Week in Review, 12/15/2018

Product
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is proud to announce exciting new functionality available in their LexisNexis online research applications. The online research applications you know and use today to conduct investigations and due diligence have been enhanced to extend research across external web and open source solutions. The LexisNexis Integrated Web Search enables a search of the internet without manually opening a browser or inputting search criteria.  12/13/2018

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced it has partnered with Xceptor, the provider of data-centric intelligent automation software, to enable clients to leverage Xceptor’s data transformation capabilities within DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) for Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). 

M&A 
MidOcean Partners announced its acquisitions and merger of HW Holdco, LLC (“Hanley Wood”), the B2B media and information services company serving the U.S. residential construction industry, and Meyers Research, LLC, the provider of real-time market data and advisory services to the homebuilding industry. The merger creates one of the residential construction industry’s most comprehensive information and advisory services platforms. 12/13/2018.

Nasdaq announced it has acquired Quandl, Inc., a provider of alternative and core financial data. The company offers a global database of alternative, financial and public data, including information on capital markets, energy, shipping, healthcare, education, demography, economics and society. Nasdaq plans to combine Quandl with its existing Analytics Hub business within Global Information Services.

Executive Changes

S&P Global announced that effective January 2, 2019, Martina Cheung, currently Executive Managing Director, Head of Risk Services will be named President of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Mike Chinn, President S&P Global Market Intelligence and Executive Vice President, Data & Technology, has informed S&P Global of his decision to leave the Company in March 2019.