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SS&C Acquires DST Global Solutions
The deal will be worth $95 million in cash.
Linedata Announces Enhancements to its Admin Edge Platform
Linedata Reporting will power upgrades to web functionality.
Capco Hires Bentick as New Partner
Ian Bentinck to challenge clients to break free of traditional business models
Confluence Buys Fund Analytics Vendor Orfival
Deal will allow US-based Confluence to expand its range of services and international reach.
Chairman Role at ISDA for Litvack
Litvack is head of regulatory strategy for Société Générale's Global Banking and Investor Solutions business.
IRESS appoints Sancenot Head of Euro BizDev
Appointment is part of IRESS' strategy to expand its trading community in Europe and the UK.
Confluence Acquires Risk Analytics Provider Orfival
Vendor will gain footprint in Europe from deal.
NanoSpeed to Provide Ultra-Fast Risk Checks to LSE
Nano-Risk FPGA run pre-trade risk checks with a latency of less than half a microsecond.
Genscape Buys Energy Fundamentals for European Power Analysis Expansion
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has acquired Swiss power fundamental data and analysis provider Energy Fundamentals for an undisclosed sum, to extend its European offering by combining the vendor's analytics and scenario analysis…
AlphaSense Grabs Gunther for Sales
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of financial search, indexing and extraction technologies for structured and unstructured content, has hired John Gunther in New York as vice president of sales, responsible for driving growth of the vendor's…
BST Awards 2014 ─ All the Winners and Why they Won
Analysis of this year's BST winners and why they won their respective categories.
Speakerbus Intergrates Nice with iTurret
Interoperability between the two products will offer better compliance for transactional recording.
Thomson Reuters Bags Sproehnle for Benchmarks
Tobias Sproehnle has joined Thomson Reuters in London as global head of benchmark services to head the vendor's global fixings business, responsible for administering more than 70 global benchmark indexes, including the LBMA Silver Price and the Libor…
UK Announces Four Quantum-Tech Hubs
The UK government has announced that four universities will serve as hubs for research into quantum technology, the results of which could have broad applications for financial-market technology.
McCoubrey Trades TIM for Predictive Retail Analytics
Dianne McCoubrey has left trade ideas platform vendor TIM Group, where she was regional sales director for the Americas, to become executive director of sales at Retalon, a provider of predictive analytics for retail inventory management, merchandising…
Cleartrade Bows Settlement Price Feed for CCPs
Commodity and freight futures market Cleartrade Exchange has begun offering a feed of daily settlement prices to its partner clearinghouses.
SGX Signs TradingScreen to Launch Asian Bond-Trading Platform
To drive this initiative, SGX has formed a new subsidiary, SGX Bond Trading
Pershing Has Eye on Client Onboarding for 2015
Pershing's CIO talks about some of the trends he has his eyes on
Percentile, Torstone Integrate Platforms
Partnership aims to enhance risk management automation.
Tullett Prebon's PVM Buy Will Boost Oil Data
Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon has completed the acquired London-based oil broker PVM Oil Associates and its subsidiaries, in a deal that will allow its Tullett Prebon Information market data arm to expand its suite of energy products, and to extend…
Crowdnetic Launches Crowdfunding Data Service, Inks Digital Look Distribution Deal
Crowdnetic, a provider of data on the crowdfunded securities market has unveiled CWMarketdata, a data download service covering data from more than 4,000 active and closed 506(c) offerings, sourced from a range of crowdfunding platforms via the vendor's…
GFI Introduces MAC Rate Swaps
The IDB joins a growing list of execution venues offering standardized coupons.
Interactive Data 7Ticks Outlines BATS-Direct Edge Connectivity Migration Support
Interactive Data will provide connectivity to matching engines operated by BATS Global Markets and Direct Edge once the merged exchanges migrate their operations to Equinix's NY5 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ in January 2015.
OTAS Rolls Out Analytics Integration Tool
London-based analytics provider OTAS Technologies has rolled out an API and visualisation tool to allow developers to build applications that include OTAS’ intraday analytics and interface.