Emerging Technologies
SwapClear Names Daniel Maguire as Global Head
Daniel Maguire has been named the global head of SwapClear, LCH.Clearnet's global interest rate swap clearing business.
SIX Picks Pluris for ARS Pricing
SIX Financial Information has incorporated pricing on auction rate securities (ARS) covering municipals, student loans and preferred stock from New York-based evaluated pricing provider Pluris Valuation Advisors into its evaluated pricing service, to…
Investment Managers Outsourcing Dealing Desks
According to a recent roundtable discussion hosted by London-based Fidessa, certain investment managers are considering outsourcing parts of their dealing desks to become more competitive in today’s market environment.
SFI Taps Vets Miller, Hillier-Brook for UK, Euro BizDev
Startup data technology vendor Simplified Financial Information has hired two veteran data industry executives─Andrew Miller and Ian Hillier-Brook─as managing directors in London, responsible for business development throughout the UK and Europe.
Former BondDesk CEO Joins Algomi as Strategic Advisor
London-based fixed-income technology provider Algomi has appointed Howard Edelstein, former chairman and CEO of BondDesk Group, as strategic advisor.
Markit Taps SMA for Social Media Sentiment Indicators
Markit has integrated social media sentiment indicators from Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois.-based provider of social media-based analytics and trading indicators, into its Markit Research Signals suite of more than 400 investment…
CLS Appoints Ken Harvey Chairman of the Board
Ken Harvey has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of CLS Group and CLS Bank International, bringing over 30 years of financial expertise to the role.
Exchanges See Data Revenues Rise
Exchanges continue to report increases in market data revenues in their financial results, following a raft of similarly largely positive results in recent weeks (IMD, Feb. 17)—though, post-financial crisis, Latin America and Asia are no longer…
Tradition Revamps Forward Swaps Data; Preps ParFX Data Offering, HFT Neutralizer
Interdealer broker Tradition has launched a new data service that combines executable price data from Trad-X—the interest-rate swap trading platform run by Tradition in partnership with 12 investment banks that covers 250 of the most liquid interest-rate…
Startup Arialytics Exits Platform Sales, Re-Positions as Data Vendor; Nests with RavenPack
Rye, NY-based analytics startup Arialytics has repositioned its offering over the last six months to now solely sell predictive indicators generated by its Aria cross-asset-class predictive analytics platform─which the vendor unveiled last May─rather…
Eze Mulls Buying a Risk Company
Eze Software Group may purchase a risk software vendor in the near future, according to co-president David Quinlan.
Options Opens West End London Support, Sales Office
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has opened a new office in London's West End district─in addition to its existing base in Wimbledon, in southwest London─to better support customers located in central London.
SimCorp Buys Reporting Specialist Equipos
Copenhagen-based vendor SimCorp has acquired Equipos, a London-based developer of reporting software.
Burton-Taylor: Data Demand Falls in 2013; Spend Driven by Price Hikes
Global spend on market data and analysis increased by 1.1 percent last year from $25.5 billion in 2012 to $25.88 billion in 2013, but would have been fallen if not for vendor price increases of an average two percent, according to research from Burton…
Bats Chi-X Europe Hires Jill Griebenow as CFO
Bats Chi-X Europe has appointed Jill Griebenow as chief financial officer with immediate effect. She will be responsible for all financial controls and human resource functions, including financial planning and reporting.
Multi-Bank Group TESI to Adopt Fix Protocol
The Fix Trading Community has announced that the Trading Enablement Standardisation Initiative (TESI), developed by Etrading Software and supported by the investment banking community, has adopted the Fix Protocol guideline in order to reduce operational…
KKR's Colorful Personality: CIO Ed Brandman
Ed Brandman’s friendly quirks don’t conjure the conventional image of an IT chief, especially at KKR, one of the more white-shoe firms in a space famous for them. But don’t let the CIO’s charms fool you. He effectively redefined enterprise-grade…
Anthony Malakian: The Power of the Investor
Anthony says that while new reporting guidelines and technologies will help firms to make the business case to move away from spreadsheets in favor of automated systems, investors will hold the most sway in making this a reality.
Max Bowie: Lights, Camera, Data!
With movies about corporate espionage and greedy tycoons—from the high-flying The Wolf of Wall Street to the grimy Boiler Room—always popular, the average person’s understanding of market data and trading technologies comes from the big screen, not the…
March 2014: Breaking the Habit
Microsoft Excel as an operational tool is as flawed as it is ubiquitous on Wall Street—even the regulators are guilty of over-reliance on spreadsheets—but Victor says cutting back on its use in favor of automated processes can mean serious long-term…
Interactive Data Adds MT Newswires' US, Canada News to Market-Q Desktop, App
Interactive Data has integrated US and Canadian news and analysis from MT Newswires─a division of Midnight Trader─into its Market-Q web-based data terminal and its accompanying Market-Q Mobile platform.
Charles Thomas Appointed Wells Fargo CDO
Charles Thomas, who has worked at the United Services Automobile Association since 2008, will take up the role of chief data officer at Wells Fargo in March
Perseus Buys TLV for Low-Latency CME-ICE Microwave Data
Network provider Perseus Telecom has acquired Broadview, Illinois-based TLV Networks, which operates a low-latency microwave network connecting Chicago-based futures exchange matching engines, from wireless network infrastructure design and management…