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S&P Global Acquisition of IHS Markit Creates Financial Data and Analytics Powerhouse
S&P Global’s $44 billion acquisition of IHS Markit will create a financial data and analytics powerhouse capable of challenging Bloomberg’s market leading $11 billion revenue and towering over the proposed $27 billion acquisition of Refintiv by the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The combined company will benefit from increased scale, a wider product portfolio and a…
Refinitiv Partners Quod Financial to Add Sell-Side OMS to Trading Solutions
Refinitiv has plugged a gap in its sell-side trading line-up by making an agreement with Quod Financial to offer a multi-asset, sell-side OMS powered by Quod and using Refinitiv’s data feed solutions and connectivity to the sell-side community. Beyond the OMS, the companies have plans to build additional data-driven, automated trading technologies incorporating machine learning…
A-Team Group Introduces 2021 Innovation Awards
Here at A-Team Group we have been working hard on plans to celebrate innovative projects and teams with the launch of our A-Team Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to reward teams that have found innovative ways to make use of new and emerging technologies to solve challenges at financial institutions in capital markets. The…
BCC, Push and Baker Team Up to Offer Cloud Market Data Solution
The ongoing buzz around cloud-delivered market data continues with news of a partnership between BCC Group, Push Technology and Baker Technology. The collaboration is aimed at offering an end-to-end solution to optimize, control and accelerate market data delivery in cloud environments. The initiative brings together three solution providers specialising in distribution, integration and presentation of…
Itiviti Seeks First-Mover Advantage through Shift to Cloud
Nordic Capital-owned trading technology provider Itiviti is seeking first-mover advantage from its plans to make its entire electronic trading platform available through the cloud. The company last month announced a collaboration with data specialist Data Canopy and tech consultant Ingram Micro to adopt a hybrid private-public cloud strategy for its suite of trading technology services,…
Recorded Webinar: Market data in the cloud
The Covid-19 pandemic has created new demand for financial information delivery infrastructure to accommodate the many trading and support personnel now working from home (WFH). For many firms, new cloud delivery and hosting capabilities offer a viable solution for supporting these staff, accelerating demand for cloud-based market data delivery infrastructures. This development has thrown up…
Citihub Acquired by New York’s Synechron
New York-based financial technology consultant Synechron has acquired UK consulting firm Citihub Digital. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. Between them, the two companies count as clients nine of the top 10 global banks. Synechron’s specialization in digital transformation work will be complemented by Citihub’s capabilities in application modernization, cloud enablement, cybersecurity and operating model transformation….
The Composable Enterprise: Improving the Front-Office User Experience
By Dishang Patel, Fintech & Growth Delivery Partner, Leading Point Financial Markets. The past six months have by no means been a time of status quo. During this period of uncertainty, standards have been questioned and new ‘norms’ have been formed. A standout development has been the intensified focus on cloud-based services. Levels of adoption…
Cloud-Delivered Market Data for Institutional Users – A Reality Check
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent. Cloud-delivered market data was once ‘over my dead body’ territory for institutional market data managers, who understandably fretted aloud about performance, security and licence compliance issues. But Covid-19 has forced those same data managers to confront the fact that many of their professional market data users are able to work…
Bloomberg and UBS Settle Legal Dispute About Breaches of Data Licensing Agreements
The recent settlement of a long-running legal dispute between Bloomberg and UBS highlights the dangers of omitting to put in place watertight data licensing agreements. The settlement, reached on September 30, 2020, finally put to bed arguments over whether the bank breached redistribution clauses of its licensing agreements with Bloomberg. The dispute centred on two…