Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
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
Update: Colt to Buy Japanese Network, Hosting Partner KVH
Acquisition will expand the network and infrastructure provider's existign presence in the region.
'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
Lime Squeezes More from Activ
Expanded deal adds global exchange data content to Lime's Strategy Studio.
DealVector Adds SCI Prices to ‘BWIC Board'
DealVector will make SCI data available free of charge for a 30-day period
FactSet Embeds Revere GeoRev Data into Portfolio Analytics
FactSet Research Systems has integrated San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data's Geographic Revenue (GeoRev) Exposure data into the portfolio analytics section of its workstation, after procuring the dataset as part…
Carlyle-Led Group to Buy Dealogic
Private equity firm leads $700 million acquisition.
UTP Committee Renews Nasdaq as SIP Processor
Nasdaq is re-confirmed as processor and administrator of the UTP SIP
ACA Enters Regulatory Tech Fray with NorthPoint Acquisition
AIFMD- & GIPS-related issues will be major areas of focus.
Update: GFI Board Rejects BGC Offer
BGC insists its offer still stands.
CFN Adds Full-Depth eSpeed Data to Alpha Platform, Microwave Net
New fixed income data will expand appeal of vendor's platform, while accelerating eSpeed data delivery
Ipreo Buys Shareholder InSite to Build Private Company Dataset for Private Equity Markets
New York-based information and technology vendor Ipreo has acquired shareholder workflow tools provider Shareholder InSite for an undisclosed sum to provide investors in privately held companies with data and analytics tools to support valuations and…