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VendEx Launches VSource Vendor Services Directory for the Market Data Industry
San Francisco-based market data management specialist VendEx Solutions has launched VSource, an interactive digital catalogue of market data vendors, products and services, containing details of more than 3,700 active vendors at launch. VSource uses a proprietary alphanumeric taxonomy, the VID (patent pending), to capture product and service information at a granular level, enabling firms to…
Hurricane Capital Advisors Selects SS&C Platform
Hurricane Capital Advisors, a New York based start-up offering a global alternative investment management platform, has deployed SS&C Technologies’ front-to-back office solution to provide fund administration, customised middle office solutions, FIX connectivity, hosting, and order and execution management systems. The firm expects to carry 10 portfolio managers on the platform by July 2021. “We wanted…
UOB Deploys Chronicle EFX for Electronic FX Pricing and Trading
Asian bank United Overseas Bank (UOB) has deployed Chronicle Software’s EFX solution in Singapore to power its FX pricing and trading engine. By deploying EFX and taking advantage of reduced latency via colocation connectivity, UOB aims to improve price discovery to provide customers in the ASEAN region and across its global network with access to…
Gresham Technologies Agrees to Acquire Electra Information Systems
London-based Gresham Technologies is acquiring New York-based post-trade automation specialist Electra Information Systems, in a cash deal valued at up to $38.6 million. The acquisition, which follows Gresham’s purchase of Inforalgo Information Technology last summer, will boost Gresham’s physical presence in the US, double its customer numbers to over 270, and strengthen its cloud and…
Outsourced Trading: Is the Buy Side Asking the Right Questions?
By Chris Jenkins, Managing Director at Tora. Outsourced trading is a hot topic in the industry today. By all accounts, there is a fast-growing trend amongst asset managers to outsource some or all of their front office trade execution activities to third parties. In fact, a recent study from Standard & Poor’s Greenwich Associates found…
Refinitiv CEO David Craig Leaves LSEG at End of 2021, a Year After LSEG Acquired the Company
David Craig, group head, data and analytics, and CEO at Refinitiv, who led the company through acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and is part of the integration of the organisations, will leave the group at the end of 2021. In the role of group head, data and analytics, he will be replaced…
BNP Paribas Implements ipushpull’s PPQ to Digitise Pre-Trade Client Workflows
BNP Paribas has implemented PPQ (Pushpull Quotes) from London-based workflow and automation specialist ipushpull, to streamline workflows around non-standard, complex trades for asset manager clients. PPQ is a pre-trade workflow tool that standardises and automates the negotiation process between buy and sell side through a set of integrated data sharing and data-driven tools, using financial…
Crux Informatics Goes Live with Data Quality/Transformation Offerings as New CEO Freiberg Takes Helm
New York-based financial data delivery platform operator Crux Informatics has launched two new services, Crux Data Protect and Crux Wrangle, to help firms ensure data quality and transform datasets to meet internal requirements. The company has also hired a new CEO, Will Freiberg, who has replaced founder and ex-Thomson Reuters desktop head Philip Brittan, who…
Streams: The Way to Better Liquidity in the FX Markets
By Phil Weisberg, EVP of Strategic Planning and Partnerships, oneZero. Sourcing liquidity in foreign exchange trading is a herculean task for banks, one not helped by an ever-evolving thicket of global regulation and the complicated nature of FX infrastructure and trading. The traditional way of looking at how to provide the necessary liquidity has been…
CJC Extends Availability of mosaicOA to BT Radianz Cloud
Market data technology specialist CJC has extended availability of its mosaicOA infrastructure performance monitoring solution to BT Radianz Cloud, making the IT visualisation and analytics tool the first to be made available to Radianz users. The move follows the recently addition of mosaicOA to Google Cloud. The mosaicOA platform provides firms with interactive dashboards to…