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Russell and Axioma Launch a New Suite of ‘Long-Only’ Factor-Based Indexes
Russell Investments, which owns the most widely used U.S. equity benchmarks for institutional investment products’, and Axioma, Inc., a leading provider of advanced tools for portfolio optimization and risk analysis, have collaborated to launch a series of long-only large and small cap factor indexes. These new Russell-Axioma U.S. Small and Large Cap Factor Indexes are…
Does the European Commission’s Ruling on S&P Regarding ISIN Pricing go Far Enough?
Some corners of the industry are not convinced that the European Commission’s recent ruling on Standard & Poor’s ISIN pricing commitments goes far enough, as evidenced by comments made by a number of industry associations including the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the UK-based Information Provider User Group (IPUG) last week. It…
Virginie’s Blog – A Thorough Grilling at DMRAV
This time last week I was in New York chairing our Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in front of a packed audience clamouring to hear more about the Office of Financial Research (OFR) from the Fed’s own CDO John Bottega. Although it was not the only highlight of the day (many…
Penson Futures Names Steve Leone Chief Operating Officer
Penson Futures, a member of the Penson Worldwide group of companies and a Futures Commission Merchant that provides execution and clearing services on the world’s major exchanges, announced today that it has named Steve Leone as Chief Operating Officer (COO), a new position. As COO, Mr. Leone will have responsibilities over Global Clearing, Information Technology,…
Thomson Reuters Markets: Biff, Bang, Pow(ell)
No sooner had the ink dried – metaphorically speaking – on Shanker Ramamurthy’s appointment as head of Thomson Reuters Markets’ Sales & Trading group, than news wafted its way across the Atlantic of Roseann Palmieri’s departure as head of Enterprise content. Palmieri, you’ll remember, was hired as part of Thomson Reuters’ drive to bring those…
How Buying Fixnetix Is Truly a Risky Business
Hot on the heels of Colt’s protracted courtship of MarketPrizm comes yet another corporate action in our beloved low-latency infrastructure segment. This one caught us by surprise, but not because it was unexpected. It’s been expected for so long that we’d forgotten about it, to be honest. That Fixnetix was ‘for sale’ has been a…
High Volume, Low Anxiety
In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, approximately 10,000 equity orders and quotes will be sent to the main European equity venues. Approximately 75% of those messages, according to the Financial Times, will be high-frequency trades: short-term positions held for a period of milliseconds or, at most, seconds, and every one…
Swift Sanctions Screening Service Falls Below Big Bank Grade
Swift’s sanctions screening service, which is due to go live in December this year, failed to win interest from large financial services organisations when first mooted and has instead been geared towards small and medium sized banks. Brigitte De Wilde, head of anti-money laundering and sanctions for Swift, explains to Reference Data Review that a study of…
Andrew’s Blog – Thomson Reuters Finally Fills S&T Top Slot
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had…
With New Switches, Cisco Weaves a Low-Latency Trading Fabric
Moving up the value chain from networking provider to low-latency solutions partner, Cisco Systems will tomorrow announce its “High-Performance Trading Fabric” initiative, which provides reference architectures for “each step of an automated trade” for financial markets participants. Cisco’s architectures combine networking, compute and storage, and are based on the company’s recently introduced Nexus 3064 and…