IBM’s announcement this week of plans to acquire Platform Computing vindicates our decision to include some Big Data discussion topics in our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London on October 17 – that’s next week.
The past few weeks’ organisational regrouping in the wake of the departure of Thomson Reuters Markets CEO Devin Wenig over the summer has been supercharged by this week’s news of a complete restructuring of Thomson Reuters by CEO Tom Glocer.
By Ross Inglis
At this time of the year, it’s always a worthwhile exercise to take a look at how some of our industry barometers have performed as they hit the halfway point. For (I think) obvious reasons, my favourite indicators are the results of Thomson Reuters Markets, Fidessa and NYSE Technologies, each of which posted interim results in the past week or so. 
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More on this, but not much more.
As we suggested yesterday, Peter Moss appears to have taken on leadership of a new group our correspondents are calling Trading. At a guess, this would seem to encompass the former Enterprise delivery systems and Sales & Trading transactional and data systems for, erm, traders.
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Before we were rudely interrupted by the Christmas holidays – lovely, thanks, and you? – we were speculating about the emerging structure and population of the executive ranks within president David Craig’s new Financial & Risk operating unit of Thomson Reuters, in essence the successor to the former Thomson Reuters Markets. At least some dust has settled since Craig’s December 19 publication of an organisation chart for his group, so we are able to offer some of the highlights.
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