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Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg?
By Andrew Delaney. The London Stock Exchange’s planned $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv – the former Reuters – got us thinking: who’s left of the independent market data vendors, and who would buy them? Of the major global vendors that have dominated the space over the past decade or so, only one independent remains. With…
Bloomberg Acquires RegTek.Solutions
Bloomberg has acquired RegTek.Solutions, a specialist in global regulatory reporting software solutions. The firm, which provides modular software solutions built around actionable regulatory intelligence, will be integrated with Bloomberg’s Regulatory Reporting Hub (RHUB), as well as Bloomberg’s enterprise data management and trading systems. The acquisition will combine Bloomberg’s data enrichment and reporting capabilities with RegTek.Solutions’…
SmartStream RDU Readies Services for Brexit
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) has implemented changes to its MiFID II Reference Data Service and Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry to accommodate Brexit. For the MiFID II service, SmartStream RDU will make both ESMA and FCA data available, either as an integrated delivery or separately. It will also support ESMA and FCA pre- and…
SimCorp Completes AIM Software Acquisition, Details Data Management Strategy
At the beginning of August, SimCorp completed its acquisition of AIM Software. The integration of AIM’s data management capabilities is a strategic focus for SimCorp as it addresses an investment industry trend towards closer alignment of data management with other technology solutions. AIM’s data management solution, GAIN, will be renamed SimCorp Gain, and SimCorp says…
Axioma Partners OpenFin to Optimise User Experience, Workflows and App Deployment
Axioma, a provider of services including multi-asset enterprise risk management, portfolio construction, performance attribution, regulatory reporting and custom index design to portfolio managers, has partnered OpenFin to integrate its axiomaBlue technology layer with the OpenFin operating system for desktop interoperability. The result is designed to be a combined technology stack that provides front and back-end…
Refinitiv Shareholders Agree Merger Deal with LSE, David Craig Remains CEO of Refinitiv
Following our review of the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) proposed acquisition of Refinitiv through a transaction valued at $27 billion, Refinitiv today announced that its shareholders have agreed definitive terms with LSEG on the acquisition. The approval of LSEG shareholders will be sought at a general meeting to be held before the end of…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Fifth Edition
Welcome to the fifth edition of A-Team Group’s Entity Data Management Handbook, sponsored for the fourth year running by entity data specialist Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company. The past year has seen a crackdown on corporate responsibility for financial crime – with financial firms facing draconian fines for non-compliance and the very real…
LSE in Talks with Refinitiv on $27 Billion Merger Deal
News broke over the weekend that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is in talks with Refinitiv to take over the former risk and finance unit of Thomson Reuters, in a transaction valued at $27 billion. Should it come to pass – and given the specificity of press reports, it seems it most likely will –…
How to Avoid a Data Management Headache Post M&A
By Devendra Bhudia, Solutions Director for Enterprise Data Management at IHS Markit. Earlier this year, Invesco’s chief executive, Martin Flanagan, was quoted as saying that “a third of the asset management industry could disappear over the next five years”. This followed Invesco’s acquisition of OppenheimerFunds and supports Flanagan’s comment that “scale matters more than ever”….
Collibra Acquires SQLdep, Expands European Presence
Data intelligence firm Collibra last week announced the acquisition of SQLdep, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of automated data lineage. SQLdep automates the discovery and visualization of technical data lineage and enables organizations to capture context around data, understand data quality, support compliance initiatives and increase trust. “Organizations are challenged with managing thousands of data sets…