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Meriten Signs for Charles River
Düsseldorf, Germany-based Meriten Investment Management has gone live with Charles River's Investment Management System (IMS), the vendor announced today.
Crédit Agricole Deploys Solace Appliances for Low-Latency Data
Crédit Agricole's Corporate and Investment Bank is rolling out data routing appliances from hardware-based messaging technology vendor Solace Systems to provide a low-latency data distribution backbone for its foreign exchange, rates and bonds trading…
S&P Cap IQ Joins Markit Collaboration Services Network
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ has become the latest vendor to join Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.
SunGard Adds Cross-Asset Risk and Margin Solution to Front Arena
SunGard has added a cross-asset risk and margin solution to its Front Arena flagship product, to provide brokers and futures commission merchants (FCMs) with a real-time way of measuring risk, exposure and margin requirements across entire portfolios.
MainstreamBPO Selects Gresham for Reconciliations
Sydney-based fund administrator MainstreamBPO has chosen Gresham Computing's Client Transaction Control (CTC) platform to handle reconciliations operations.
Millistream Adds Oslo Derivatives Feed
Swedish market data provider Millistream is rolling out a new feed of derivatives data from Oslo Bors, in response to demand from firms in Norway and Sweden trying to improve their trading strategies.
Aequitas Exchange to Host at Q9 Datacenters
Aequitas Innovations has selected Toronto-based Q9 Networks to host production, test and disaster recovery infrastructure for its Neo Exchange, which is expected to become operational in the Canadian market in early 2015.
Citihub Moves Scher to New Toronto Office
IT advisory firm Citihub Consulting has opened a new office in Toronto at 140 Yonge Street, and has relocated associate partner Greg Scher from New York to lead client engagements from the new office and better support Citihub's "growing base of…
Liquidnet Settles SEC Case for Improper Use of Customer Data
Dark pool operator Liquidnet on Friday agreed to pay a $2 million fine to settle a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charge that the New York-based brokerage improperly used subscribers' confidential trading information in marketing its…
OpenGamma Hires LCH Clearnet's Ait Si Brahim
Open-source risk management and analytics software vendor OpenGamma has made a number of new hires in its London office to support development of the margining platform it launched in November that aggregates data from different sources to support…
Celoxica and Born Technology Pair on Low-Latency CME Access
Celoxica and Born Technology have entered a partnership to provide low-latency access to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) aimed at institutional investors.
Celoxica, Born Tech Offer Low-Latency CME Data
UK-based low-latency market data vendor Celoxica and US high-speed trading network supplier Born Technology have partnered to provide institutional traders with fast access to market data from CME Group.
OpenGamma Hires LCH Clearnet's Head of Risk Tech to Drive Clearing Push
Open-source risk management and analytics software vendor OpenGamma has made a number of new hires in its London office to support development of the margining platform it launched in November that aggregates data from different sources to support…
Redline Adds Eurex, Euro Equities Feed Handler Support
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has expanded its European exchange data coverage, rounding out its support for European futures exchanges and adding to its ongoing development of feed…
Marex Spectron, Updata Partner on OTC Options Data
Commodities broker Marex Spectron is making pricing and charts for over-the-the-counter European commodity options available via UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata’s Professional analytics workstation to enable mutual clients to perform…
Collateral Crunch Unlikely, Survey Finds
An impending shortage in the availability of collateral-eligible assets, known as the collateral crunch, has been predicted for years ahead of stringent new rules from regulators. A recent global survey from Sapient Global Markets, however, has suggested…
SimCorp, MSCI Launch Interface for Data, Analytics
The new interface is intended to makes it easier for mutual clients to load SimCorp Dimension holdings into MSCI RiskManager and MSCI RiskManager risk analytics into SimCorp Dimension
Quantopian Broadens Access, Adds IEX
Online trading platform Quantopian has announced that it will open up to all investors for its pubic beta, and not just the investment banks and hedge funds that were given access during its pilot period.
Diliger Expands Procurement Platform Functions
Diliger, a London-based market startup data procurement platform, is adding new functionalities to its platform aimed at improving the procurement management cycle, officials say.
J&J Issues RFP for UTP SIP Administrator
Management and market data consultancy Jordan & Jordan has issued an RFP on behalf of the UTP Operating Committee to identify potential administrators of the UTP consolidated feed's securities information processor, following Nasdaq's decision at the…
1010data Gets Euro ABS, MBS Deals Data
Big Data analytics provider 1010data has added pool and loan-level European asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities to its database, via a partnership with European DataWarehouse, the European central repository for loan-level ABS data.
OTAS Readies APIs, Out-of-Box Visualization Tools for App Developers
London-based analytics provider OTAS Technologies is preparing to launch a set of APIs and visualization widgets this quarter that will enable customers to develop applications based on its derived analytics that can be used by traders and portfolio…
Markit to Increase Focus on Tax Services with CTI Acquisition
Markit's Michelle Trogni says the acquisition of the tax compliance software and services vendor will help her company to make tax "one of the cornerstones of the types of managed services that we offer"
Tradeweb Launches Electronic Trading for Active US Treasury Bonds
A new order book on the venue's Dealerweb platform will support most liquid, on-the-run bonds, to be traded by major dealers and electronic market makers.