked in performance analytics at BNP Paribas for about 10 years, has joined the firm in Paris.