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Thomson Reuters to build new Toronto tech centre

Thomson Reuters is to build a new technology centre in downtown Toronto, creating 400 IT jobs.

07 October 2016

Thomson Reuters boosts buy-side capabilities with Redi acquisition

Thomson Reuters has agreed to buy trading technology firm Redi Holdings in a bid to boost its buy-side offering. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

22 September 2016

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Thomson Reuters delves deeper into Ethereum

Thomson Reuters is partnering with Ethereum, Imperial College of London, UCL, and tech partners Oraclize, Crypto Compare and Ethcore to host a weekend-long blockchain hackathon in Canary Wharf, London.

08 September 2016

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Thomson Reuters joins R3 blockchain consortium

The bank-backed R3 blockchain consortium has expanded its partnership network to the market data business, recruiting Thomson Reuters as a new member.

02 August 2016

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Thomson Reuters and Imperial College form fintech and regtech research partnership

Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London are pooling their expertise for joint research projects into the big data challenges facing the fintech and regtech industries.

20 July 2016

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IHS and Markit agree mammoth merger

Data firm IHS is to merge with Markit in a $13 billion deal that creates a global information powerhouse with leading positions in energy, financial services and transportation.

21 March 2016

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Citi leads $4.2 million Selerity funding round

Selerity, a startup that monitors unstructured data and delivers personalised alerts to investors and traders, has raised $4.2 million in a funding round led by Citi, which is also using the firm's algorithms to provide recommendations to clients through its Citi Velocity platform.

08 March 2016

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Whistleblower says SEC awarded him $750,000 for Nyse tip

The founder of market data outfit Nanex says that he has been awarded $750,000 for a whistleblowing tip that resulted in the New York Stock Exchange getting slapped with a $5 million SEC fine.

03 March 2016

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Goldman Sachs invests in big data insights firm Zoomdata

Goldman Sachs has led a $25 million Series C equity financing round in Zoomdata, a supplier of fast visual analytics for real-time streaming and historical data.

16 February 2016

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Xignite raises $20.5m

American cloud-based data supplier Xignite is setting its sights on the Asian market after raising $20.5 million in a Series C funding round led by a unit of Japan's biggest financial information provider, Nikkei.

08 February 2016

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JPMorgan looks to save millions from Bloomberg switch

Bloomberg's second-largest client, JPMorgan, is reportedly preparing to pull the plug on the market data firm's expensive proprietary terminals in a move that would save the bank up to $36 million per year in charges.

12 January 2016

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Thomson Reuters brings FX transaction venues onto single desktop

Thomson Reuters has put all of its foreign exchange transaction venues onto one platform in a move it says creates a single point of access to the largest collective independent pool of FX liquidity.

09 November 2015

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ICE to buy Interactive Data for $5.2bn

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has agreed to buy Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) from its private equity owners for $5.2 billion in cash and stock.

26 October 2015

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Thomson Reuters adds app studio to Eikon

Thomson Reuters is opening up its Eikon desktop with the launch of an app development suite that lets third parties create and house their own offerings.

07 October 2015

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Thomson Reuters to track crowdfunding data on Eikon

Thomson Reuters is to begin tracking crowdfunding data on its Eikon desktop, as new research projects explosive growth in the UK's alternative finance market.

28 September 2015

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Thomson Reuters builds data and innovation lab

Thomson Reuters is planning to tap into Canada's startup community with the opening of a data and innovation lab in Waterloo, Ontario.

17 September 2015

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Bloomberg and Twitter ink data licensing deal

Bloomberg has extended its partnership with Twitter in an agreement that will see more data from the social media platform make its way to Bloomberg terminal users.

16 September 2015

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Iress expands in UK with acquisitions of Proquote and Pulse

Australia's Iress has acquired market data vendor Proquote from the London Stock Exchange and portfolio management software house Pulse Software Systems, boosting its presence in both the capital markets and discretionary fund management space within the UK.

15 September 2015

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Dark pool lawsuit against Barclays dismissed by US judge

A US district court judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought against Barclays and a number of US exchanges that accused the bank of rigging its dark pool in favour of high frequency traders (HFTs).

27 August 2015

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Markit to acquire CoreOne Technologies for $200 million

Financial data outfit Markit has continued its acquisition spree with a $200 million deal for New York-based CoreOne Technologies.

12 August 2015