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Bloomberg Increases Transparency in US Treasuries and Interest Rate Swaps Pricing
Bloomberg has introduced Bloomberg Capital Markets Package (BCMP), a data service that combines NEX’s BrokerTec US treasuries data with US dollar spread-over data from Tradition’s Trad-X platform to increase market transparency and provide the global issuance and derivatives community with intuitive access to the firms’ datasets. Bloomberg says consolidating the BrokerTec and Trad-X data –…
Advanced Logic Analytics Offers AI Driven Market Sentiment Tool
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) has introduced ALASA, a market sentiment tool designed to help investment banks and trading firms make sense of human and market signals from financial data published online. The solution uses proprietary algorithms, machine learning and natural language processing to gather financial information published online from any number of professional and crowd-based…
Dash Appoints Stino Milito to Lead Institutional Buy-Side Business
Dash Financial Technologies, a multi-asset order routing solutions provider, has appointed Stino Milito as co-chief operating officer with responsibility to lead the firm’s institutional buy-side team and oversee product strategy. He rejoins the company from ED&F Man Capital Markets where he served as director of trading, and from 2010 to 2016 worked in client services…
SS&C is Back on the Acquisition Trail with $1.45 Billion Offer for Eze Software
SS&C is back on the acquisition trail with a $1.45 billion definitive agreement to acquire Eze Software from alternative asset firm TPG. The company backed out of the bidding for Fidessa in April 2018 after ION Trading made a late offer to acquire Fidessa and gazumped initial bidder Temenos. The SS&C acquisition of Eze Software,…
Thomson Reuters Partners CryptoCompare to Add Cryptocurrency Data to Eikon
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Thomson Reuters has made a strategic partnership with global cryptocurrency market data aggregator CryptoCompare to provide crypto data to the Eikon financial analysis desktop platform. The deal takes Thomson Reuters further into the crypto space, with CryptoCompare integrating its real-time order book and trade data for 50 leading crypto coins…
Financial Crime Veterans Join Arachnys Board
Arachnys, a provider of customer risk intelligence in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Due Diligence (DD), has selected four new members to join its executive board in a bid to support the company’s growth strategy. The new members are Nigel Broda, previously vice president of sales at NICE…
Digital Asset Names Former Thomson Reuters Exec James Powell to CTO
Digital Asset, a New York-based distributed ledger technology solutions provider, has appointed former Thomson Reuters executive James Powell as its new CIO and CTO of engineering. Powell is charged with guiding development of the company’s distributed ledger platform and smart contract modelling language, DAML. He joins the firm after a stint at Warburg Pincus as…
ITRS Partners Velocimetrics to Improve Operational Resilience
ITRS Group has partnered Velocimetrics to give users of its ITRS Geneos real-time monitoring solution the ability to independently trace and analyse the real-time performance of every trade as it is processed and improve operational resilience. The need for improved resilience was raised earlier this month in a joint discussion paper from the FCA, PRA…
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…