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Ullink Builds Out its Connectivity and Trading Solutions Business under the Auspices of Interim CEO Bertrand Sciard
Ullink is building out its connectivity and electronic trading solutions business on the back of last year’s acquisition of NYFIX and its ability to meet growing market demand for managed services. At the helm is interim CEO Bertrand Sciard, who joined the company from Ullink’s private equity investor HgCapital when Ullink founder Laurent Useldinger stepped...
Rimes Buy-Side Survey Shows Room for Improvement in Data Quality and Governance
Data quality and data governance are the top data management priorities cited by buy-side firms in Rimes’ 2015 Buy-Side Survey. The survey respondents, particularly asset managers, also note that a lack of support for data governance and the limitations of existing operating models are hindering business agility and holding back strategy changes. Now in it...
Velocimetrics Version 6 Improves Oversight of High Volume Trading
Velocimetrics has released Version 6 of its real-time business performance monitoring and analysis solution, increasing the volume of trades that can be tracked, introducing distributed processing, and extending reporting capabilities. Velocimetrics 6 builds on the company’s commitment to deliver real-time oversight across end-to-end processes in fast, complex and high volume trading environments, and allow any...
Tradition Integrates Azul Zing to Increase Trading Predictability and Performance
Tradition, the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition, has integrated Azul Systems’ Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) into its high performance trading platforms to deliver predictable, high throughput and low latency execution. The company also expects the adoption of Zing to free up developer time that will be used to pursue new revenue streams....
Sun Street Offers Real-Time Data Quality Management in Version 5 of Curium
Sun Street has introduced real-time data quality management and a rules-based data quality scoring system in Version 5 of its Curium Data Quality Management (DQM) software. The developments are a response to business needs including risk reduction, improved data governance, regulatory compliance and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to keep decision makers and consuming systems...
Bloomberg Integrates EMSX with Exane BNP Paribas Feedback Channel to Increase Algo Trading Transparency
Bloomberg has increased transparency around trading algorithms provided by Exane BNP Paribas by integrating access to the investment company’s Order Status Update feedback channel, which gives European equities traders insight into the algos, with its EMSX execution management system. The integration builds on Bloomberg’s use of Tag 30 FIX protocol messages to show algo traders...
Cinnober Proposes a Quality Standard for Financial Systems and Software
Cinnober Financial Technology has initiated a campaign aimed at setting up an industry organisation that will drive a quality standard across financial systems and software. The campaign is based on a draft quality standard proposed by Cinnober, the Financial IT Quality Assessment (FIQA), which is designed to provide transparency around the quality and cost of...
Capgemini Acquisition of IGATE Adds Financial Services Customers, Revenue and Technologies
Capgemini is set to fulfil its long-term aim of building presence in North American markets through a $4 billion acquisition agreement with New Jersey based technology and services company IGATE. The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year and will make North America Capgemini’s largest region, representing 30% of estimated...
Thomson Reuters Adds Price Challenge Tool to DataScope Select
Thomson Reuters has added a price challenge tool for fixed income professionals to its DataScope Select data delivery platform. The tool, AskTRPS, is designed to make the price challenge process faster, smoother, more transparent and easier to report for auditory and regulatory purposes. AskTRPS enhances the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service (TRPS) by allowing DataScope Select...
Breaking News: Interactive Data Corporation Set for Sale
According to a news story on Thomson Reuters’ news service Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) is up for sale five years after it was purchased by private equity firms Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus. The firms are expected to sell IDC in a deal that could value the financial information business at $5.5 billion including debt,...