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Defaqto swaps private equity owner

Defaqto Group, a benchmarking company that provides a number of ratings and data analysis services to financial institutions, has swapped its private equity owners after Foresight Group sold its share in the firm to the management, backed by a majority investment of £24.25m from UK PE firm Synova Capital.

01 April 2015

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Fico unveils Model Central 5.0

FICO, a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, today announced the availability of FICO® Model Central 5.0, a powerful new version of its unique analytic model management solution.

09 October 2014

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Tibco goes after real-time Big Data with StreamBase acquisition

Tibco Software has acquired complex event processing vendor StreamBase Systems for an undisclosed sum.

11 June 2013

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Big data to drive banks' mobile wallet strategies - Finextra research

Research from Finextra finds that banks around the world are looking to discounted offers and big data analytics to beat off the competition from telcos and tech start-ups as they battle for control of the consumer mobile wallet.

10 June 2013

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Visa takes stake in data analytics firm

Visa Europe has taken a minority stake in Beyond Analysis, a UK-based analytics firm, as it looks to gain deeper insight into consumer behaviour from card transaction spending patterns.

15 November 2011

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Swift to build a better dashboard for correspondents

Bank-to-bank co-operative Swift is to extend its business intelligence portfolio to build a dynamic correspondent banking dashboard, which will provide users with actionable insight into their transaction data and performance metrics.

22 September 2011

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IBM strikes $387 million deal to acquire Algorithmics

IBM has stepped up its investment in the booming risk management marketplace with a $387 million deal to buy Toronto-based analytics house Algorithmics.

01 September 2011

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Bloomberg taps consumer sentiment for equity analytics

Bloomberg is to begin offering traders social media analytics as a real-time sentiment indicator for stocks heavily influenced by consumer opinion.

31 August 2011

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Financial crisis spurs complex data analytics uptake - survey

The credit crisis and subsequent recession has lead to half of financial services firms increasing their use of complex data analysis, according to research from Accenture.

03 June 2010

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Finextra and the FISD partner for webcasts in 2010

The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) and Finextra have forged a partnership to deliver a series of video webcasts for market data and risk management professionals worldwide with a focus on real-time data management and delivery, reference data, and standards.

06 January 2010

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Finexpo to highlight new trends in risk and transaction management

The Finexpo - Risk & Transaction Management conference and exhibition has opened for registration. The event, on Thursday 5 February at The Brewery in London, will focus on the latest developments in risk management approaches, regulatory frameworks, data and transaction management solutions and clearing and settlement infrastructures.

28 November 2008

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Temenos swoops on Lydian Associates

Swiss core banking systems vendor Temenos is to acquire Lydian Associates, a provider of business intelligence software with a large installed base of customers using the rival Misys Equation and Bankmaster product sets.

03 November 2008

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IBM tests 'stream supercomputing' with TD Bank

IBM is working with Canada's TD Bank to test its new 'stream computing' software, which uses supercomputing power to manage larger volumes of data than traditional technology.

02 April 2008