Nomura Securities International is looking at expanding its coverage of the U.S. gaming, hotel & leisure sector following its latest analysts hire.
T. Rowe Price is expanding research coverage of the Australian equities market as part of a broader effort to build out its global investment platform.
Evercore Partners, a boutique investment bank, is building out its new research group with 10 hires to establish a foundation for the team.
Marcos Buscaglia, former chief Latin America economist for Citi, has joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch global research in the same role.
Ravi Mattu, head of equity research for Citadel Securities, has left the firm. Citadel has tapped someone internally to fill in for Mattu.
Hedgeye, an online macro-economic research shop, is building out across sectors with more coverage and the addition of a few analysts over the next few months.
Wells Fargo is ramping up its coverage of the energy and clean technology sectors with new hires.
Jefferies is expanding its research group in London in order to mirror its U.S. group in coverage and size as part of its global research strategy.
Barclays Capital has started the search to fill its position for the head of equities for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Jefferies and Deutsche Bank are stepping in to take part in an analyst hiring blitz taking over Wall Street in the last few weeks.
Nomura Securities International is planning to add analysts in the media, retail and financial services sectors as part of a strategic plan to build out the U.S.-based research group.
Deutsche Bank is expanding its emerging markets platforms with new research, sales and strategist appointments.
Independent research firms are on the rise in Europe, according to the recently released Thomson Reuters 2010 Extel Pan-European Survey.
Helane Becker, a former analyst at Jesup & Lamont, has taken a position at Dahlman Rose as senior v.p. of equity research.
Nasdaq OMX Group plans to end the distribution of its European index later this month in conjunction with the winding down of its European multi-lateral trading facility.
Susquehanna Financial Group is expanding its coverage of the industrials sector with new hires.
The launch of an investment banking practice by 7City Learning, the U.K-based financial services learning and development company, is the latest step in an overall review of the firm’s offerings in the wake of the economic crisis.
HSBC is beefing up its socially responsible investing (SRI) research with the recent addition of Zoe Knight as director of climate change strategy.
C.K. Cooper, an Irvine, Calif.-based full-service investment bank, is planning to build out its research group on the East Coast.
Needham & Company and Signal Hill Capital Group are ramping up their software-as-a-service (SaaS) coverage with new hires.
Canada is following the U.S. and the U.K. with the implementation of its new soft dollar regulation, which went into effect last week.
Specialty finance analyst Andrew Wessel has left JPMorgan.
Pyramis Global Advisors, an asset management subsidiary of Fidelity Investments company, has hired a director of research.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Head of U.S. Equity Strategy for Global Research, David Bianco, picked financials, energy, technology and consumer staples as the strongest global sectors and China as the most prominent emerging market.
OTR Global, a primary research firm that specializes in channel checking, is expanding its operations in the U.S. and Asia.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is broadening its alternative research platform, Open Minds, by adding a handful of independent providers that focus on the transportation, health care and clean technology sectors.
Jesup & Lamont equity research and technical analysts have been asked to hold off on publishing research until news regarding the firm’s brokerage unit suspension is announced, according to an official at the firm.
Deutsche Bank and Jefferies are beefing up their consumer research with new hires.
Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics is planning to expand in Asia over the next few months, according to Georg Gross, executive director and head of front office data and analytics.
Pipeline Trading Systems has launched a service to help institutional investors’ gain alpha while reducing the potential for implementation shortfall.
OneMarketData, a tick data management and analytics provider, is expanding its operations in Asia.
CognoLink, a London-based expert network, is expanding its global operations with acquisitions and new offices.
Canaccord Genuity is building out its research group with new hires. Canaccord Financial, a Canadian-based independent brokerage firm, acquired Genuity Capital Markets in March, and the capital markets division of Canaccord was rebranded as Canaccord Genuity (WSL Online, 4/30).
ITG is expanding its analytics for emerging markets with its new service, Portfolio Capacity Analysis.
Janney Montgomery Scott and Morgan Stanley have recently beefed up their retail research platforms with new hires.
Bloomberg Professional is expanding its Launchpad service, its desktop market data application, with a new infrastructure that enables more information and workflow integration as well as communication between colleagues.
Deutsche Securities, the brokerage and investment banking Tokyo-based subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, is expanding its Global Markets Research department with coverage of Japanese companies.
Ancerno, a provider of transaction cost analysis services and consulting, is developing a service that allows the trader to view a manager’s order history.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is expanding its U.S. Rates Research team with new hires.
FBR Capital Markets is relaunching financial policy research with the firm’s new hire, Edward Mills.
Nomura Securities International has recruited former UBS chief banking analyst Glenn Schorr to be head of the U.S. Financials Equity Research team and plans to hire a handful of analysts in the next few months.
Maxim Group plans to expand its research of energy with new sub-sector coverage.
Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets are expanding their fixed-income platforms in London and Hong Kong with new strategist and analyst hires.
Russell Investments is beginning preparations to consolidate distribution of its index data from RussellTick through Nasdaq OMX Group.
Evercore Partners, a boutique investment bank, has hired Macquarie Equities Research analyst Andrew Marquardt to be an analyst in the new equities group.
CL King & Associates, the boutique broker-dealer, investment bank and research firm, plans to selectively add a few more analysts and sales employees under its new head of equities, Louis Parks, who joined the firm from Raymond James last week.
Piper Jaffray is building out its U.S. clean technology research with analyst additions.
Nomura Securities International plans to hire a handful of analysts in the next few months to cover a variety of sectors as it moves to build out its equity research group in the U.S. According
Regional banks are the leading providers of research on small-cap companies, according to a recent study by Integrity ResearchFocus.
Piper Jaffray is expanding its European equities group with new hires and more research coverage on small-cap companies as part of a move to bolster its global presence.
Nomura Securities International is preparing its EMS/OMS and market data for the new market-wide circuit breakers that will go into effect in June for a six-month pilot period.
Logical Information Services (LIM), a subsidiary of Morningstar, will expand its new data warehouse that provides real-times access to data feeds from vendors, exchanges and proprietary sources.
Exchanges are adding to their market data offerings in order to drive trading.
Jefferies is adding to its fixed income and equities groups with additions in research.
Janney Capital Markets is expanding its consumer sector research with new hires and additional coverage.
Credit Suisse is looking to grow its fixed-income business unit in the Asia-Pacific region by 25% by the end of the year.
Jefferies is taking its new suite of algorithms to Greece and South Africa.
FX Transparency, an independent transaction cost analysis provider, aims to expand its database and, at a minimum, double the amount of data it already aggregates from the buyside to its performance benchmark platform.
Hudson Securities, the execution services provider and market maker subsidiary of Hudson Holding Corporation, is building out its research and corporate access platforms with new hires and sector coverage.
Morningstar France Holding, a subsidiary of Morningstar located in Paris, will be expanding its research and consulting services in the country.