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  • AQR Capital Management Goes Live With Fidessa Sentinel - Fidessa’s Flagship Compliance Solution Adopted By Global Investment Management Firm

    Date 13/01/2014

    Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) announced today that AQR Capital Management, a global investment management firm, has implemented Sentinel, its award-winning compliance solution for the buy-side. The solution automates trade compliance management across all of AQR’s business, which currently includes over $90.2 billion in assets under management.

  • Thomson Reuters/National Venture Capital Association: Venture Capital Funds Raised $4.9 Billion During Fourth Quarter 2013 - Full Year 2013 Fundraising Slowest Since 2010

    Date 13/01/2014

    U.S. venture capital firms raised $4.9 billion from 48 funds during the fourth quarter of 2013, an increase of 12 percent compared to the level of dollar commitments raised during the third quarter of 2013, but a 21 decrease by number of funds, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The dollar commitments raised during the fourth quarter of 2013 is a 53 percent increase from the levels raised during the comparable period in 2012 and marks the strongest quarter for venture capital fundraising, by dollars, since the third quarter of 2012. Venture capital firms raised $16.7 billion from 185 funds during full year 2013, a 15 percent decline by dollar commitments compared to full year 2012 and the slowest annual period for fundraising since 2010.

  • Deutsche Börse Acquires Enterprise Software Firm Impendium Systems - UK Firm Operates Private Cloud Platform “Elements” To Help Clients Meet Regulatory Obligations

    Date 13/01/2014

    Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has acquired Impendium Systems, a London-based firm that deploys cloud-based software solutions to help customers’ achieve regulatory compliance in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. The acquisition was completed on 10 January 2014 for an amount in the single digit million euro range. The deal represents an important step in Deutsche Börse’s growth strategy of integrating technology and data offerings to better serve client needs.

  • According To ETFGI: Global ETF And ETP Assets Reached US$2.4 Trillion, A New Record High, At The End Of 2013

    Date 13/01/2014

    US$24.5 billion net inflows in December and positive market performance pushed assets in the global ETF/ETP industry to a new record high of US$2.4 trillion at year-end 2013, according to preliminary findings from ETFGI’s global ETF and ETP industry insights report. The global ETF/ETP industry had 5,090 ETFs/ETPs, with 10,172 listings, from 218 providers on 60 exchanges at the end of 2013.

  • Exegy Launches Trading Application Platform

    Date 13/01/2014

    Exegy Inc., a provider of high-performance hardware-accelerated market data appliances, has today announced a new embedded market data product that enables rapid deployment of new applications in globally distributed datacenters.  The new Exegy Trading Application Platform (TAP) normalizes direct market data feeds on the same server hosting trading applications.  It is available as a software-only product, enabling deployment on commodity servers.  A hardware-accelerated version delivering greater efficiency and speed is slated for release later in the year.  Exegy successfully completed early access programs with customers in 2013 in the tier-one sell-side bank and hedge fund communities.  Production deployments of TAP are expected in the first quarter of 2014.