S&P Capital IQ Buys QuantHouse [Professional Services Close - Up]

(Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) S&P Capital IQ, a business line of The McGraw-Hill Companies offering global multi-asset class data solutions, market research and portfolio risk analytics to global investors, announced it has acquired QuantHouse, an independent global provider of market data and systematic trading solutions.

According to a release on April 3, this includes ultra-low- latency market data technologies, algo-trading development frameworks, proximity hosting and order routing services for hedge funds, market makers, proprietary desks and latency-sensitive sell- side firms.

"The acquisition of QuantHouse will provide our clients with access to exchange pricing globally, including securities valuations and portfolio analytics, throughout all our desktop and enterprise solutions. In addition, the extensive capabilities QuantHouse brings will enable S&P Capital IQ to build our own unique real-time monitors, derived data sets and analytics," said Lou Eccleston, President of S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices. "As the foundation for our growing Enterprise Solutions business, QuantHouse will enable us to offer one integrated low-latency feed for all our data, including fundamental, fixed-income, equity and derivatives." "We are very excited to be a part of S&P Capital IQ," said Pierre- Francois Filet, chairman and co-founder, QuantHouse. "Together, we can focus on developing a new generation of alpha-generation tools, low-latency transaction infrastructure and integrated low-latency data feeds to maximize offerings and strengthen S&P Capital IQ's competitive positioning." This purchase, along with the recently announced acquisition of R2 Financial Technologies and the expected acquisition of CMA later this year, provides S&P Capital IQ with the components necessary to offer its clients market data and risk analytics platforms. Following the acquisition, QuantHouse's 90 employees, based in Paris, London and New York, will become a critical component to S&P Capital IQ's global growth strategy as part of the Enterprise Solutions unit. In the short term, its products and services will continue to be sold as standalone feeds and applications, although all S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices content will gradually be consolidated into QuantHouse feeds.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

S&P Capital IQ, a business line of the McGraw-Hill Companies, is a provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment advisors and wealth managers around the world.

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