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ICE Starts Break-Up of NYSE Technologies with Sale of Fixnetix Stake, Wombat and SuperFeed
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has started to break up NYSE Technologies and sell some of its business units following the acquisition of the technology business and its parent NSYE Euronext in November 2013. The first sale was made last month, when ICE sold the 25% holding in London-based Fixnetix that NYSE Technologies acquired in February 2012…
Azul and C24 Offer Compact In-Memory Storage Solution for Zing
Java specialist Azul Systems and messaging provider C24 Technologies have combined their expertise to deliver an in-memory storage solution compromising C24’s Simple Data Objects (SDO) message compaction technology integrated with Azul’s Zing Java virtual machine (JVM). The solution supports the Financial Products Markup Language (FpML), as well as FIX and ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging…
S&P Capital IQ Details Participation in Markit’s Open Messaging Network
S&P Capital IQ has joined the open messaging network set up by Markit as part of its collaboration services in October 2013. Users of the company’s desktop platform will be able to use the network for instant messaging beyond the S&P Capital IQ community, while S&P Capital IQ plans to build access to the network…
CQG Develops Big Data Visualisation Application
Financial software solutions provider CQG has developed a big data visualisation desktop application that gathers financial market data and applies it to support intelligent trading decisions. The application uses the swing trading methodology to interpret a variety of charts and graphs that can be used to provide competitive insights for trading. Swing trading looks at…
Markit Integrates MarkitSERV and Valuations Service to Increase Efficiency and Decrease Cost
Markit has connected its MarkitSERV trade processing service for OTC derivatives to its portfolio valuations service, allowing trades processed by MarkitSERV to be captured as they are confirmed, portfolios to be updated and valuations made without the need for a separate trade feed. As well as increasing operational efficiency, the connectivity is expected to reduce…
SimCorp and MSCI Develop Direct Link Between Dimension and RiskManager
SimCorp and MSCI are developing a direct data and analytics link between the former’s Dimension investment management solution and the latter’s RiskManager platform with a view to offering users of both products operational efficiencies and support for better informed investment decisions. A link between Dimension and MSCI’s BarraOne risk management solution is also on the…
ING Bank Improves Communication with MDXT Data Sharing Solution
MDX Technology (MDXT), a market data connectivity specialist and provider of an enterprise data sharing solution, has signed up ING Bank as its twelfth European customer and is building out its business in the US and Asia ahead of a move into South America. ING Bank selected MDXT’s Connect enterprise data sharing solution to improve…
Fidessa Responds to Demand for a Consolidated Trading Platform
Fidessa has responded to ongoing client demand for consolidated trading platforms that reduce total cost of ownership and increase efficiency with the addition of US Treasuries to its global futures and options platform, and connectivity to BrokerTec and Nasdaq OMX eSpeed. The addition of US Treasuries to the derivatives platform takes the company into fixed…
Charles River Shrink Wraps Compliance Solution to Offer Compliance as a Service
Charles River has packaged the compliance module of its Investment Management Solution to offer Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) to asset managers seeking economic and efficient start-of-day portfolio compliance. The service is cloud based and integrates software, data and advisory services that include writing and maintaining compliance system rules. It is designed to help small and medium-sized firms…
Markit Integrates Datasets to Deliver Enhanced iNAV for ETPs
Markit has integrated its fixed income evaluated pricing and fair value data services with exchange traded fund data to deliver an enhanced intraday net asset value (iNAV) service for exchange traded products (ETPs). The service is available immediately and is designed to improve transparency around ETP pricing. The company has offered an iNAV service for…