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SS&C is Back on the Acquisition Trail with $1.45 Billion Offer for Eze Software
SS&C is back on the acquisition trail with a $1.45 billion definitive agreement to acquire Eze Software from alternative asset firm TPG. The company backed out of the bidding for Fidessa in April 2018 after ION Trading made a late offer to acquire Fidessa and gazumped initial bidder Temenos. The SS&C acquisition of Eze Software,…
Thomson Reuters Partners CryptoCompare to Add Cryptocurrency Data to Eikon
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Thomson Reuters has made a strategic partnership with global cryptocurrency market data aggregator CryptoCompare to provide crypto data to the Eikon financial analysis desktop platform. The deal takes Thomson Reuters further into the crypto space, with CryptoCompare integrating its real-time order book and trade data for 50 leading crypto coins…
Financial Crime Veterans Join Arachnys Board
Arachnys, a provider of customer risk intelligence in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Due Diligence (DD), has selected four new members to join its executive board in a bid to support the company’s growth strategy. The new members are Nigel Broda, previously vice president of sales at NICE…
Digital Asset Names Former Thomson Reuters Exec James Powell to CTO
Digital Asset, a New York-based distributed ledger technology solutions provider, has appointed former Thomson Reuters executive James Powell as its new CIO and CTO of engineering. Powell is charged with guiding development of the company’s distributed ledger platform and smart contract modelling language, DAML. He joins the firm after a stint at Warburg Pincus as…
Systematic Internalisation Under MiFID II: What’s Needed Now
From September 1, 2018, firms within the scope of MiFID II that breach volume thresholds set by ESMA on August 1, 2018 for internal matching of client orders will be required to register as systematic internalisers (SIs) and operate within the SI regime detailed in the regulation. Sounds pretty straightforward, but that is far from…
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business to be Renamed as Refinitiv
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business will be renamed as Revinitiv following the closure of the company’s strategic partnership with private equity fund manager Blackstone, which will acquire 55% of the business and leave 45% with Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk in its new guise as Refinitiv. David Craig, president of the Financial & Risk…
Corvil Enters Client Analysis Space with AI-Powered Intelligence Hub
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Corvil’s release last week of its Intelligence Hub propels the Dublin-based data analytics specialist into the burgeoning world of business intelligence for the trading environment. Building on the company’s long-established trading infrastructure monitoring and latency measurement offerings, the Intelligence Hub extracts data from Corvil analytics appliances at every stage in…
Siren Investigative Intelligence Platform Finds Favour in Financial Markets
Siren, a Galway based provider of investigative intelligence, is making headway in capital markets following a €3 million round of seed funding early this year that allowed the company to offer its semantic data investigation technology to market sectors beyond its initial target of law enforcement and including financial services and life sciences. To date,…
ITS Summit NYC 2018 Podcast: Exploring Digital Transformation for Financial Desktops
Digital transformation is all the rage in the back office, but what about the front office where traders work with at least 10 different apps every day? This fractured ecosystem was the subject of a session presented by Adam Toms, CEO of OpenFin Europe, at last month’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York…
Challenges and Opportunities of Data Lineage Implementation
Data lineage is critical to regulatory compliance, cost-effective data management, and arming the business with accurate and timely information on which to make decisions. It is also challenging to implement, difficult to sustain and often suffers from a lack of management buy-in and funding. A recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group on how to get data…