Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
Exegy, Solace Boost Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based Exegy is integrating its Total Connect ticker plant appliance with hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems' Message Router, to provide a hardware-accelerated, high-throughput and low-latency platform for enterprise-wide data…
Interactive Data Buyout Drives IT Integration
Interactive Data plans to accelerate a project to adopt a common technology platform for supporting the storage and distribution of its data products and services, following the vendor's acquisition last week by private equity firms Silver Lake and…
Hedgehogs Curls Up With MoneyScience
UK-based private equity firm Thematic Capital, which owns hedge fund information and networking community portal Hedgehogs.net, has acquired a majority stake in MoneyScience, a niche information portal that aggregates content for quantitative investors…
ITRS, 29West Ally for Messaging Monitoring
UK-based real-time systems monitoring software vendor ITRS and messaging technology provider 29West-recently acquired by Calif.-based integration software vendor Informatica-are developing an adapter that will enable clients to monitor the performance of…
Icap Adds Japanese Data to TR Deal
Icap has extended its redistribution agreement with Thomson Reuters to allow clients to distribute market data from Totan Icap-a joint venture data provider formed by Icap and Japanese broker Totan Capital Markets-within their firms via Thomson Reuters'…
Panopticon Taps Progress, Sybase for Data Connectivity
Stockholm-based data visualization software vendor Panopticon has partnered with Sybase and Progress Software to broaden the range of real-time and historical data that it can display, and has developed an updated software development kit (SDK) that…
Gmarkets Taps Hestiun for Growth
Canadian data vendor Gmarkets is planning a major global expansion with new offices and additional content, as a result of receiving a funding injection of an undisclosed amount from private equity firm Hestiun Capital, officials say.
Telekurs Buys CSV for Evaluated Pricing Growth
As Inside Market Data went to press, SIX Telekurs acquired the assets of CSV (Complex Security Valuations), a Ridgefield, Conn.-based specialist provider of evaluated prices for illiquid securities and complex derivative instruments, for an undisclosed…
FactSet Integrates Dow Jones IB Content
FactSet Research Systems is gearing up to unveil a new version of its market data display platform that integrates Dow Jones' Investment Banker news and content, to give mutual clients more in-depth data and allow them to access the Investment Banker…
SunGard integrates algo tools with QuantHouse feeds
SunGard has integrated its smart order routing and algorithmic trading tools, GL Stream and GL Tactics, with market-data feeds from QuantHouse, the Paris-based provider of ultra-low latency market-data technologies.
SunGard to use StreamBase CEP for product development
Units of financial technology juggernaut SunGard are to use StreamBase Systems' complex event processing (CEP) platform for various product and infrastructure development projects to improve delivery to end users.
Cervalis Taps HFN for Network Access
Co-location and hosting services vendor Cervalis is using Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network to provide connectivity to its new Passaic County, NJ facility, giving clients hosted there low-latency access to US exchanges via HFN's X…
29West Buy Boosts Informatica Data Plans
Calif.-based data integration software provider Informatica will integrate the messaging framework of middleware provider 29West-which it bought last week for an undisclosed sum-with its existing platforms to deliver "zero-latency" exchange of data…