Reuters, an information company, has announced that its evaluated pricing service available on Reuters DataScope Select now releases bespoke valuations for IRS, CDS, CDX and CDS deals at premium and end of day time points.
Omgeo, a post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services provider, announced last week that ABP Investments (ABP), a pension fund, has gone live on Omgeo central trade manager (Omgeo CTM).
Last Thursday, F&C Alternative Investments, a pan-European asset manager, commenced fund-raising for its F&C Garnet Fund, a hedge fund that aims to achieve absolute returns by investing and trading in the FX volatility and forward rate bias (FRB) space.
LiquidityHub, a consortium of investment banks in the fixed income markets for the aggregation of liquidity and market data in support of electronic trading, last week announced it has selected BT to provide connectivity and hosting services.
BT has announced that buy-side traders trading through Singapore Exchange (SGX) can now utilise BT Radianz Proximity Solution, which enables clients to host their trading engine near to the markets they trade.
Markit, a provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has announced that Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers are the first dealers to sign up to its new electronic affirmation service which launched last Wednesday.
Bank of New York-owned brokerage firm BNY ConvergEx has bought LiquidPoint, a listed options execution and trading technology firm that provides services to institutional traders, prime brokers, hedge funds, financial intermediaries and options exchanges. The price was not disclosed.
Progress Software Corporation, a supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today launched the Progress Apama FX Market Aggregation Accelerator.
4th Story, a provider of automated trading software to institutions, hedge funds and broker-dealers, has connected its real-time trading strategy platform, 4S.