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Fairmat Offers Financial Risk Assessment Solution
Verona, Italy-based financial technology company Fairmat recently released Fairmat Cloud, a web-based financial risk service offering assessments of OTC and structured products.
Tradeweb Europe Takes Thomson Reuters' KYC Service
The electronic trading venue's European arm has chosen Thomson Reuters' Accelus Org ID to complement its existing know-your-customer (KYC) due diligence processes.
AIM Software Strengthens Market Presence in North America
Data management provider AIM Software has opened an additional office in New York with three hires as part of a wider strategy to expand in North America.
Reg-Room Readies Add Intraday Alerts for Regulatory Tracking System
New York-based technology startup Reg-Room is adding intraday alerts to its Reg-Track global regulatory tracking system to enable financial firms to receive timely updates on new and proposed rules and regulations that are tailored to their specific…
Iress Adds Markit TCA
Systems provider Iress has announced the integration of Markit's transaction-cost analysis (TCA) offering within its order-system suite.
BGC Bid for Rival Broker Turns Hostile
A $675 million offer by BGC Partners to acquire its rival GFI Group is now being presented directly to shareholders, following weeks of protracted negotiations between the firms.
Millistream Adds GXG Markets Data
Swedish data provider Millistream has signed an agreement to distribute real-time, delayed and end-of-day price data from Danish pan-European exchange GXG Markets, to improve its offering and to give clients access to a broader range of market…
CQG to Offer Eris Exchange Connectivity
As of Q1 of 2015, the order routing software provider's customers will have access to Eris' swap futures market data, analytics, and trade execution.
Victory Taps Rodriguez for BizDev
Chicago-based market data and trading infrastructure, connectivity and co-location provider Victory Networks has hired former Livevol president Dax Rodriguez as head of business development, responsible for expanding business relationships, contributing…
Charles River Partners with Interactive Data for Corporate Actions
Charles River's IBOR offering has been improved with the addition of Interactive Data's corporate actions data
Teradata Debuts Integration Optimization, Revises QueryGrid
Data services provider Teradata launches a data integration optimization service, built from its consulting practice, and adds new data processing query capabilities to its QueryGrid product
AQX° Connects to Squawker
Broker AQX° Securities has become the latest firm to connect to sell-side block venue Squawker.
OneVue Joins Calastone Network
Australian fund manager OneVue has joined Calastone’s global funds transaction network to automate fund transactions previously communicated by fax.
B-Next Upgrades Global Control Room
Compliance and surveillance specialist b-next has upgraded its CMC: Global Control Room suite, allowing compliance officers a global view of activity and information flows within an organization.
Tech Vet Barringer Joins SecurityScorecard to Tighten Data Security for Capital Markets
Paul Barringer has joined information security provider SecurityScorecard as strategic sales director, responsible for sales to corporate clients as well as to financial services firms, and for exploring new channels and use cases to sell the vendor's…
Hawthorn Life Using Financial Risk Product for Solvency II Reporting
Dublin-based investment funds company has implemented FRS product for Solvency II reporting
Enso Gets More Cash from Icap to Fund Expansion
Interdealer broker Icap has made a second undisclosed investment in market intelligence and analytics provider Enso, which provides portfolio analytics on counterparty credit risk, collateral management, and portfolio financing and treasury functions to…
Teradata, Datawatch Ally for Data Visualization
Big data storage and analysis provider Teradata is making analytics from data visualization software vendor Datawatch available to its clients, allowing them to visualize data sources held in Teradata data warehouses, such as documents, PDFs and log…
TMX Atrium to Distribute NPLTime
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has signed a distribution agreement with the UK's national measurement institute, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), to distribute NPLTime, a certified precise time signal…
Infinigon Bows API Access to Twitter Analytics
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics that monitors Twitter for price-impacting information and provides the resulting data to trading firms, has released an API for firms to programmatically access its analytics.
Markit, Hang Seng Indexes Roll Out Offshore RMB Bond Index
Markit and Hong Kong's index provider Hang Seng Indexes have launched a bond index series that track the performance of offshore renminbi-denominated sovereign and corporate debt, in response to increased demand from regional and international investors…
Indonesia CSD Selects Nasdaq Tech
PT Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia (KSEI), the central securities depository (CSD) for Indonesia, will use Nasdaq's X-stream CSD technology to power its operations.
Turquoise Launches Block Discovery
Turquoise has announced the debut of its new block-trading service, Block Discovery, and added seven brokers as launch participants.