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Thomson, Reuters Boards Agree to Combination Transaction
The boards of Thomson and Reuters have agreed to combine the two groups, and intend to recommend the transaction to their shareholders. Woodbridge, the Thomson family holding company which controls some 70 per cent of Thomson, has irrevocably committed to vote in favour of the transaction, and the Reuters Founders Share Company, which controls a…
Telekurs Financial Unveils New Fair Value Service for Illiquid Bonds
Telekurs Financial has launched a new Fair Value Service for valuing illiquid bonds. The engine-driven evaluation service complements the evaluated pricing data Telekurs Financial takes in from partners such as Mergent, FRI, Bear Stearns and Standard & Poor’s, and has been developed by the vendor to meet a perceived growing demand for illiquid bond pricing….
Value at risk?
News that Telekurs Financial is entering into the evaluated pricing space under its own steam with a new Fair Value Pricing service for illiquid bonds prompts us to reflect on how busy the evaluated pricing arena is getting. If, as it has long been expected to do, Bloomberg finally unveils its evaluations offering this year,…
Broadridge Teams with GoldenSource, IBM, Rounds on Managed Reference Data Space
Broadridge Financial Solutions is seeking to leverage its pedigree in the provision of ASP and business process outsourcing services with an entry into the managed reference data space. Its Global Reference Data Solution offers a fully managed service for capture, scrubbing, storage and distribution of reference data. GoldenSource software powers the service, and IBM –…
Too Early To Be Skeptical
In his blog last week, Andrew said he’s skeptical that advantages from investing in low latency infrastructure will be anything other than short lived. I tend to share his opinion that low latency is passing through, though I am less of a skeptic (Andrew’s turning French). To me, the current focus on low latency is…
Datafeed Dilemma
Q: When is a datafeed not a datafeed? A: When it’s a datafeed handler. When we were compiling our wonderful report Faster Than A Speeding Bullet: Low Latency Architectures And Building Blocks For Tomorrow’s Trading Applications, we included profiles of vendors who sell datafeed handlers. At first, we left out Reuters Data Feed Direct because…
The New Cross-Asset Trading Challenge
The traditional separation of asset classes into distinct business organizations with incompatible trading systems is an idea whose time has ended. Today the growing quest to automate every variety of asset trading – and in so doing to make possible the trading of assets among different classes – has created a growing business case for…
A-Team Group Scores James Hartley as VP of Research
A-Team Group has hired James Hartley as vice president of research. Prior to joining A-Team, Hartley spent four years as chief technologist at the Software Information Industry Association/Financial Information Services Division (SIIA/FISD). While there, he developed and supported MDDL – the Market Data Definition Language – and facilitated the global conversation on securities processing automation….
CMA Bags Investment Banking Veteran Jav Bose for QuoteVision
CMA, the credit information specialist, has named Jav Bose as director of product management for CMA’s price discovery service, CMA QuoteVision. Bose has nearly 20 years’ experience in trading and technology, working for investment banks including Calyon, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, UBS and HSBC.
… As IDC Hires Andrew McLean as VP, Third Party Content
Interactive Data Corporation has appointed Andrew McLean vice president of third party content. McLean, most recently global head, third party content at Reuters, will be responsible for developing and leading global data procurement and vendor and exchange relationships across Interactive Data.