Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
Japan Stock Exchange Invests in Risk Analytics Vendor OpenGamma
First investment in fintech firm from Japan Exchange Group is in London-based risk analytics vendor.
Tied Together: Keith Lubell, Berkery Noyes
Keith Lubell has worked for the DoD, was an unemployed musician and painter, and now heads tech for an investment bank. All those experiences are connected.
FactSet Acquires Interactive Data Managed Solutions Business
The deal will help FactSet bolster its global wealth management offering, while ICE deemed the Managed Solutions business non-core to its overall data plans.
BNP Paribas Securities Services Invests in Compliance Fintech Firm Fortia
Fintech vendor specializes in development of machine learning, artificial intelligence for compliance and regulatory requirements.
TP Icap Buys Burton-Taylor to Expand Research Assets
TP Icap will expand the research firm's coverage to new markets and sectors, partly based on proprietary data owned by the broker.
Linedata Acquires Outsourcing Provider Gravitas
Acquisition expands Linedata’s outsourcing and middle-office portfolio, regional presence in North America.
Fulcrum Taps BondWave for Serviced Bond Trading Offering
Fulcrum's new service is based on a platform provided by fixed income data and technology vendor Bondwave.
Datawatch Taps AquaQ for Panopticon-Kdb+ Integration
The agreement will make it easier for firms to visualize tick data from the Kdb+ database in Panopticon.
Sapient Users Get Bloomberg Provenance Data
By registering its Synapse platform registered as Bloomberg partner, Sapient enables users to access Bloomberg data.
The Yield Book Integrates Eris Swap Futures Data
The integration will allow users to manage their positions traded on Eris alongside other trading activity.
Wall Street Horizon, MT Newswires Ally for Correlated News, Events Data
Wall Street Horizon will refer interested parties to MT Newswires, so they can correlate the vendors' data.
Visible Alpha Buys OneAccess to Boost Research Use Tracking
Prior to the acquisition, the companies had been working together to allow clients to benefit from their respective offerings.
Visible Alpha Acquires ONEaccess
ONEaccess’ sell-side tools will be integrated into Visible Alpha's platform to improve workflow for discovering, tracking and valuing all sell-side interactions.
SS&C Adds Fitch Ratings to Managed Service Platform
With the addition of Fitch, SS&C now offers ratings data from the 'Big Three' ratings providers.
StockTwits Buys SparkFin to Grow Investor Offering
The price discovery social app will begin migrating features to StockTwits' platform immediately.
Silexx Adds Data from OTC Markets
The agreement will provide Silexx's clients with "a complete actionable dataset to aid in their trading and investment decision-making," officials say.
Thomson Reuters Completes Redi Acquisition
Acquisition of New York-based EMS vendor to bolster Thomson Reuters’ buy-side solutions portfolio.
S&P Sells QuantHouse Back to Founder
The deal marks another about-face on real-time data for S&P, which sold Comstock in 2003, then re-entered the space by buying QuantHouse in 2012.
NEX Distributes Tradition Data
After selling its voice-brokerage business to rival Tullett Prebon, NEX (formerly Icap) has forged a data alliance with Tradition.
Wall Street Horizon, Estimize Ally on Earnings Dates, Estimates Info
The alliance combines related earnings information on each vendor's platform.
Advent Quickly Comes of Age
SS&C Technologies' February 2016 acquisition of Advent Software raised numerous questions across the buy side, not least of which was how the acquisition might make Advent a better services and technology provider.
DTCC Picks IBM, Axoni, R3 to Develop Distributed-Ledger Solution for Derivatives Processing
IBM and Axoni to develop DLT-based replacement for existing Trade Information Warehouse; R3 to act in advisory role.
Dash, LiquidPoint Merge to Form Dash Financial Technologies
Peter Maragos, current CEO of Dash, will serve as CEO of new entity.
Euronext Makes €510 Million Swoop for LSE’s French LCH.Clearnet Division
Euronext makes offer to acquire French clearing house from London Stock Exchange, subject to completion of LSE’s merger with Deutsche Börse.