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Citi Rolls out Pricing Tool on Bloomberg App Portal
Citigroup has made a new electronic block pricing tool available on Bloomberg's App Portal, to allow traders to request bespoke prices for block orders as part of their workflow on the Bloomberg Professional service.
Capis Goes Live on SS&C’s Lightning TradeDesk
Capital Institutional Services (Capis) has gone live on SS&C Technologies' integrated solution, Lightning TradeDesk, to optimize its trade processing and reporting capabilities.
CenturyLink Taps Misbin for Co-Lo Marketing
CenturyLink Technology Solutions (formerly Savvis) has hired Judy Misbin as a product marketing executive for the vendor's co-location services, responsible for marketing its hybrid infrastructure solutions that include co-location, managed services,…
OTCGH Unveils Refined Products Forwards Data
Energy and commodities interdealer broker OTC Global Holdings has launched a new market data service, leveraging its presence in the over the counter refined products market to provide forward curves for refined products, aimed at commodities traders and…
KKR Sells Ipreo to Blackstone, Goldman
Investment and advisory firm Blackstone and Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division have bought market intelligence and workflow solutions provider Ipreo from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, in a deal that media reports value at $975…
Morningstar Promotes Holt to Lead Equity, Credit Research
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Michael Holt global head of equity and corporate credit research in Chicago, with responsibility for a global team of about 120 research analysts, reporting to Haywood Kelly,…
SuperDerivatives Adds Icap G7 Data to DGX Store
Over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is adding real-time market data from interdealer broker Icap to the third-party app store on its DGX market data terminal, to provide customers with an overview of rates from…
Bloomberg Integrates SIX Market Data
Bloomberg is integrating SIX Financial Information's MDFselect real-time data feed to its Bloomberg Platform managed market data distribution service.
Avox to Double Staff, Addressing Regulatory, Risk Demands
Plans to take on more than 200 new members of staff at Avox's headquarters in Wales have been driven by demand for the company's existing services, rather than specific plans to create new offerings
Bellin Adds VWD Data to Treasury Platform
Ettenheim, Germany-based treasury management software provider Bellin has partnered with Frankfurt-based market data vendor VWD to offer its clients an “all-inclusive” package of foreign exchange and interest rate data from VWD.
TradeMonster Preps Mobile Futures Scanner
Chicago-based online broker TradeMonster is planning to expand its mobile data and trading platform to cover futures and options on futures markets in the third quarter of this year, and will add futures to its LiveAction mobile market scanning tool next…
S&P Cap IQ Boosts Content Acquisition, Partners Unit
McGraw-Hill Financial's S&P Capital IQ division has made three senior hires to its Content Acquisition and Strategic Alliances (CASA) unit, to strengthen the team as the vendor prepares to expand its function to include oversight of content acquisition…
Infinigon Taps Watkins to Grow Sales
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics aimed at traders and risk managers set up by Belzberg Technologies founders Alicia and Sid Belzberg, has hired Dan Watkins as head of global sales and marketing.
AnalytixInsight Adds Unstructured Data Insights to CapitalCube Research Tool
New York-based provider of web-based fundamental research and stock screening tools AnalytixInsight is finalizing deals with a number of newswires and social media sentiment providers to add indicators based on unstructured data to its CapitalCube…
IPC, TeleWare Announce Mobile Compliance Alliance
Jersey City-based IPC Systems, a provider of trading communication technology, and T-Ware Connect, the North American arm of global call compliance technology provider TeleWare Group, have announced an alliance that will offer capital markets firms in…
Perfect Info Bows Filings Expert, Puts Emphasis on Simplified Search
UK-based Perfect Information, a provider of company and financial data, has released a new web-based interface dubbed Filings Expert that makes it easier for analysts, lawyers, and mergers and acquisitions or equity and debt capital markets professionals…
NYSE Preps Standalone Amex, Arca Complex Order Book Options Feeds
NYSE Euronext will break out complex order book data for its NYSE Amex Options and NYSE Arca Options markets into two standalone and separately-billable and -reportable datafeeds, NYSE Amex Options COB and NYSE Arca Options COB, from May 1.
TradeTech Paris: Mind the Gap
The annual TradeTech event taking place in Paris has triggered a lot of debate, ranging from the legitimacy of high-frequency trading (HFT) practices, to the need for accurate and reliable Transaction-Cost Analysis (TCA) tools and the future of dark-pool…
Rimes Promotes Larzillière to President, France
Benchmark and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has appointed Renaud Larzillière the new president of its Paris office.
SIX Redesigns iD Terminal
SIX Financial Information has released version 8.8 of its Java-based Telekurs iD market data display, in an effort to make the terminal easier and more intuitive to navigate for end-users.
Vendors Reject "Unworkable" Euribor Data Policy
Market data vendors have expressed dissatisfaction with international interest rate-setting association Euribor-EBF's (European Banking Federation) new commercial model--which introduces fees for real-time Euribor rates for the first time, and…
Portware Connects to Equinix’s New York Datacenter
Trading technology provider Portware has connected its trading platform to Equinix’s New York International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter.
Charles River Adds Constituent-level Benchmark Data
The Charles River Data Service is collecting constituent-level benchmark data and feeding it into the company's investment management system.
BBH Enhances Collateral Management with CME Clearing
Private bank Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) says it will now support CME Clearing's fourth interest earning facility (IEF4) program, which helps futures commission merchants (FCMs) optimize margin deployment for listed and cleared OTC swaps.