FactSet & BlackRock Forge Partnership Asset management giant BlackRock will be integrating its Aladdin investment management and operations platform with FactSet’s Portware execution management system (EMS) to offer common clients access to trade execution, multi-asset portfolio and risk management support, and Portware’s electronic trading and automation capabilities via an application programming interface (API), officials say…. Read More >>
Ex-CEO of Thomson Reuters Joins Algomi as Advisor
Algomi Also Adds Howard Edelstein to its Board Algomi, which characterizes itself as a provider of “information-matching solutions for the optimization of fixed income liquidity,” reports that Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters, has become a strategic advisor, and that Howard Edelstein, the former chairman and CEO of BondDesk Group, and an Algomi investor… Read More >>
Industry Veteran Matsko to Lead Portware’s FX Push
Portware, which bills itself as the “first and only global provider of multi-asset trade automation solutions powered by artificial intelligence,” reports that foreign exchange (FX) industry veteran Christopher Matsko has joined the New York City-based vendor as head of its FX trading services. Matsko will help FX clients “navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment… Read More >>
Former Pipeline Trading Exec Joins Fidessa
London-based electronic trading platform and services vendor Fidessa has hired Jay Biancamano, the one-time executive chairman and CEO of Pipeline Trading, to be its new head of equities product marketing for the Americas, a move Fidessa describes as a “key appointment for its sell-side business.” Pipeline was a predictive analytics and algorithmic trading firm that… Read More >>
