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Fixed income exchange MarketAxess has agreed to acquire European post-trade services group Xtrakter from Euroclear for £26 million in cash.
02 November 2012
Customer data is still a misunderstood and underused asset at European financial institutions, seen by many as a purely compliance issue rather than a potential source of revenues, according to a Finextra survey commissioned by Capco.
24 October 2012
The London Metal Exchange has signed a deal with the London Stock Exchange's tech subsidiary Millennium IT to install new surveillance software for real-time detection of abnormal trading patterns.
22 October 2012
Market data firms and index compilers are set to go to tender for the right to administer a souped-up version of the tainted London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).
28 September 2012
A Web portal for assigning Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) identifiers to firms involved in OTC derivatives trading has gone live.
21 August 2012
The DTCC's Avox unit has launched a revamped portal offering free access to core data fields and standard industry identifiers for a global set of legal entities.
09 August 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to force US exchanges and Finra to build a consolidated audit trail system to monitor and analyse trading activity.
12 July 2012
Swiss reference data outfit AIM Software has acquired neighbouring rival ABI Informatic, continuing the trend for consolidation in the financial data management industry.
04 July 2012
Thomson Reuters is to make its proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes available beyond its desktops and feeds for use across the trade processing lifecycle by both customers and non-customers.
27 June 2012
StreamBase Systems has integrated its complex event processing (CEP) platform with Gnip, a provider of data from social media sites such as Twitter and Tumblr.
19 June 2012
The Financial Stability Board has set out 35 recommendations for the development and implementation of a global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system that will uniquely identify parties to financial transactions.
08 June 2012
Bloomberg has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake and revealed plans to launch its own enterprise data management (EDM) service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 May 2012
Bank spending on legal entity data management is expected to reach approximately $197.5 million by 2015, according to figures compiled by analyst house Aite.
17 May 2012
Financial information vendor Markit has agreed to buy enterprise data management (EDM) specialist Cadis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
09 May 2012
International regulatory authorities have called for the urgent creation of a universal Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in their final report on the OTC derivatives data that should be collected, stored and disseminated by trade repositories (TRs).
17 January 2012
Thomson Reuters has offered concessions in the way it licenses the proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in a bid to settle an EU antitrust investigation.
14 December 2011
Bank of America (BofA) has appointed Federal Reserve and Citi veteran John Bottega as its new chief data officer.
Cusip Global Services is to introduce a new data feed of US International Securities Identifiers (Isins) tailored specifically to the needs of European market participants following an extended probe by the European Commission into its pricing practices.
15 November 2011
Sapient Global Markets has won a contract to design and build a European central data repository for asset-backed securities (ABSs).
03 November 2011
Anglo-Dutch publishing firm Reed Elsevier has agreed a £343 million cash deal to buy US reference data specialist Accuity.
26 September 2011
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