The London Stock Exchange Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the 50 per cent stake in FTSE International Limited, from Pearson, that it does not already own. Following the transaction which is expected to close in Q1 2012 subject to
Cracking the block market is a tall order and has been for the past decade, TABB Group says in new research. Although buy-side firms trading equities have continued to value block trading, there’s been a significant gap between what could
The FG Solutions International, a provider of both traditional and electronic commodity futures and brokerage trading services, is expanding its alternative investment programs, particularly the firm’s managed futures account ,which will take effect immediately. The managed futures program will focus
NYSE Liffe, the European derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, is to list futures contracts on the Russell Europe SMID 300 Index on its wholesale derivatives service, Bclear. The futures contract will be launched on 1 October 2012. The Russell Europe
Quincy Data has added highly liquid exchange-traded funds to its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. QED now delivers the most liquid equity ETFs sourced from Nasdaq’s Carteret, New Jersey data centre to CME Group’s data centre located in Aurora, Illinois
Nomura Asset Management has migrated its Japanese equity business onto the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), and is expanding its use across the firm's domestic and international fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives operations. A client since
Order book turnover on Xetra and on the trading floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange stood at EUR136.5 billion in May – a decrease by 16 per cent year-on-year (May 2010: EUR163,5 billion). Of the EUR136.5 billion, EUR130.8 billion
PortfolioScience, a provider of on-demand risk management systems for hedge funds and hedge fund service providers, has added interest rate swaps (IRS) coverage to RiskAPI, the company’s API-based risk analysis service. The extended coverage allows hedge funds, fund service
SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, has launched a new release of its GoWire application that gives clients real-time access to critical cash flow movements. This latest version of GoWire allows SS&C GlobeOp fund
ALT Xchange Ltd (ALTX Uganda) is to operate a securities and derivatives market, initially in Uganda, to service the East African region. ALTX Uganda will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mauritius-based ALTX Africa Group, which will be fully
