SS&C and Advent Teams Focus on Combined Clients Technology teams from financial services software and systems vendor SS&C Technologies and its recent acquisition Advent have been working closely and quickly to deliver Geneva, version 15.2, the latest release of the fund administration platform for their joint fund administration clients. Originally an Advent product, Geneva offers… Read More >>
ICE Promotes to Fill Senior Management Posts
ICE Promotes Senior Managers Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the operator of clearinghouses, data services and such exchanges as the New York Stock Exchange, reports the following senior management moves: Ben Jackson, president and chief operating officer (COO) of ICE Futures U.S., has been named to the newly created post of ICE chief commercial officer, where… Read More >>
EBS Direct Uses FIX 4.4 for Application Links
EBS Direct to Use FIX 4.4 API EBS BrokerTec, the electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business group of interdealer broker ICAP, reports that end-users can connect to its FX platform — EBS Direct via a FIX version 4.4 application programming interface (API). The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for electronic trading is overseen… Read More >>
DTCC Debuts ‘Data as a Service’ Offering
DTCC Debuts ‘Data as a Service’ Offering Post-trade services utility, the DTCC is launching its data as a service (DaaS) offering that is intended to change the way data is accessed and presented from DTCC’s clearing, settlement, asset servicing and derivatives trade reporting solutions, DTCC officials say. “The DaaS offering provides subscribers access to their… Read More >>
ICE to Buy Interactive Data for $5.2 Billion
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire market data and systems vendor Interactive Data Corp. for $5.2 billion in the hope that the combined company will be able to offer efficient data access via an integrated platform for analysis, valuation and connectivity… Read More >>
Interactive Data SPreDs the Ops Costs with Trio of A-List Banks
Interactive Data Corp. is serving as a data provider to a new SmartStream reference data utility, nicknamed the Securities Product Reference Data (SPReD), which has the support of Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase and Morgan Stanley for its potential to cut operational costs. The new utility offers services for instrument reference data normalization and validation across all… Read More >>
Interactive Data Offers Links to Australian Venues
Interactive Data Corp. (IDC), a provider of managed services for electronic trading firms and vendors, reports that it has added access to the Australian Liquidity Center (ALC) in Sydney. In addition, IDC’s consolidated feed, which provides low-latency data from more than 450 sources worldwide, has added connectivity to the Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) ITCH feed,… Read More >>
Charles River’s IBOR Gets Corporate Actions Feed
Financial software vendor Charles River has expanded its Investment Book of Record (IBOR) offering by integrating Interactive Data’s Corporate Actions Service into its Investment Management Solution (IMS), according to a company statement Charles River clients will now have intraday access to Interactive Data’s mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, dividends and capital events information, Charles River… Read More >>
