Pulse Trading is expanding its Pulse Research Partners platform with new providers in an attempt to have access to research in every sector.
MKM Partners, a Stamford, Conn.-based trading and research firm, is adding to its coverage of the industrials sector with new hires.
Avondale Partners, a Nashville, Tenn.-based investment bank, is expanding its research group with new hires across various sectors, such as consumer, technology, energy, healthcare and business services.
Collins Stewart and Janney Capital Markets have recently boosted coverage of the consumer industry with new hires and coverage.
Ticonderoga Securities is considering forming research and investment banking partnerships with firms in emerging markets on the heels of its new collaboration with Hong Kong-based Shenyin Wanguo Securities.
UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are among a handful of Wall Street firms expected to launch research-driven iPad and iPhone applications for institutional clients, according to analysts covering the firms and research directors.
The Cowen Group is ramping up its research on China-based companies with new coverage.
Susquehanna Financial Group is ramping up its research coverage by focusing on the pharmaceuticals, clean technology and transportation industries.
Agency brokers are moving past investment banks in the commission sharing arrangement arena.
Stephens Inc., the Little Rock, Ark.-based full-service investment bank, is expanding its equity research department with new analysts to grow coverage in the exploration & production, specialty retail and medical devices sectors.
Ticonderoga Securities has launched coverage on nine names today in the exploration & production sector as part of its new energy research offering.
Standard Chartered has recently hired research directors for its fixed income and commodities groups to accommodate staff additions made to both groups in the last year.
Canaccord Genuity is boosting its technology research offering with the addition of coverage on Internet technologies.
Gleacher & Company Securities, the broker-dealer subsidiary of Gleacher & Company, is building out its recently launched healthcare research division with new hires.
Jefferies has hired two telecom analysts for its London desk, continuing its recent research hiring streak.
The Merriman Curhan Ford Group has moved into providing coverage of the gaming and leisure sector.
Weiss Ratings, a subsidiary of Weiss Group, plans to enhance its banking and insurance ratings under the direction of new ceo Thomas Clarke.
Nomura Securities International is adding to its coverage of the financial services industry with new hires.
Madison Williams and Company is launching coverage on energy exploration & production companies later this month.
MKM Partners, a Greenwich, Conn.-based trading and research firm, is considering the addition of energy research and trading staff to ramp up its coverage.
Selerity, a provider of real-time event data, is expanding its corporate earnings data package with preannouncement data.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has tapped Michelle Meyer to be a director and senior economist within the developed markets economics research team in New York.
JMP Securities, a subsidiary of JMP Group, is boosting its coverage of the financial services and healthcare industry with new hires.
UBS is planning new hires to ramp up its coverage of the entertainment, advertising & publishing industries.
Jefferies will expand its research platform in Asia with new analyst hires.
Collins Stewart and Citigroup are among several firms that have recently expanded their equity research coverage of the mining industry.
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).