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IHS Markit and MSCI Team Up on Yet Another ESG Initiative
In the latest signal that ESG (environmental, social and governance) data is becoming big news, last week saw yet another initiative in the sustainable investment space as MSCI joined forces with information and analytics giant IHS Markit to broaden the reach of its ESG data and research services via collaboration on a range of fixed…
Goldman Sachs Integrates Bloomberg Pricing and Reference Data for Digital Clients
Goldman Sachs will integrate Bloomberg’s Data License content with its own client-facing Marquee platform, making it the first global investment bank to use Bloomberg data for in-house applications offered to clients. In 2018 Bloomberg expanded its Data License content (which sits within its Enterprise Data business) from 12,000 data fields to over 40,000 – building…
Join the Debate on Cost and Accessibility of Market Data at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit
Is your firm challenged by the high costs of market data and redistribution charges? Does it face barriers to accessing market data in a timely fashion? And is it looking for ways to resolve these problems? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, join A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit in London on 25th…
New BMLL CEO Humphrey Outlines ‘Scale-Up Phase’ Post-$25 Million Funding
Fresh from a January funding round that brings total financing raised to $25 million, UK trading analytics specialist BMLL Technologies has named industry veteran Paul Humphrey to take the helm as CEO. Humphrey says the company is now in “scale-up phase” as it sets about its mission to derive value from data hidden within market…
Can EQT Partners Repeat $3 Billion BvD Flip with Rimes Investment?
Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners has emerged as the mystery suitor behind talk that managed data management specialist Rimes Technologies was up for sale. EQT is best known in the data management space as the investor that in 2014 acquired entity data specialist Bureau van Dijk (BvD) and flipped it three years later to…
DTCC Adds API Marketplace to Streamline Access to Services
DTCC has introduced an Application Programming Interface (API) Marketplace to provide its clients, partners and internal developers with a central location for APIs developed by DTCC. The solution externalises and extends an internal DTCC API marketplace for developers that was established about a year ago, and is designed to streamline access to services and improve…
Peter Moss Departs SmartStream RDU, Coffman to Replace
Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist SmartStream lost a leading light in December with the departure of data guru Peter Moss as CEO of SmartStream RDU, a reference data specialist co-founded back in 2016 with buy-in from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of SmartStream, the reference data utility (RDU) was created…
Moody’s to Acquire RDC in GRC Push
Moody’s Corporation has confirmed plans to buy customer screening and KYC/AML data provider Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) for $700 million, from private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The deal continues Moody’s push into the data and compliance arena following its 2017 acquisition of BvD in a transaction valuing the company at $3 billion. It’s too early…
What’s to Come in 2020: Advanced Trading Technology Opens Door to Highly Individualized and Agile Strategy
By Chris Hollands, Head of European and North American Sales, TradingScreen Farewell to the 2010s, the decade of pure speed. The period when automated trading shot up the curve, ascending from a tool of the early adopters to a cross-asset industry norm. We embraced algorithms as our trump card, so much so that they now…
S3 Offers SEC CAT Solution Ahead of April Reporting Deadline
As reporting to the SEC Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) fast approaches, with large industry participants and small industry participants reporting to the Order Audit Trail System (OATS) due to submit files on April 20, 2020, vendors are finalising solutions to support firms subject to the regulation. Among them is S3, a provider of regulatory reporting…