SIX, an exchanges and financial data company, reports that it has acquired a majority stake in FactEntry, a fixed income data and solutions vendor, as a way for SIX to strengthen its cross-asset data offerings for the front-, middle-, and back-office. The majority stake acquisition closed on March 27, 2024, and financial terms and deal… Read More >>
RJO Relaunches & Fills President’s Post
RJO Promotes Staniford to President Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), which is generally regarded as the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, reports that Daniel Staniford has been named president. Staniford will “act on behalf of RJO and all of its global affiliates and related entities, including… Read More >>
Eagle Connects to SIX’s Sanctioned Securities Service
SIX is working with Eagle Investment Systems to make it possible for Eagle clients to source sanctions data directly from SIX’s Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service. An expanded alliance between the two vendors is intended to help end-users streamline efforts to “validate and align sanctions data with existing portfolio data, helping firms minimize the risk of… Read More >>
Regulation Compels Buy Side to Automate: SIX Financial Information Exec
A few things are clear to Robert Jeanbart, division CEO for the Financial Information part of the SIX Group businesses, despite a raucous year that featured an industry racing to meet the MiFID II deadline and other mandates from global regulators. The first moment of clarity is that the regulators have no intention of slowing… Read More >>
R3 Lines Up 60+ Vendors for Corda Platform
FinTech & Service Providers Among R3’s Stable of Vendors The blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) revolution is hitting milestones and software vendor R3 has just announced that more than 60 technology companies from multiple industries and regions have joined the Corda partner network, which supports the Corda platform. Corda is an open source, “blockchain-inspired” DLT platform… Read More >>
SIX Board Picks New Group CEO
SIX Group Names Successor to Urs Rüegsegger The SIX Group board of directors has tapped Jos Dijsselhof to be the next Group CEO starting Jan. 1, 2018, succeeding Urs Rüegsegger who announced in May 2017 that he would be retiring from the company that encompasses exchanges, financial data and related businesses. The Group CEO news… Read More >>
SIX Group Picks Synechron to Lead Post-Trade Project
SIX Group Ltd., the operator of the Swiss Stock Exchange, has selected Synechron as the systems integrator for the Calypso Technology, v15 SFR (Securities Finance Renewal) Program to be used to manage contractual tri-party collateral management activities. The project, which is expected to last two years, is part of an ongoing post-trade update undertaken by… Read More >>
