Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
Symphony's First Movement: Symphony Acquires Markit's Collaboration Services
Consortium hopes to release the fully-integrated platform in July 2015
Malaysia Brokers Tap Bloomberg for MYR FX Rates Distribution
The Malaysia Money Brokers Association, a group of six licensed money brokers in Malaysia, will use Bloomberg as its primary platform for the dissemination of foreign exchange rates, in move to increase price transparency in the country and support…
Silver Lake Sells IPC to Centerbridge for $1.2Bn
Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners has entered into an agreement to acquire data network and trading telephony provider IPC from current owners Silver Lake Partners for about $1.2 billion.
SmartStream Buys Credit Suisse's Fee, Expense Management Platform
TLM specialists buy platform from bank, sign it as customer.
Centerbridge to Buy IPC for $1.2 Billion
Silver Lake finds buyer in massive deal.
SS&C Acquires DST Global Solutions
The deal will be worth $95 million in cash.
Confluence Buys Fund Analytics Vendor Orfival
Deal will allow US-based Confluence to expand its range of services and international reach.
Confluence Acquires Risk Analytics Provider Orfival
Vendor will gain footprint in Europe from deal.
Genscape Buys Energy Fundamentals for European Power Analysis Expansion
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has acquired Swiss power fundamental data and analysis provider Energy Fundamentals for an undisclosed sum, to extend its European offering by combining the vendor's analytics and scenario analysis…
Tullett Prebon's PVM Buy Will Boost Oil Data
Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon has completed the acquired London-based oil broker PVM Oil Associates and its subsidiaries, in a deal that will allow its Tullett Prebon Information market data arm to expand its suite of energy products, and to extend…
Crowdnetic Launches Crowdfunding Data Service, Inks Digital Look Distribution Deal
Crowdnetic, a provider of data on the crowdfunded securities market has unveiled CWMarketdata, a data download service covering data from more than 4,000 active and closed 506(c) offerings, sourced from a range of crowdfunding platforms via the vendor's…
BGC Extends Tender Offer for GFI
Interdealer broker adds to deadline as it settles breach of rules with FCA.
Goldman Sachs Invests in Big Data Analytics Start-Up
Goldman becomes the largest strategic investor in Kensho
Wiener Börse to Distribute, License Zagreb Exchange Data
Agreement exposes Zagreb data to a wider international audience via Wiener Börse's "one-stop shop."
OptionsCity's CEO Discusses Optionshop Acquisition
Clients will see new products/functionality over next 6-12 months
Quandl Adds Sharadar Fundamentals to Financial Data Search Engine
Startup fundamental data supplier will provide comparable data at lower cost for Quandl users, officials say.
McObject, Lucera Offer eXtremeDB Database in Cloud
Federal Way, Wash.-based in-memory database provider McObject will make its high-performance eXtremeDB Financial Edition database available on an as-a-service basis in the cloud to clients of New York-based high-performance infrastructure provider Lucera…
Icap Bows End-of-Day Equity Derivatives Pricing Curves
Service will provide investment managers with valuation tools to conduct portfolio analysis and hedge risk.
Deutsche Börse to Disseminate African Bond Indexes, Pricing
Data will cover indexes and pricing from 12 African countries.
Lucena Incorporates AirSage Cell Phone Data into Predictive Analytics
Vendor uses consumer mobile location data to predict store fortunes and share prices
Quaternion-UBS Delta Collaborate on CVA Front
Quaternion-UBS Delta alliance will help clients calculate CVA and DVA measures.
S&P Cap IQ Adds Moody's Ratings to XpressFeed
Moody's is first set of ratings from other agencies that S&P plans to add in the future.
Corvil Embeds Kx Database for Performance Stats Storage
Dublin-based latency management technology vendor Corvil has added connectivity to Palo Alto-based time-series database provider Kx Systems' kdb+ database to its streaming analytics platform, to enable users to store real-time network and application…
Deutsche Börse Adds Cleartrade Data to CEF Feed
Data alliance will make it easier for traders and vendors to connect to Cleartrade data