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The Principal Group Announces Further Expansion

The Principal Group, incorporating investment specialists Principal Investment Management and Border Asset Management, are pleased to announce that Adrian Williams, a former director of James Brearley & Sons, has joined the Group. Adrian brings an extensive experience in stockbroking and investment management. For the last twenty years he has worked in north Lancashire and Cumbria,...

Andrew’s Blog – The Reawakening of Thomson Reuters

The past few weeks’ organisational regrouping in the wake of the departure of Thomson Reuters Markets CEO Devin Wenig over the summer has been supercharged by this week’s news of a complete restructuring of Thomson Reuters by CEO Tom Glocer. Glocer has named James C. Smith, currently chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters’ Professional division,...

Pricing Partners Derivatives Independent Valuation Platform is Empowered with Analytics Function

Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to implement a new function “Price-it Online Analytics” on its web based independent valuation platform Price-it Online. This new feature allows users of its online services to access its extensive financial library to achieve advanced transparency and independence....

Mirabaud Expands London Investment Management Team

The London division of Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Paul Boughton from Neptune Investment Management and Andrew Blair from Skandia Investment Group to strengthen its UK team. Both will take up the role of joint sales and marketing director for the group, and the appointments form part of Mirabaud’s initiative to build a strong UK...

S&P Fund Services Name Change

McGraw-Hill Financial, a segment of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced that it will market its unique combination of multi-asset-class data, benchmarks and analytics products under two master brands, S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices. S&P Capital IQ will be the new master brand name for integrated desktop solutions, enterprise services and proprietary market, company and...

NYSE Technologies Looks to Open Source Data APIs; Wants Competitors To Partner

NYSE Technologies is planning to open source its messaging APIs, and hopes to attract other market participants – and competing data providers – to adopt them. The plan was outlined by Tony McManus, head of Enterprise Software at the exchange’s technology unit, speaking at a recent FutureDATA event in London. The APIs in question are...

Q&A: Bruce Tolley of Solarflare Communications on Network Performance and Precision Timing

In ultra low-latency trading systems, the application to network interface is one cause of significant latency and jitter. Companies like Solarflare have advanced network adaptors designed to overcome those issues. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the scoop from Solarflare’s vice president of solutions Bruce Tolley. Q: Firstly, by way of introduction, what are your main products that are...

Bloomberg Tradebook Boosts Independent Research Offering

Bloomberg Tradebook, a leading global agency broker, announced today that six new independent research providers have been selected to join its research services offering. Bloomberg Tradebook clients now have access to premium market research from 15 independent research firms that provide an informed perspective on the markets they cover. The Analyst, H&M Consulting Group (HMCG),...

IRM Appoints José Morago as Director

The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is pleased to announce the appointment of José Morago to its board of directors with immediate effect. José is the European Enterprise Risk Director for Aviva, where he is responsible for risk oversight, governance and capital management of Aviva’s European operations in 12 countries. He is also responsible for...

IOSCO’s Commodities Market Proposals Highlight Need for Internationally Consistent Data Standards and Classifications

In addition to its recent trade repositories paper, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a paper urging regulators to consider bolstering their oversight of the commodities markets, which includes recommendations to introduce international data standards and classification schemes. As part of its series of proposals to improve post-trade surveillance methods, it suggests...