Inside Market Data - IDM December 2016
Articles in this issue
LSE Buys Company Data Provider Mergent
The deal will provide underlying data for the creation of new FTSE Russell indexes, and adds to LSE's data and analytics capabilities.
Network Hardware Vet Houssein to Fire Up Solarflare Marketing, Strategy
Houssein has 20 years' experience in the semiconductor and data networking hardware and software industry.
Icap Adds Another to PTRI Team
Connolly's hire follows the recent appointment of Guy Rowcliffe to head Icap's PTRI unit in Asia-Pac.
Thomson Reuters Named SAIBOR Administrator, Calculator
Thomson Reuters will calculate the rate according to methodologies linked to the IOSCO principles for calculating benchmarks.
ICE, Platts Expand Natural Gas Pricing Alliance
Platts officials say incorporating data from ICE will expand the percentage of natural gas markets reflected in its prices.
Infront Opens Two Offices in South Africa
The move is in response to a growing local base for its products, which have until now been delivered via third-party vendors.
360T Taps MDX for Banks to Post Prices from Excel
Officials say the move will make it easier for banks' clients to trade with them via the 360T platform.
Canadian Competition Bureau Drops TMX Probe
The Bureau claims Aequitas would have been unlikely to be able to create a competing product, despite TMX's restrictions.
Aequitas Vows to Continue Fight for Canadian Tape After Competition Bureau Drops TMX Probe
Aequitas CEO Jos Schmitt says the exchange will lobby regulators and market participants about practices that it says damage competition and investors' trading.
OTC Markets Unveils Compliance Analytics Data Service
The updated service provides additional data points and an analytics file that contains a score for ranking companies' risk.ics
Nasdaq Phases Out ‘Insecure' ISE FTP Protocols
Nasdaq is recommending that ISE members upgrade to a different form of file transfer protocol to address security concerns.
BvD Integrates RepRisk ESG Data
The move is in response to growing demand for ESG risk data among BvD's client base.
TMX, Velocity Trade Ally for FX Data, Analytics
The partnership expands the range of FX Analysis tools launched by TMX in July
SocGen Taps Smartkarma to Meet MiFID 2 Unbundling Regs
The bank believes that by outsourcing the provision of research content, it can meet the unbundling requirements of MiFID 2.
BCCG Enlists Xinfinit for Data Platform-Terminal Combo
The two German vendors are partnering to develop a data platform and terminal package that will provide an alternative to legacy data platforms.
News Analytics Vendor Almax Taps Former Deutsche Bank, TR Exec Roth as Advisor
Roth will bring more than 20 years of experience as a consumer and provider of data to help commercialize Almax's offering.
Chaikin Adds Charts, Alerts, News to Stock Analytics Platform
Officials say the new content and features will help investors make better trading decisions.
CJC Assembles MosaicOA Infrastructure Visualization Tool
The vendor enters the big data space with tool for visualizing IT Operations Analytics.
Thomson Reuters Takes Stake in BestX to Support New TCA Partnership
BestX will use Thomson Reuters' FX data to power its analytics platform.
FTSE Russell Preps new ESG Indexes, Data Model
FTSE Russell has launched the new indexes in response to "growing demand" for underlying ESG parameters and for "smart sustainability" indexes.
Datawatch Adds Support for Streaming Data, Regulations, HTML5 in Latest Panopticon Release
The new features will support faster decision making, and make it easier for users to create new analytics.
BlackRock Integrates ICE Continuous Pricing
Integrating CEP will provide additional transparency into fixed income markets for BlackRock clients.
FX Feeds’ Sudden Evolutionary Leap
Firms' best execution requirements and desire to expand strategies into FX markets are creating demand for a new breed of high-performance FX datafeeds.
Tackling Transparency: ESMA Eyes Ratings Opacity
ESMA plans to more closely supervise rating agencies' pricing policies, in response to what user firms say is a lack of transparency.
Three’s Company: Platform Providers Get In On The Act
Some firms are seeing benefits in having core platform suppliers manage their data requests, rather than maintaining direct relationships with data vendors.
Indexes’ Long Walk to Freedom
Can Morningstar's decision to make more than 100 benchmarks available free of charge shake up the index licensing business?
December 2016: Do You Manage or Solve Data?
Inside Data Management's combination of market data and reference data topics will reflect a growing convergence between different aspects of data management.