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Eagle Alpha Bows Social Data ‘Influencer' Lists for Quant Traders
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has released Quant Offering, a stream of posts from targeted subject lists of around 10,000 individuals on Twitter that the vendor has deemed market-moving influencers, which it says will boost the…
Icap Launches UK-Based SEF
Interdealer broker Icap has officially launched its London-based swap execution facility (SEF), IGDL.
BNP Paribas Connects to The Order Machine
BNP Paribas has connected to The Order Machine (TOM) to access shares, derivatives and exchange-traded funds transacted on the Dutch multilateral trading facility (MTF).
Nasdaq Breaks New Ground with FX Surveillance Module
Nasdaq OMX has announced the release of a surveillance platform specifically designed to monitor trading activity in foreign-exchange (FX) markets, named Smarts FX Trade Surveillance.
Fonetic to Set Up Shop in US
Madrid-based Fonetic has created a New York-based entity, Fonetic USA, for selling its voice recognition and linguistics analytics software. It will be led by Simon Richards, previously VP of global sales and marketing.
HFN Wireless Network Halves Latency Between NJ2, NY4 Datacenters
Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) has gone live with a new radio frequency (RF) wireless route between two key datacenter locations in New Jersey, halving the latency of HFN's previous fiber-only routes between the facilities.
Tsianaxis Joins Accenture
Vangelis Tsianaxis, who has worked on identifier, financial crime and risk issues at Deloitte and Citi, has joined the consulting firm
CdR Capital Taps Advent Software for Wealth Management Solution
Switzerland-based private investment firm CdR Capital has selected Advent Software’s wealth management solution, Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), to support its portfolio and client relationship management practices.
Interactive Data Names Lauterbach President, Managed Solutions
Market data vendor Interactive Data has hired Joachim Lauterbach as president, global head and chairman of the board of Interactive Data Managed Solutions (IDMS).
Markit Launches Loan Covenant Interface
The Markit Loan Covenant Library is intended to support better analysis of loan covenant data, and is expected to grow to cover 6,000 covenants by the third quarter of the year.
Rimes Appoints Cumberbatch to Senior Reference Data Role
Rimes Technologies has announced that a former Interactive Data executive, Bob Cumberbatch, will head up its reference data segment.
Nasdaq, MasterCard Ally for Distribution Deal
Nasdaq OMX has signed a distribution deal with MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of multinational financial services corporation MasterCard, to redistribute MasterCard's macro-economic reports on global retail sales activity through its…
LarrainVial Selects Raptor for Connectivity
Raptor Trading Systems has announced that Chilean broker LarrainVial, one of the largest financial institutions in the LatAm region, has implemented its connectivity platform for market accessibility.
Celent: Market Data Providers to Offer More Infrastructure Capabilities, Real-Time Analytics
After a decade of heavy investment in low-latency infrastructure technologies, firms are now looking to lessen their spend and focus their budgets on enhancing those infrastructures to better deliver data and to provide real-time analytics, according to…
BC Partners, Hamilton Lane LPs Live on iLevel 6.6
The software provider to private investment firms says that BC Partners, a European firm with $17.5 under advisement, and the limited partner (LP) clients of fund advisory and administrator Hamilton Lane, are all now up on its newly-released version, 6.6.
AIM Commits to Three-Month, Fixed-Price Implementations
The enterprise data management software vendor says it is addressing concerns in the industry about expensive, drawn-out implementations by committing to implement its pricing and corporate actions application in three months for a fixed, pre-negotiated…
CME, TriOptima Pair on OTC Trade Repository Reporting
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has tapped over-the-counter (OTC) derivative post-trade services provider TriOptima, owned by interdealer broker Icap, to provide data verification and portfolio reconciliation of trading data through its Swap Data…
SunGard Launches Risk Reporting Service for Hedge Funds
SunGard's new managed service validates the data it receives from hedge funds against its risk model database and produces standard and customized risk reports overnight
Bitcoin Hedge Fund Launches with SS&C
Coin Capital Management, led by Samuel Cahn and Drew Sommer, has launched a new fund for institutional investors looking to buy and hold Bitcoin.
Hanweck Associates Adds European, Asian Markets to Analytics Feed, Historical Database
Options analytics provider Hanweck Associates is expanding the global coverage of its VoleraFeed real-time datafeed of implied volatilities and Greek values for options on equities, indexes and futures, as well as its hosted tick database of historical…
Infront Enhances Navigation Options in Data Terminal
Norwegian data vendor Infront has released version 6 of its market data terminal in an effort to provide its buy- and sell-side clients with more effective search functionality and an easier-to-navigate platform, officials say.
Hanweck Taps NYSE Euronext's Watson for Sales Role
New York-based options analytics provider Hanweck Associates has hired Thomas Watson as head of sales.
Friedman Returns to Nasdaq, Jochumsen Promoted President
Nasdaq OMX has announced that former chief financial officer Adena Friedman will rejoin the firm to serve as president of the company’s corporate client group business segment, information services and technology solutions.
Xenomorph Readies Marketplace of Third-Party Data Services
UK-based data management and analytics software provider Xenomorph is rolling out a portal of APIs and connectivity tools that will enable data consumers to access Web Services-based data sources for use in their internal applications or the vendor's…