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Goldman-Led Consortium Unveils Symphony Communication Services
In what's seen as an effort to compete with the likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Markit, Goldman Sachs and 13 other industry partners have invested in a new company called Symphony Communication Services Holdings, after it acquired Perzo Inc.,…
Top Banks, Hedge Funds Buy Perzo Messaging Platform for $66M
A consortium of 14 major financial firms has acquired Palo Alto, Calif.-based messaging platform provider Perzo and renamed it Symphony with a $66 million investment to provide an open-source, secure and compliant messaging platform for financial…
Corlito's Way: BTG Pactual COO Dayna Corlito
Thousands of miles from Copacabana Beach, BTG Pactual is doing things a once-small banking partnership from an emerging market shouldn’t be able to—managing a diverse group of admired hedge funds. Yes, the firm’s successful foray into asset management…
NY Fed Hires Goldman's Avery as CDO
Linda Avery, a Goldman Sachs data operations technology executive for about 20 years, begins as chief data officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on July 28
IDC Names Goldman Sachs' Black Infrastructure CIO
Interactive Data has appointed former Goldman Sachs executive James Black as chief information officer for infrastructure, a newly created role reporting to company CIO Alex Goor.
The Value Of Sharing
Collaboration and cooperation, along with openness to innovative ways of handling data, are valuable assets that data operations professionals should be willing to use.
Wisdom of Crowds
During an Inside Reference Data webcast on June 25, data management experts explored how crowd computing could help financial firms manage new regulatory requirements, by sharing the burden between freelance workers and automation tools, and leaving…
NAFIS 2014 Live: Regulatory Landscape Challenges
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter on the first panel in the reference data stream of the North American Financial Information Summit on May 21
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…
DTCC Adds Four to Board
Executives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs join the 20-member board of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Stoxx Names Former Banker Andreetto Sales Head
European index provider Stoxx has hired Matteo Andreetto as global head of sales, based in London, with responsibility for the strategic positioning of the vendor's indexes, and for leading sales activities with sell-side and buy-side clients.
Bloomberg SEF Completes First Sponsored Access Swap Trade
The trade by NISA Investment Advisors, supported by Credit Suisse's futures commission merchant (FCM) arm and Goldman Sachs, comes ahead of next week's deadline for the buy-side to begin mandatory execution on SEFs.
2013's Trading Technology: A Year of 'Accelerating Returns'
Readers of Waters' ongoing coverage will have noticed several themes that blossomed over the past 12 months. Some of them were predictable. But 2013 also offered up more than a few unexpected hints of opportunities to come—whether imminently, or further…
BAML, Goldman Sachs Join Eurex Clearing for IRS
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and Goldman Sachs have joined Eurex OTC Clear as clearing members for interest-rate swaps (IRS).
Bloomberg SEF, Goldman Execute First Electronic Market-Agreed Coupon Swap
The rate swap contract, otherwise known as a MAC, was completed with Goldman Sachs on behalf of a leading global asset manager.
Goldman Adds Ian Smith to Head GSET in APAC
Goldman Sachs has hired Ian Smith as head of GS Electronic Trading (GEST) for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
DTCC, Global Banks Prepare Comprehensive Data Utility
The post-trade services provider, working with some major global firms, plans to create a single utility addressing legal entity, know-your-customer and other compliance data needs
Former Morgan Stanley Exec Appointed Interactive Data CEO
Stephen Daffron will replace Mason Slaine as president and chief executive of the data vendor on September 20
SEC Chief to Summon Industry Heads After Tech Outages
Mary Jo White, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has said that she will convene a meeting of senior industry executives after an outage at Nasdaq OMX halted trading for three hours on Thursday.
Goldman Sachs Faces Losses After Technical Glitch Sent Erroneous Trades
Goldman Sachs could face losses after a glitch in its trading system sent erroneous trades at the opening of the US equity options market yesterday.
Aleynikov's Ripple Effect
This week Michael Lewis brought a national spotlight to the Goldman Sachs case against Sergey Aleynikov. Will this change the way programmers conduct business in the future?
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
