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Esma proposes development of consolidated tape for European equities

Europe's top securities regulator has recommended the establishment of a real-time consolidated ticker tape to improve transparency for equities across the EU's fragmented markets.

05 December 2019

News/Market data distribution

CME hops on Google Cloud for real-time market data delivery

CME Group is to become the first derivatives marketplace to offer real-time futures and options market data across the Google Cloud platform.

15 October 2019

News/Market data distribution

Sibos 2019: Post-snub insights from LSE and HKEX

After the London Stock Exchange snubbed Hong Kong’s $36.6 billion buyout bid earlier this month, day two of Sibos 2019 in London kicked off with PwC’s Jeremy Grant engaging in fireside chats with both LSE CEO David Schwimmer and HKEX CEO Charles Li.

24 September 2019

News/cloud

Why financial institutions are modernising on cloud

For financial institutions (FIs) leveraging the cloud, the earliest adoption was often the high-performance computing grid to support complex modelling. Gone were the days when limited capacity of on-premises grids meant that quants or actuaries had to wait for the compute resources they needed to run their models: across workloads, the cloud allows FIs to immediately scale up compute resources at peak times and scale down when demand dipped, paying only for what they use.

17 September 2019

News/cloud

Building the future of capital markets with the cloud

The cloud has been a catalyst for accelerated development in capital markets. Firms are now using the cloud to become more agile and to increase the pace of innovation delivered to end users.

17 September 2019

News/cloud

Bloomberg takes cloud-based real-time data global

Bloomberg is making its B-Pipe real-time market data feed available to clients around the world through Amazon Web Services (AWS).

12 September 2019

News/Market data distribution

Hong Kong exchange suffers cyber attack

The chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has conceded that the trading venue was subject to a series of cyber attacks this week but has insisted that an outage which brought derivatives trading to a halt was related to a software bug and not a hacker.

06 September 2019

News/cloud

Migrating market data to the cloud

Market data is the lifeblood of financial institutions (FIs) with banks, brokers, wealth managers, asset managers and hedge funds relying on quality pricing and trade-related data to power their business applications. But today customers expect to access to data on their personal devices and FIs are stepping up their digital transformation game.

27 August 2019

News/Market data distribution

Securities industry close to adopting APIs – SWIFT and BCG

A new joint SWIFT and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report reveals that interest in application program interfaces (APIs) is rapidly increasing in the securities servicing industry and firms may leverage the technology to handle diversity of asset types.

30 July 2019

News/Market data distribution

London Stock Exchange negotiating $27 billion takeover of Refinitiv

The London Stock Exchange has confirmed that it is in advanced talks to buy financial data vendor Refinitiv.

29 July 2019

News/wholesale

SimCorp to buy AIM Software for EUR60m

Danish investment management technology firm SimCorp has struck a deal to buy data management specialist AIM Software for EUR60 million.

06 June 2019

News/devops

Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: Deutsche Bank’s Joris Hensen

After taking part in the F’in debate on transforming traditional banks to compete in the digital banking battlefield at Money 20/20 Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, Finextra spoke to Joris Hensen, co-lead API program at Deutsche Bank AG, about their developer portal, data aggregation and open banking.

06 June 2019

News/retail

Microsoft brings real-time market data to Excel

Microsoft has teamed up with Nasdaq and Refinitiv to empower everyday investors by bringing real-time US equity market data to its Excel spreadsheet software.

05 June 2019

News/Market data distribution

Iress acquires QuantHouse

Trading technology suppler Iress has acquired market data provider QuantHouse for a total consideration of EUR38.9 million, subject to a two-year earnout proviso.

31 May 2019

News/Market data distribution

Irish fintech Ion set to buy Acuris for £1bn

Ion Group, a Dublin-based financial software and data company, is reportedly in talks to acquire Acuris, the London-based owner of financial news and data service Mergermarket, in a deal expected to be worth more than £1bn.

10 May 2019

News/Market data distribution

Mosaic Smart Data snags $9 million in funding

Commerzbank's VC arm and Octopus Ventures have joined JPMorgan in a $9 million fund raise for capital markets data analytics startup Mosaic Smart Data.

29 April 2019

News/wholesale

Canadian banks back new market data hub

Canada's big six banks are teaming up with local online exchange CanDeal to build a fixed income and derivatives market data hub.

12 February 2019

News/Market data distribution

US reports record surge in electronic trading data

Greater use of electronic trading and market volatility saw a record surge in trading data reported by the US capital markets watchdog in 2018, raising questions about regulators' ability to successfully and safely monitor markets.

05 February 2019

News/Market data distribution

Nasdaq buys Canadian alternative data provider Quandl

Nasdaq has acquired Quandl, a Toronto-based provider of alternative and core financial data. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

04 December 2018

News/Market data distribution

Microsoft brings market data to the masses

Market moving news and financial data from Refinitiv, formerly the financial and risk business of Thomson Reuters, is to be embedded into a suite of Microsoft services, including Excel, MSN Money and Bing.

16 October 2018