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S&P Capital IQ Adds Intelligence to Hosted Portfolio Risk Solution
S&P Capital IQ will roll out a new version of its Portfolio Risk solution this week packaging risk and scenario analytics with market data and fundament data to deliver real-time risk analysis for multi-asset class portfolios. The redesigned risk solution brings together the risk and portfolio analytics expertise acquired by S&P Capital IQ with R2…
Nasdaq OMX NLX Achieves Low Latency and Rising Trade Volumes in Start-up Phase
Nasdaq OMX NLX opened for business on the last day of May, offering a market for European short-term and long-term interest rate derivatives designed to provide ease of access, efficiency and the flexibility to respond to customer demands and list new products rapidly. Fast forward a couple of weeks and Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of NLX,…
Tim Fox Moves out of Interactive Data and into Avox
Avox, the DTCC subsidiary dedicated to maintaining business entity reference data, has hired Tim Fox to the new role of product manager. Fox joins Avox from Interactive Data, where he was product marketing manager with responsibility for all aspects of the company’s Solvency II sales. He also worked with business and line management to agree…
About Software AG’s Acquisition of Apama
This must be the week for complex event processing (CEP) operations to change ownership. Following on from the news of Tibco Software snapping up StreamBase Systems comes word that Software AG is acquiring the Apama division of Progress Software. The acquisition is an opportunistic one for Software AG, though it does fit nicely into its ‘big…
Thomson Reuters Sets Plans for Newly Acquired Pricing Partners
Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of Paris-based Pricing Partners formalises a working relationship between the companies, adding derivatives evaluated pricing services and risk analytics, global reach, expertise and an expansion opportunity to Thomson Reuters Pricing Services. The acquisition was closed last week and while no financial details were disclosed, Thomson Reuters has confirmed that Pricing Partners will…
About Tibco’s Acquisition of StreamBase
For those that have not heard, Tibco Software has acquired StreamBase Systems. Sure, the deal adds complex event processing to messaging, and if it had happened a few years back that probably would have been the story. But while low(-er) latency is part of many data integration plays these days, the driver for this marriage…
S&P Capital IQ Builds Out Cross-Referencing Capabilities to Cover Entity Identifiers
S&P Capital IQ is addressing the need to cross reference emerging legal entity identifiers (LEIs) in a broad cross-referencing service covering over two million public and private entities that use standard and proprietary identifiers. The service is called the Business Entity Cross Reference Service and is designed to help users identify systemic and counterparty risk,…
STAC Redline and Kx Benchmarks Illustrate Leverage of Hardware Advances
Two benchmark tests from STAC relating to low-latency trade execution and analytics illustrate how applications are benefiting from hardware advances to boost performance. The tests – on Redline Trading Solutions’ InRush market data platform, and on Kx Systems’ kdb+ database – demonstrate different approaches to leveraging hardware functionality related to Intel’s latest Xeon “Sandy Bridge” microprocessors. In the case…
Asset Control Builds Business Development with Return of Ian Cumberpatch
Ian Cumberpatch has rejoined Asset Control as associate director of business development EMEA. He was sales director for the Asia Pacific region at Asset Control from 2009 to 2012, before moving on to ICAP, where he was head of sales, financial institutions, in the My Treasury division. He left ICAP after a year, returning to…
CounterpartyLink Supports Client Data Off-Boarding to Improve Efficiency and Cut Costs
CounterpartyLink, a provider of global legal entity and counterparty data, has reversed the concept of client on-boarding with the offer of a client off-boarding service designed to help large financial institutions clean up their client databases, improve operational efficiency and reduce operating costs. The company has been working with a handful of clients to off-board…