Latest Buy side News: Finextra Research

Company update/Buy side

Financial Synergy provides CRM software for Australian super funds

Industry leading superannuation and investment software provider, Financial Synergy announces today its Acurity™ member online, reporting and compliance platform will enable the delivery of a larger scale and integrated customer relationship strategy for the merged Tasplan and Quadrant super funds.

10 August 2015

Company update/Buy side

Eze Software Group releases new buy-side and sell-side EMS features

Eze Software Group, a premier provider of global investment technology, has released a number of new features for the buy-side and the sell-side in the latest version of its EMS.

04 August 2015

Company update/Buy side

Algomi Honeycomb network signs 100th buy-side firm

Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, today announced its 100th buy-side firm has committed to its Honeycomb network globally.

31 July 2015

Company update/Buy side

Plato explores commercial partnership with Turquoise

Plato Partnership today announces that it is entering into a period of exclusive discussions with Turquoise around a commercial collaboration.

24 July 2015

Company update/Buy side

Fortex opens Shanghai office

Fortex Inc., one of the leading electronic communication network (ECN) trading platforms, officially opened its Shanghai office July 22, further demonstrating the firm's commitment to China's institutional FX market.

23 July 2015

Company update/Buy side

TradingScreen launches buy-side crossing platform

TradingScreen, the leading independent provider of electronic trading solutions, and a group of 15 of the largest long-only asset managers in Europe have launched TradeCross,the first buy side-designed crossing platform for fixed income corporate bonds.

16 July 2015

Company update/Buy side

Rimes adds new data sources for the buy side

RIMES, the leading provider of managed data services for the buy-side, today announced a number of new data sources in its portfolio, which were added in the first half of 2015.

09 July 2015

Company update/Buy side

Luminex names Jonathan Clark president

Luminex Trading & Analytics LLC, a buy-side owned trading venue which seeks to deliver the benefits of low cost and more efficient trading, today announced that Jonathan A. Clark has been named President of Luminex effective August 1, 2015.

16 June 2015

Company update/Buy side

Options acquires Jake Roy Pillar

Options, the leading managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has today announced the acquisition of Jake Roy Pillar LLC. Jake Roy Pillar, headquartered in New York, is a technology consultancy for the financial industry and primarily hedge funds.

03 June 2015

Company update/Buy side

Algomi claims strong buy-side adoption for Honeycomb network

Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimization of fixed income liquidity, today announced that more than 50 buy-side firms are committed to its Honeycomb network globally.

19 May 2015

News/Buy side

Trading talent and tech driving up buy-side budgets - Greenwich Associates

Institutional investors around the world spent more than $12 billion on their trading desks last year as they raced to keep pace with the growing speed of electronic markets, changes in market structure and lower trading costs, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.

12 January 2015

News/Buy side

TIM Group scores £2m strategic debt financing from Barclays

TIM Group, the fintech outfit behind a software platform used by stock brokers to submit trade ideas to clients, has secured £2 million in strategic debt funding from Barclays.

31 October 2014

Company update/Buy side

Bloomberg Tradebook aggregating buy-side liquidity in ETFs

Bloomberg Tradebook today unveiled the first electronic Request for Quote (RFQ) service for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that enables traders to anonymously access liquidity from buy-side ETF liquidity providers in the U.S. and Europe.

15 October 2014

Company update/Buy side

MTS opens Bonds.com to the buy side through API interface

MTS Markets International, Inc., a London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG”) company, today announces the first liquidity provisioned trades by buy-side institutions via its newly enhanced API (application program interface) on its live all-to-all trading platform, MTS Bonds.com.

14 October 2014

News/Buy side

Liquidnet moves into fixed income market through Vega-Chi acquisition

Institutional trading network Liquidnet is moving into the fixed income market through the acquisition of bond trading platform Vega-Chi. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

18 March 2014

News/Buy side

Hong Kong brokers tap Markit to meet new e-trading and algo rules

A collection of Hong Kong-licensed brokers have enlisted Markit to help them comply with new electronic trading rules on the island.

29 November 2013

News/Buy side

Icap invests in portfolio reporting and data analytics firm EFM

Interdealer broker Icap has made a strategic investment in Enso Financial Management (EFM), an early-stage provider of portfolio reporting and data analytics services to hedge funds and asset managers.

20 June 2013

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Buy side spending on execution and order management systems rising year-on-year

Institutional investors spend between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per year on order management and execution management systems for their trading desks - a growing amount due to increased demands for compliance tools and the need to keep pace with rapid changes in market structure.

20 May 2013

News/Buy side

ConvergEx to sell Eze Castle Software and RealTick to TPG

ConvergEx is selling Eze Castle Software and RealTick to private equity firm TPG Capital. Financial terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed.

23 January 2013

News/Buy side

Institutional investors feel ignored over MiFID II plans

The vast majority of buy-side firms feel that institutional investors have had no meaningful influence on the legislative process building up to new MiFID II rules, according to a Greenwich Associates survey.

14 November 2012