Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions
GlobeOp offers Linedata ASP to long-short clients
GlobeOp Financial Services, the hedge fund administrator with $106 billion in client assets under administration, has rolled out a hosted version of Linedata Services' LongView Trading order management system fully integrated with its middle- and back…
Sybase acquires Aleri to strengthen CEP capabilities
Sybase, a provider of enterprise and mobile soft ware, has finalised an asset purchase agreement with Aleri, a provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions. CEP plays an integral part in real-time…
One Year On, There's More to Morningstar
At the end of 2008, Chicago-based investment research provider Morningstar acquired datafeed and terminal vendor Tenfore Systems to bolster its presence in real-time market data. Just over a year later, Inside Market Data speaks to former Tenfore chief…
Butterfield Fulcrum partners with MindTree
Butterfield Fulcrum, an independent alternative fund administrator, has partnered with global IT firm MindTree to deliver new products to the alternative fund administration industry. The most recent step in this alliance is Butterfield Fulcrum's…
Markit and DTCC unveil MarkitSERV
Markit and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have launched MarkitSERV, a new company that combines the two organisations' electronic trade-confirmation and workflow platforms to provide a single gateway for over-the-counter (OTC)…
RTS and Fixnetix in low-latency alliance
RTS Realtime Systems Group, the Ravensburg, Germany-based trading systems provider, has teamed up with Fixnetix to provide ultra-low-latency trading tools for the high-frequency trading community accessing European equity and derivatives markets.
XSP partners with Decillion Group on corporate actions
XSP, the Birmingham, Alabama-based corporate actions software provider, has partnered with Decillion Group, a banking software firm and Swift's official business partner for Australasia, to provide a service-based version of the XSP v5 corporate actions…