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Thomson Reuters Debuts Solvency II Data Service
The data provider is offering the service through its DataScope Select platform, covering four types of data relevant to compliance with the regulation
Thomson Reuters Maps 12-Month Retirement-Upgrade Schedule
Thomson Reuters has notified customers that it will retire a number of legacy products over the next 12 months, as part of an ongoing program to migrate all customers to its next generation Elektron Real Time datafeed.
Interactive Data Lures Vendor Vets Babarinde, Burtsal for EMEA Sales
Interactive Data has hired data industry veterans Olakunle Babarinde and Richard Burtsal as head of sales for real-time feeds and 7Ticks EMEA, and sales manager for trading solutions, respectively.
Thomson Reuters Debuts European ESG Indexes
Thomson Reuters has rolled out a new suite of indexes that measure environmental, social and corporate governance practices of European companies, in an effort to expand its existing ESG indexes and index data offering.
Opening Cross: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks... But New Tricks Still Need Old Dogs
It takes a certain blend of skills to combine the experience that comes with age and the dynamism of youth. For eternity, mankind has tried both to put old heads on young shoulders, and find ways to teach old dogs new tricks and recapture the energy and…
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
Thomson Reuters Wins Taipei IBOR Benchmark Calculation Role
The Taipei Foreign Exchange Market Development Foundation has named Thomson Reuters the calculation agent for its CNT TAIBOR offshore renminbi benchmark, the Taipei Interbank Offered Rate.
EPFR Jumps for Joyce
Cambridge, Mass.-based fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired data industry vet Larry Joyce as sales director, based in New York, and focusing on sales to asset managers, mutual funds and hedge funds in the New York tri-state area.
Kilburn's Comment: Fear is What Keeps Us on the Plateau
As anyone who has tried to get in shape will know, there comes a point in any exercise regime when our bodies start to get used to whatever form of exercise (or torture) we are subjecting it to. Those ten pushups that left you sweating and shaking and…
Broadridge Bags Thomson Reuters' Perry
Christopher Perry, former global managing director of the risk segment in Thomson Reuters' financial and risk division, is to join financial technology and investor communications service provider Broadridge Financial Solutions next month as president of…
SunGard MarketMap to Focus on 'Unique Content'
SunGard MarketMap, the market data arm of technology giant SunGard, is embarking on a new initiative to build out unique and proprietary content sets that leverage other areas of SunGard's business, in a bid to better differentiate itself from…
Opening Cross: Sun, Summer, and the Pursuit of the ‘Simple’ Life
The world of market data is encumbered by a multitude of complexities. Not only is the business of data complex, but so is the data itself, and so too are the underlying markets and instruments that require such complex datasets. So key to preventing…
Thomson Reuters/Aite Survey: Big Data Usage Remains Limited in Capital Markets
Almost 95 percent of financial firms claim to have no experience or knowledge of Big Data, according to a survey of buy-side and sell-side firms by Aite Group on behalf of Thomson Reuters, reflecting relatively slow adoption of Big Data strategies…
Thomson Reuters Launches Buy-Side App on Eikon
In an effort to enable the buy-side community to quickly monitor and review significant activities impacting companies in their portfolios and coverage lists, Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Watchlist Pulse, an application for its Eikon data…
Thomson Reuters Debuts ‘Watchlist Pulse' Buy-Side Insight App
Thomson Reuters has unveiled Watchlist Pulse, an application within the vendor's Eikon data workstation aimed at providing buy-side professionals with a series of easy-to-understand scores for companies in their portfolios, which allow users to quickly…
Opening Cross: Enterprise Messaging to Enterprise Management—It’s About Broadening Appeal
Pity my colleagues in London: Last Tuesday, workmen severed an ISDN cable in the street outside our office, cutting off all internet, phone, email and server access. Then on Wednesday, an explosion at an adjacent power sub-station forced a building…
Thomson Reuters Draws Drew for Platform Services
Thomson Reuters has hired Jeff Drew as enterprise proposition manager, responsible for strategy for its platform transactions business, supporting the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and Elektron Managed Services propositions.
Infront, Infinancials Consolidate on FactSet Equities Data
Norwegian market data vendor Infront and French fundamental data and analytics vendor Infinancials, in which Infront holds a majority ownership stake, have extended an existing agreement with data vendor FactSet Research Systems to expand both vendors'…
Thomson Reuters Adds Platts Data to DataScope
Thomson Reuters has added commodities market data from McGraw-Hill Financial-owned commodities and energy data provider Platts to its DataScope Select product to provide clients with increased transparency to support valuations, risk management and…
Thomson Reuters Debuts KYC Web Portal
Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of its web-based portal for Accelus Org ID, its platform for know-your-customer (KYC) compliance.
Thomson Reuters Taps Celoxica Tech for FPGA Feed
Thomson Reuters has rolled out Elektron Direct Feed, a hardware-accelerated datafeed, using FPGA cards from UK-based data technology vendor Celoxica to deliver single-digit microsecond latency.
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Corporate Actions Solution Provider — Thomson Reuters
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s (DTCC’s) corporate actions solution has won this category for the past three years, including last year after it had been bought by Markit. But for this year, the torch has been passed to Thomson Reuters with its…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Reference Data Provider — Thomson Reuters
For three years in a row, Waters’ readers have chosen Thomson Reuters’ reference data over Bloomberg, the Rankings’ previous winner. An originator, consolidator and redistributor of security and financial instrument data, Thomson Reuters provides access…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Low-Latency Data Feed Provider — Thomson Reuters
Make it five wins in a row for Thomson Reuters and Elektron Real Time in the best low-latency data feed provider category, and the third consecutive year that the data giant has captured both this and the best reference data provider awards.