Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
Update: Trading Central's Recognia Buy Will Enable Analytics Cross-Pollination, Institutional Expansion
Vendors eye lengthy company integration, but speedy product integration roadmaps
Trading Central Buys Analytics Vendor Recognia
Acquisition of Recognia to create "market leader" in technical and fundamental analysis.
2014 Review: Infrastructure Deals Drive M&A, Funding Activity in 2014
This year saw its fair share of mergers, acquisitions and investments, with some deals driven by expansion plans, others by strategic opportunism, and others spurred by unforeseen circumstances.
DelphX Plans Expansion, Data on Quandl
Bond trading venue operator DelphX plans to expand its Mav=n (Market-Adjusted Value per congruent Nexus) pricing service, to provide users with fair value prices for SEC Rule 144A private placements, asset-backed and mortgage backed securities, and…
BGC Further Extends GFI Offer Deadline
BGC Partners' determined efforts to acquire rival interdealer broker GFI Group continued last night, as the firm extended the deadline for its offer to January 6, 2015, the second time that it has done so.
Options Takes Space in Equinix Tokyo Co-Lo Center
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has expanded into Equinix's TY3 datacenter in Tokyo to provide co-location services and access to global foreign exchange markets in response to increased customer demand.
Cyber Monday for Financial Markets
Vendors go on a shopping spree.
Quincy Taps O’Sullivan’s USAM for US Sales Push
Oakland, Calif-based low-latency microwave connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data is to use USAM Group—a New York-based outsourced sales agency recently set up by Feargal O’Sullivan, a former sales and solutions executive at NYSE Technologies,…
Quandl Adds ORATS Options Data to Financial Data Search Engine
Toronto-based economic and financial search engine Quandl is adding fee-liable options data from Chicago-based options analytics provider Option Research and Technology Services (ORATS) to its online data portal to support users' equities technical…
Icap to Merge EBS and BrokerTec
The FX and fixed income trading platforms will be combined to form EBS-BrokerTec
Japan, Singapore Exchanges Cooperate on Co-Lo Centers
The agreement between JPX and SGX will boost connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Update: CME Matches BGC in Battle for GFI
Increases offer to $5.25 per share, matching BGC's premium.
Markit to Exit Messaging Play as Symphony Conducts Acquisition of Chat Assets
Acquisition will unite rival messaging initiatives to create a stronger competitor to Bloomberg's messaging service
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…