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SIX Invests in BITA to Enhance Global Benchmark Platform and Expand Indexing Technology Services
SIX, the Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider, has made a strategic investment in BITA, the indexing technology and services company. The move aims to bolster a range of ongoing joint projects and fast-track the global expansion of SIX’s benchmark platform. Existing BITA shareholders, including ETFS Capital, Volta Ventures, and Pamica NV, have also...
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Baird Aftermarket Research on Exclusive Basis
S&P Global Market Intelligence has become the exclusive provider of Baird Aftermarket Research, which provides industry overviews, company-specific forecasts and recommendations, and in-depth thematic insights from more than 40 senior analysts covering over 700 companies. The aftermarket research adds to Baird research that has been available on S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Capital IQ and Capital...
LTX and TS Imagine Enhance Fixed Income Liquidity Access for Buy Side Through Strategic Integration
LTX, the AI-driven trading platform operated by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., has successfully integrated with TS Imagine’s TradeSmart Fixed Income Execution Management System (EMS). The collaboration aims to improve the trading experience for mutual buy-side clients by delivering enhanced pre-trade transparency, superior price discovery, and consolidated access to a wide pool of liquidity within their...
Global Screening Services Raises $47 Million, Moves into Operational Phase
Global Screening Services (GSS), a provider of transaction screening, has completed a Series A2 funding round raising over $47 million (£37 million). The investment will support the London-based company’s transition from a development to operational phase as its cloud-native platform prepares to go live with inaugural clients. Originally incubated by AlixPartners, GSS tackles the complexity...
SmartSearch Sets Growth Plans Following Investment from Triple Private Equity
SmartSearch, a UK provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) software, has received a large investment from Triple Private Equity. The private equity firm will gain a majority share in SmartSearch and work with the company to support its core markets and continued expansion following the release of its latest technology platform last year....
Meritsoft Launches New Trade Tracking and Exception Manager Solution for Enhanced Settlement Efficiency
Meritsoft, the Cognizant company specialising in post-trade automation, has unveiled its new Trade Tracking and Exception Manager (TTEM) solution, designed to offer comprehensive insights into settlement operations for financial institutions. The launch aims to improve operational resilience and efficiency for market participants, minimise settlement failure rates, and elevate client service and reporting standards. The cross-asset...
‘Idiosyncratic’ Data Keeps Lazard ESG Tech Chief on His Toes
Lazard Asset Management’s (LAM) director of ESG data and analytics Gregory Van Droogenbroeck received a baptism of fire when he shifted to the investment giant from technology behemoth Bloomberg. The day he joined the company Russia invaded Ukraine, catalysing an existential rethink of some of the assumptions that had been built into the ESG project....
Surveys Highlight Two Sides of ESG Market Evolution
Regulatory demands are expected to help boost spending on ESG data to a record this year but a significant part of the institutional space remains concerned that those same rules will limit the choice of sustainable investments. Two recent surveys suggest that investors continue to champion sustainable markets. One, by management consultancy Opimas estimates that...
How to Deliver a Successful Data Strategy – And Show Value
Delivering a successful data strategy and proving its value can be challenging for CDOs, but there are approaches that can ease the burden, improve outcomes, measure success, engage employees across the organisation, and raise the profile of the CDO office. Discussing ‘How to deliver a successful data strategy – show me the value!’ during a...
5 Recurring Themes from Comms Surveillance (Q1-2024)
Communications surveillance came under focus in two sessions at the recent A-Team Group Trading Technology Summit in London in February. During a morning Keynote session, Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-team sat down with Paul Liesching, Chief Revenue Officer at 1Global to discuss “Navigating the Complexity of Communications Surveillance.” An afternoon panel...