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Citi Deal Puts Fidessa Derivatives Platform on Global Map
Fidessa just bagged a big one. While its derivative platform has done well in Europe – around 50 customers to date – today’s announcement, made during the Futures Industry Association’s annual expo here in Chicago, of a worldwide rollout by Citi has put it on the global map. The managed service will provide initial low-latency…
CFN Adds CME Data, Elementised News to Alpha
CFN Services has augmented its recently-released Alpha Platform with the addition of market data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and elementised news from Selerity. Alpha is CFN’s managed service, providing ready access to market data, news and transactional services from a number of access points globally. CME data will be delivered in a roundtrip time…
Kinetic Partners Expands Consulting Team with Three New Hires
Kinetic Partners, a global professional services firm to the asset management, investment banking and broking industry, today announced that it has appointed three new professionals to its consulting team. Patrick Crumplin, Martin Duff and Emily Benson join the Firm’s highly-regarded regulatory consulting and compliance team and all three will be based in the firm’s London…
Omgeo Appoints Nellie Dagdag as Executive Director
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the appointment of Cornelia “Nellie” Dagdag as Executive Director for Sales and Solution Delivery. Before joining Omgeo, Nellie was the President and COO of the Philippine Securities Settlement Corporation, the clearing and settlement entity for the Philippine currency and fixed income markets. Nellie will be responsible…
Misys’ Blanc on the First Fruit of the Vendor’s Integration Work with the Sophis Portfolio: Misys Risk
Following its acquisition of Sophis, which was finalised in March this year, Misys has been focused on allowing clients to “leverage the combination” of both vendors’ component parts (as explained by CEO Mike Lawrie back in March). The first fruit of the combined vendor’s labours is today’s release of its new enterprise market risk solution,…
Axioma Names Ian Webster Managing Director, Europe
Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis and portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, today announced that Ian Webster has been appointed Managing Director, Europe. Webster will lead the company’s efforts to accelerate the pace of Axioma’s market share in Europe and will oversee Axioma’s rapidly growing global indexing initiatives. “Europe is an…
GMI & Si2 Partner, Offering ESG Proxy Research Resource
GMI and Si2 announced today a strategic partnership to provide seamless subscription access, account management and special pricing to the firms’ ESG Board Briefing Research, Shareholder Proposal Analysis, and Executive Pay Scorecards to their institutional and corporate clients. The combination of GMI’s market-leading compensation analysis with Si2’s expert insights into key environmental and social issues…
RIMES to Unveil Investit Survey Findings in Upcoming Webinar
According to a new study commissioned by RIMES Technologies and conducted by independent research firm Investit, there is an ever increasing demand for additional index and benchmark data as nearly three out of four (72%) global investment management organizations indicated they expect to see an increase in their usage in the coming year. In fact,…
Activ Financial Expands into Emerging Markets
Activ Financial, a global provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions, today announced the expansion of its market data coverage into emerging markets with the addition of over 80 new exchanges in the African, Caribbean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern and South American regions. The addition of these new markets brings Activ’s global exchange coverage…
BI-SAM and Capco Build a Strategic Alliance to Answer Growing US Market Needs
BI-SAM, a leading technology provider for performance measurement and attribution, and Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated to the financial services industry, today announced they have signed a partnership to reinforce BI-SAM’s consultancy team to meet the growing needs of the North American market. Since the introduction of BI-SAM to North America in…