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If MiFID II Stops Short of a Ban, What Can We Expect?
09/29/2014
European reforms to equity commissions are creating turmoil for both producers and consumers of equity research. Although an outright ban on research commissions is looking less likely, the regulators are ...
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Aviate Global Hiring Equity Analysts
09/28/2014
Aviate Global, a London-based institutional equity brokerage, has posted hiring notices for 2 equity analysts. Aviate Global was founded in 2007 by Guy Gibson, a former Citigroup sales trader, and ...
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Roubini Adds Commodities Research
09/28/2014
Roubini Global Economics hired a commodities economist to head up a new commodity research and market strategy product. London-based Helen Henton was formerly chief economist at the International Grains Council ...
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London Expert Networks Challenging US Rivals
09/24/2014
London-based expert networks Cognolink and AlphaSights have been growing quickly, benefiting from a diverse client mix, geographic expansion, and limited impact from insider trading investigations. Both firms are now proactively ...
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New Product: Eagle Alpha Curated Social Media Feeds
09/17/2014
Eagle Alpha Limited, a ‘big data’ research firm which mines insights from social media and the web, offers a series of curated feeds including a global macro news feed targeted ...
Advisory Group Attacks Proposed Research Commission Ban
09/17/2014
An influential advisory group to European securities regulators has come out strongly opposed to a potential ban on paying for investment research with client commissions. When combined with the universally ...
Position Paper Outlines Research Pricing
09/08/2014
The CFA Society of the UK has published a position paper which outlines approaches to valuing investment research. The paper, which expands upon valuation techniques outlined UK regulators, seeks to ...
Lower FICC Revenue Hits Top 10 Investment Banks
09/04/2014
Revenue at the top ten investment banks slipped 5% in the first half of 2014 due to weakness in their currency, fixed income and equities businesses which were partially offset ...
A Perspective on the Varied Responses to a Potential Ban
09/02/2014
The following is a guest article summarizing reactions to the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s discussion paper calling for a ban on research commissions authored by Chris Turnbull, co-founder of Edinburgh-based ...
Evalueserve Acquires Data Consultancy
08/27/2014
Evalueserve, a leading Indian KPO firm, has acquired Germany-based data consultancy Beyond Data GmbH, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition positions Evalueserve for big data projects with clients.
Beyond Data was ...