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Euclid Opportunities Invests in Model Two Zero
Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage financial technology project, today announced the completion of an investment in London-based software firm Model Two Zero. Model Two Zero is an early-stage company pioneering the next generation of innovative matching, reconciliation and data-translation technologies. A growing number of Model Two Zero clients are now using this technology to validate…
Roderick Manzie Joins 3d Innovations as COO to Further the Data Management Consultancy’s Growth
3d Innovations, the data management consultancy specialising in market, reference and derived/computational data,today announced the appointment of Roderick Manzie, as Chief Operating Officer. Roderick joins the Board and will manage the legal, commercial and financial aspects of the company to build an infrastructure for growth. The appointment marks a point of significant growth for 3d…
Markit Adds Sensitvities Data to CDS Pricing
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced it is supplementing its end-of-day prices for credit default swaps (CDS) with a new sensitivities report that will give clients valuable information about the relationship between a CDS price and other market variables. The new Markit CDS Sensitivities service gives clients the ability to understand…
The Inside Track on LEI
I love to be on the inside track, probably because it happens so rarely, and so I am sorely tempted to answer the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) call for volunteers to participate in the private-sector LEI advisory panel that the industry group announced earlier this week. In fact, I haven’t felt quite so tempted since…
RICs as Catalyst for Financial Markets ‘App Store’
High on the long, long list of the late Steve Jobs’ acts of genius was his decision to go against his own instinct and open up the iPhone/iPAD to third-party developers to create the App Store, a true game-changer. That got me to thinking that Thomson Reuters and the EU could be missing a trick…
FSB Establishes Expert Group to Make LEI Implementation Proposals
Apparently addressing growing industry concerns about the prospect of delays in adoption of the long-awaited legal entity identifier (LEI), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has set up an expert group to make what it describes as “concrete proposals” on the implementation of a global LEI system. At its meeting in Basel this week, the FSB…
MSCI Opens Office in Seoul, South Korea
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance services, announced today that it has opened a new office in Seoul, South Korea. This announcement reinforces MSCI’s commitment to the growing South Korean market with a local office, a local team and products tailored…
T2S Connectivity Licences
On behalf of the Eurosystem, the Banca d’Italia has awarded two T2S connectivity licences, the first to SWIFT and the second to a consortium composed of SIA and Colt. As soon as the last administrative formalities have been completed, the two awardees will be invited to sign the Licence Agreement (LA) which is expected to…
GoldenSource Opens Singapore Office, Hires New APAC Sales Director
GoldenSource, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, has announced that it has opened an office in Singapore, its fifth office in the APAC region. David Chew has been appointed as Sales Director and will be responsible for growing the business and developing GoldenSource’s presence in the region. “David’s 20 years of experience…
Q&A: Joshua Walsky of Broadway Technology on Functional Scale and “Build and Buy”
Any trading technology firm that is co-headquartered in New York City and Austin, Texas, gets my attention, even when it’s been flying under the radar for the past few years. Now, Broadway Technology is taking investment from its clients – including Goldman Sachs – to accelerate its rate of growth. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the…