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Colt Adds Equiduct Connectivity
Officials say that connectivity to Equiduct─alongside the other venues to which Colt already provides connectivity─will support firms' best execution requirements while expanding Colt's regulatory services.
ESMA Preps Financial Instruments Reference Data System Launch
The Financial Instrument Reference Data System (FIRDS) will go live on July 17, 2017.
ESMA Fines Moody’s €1.24M for Credit Ratings Breaches
ESMA says that between June 2011 and December 2013 Moody’s failed to explain decisions for 19 ratings.
ICE Acquires BAML Fixed Income Indexes
Following the London Stock Exchange’s acquisition of Citigroup’s fixed income indexes and analytics business, Intercontinental Exchange bolsters its fixed income assets with the acquisition of the Global Research Index Platform from Bank of America…
Euronext Shuffles Technology, Operations Leadership Team as Dijsselhof Departs
COO Jos Dijsselhof to leave exchange operator at end of June; Alain Courbebaisse set to join as chief information and technology officer.
Liquidnet Taps Takis Christias to Further Electronic Execution, Algorithmic Offering
Christias to work on trading network’s suite of execution strategies and analytics, provide quantitative research.
Screen Enlists AFO for South Africa Support
Screen is partnering with South African startup AFO to provide local support for its managed services to its growing client base in the country.
NICE Releases Robotic Process Automation for Compliance Investigations
Robotic process automation is seen to cut down on inefficient manual tasks.
ESMA Grants Approval to Bloomberg European Trade Repository
Bloomberg set to open trade repository for Europe for OTC and exchange-traded derivatives reporting.
David Quinlan to Head Business Development for Eze Software in EMEA
Quinlan joined Eze in 1999 back when the company was Eze Castle Software.
Red Deer, Westminster Ally for MiFID II Research Solution
The end-to-end solution will remove potential conflicts in research valuation and payment.
SIX Group CEO to Step Down at Year-End
Ruegsegger has served as CEO since the creation of SIX Group in 2007 from the SWX Exchange, SIS Group and Telekurs.
Burton Taylor: Sentiment Survey Predicts Positive Growth for 2017
The survey highlights pricing and reference data, valuations, risk and regulation-related spend as having the strongest sentiment for growth in spend.
Glenmede Taps IHS Markit for Data Management
Glenmede officials say the investment firm is embarking on a “comprehensive transformation in its approach to managing data” supported by IHS Markit.
London Stock Exchange Bolsters Fixed-Income Presence with Citi Yield Book, Indices Acquisitions
$685 million deal for analytics platform and indices business first acquisition by LSEG since collapse of Deutsche Börse merger.
NAFIS 2017: Evolving Data Science Key to Effective Data Mining
Integrating data science projects will be key for institutions to get the most out of data in the future, but skillsets and the role of data scientist teams are still evolving. Joanne Faulkner reports.
LSE Bolsters Fixed Income Arsenal with Citi Deal
Acquisition aims to boost FTSE Russell’s appeal to fixed income clients and “enhance and complement” LSE’s Information Services data and analytics offering.
T3 Bows E8 Emerging FX Indexes
Officials say the index covering eight emerging market currencies will help investors increase exposure to these currencies.
Curex Hires FX Vet Cudahy for BizDev
Cudahy will leverage his years of experience in FX sales and trading roles at various banks to make Curex "the buy side's destination for best execution."
TickSmith Unveils Marketplace Analysis Tool
The new module enables market participants and exchanges to determine their performance and share of liquidity against other trading firms and exchanges.
NAFIS 2017: Firms Dip Their Toes into Data Lakes for Analytics
Panelists at the North American Financial Information Summit described the transformative potential of “data lakes” for supporting firms’ ever-increasing analytics and alternative data storage requirements. Joanne Faulkner reports.
NeoXam Appoints Execs to Head New Regional Structure
The vendor has shuffled its existing team and hired new executives to support the new structure.
Colchis, Alcova Tap AQMetrics for Risk, Reg Reporting
AQMetrics has added US investment management firm Colchis Capital Management and hedge fund Alcova Asset Management as clients of its Regulatory Risk and Compliance Software platform.
IMD/IRD Awards 2017—All the Winners and Highlights from the Evening
On the 15th anniversary of Inside Market Data's first US conference, 20 companies shared the spoils in more than 25 award categories.