FactSet and Alveo have agreed a new collaboration that combines their respective data and data management capabilities to provide clients with integrated solutions that more easily puts FactSet content into workflows and databases. The initiative follows the successful integration of FactSet’s ESG content into Alves’s data management platform. The collaboration will minimise the required time needed to onboard new data sets and business applications to help customers optimise the full range of FactSet’s data. This includes FactSet’s ESG and wider corporate actions services, as well as FactSet’s Concordance for security identifiers and legal entity recognition. With the help of Alveo’s

MSCI Inc, a provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, has launched Risk Insights, the first module of a new analytics platform, MSCI Insights, that calculates, stores, and seamlessly delivers a broad range of risk measures to help investors identify trends and respond to rapid changes in markets. Institutional investors will be able to access a wide range of MSCI data and analytics through MSCI Insights, which will feature performance attribution, index data, ESG data, and Climate data modules. Additional MSCI Insights modules are slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2022 and

CME Group has launched options on ether futures. These new contracts deliver one ether futures, sized at 50 ether per contract, and based on the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate, which serves as a once-a-day reference rate of the US dollar price of ether. “As market participants anticipate the upcoming Ethereum Merge, a potentially game-changing update of one of the largest cryptocurrency networks, interest in Ether derivatives is surging,” said Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equity and FX Products, CME Group. “The launch of our new Ether options contracts is particularly well-timed to provide the crypto community with another important

Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has partnered with Talos, a provider of institutional digital asset trading technology. The partnership will allow KuCoin to streamline institutional access to digital assets and further expand the capabilities of its user base. 

Beeks Group has launched a new offering combining its on-demand compute service with ICE Global Network’s (IGN) hosting and data access capabilities to offer clients an end-to-end solution. IGN is part of ICE Data Services, a division of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE). The successful collaboration between IGN, which provides high quality content, delivery and execution services through an ultra-secure, highly resilient network, and Beeks Group’s Exchange Cloud provides a pre-integrated market-leading solution with security at the forefront. IGN can now deliver additional value to their clients with Beeks Group’s Exchange Cloud infrastructure, compute and analytics offering private cloud services at

Acadia, a provider of integrated risk management services for the derivatives community, has nboarded over 1,000 counterparty groups covered by Phase 6 of the Initial Margin (IM) rollout of Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) onto its AcadiaPlus platform. Nearly 900 firms are actively monitoring their regulatory IM exposure and set up for Acadia’s IM Threshold Monitor (IMTM). Over 200 firms have signed up for IM Exposure Manager (IMEM) for the calculation and reconciliation of IM exposure, leveraging either the ISDA SIMM or schedule method. Acadia expects these firms will go live over the next 90 days, with over 50 of these

Apex Group has acquired Prometa Fund Support Services Inc (Prometa), a Canada-based provider of fund services to clients in Canada, the United States, and Bermuda, including hedge funds, LSVCCs and mortgage investment corporations.  Prometa administers over $28 billion in assets for approximately 50 fund companies representing more than 180 funds and approximately 225,000 individual investors.   The acquisition of Prometa will strengthen Apex Group’s presence in the Canada, adding 16 employees based in Winnipeg, supplementing the Group’s existing offices in Toronto, Ontario and increasing its overall Americas headcount to over 1,000 people. In addition to the acquisition of Prometa, Apex

Invast Global has selected oneZero, a specialist in multi-asset enterprise trading technology solutions, for its core trading technology needs across the firm’s global institutional business replacing several incumbent systems. As a multi-asset provider of prime services to brokers, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and banks, Invast Global offers trading solutions for a wide variety of institutional market participants and sophisticated financial services clients. The oneZero solution now handles the complexities of an institutional business that delivers services via servers in London, New York and Tokyo, while adding reporting sophistication that helps to set their trading and hedging strategies for competitive

Acuity Trading has launched a newt online trading tool and broker offering, AssetIQ, a centralised multi-asset research experience, bringing together fundamental, technical, sentiment and alternative data viewpoints in a bid to deliver a deeper understanding of what is driving individual asset performance. AssetIQ goes beyond data visualisation by utilising Acuity’s AI technology to analyse these multiple, disparate data sets to deliver a single and concise Opportunity Score for every asset. Each Opportunity Score is ranked against other assets in the same group or class so traders can understand the strength of the opportunities presented.    This multi-indicator is aimed at