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Options Technology Appoints Micah Kroeze to Drive Growth
Options, a cloud-enabled managed service and IT infrastructure provider, has expanded its New York management team with the appointment of Micah Kroeze as vice president of product management. Kroeze previously held positions at NYSE Technologies and Vela Trading Systems, where he facilitated the growth of the firm’s market data and hosted services product lines. At…
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business to be Renamed as Refinitiv
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business will be renamed as Revinitiv following the closure of the company’s strategic partnership with private equity fund manager Blackstone, which will acquire 55% of the business and leave 45% with Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk in its new guise as Refinitiv. David Craig, president of the Financial & Risk…
State Street Global Exchange Builds Out Alternative Data Services
State Street Global Exchange (SSGX) is building out its data offering with alternative data services designed to provide unique market insight for its clients. The services include MediaStats, which aggregates media derived insights to provide an understanding of industry and macroeconomic trends; PriceStats, which provides high-frequency measures of inflation and real exchange rates drawn from…
Trading Tech Consolidation Continues with State Street’s $2.6bn Purchase of Charles River
State Street’s $2.6 billion acquisition of financial data firm Charles River Systems, Inc (Charles River Development) has been heralded in some quarters as game changing. But is it really, or is it perhaps just another step in ongoing consolidation in the trading tech space, and indeed in the logical development of the role of the…
Corvil Enters Client Analysis Space with AI-Powered Intelligence Hub
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Corvil’s release last week of its Intelligence Hub propels the Dublin-based data analytics specialist into the burgeoning world of business intelligence for the trading environment. Building on the company’s long-established trading infrastructure monitoring and latency measurement offerings, the Intelligence Hub extracts data from Corvil analytics appliances at every stage in…
Santiment Goes Open-Source with its Crypto Data Analytics Platform
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Analytics specialist Santiment has made its new SANbase cryptocurrency analysis platform available to data scientists, analysts and researchers at financial services firms in a bid to tap into their shared observations and predictions. Santiment recently ran its first public ‘hackathon’, allowing a range of users – from institutional analysts to…
SIP Operating Committees Add Three Advisory Committee Members
The US Securities Information Processors’ (SIPs’) Operating Committees have recruited three new members to contribute retail investor perspective to their 11-member Advisory Committee: Chris Nielsen, managing director, Charles Schwab & Co.; W. Todd Watkins, director, E*TRADE Financial; and Matt Billings, managing director, TD Ameritrade. The SIP Operating Committees govern the entities that operate the systems…
Schroders Selects The Disruption House to Assess New Tech Vendors
Global investment house Schroders has become the first asset manager to partner with specialist benchmarking and data analytics provider The Disruption House (TDH) to assess the capabilities of new technology providers. TDH says the aim is to “support Schroders’ innovation agenda and assist the firm in its goal of engaging more start-ups”. “We are committed…
RSRCHXchange Adds Analyst Interaction to MiFID II Research Marketplace
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Institutional research aggregator RSRCHXchange has added an analyst interaction functionality to its platform, allowing research providers to book and sell meetings, calls, webinars and conferences to asset management and other buy-side firms. The initiative aims to help firms consuming research in compliance with MiFID II unbundling to choose services from…
Fonetic Names Child, Broderick, Blower to New Advisory Board
Voice systems provider has created an advisory board to tap industry expertise on the use of technology in regulatory compliance and market surveillance. To kick off the initiative, the company has recruited three industry executives: Nick Child, former Citi markets compliance head, who will act as chairman; Sandy Broderick, ex-Société Générale MD; and Oliver Blower,…