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Chi-X Europe & Russell Indexes Unveil New European Indices
Chi-X Europe, the leading pan-European equities exchange, and Russell Indexes, a leading provider of global and U.S. indices and part of financial services firm Russell Investments, today unveil the Chi-X Europe Russell Index Series of pan-European indices. The new family of indices has been specially formulated to provide users with high quality, tradeable pan-European and…
S&P’s Jones Talks up its Bond Pricing and Valuation Offering, First in a New Line of Offerings
Following its recent (and long anticipated) official rebrand, S&P Capital IQ has released the first in a series of upgrades to its valuations biz in the form of a new bond pricing and valuation offering, which purports to provide an “independent and transparent view of multiple pricing and valuation approaches across a single issue.” Peter…
JonesTrading Names Garceau CTO
JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC, a leading brokerage firm, which provides institutions with global block trading across a range of instruments, announced today the appointment of Jack Garceau as Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Garceau joins the firm at a critical time in its growth. Over the course of the last year JonesTrading has expanded in both…
RBC Dexia Appoints Cormac Sheedy to Middle East & Africa Role
RBC Dexia Investor Services today announced that it has appointed Cormac Sheedy as Senior Executive Officer for Middle East & Africa to lead the company’s business development drive in the region. Reporting to Simon Shapland, Managing Director of UK, Ireland and Middle East, He will be based in RBC Dexia’s Dubai office and has over…
MIK Releases Enhanced SEC Master
MIK Fund Solutions, a leading provider of software solutions for hedge funds, today announced the release of a comprehensive and integrated security master solution for hedge funds and asset managers. The offering is designed as an integrated application for the tracking, reporting and processing of all security master terms and conditions and reporting attributes across…
Eliminating Latency with Analytics
Latency is a continual challenge in trading systems. In High Frequency Trading (HFT) systems, the challenge is immediate and obvious: if your order isn’t in first, you won’t hit the liquidity you’re after. In other systems, it might not be so obvious, but it’s still an issue. For example, if you’re streaming FX quotes out…
The Principal Group Announces Further Expansion
The Principal Group, incorporating investment specialists Principal Investment Management and Border Asset Management, are pleased to announce that Adrian Williams, a former director of James Brearley & Sons, has joined the Group. Adrian brings an extensive experience in stockbroking and investment management. For the last twenty years he has worked in north Lancashire and Cumbria,…
A Few Risk and Data Infrastructure Related Highlights from Sibos
Apart from the announcement about the delay to Target2-Securities and (a bit) more clarity about Swift’s legal entity identification (LEI) project plans, this year Sibos yielded little in the way of hard post-trade focused news from the session floor. However, a fair bit of discussion was dedicated to the topic of the development of post-trade…
Ralf’s Role at Reuters
OK, that should be Thomson Reuters, but the historical name just fitted the headline better, and I’m a bit of a poet. I’m referring to Ralf Roth, who recently joined TR from Deutsche Bank, as we noted here. And we also said that we were intrigued by his ‘Elektron Transactions’ job title and would be…
Pricing Partners Derivatives Independent Valuation Platform is Empowered with Analytics Function
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to implement a new function “Price-it Online Analytics” on its web based independent valuation platform Price-it Online. This new feature allows users of its online services to access its extensive financial library to achieve advanced transparency and independence….