Ipreo

SEC under fire for shorting ‘about-face’

07 Oct 08

There is a lot for an IRO to like in the SEC’s series of emergency orders aimed at addressing rampant short selling in the markets, but critics still want more action.

New Realities: Six Things IROs Need to Understand in a Difficult Market

10 July 08 

Looking back five years, there's no question IROs faced many challenges - but the challenges they face today are far more numerous and complex.

Ipreo buys CapitalBridge

21 Feb 08

Market intelligence firms join to challenge dominant Thomson Ipreo, the private equity-backed market intelligence player behind Bigdough, today announced it is acquiring CapitalBridge, a competitor, for $31.5 mn.

Ipreo Acquires Institutional CRM Specialist

26 Nov 07

re: NSIGHT acquistion

New York - November 28, 2007 - Electronic new-issue platform and data vendor Ipreo has acquired New York-based NSight, which offers enterprise-level customer relationship management (CRM) software and services to financial firms, for an undisclosed price. As part of the deal, NSight CEO Neil Hyman and CTO Jeff Lewis will head Ipreo's research, sales and trading division.

Inside Market Data

26 Nov 07

Ipreo Buys NSight to Bolster Bigdough

New York - November 26, 2007 - Ipreo, the data and technology vendor formed last year by the combination of Hemscott, I-Deal and MarketPipe, will this week announce that it has acquired New York-based CRM software vendor NSight Enterprise Software, Inside Market Data has learned.

Ipreo Automates Meetings Data

15 Oct 07

Ipreo, the business created by the merger of Hemscott, i-Deal and MarketPipe, is preparing to launch a new service aimed at automating meeting communications as part of the investment research process between broker dealers and investment managers...

IR Magazine article: Mainstream investors get behind activism

13 July 07

Ipreo study finds that activist funds are viewed as a positive and growing trend - What do mainstream investors think of shareholder activists in general and swashbuckling hedge funds in particular? That's what Ipreo, the market intelligence firm that owns Bigdough, set out to discover in a perception study of portfolio managers and buy-side analysts. The results, which Ipreo is preparing to distribute to clients, may come as a shock.

Cross-Asset Ipreo Targets Issuers

01 Apr 07

Ipreo, the company formed by the merger of i-Deal, Hemscott and MarketPipe, is to bring its products together to target corporate finance officers at companies issuing stock or debt that require detailed data on their capital base and investors. Hemscott and its Bigdough subsidiary had existing offerings in this space, but Ipreo chief executive Scott Ganeles says the merged vendor will launch "an additional suite of services," based around Bigdough's CRM database of buy-side prospects and Hemscott's financial content for corporate Web sites, combined with i-Deal's issuance workflow systems. "We're going to provide services to show who is buying your stock and why, and overlay that with a full breadth of consultative services," he says...

IR Magazine article: Taking control

01 Apr 07

Web-based targeting technology can serve multiple functions, from identifying current shareholders and targeting new ones to managing investor contacts. At their most primitive, targeting services offer vast databases with contact details of investors around the globe. More advanced platforms pipe in support from analysts, helping IROs whittle down lists of investors that are most likely to be interested in buying their stock.