Financial systems connectivity vendor Centroid Solutions reports that it is offering retail brokers new, cost-effective market data connections by integrating a key Centroid offering with application programming interfaces (APIs) from software and systems provider Iress. The new links bring the real-time pricing of exchange-traded products and related transactions to Centroid’s client base, officials say. The… Read More >>
CACEIS & RBC Investor Services Collaborate & Other News
CACEIS to Acquire Part of RBC Investor Services CACEIS, the asset servicing banking group of Crédit Agricole S.A. and Santander, and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) report that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) intended to result in the CACEIS acquisition of the European asset servicing activities of RBC Investor Services and… Read More >>
ICE Sells Stake in Euroclear for $825M
Silver Lake Buys ICE’s 9.85 Percent Stake American private equity firm Silver Lake likes Euroclear Holding’s growth path and has purchased Intercontinental Exchange’s 9.85 percent stake in Euroclear for €709 million ($824.8 million), officials say. Officials at ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), say the past investment in Euroclear has been… Read More >>
Top Cloud Providers Join EDM Council Group: Q&A
(Late last month, a global trade association for data management, the EDM Council, announced that it had launched the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Best Practices Work Group with the mission of developing an open source CDMC Best Practice Framework that would accelerate cloud adoption and facilitate associated controls. The EDM Council, which has 10,000… Read More >>
Nasdaq Data Now Available via Cloud Service
Exchanges operator Nasdaq recently hit a COVID-19 speed bump as it was preparing to launch its Nasdaq Cloud Data Service (NCDS), which uses application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide access to real-time exchange data, indexes, and fund data. Before a full launch, Nasdaq had to find out if the implementation of the new offering would… Read More >>
Buy-Side Trading Desks Favored IT Spending in 2019
On average, budgets for American and European buy-side trading desks rose by four percent in 2019, and it appears that much of that increase went to spending on technology rather than for hiring staff, according to a recent report from Greenwich Associates, a market research firm. In fact, the research firm found that “headcounts among… Read More >>
Fenergo Links to Refinitiv’s World-Check One
Fenergo, a client management systems vendor, is offering a new level of integration with a financial crime-fighting offering of market data and risk management provider Refinitiv that is intended to streamline know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. Fenergo is launching an application programming interface (API) link from its client lifecycle management (CLM)… Read More >>
Quest Partners Leaves Legacy Vendors for QuantHouse
Quest Partners LLC, a New York-based, quantitative trading firm, has dispensed with several legacy vendors for market data and infrastructure services, and is using solutions from vendor QuantHouse for core trading requirements. Quest is registered with the CFTC as a commodity trading advisor (CTA) and a commodity pool operator, officials say. It’s also a member… Read More >>
Merrill Lynch Unit Selects FactSet’s Market Data Wares
Merrill Lynch’s wealth management group will be changing market data providers after a two-year review of its data needs, which will mean a move away from the offerings of Thomson Reuters to the deployment of FactSet’s market data products. The agreement is an expansion of a previous relationship between Merrill Lynch and FactSet, a provider… Read More >>
Global Stock Exchanges Steam Ahead
Despite political and economic uncertainty, global stock exchange groups have powered through, generating strong results in the first half of 2017. Total revenues hit $14.7 billion, up 4.1 percent from a year earlier and an annual record is expected to be set by the end of the year, according to a recent report from consultancy… Read More >>
