Emerging Technologies
Butterflies and Hurricanes: Is Exchange Systems Monitoring the Answer to Systemic Risk?
Guy Warren of ITRS takes a look at the relationship between exchanges, trading venues and systemic risk, and how exchange system monitoring can reduce risk for both the venues and the market as a whole.
Ipreo Buys Private Company Financial Data-Mapping Vendor ClearMomentum
New York-based information and technology vendor Ipreo has acquired Canandaigua, NY-based portfolio monitoring applications provider ClearMomentum, which collects financial statements from private companies and automatically maps, validates and…
BGC Counters CME Bid with Offer Increase
Interdealer broker also extends offer deadline.
Rebuffing HFT, Nine Buy Sides to Launch Luminex Dark Pool
Fidelity will have the largest ownership stake in Luminex Trading & Analytics
Eagle Promotes Cullen to CEO
US executive takes over top role at technology provider
CME Ups Bid for GFI as Vote Looms
CME Group now offering $5.85 per share for interdealer broker.
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