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Company update/markets

SIX partners Crux Informatics

SIX, the Swiss financial data expert, announces today its partnership with Crux Informatics to provide a state-of-the-art managed market data solution which removes unnecessary implementation and management pressure for buy-side companies.

31 March 2020

Company update/crypto

Coin Metrics raises $6m

Coin Metrics, the leading provider of Cryptoasset Data and Infrastructure for institutional investors, announced today that it completed a $6 million round of funding.

26 March 2020

Research/Reference data

Data Fabric: Weaving Together A Hybrid, Multicloud Future

18 March 2020 95 downloads

Company update/markets

Asset Control ships new data workflow tool

Asset Control, a leading provider of proven, data management cloud-based services for financial data analytics, has launched its new Ops360 workflow solution.

02 March 2020

Company update/ai

SimCorp takes stake in machine learning startup Alkymi

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, today announces a partnership with New York based start-up, Alkymi, to launch a new Machine Learning (ML) initiative.

26 February 2020

Research/Reference data

The Future of Cloud: Powering the Financial Services Industry

19 February 2020 1001 downloads

Company update/Reference data

Duco announces members of Growth Advisory Council

Duco, the global provider of self-service data integrity and reconciliation services, today announced the formation of a Growth Advisory Council to support its product and market expansion.

30 January 2020

Research/Reference data

Unlocking Revenue Through Digital Identity

30 January 2020 693 downloads

Company update/Reference data

GoldenSource creates data connection for Isin/LEI link

GoldenSource has announced a new data connection to support the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) initiative to link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).

31 October 2019

News/cloud

Why are FIs shifting grid computing to the cloud?

The financial services industry has long required compute-intensive calculations for risk management, regulatory compliance, product development, pricing, trading, clearing and surveillance. However, the volume and timeliness of these calculations have increased.

18 October 2019

Company update/cloud

80% of asset managers' data management will be cloud-based by 2020, says IHS Markit

IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today released the findings of research conducted by WBR Insights looking at key trends in data management among asset managers in Europe and North America with $10-100 billion in assets under management (AUM).

25 September 2019

Company update/devops

Neueda and Levyx increase data processing capacity for Python users

Capital Markets technology specialist Neueda has partnered with Levyx Inc, a leading big data system software provider, to vastly increase data processing capacity for the Python community.

16 August 2019

Company update/regulation

AxiomSL adds Refinitiv reference data to global shareholder database

AxiomSL, the leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, today announces that it has entered into a partnership with Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure.

25 June 2019

News/Reference data

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

22 May 2019

News/Reference data

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

Company update/Reference data

GoldenSource appoints Ramesh Pulandaran as head of sales in Asia Pacific

GoldenSource, the leading independent provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM), has announced the appointment of Ramesh Pulandaran as Head of Sales for Asia-Pacific.

11 April 2019

Company update/Reference data

Pzena signs up for IHS Markit EDM suite

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Pzena Investment Management, LLC, a $37 billion equity manager based in New York has signed for its Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution.

20 March 2019

News/regulation

UBS hit with £27.6 million penalty over massive transaction reporting fail

UBS has been fined £27,599,400 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failings relating to 135.8 million transaction reports over a ten-year period.

20 March 2019

News/Reference data

Fidelity invests in blockchain data startup Coin Metrics

Fidelity Investments is rounding out its digital assets strategy, participating in a $1.9 million funding round for crypto asset market and network data vendor Coin Metrics.

28 February 2019

Company update/Reference data

Apex to manage reference data with Golden Source

GoldenSource today announced that it has been selected by Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex”), the world’s fifth largest fund administrator, to deliver its centralised pricing and reference data service.

27 February 2019