Inside Market Data - Vol 29 No 16
Articles in this issue
FIX ‘Adopts’ MMT Post-Trade Data Standards
Standards body FIX Trading Community-the organization formerly known as FIX Protocol Ltd, which governs the development of the FIX Protocol-has adopted the Market Model Typology post-trade reporting initiative as a FIX standard, adding support for MMT in…
Barchart Adds iPhone Data-Trading App
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart has released a mobile version of its Barchart Trader desktop application for Apple iPhone devices, to accompany the terminal and Android versions unveiled last year (IMD, Sept. 6, 2013; Nov. 6, 2013).
Nasdaq Opens Test Centers Ahead of March Datafeeds Migration
Nasdaq OMX has made test environments available in its Carteret, NJ and Ashburn, VA datacenters for clients to test live data in new versions of its market data feeds that the exchange will roll out next month.
Eurex Bows Mobile iOS and Android App
Deutsche Börse has launched a new app for its Eurex derivatives exchange, dubbed Eurex Mobile App, which provides investors with prices, news announcements, Twitter feeds and other information for more than 1,500 futures and options via Apple iOS and…
Money.net Nabs ex-Bloomberg Commodities Head as CEO
New York-based low-cost financial data display provider Money.net has hired Morgan Downey as chief executive, responsible for all lines of business and functional groups within the company.
Tabb Report: Illiquid Bond Pricing is "World's Most Complex Sudoku Puzzle"
The data industry must work harder to improve pricing of illiquid fixed income asset classes by harnessing contextual data to understand instruments, particularly as demand continues to rise for intraday and real-time pricing, according to a report…
CenturyLink Tech Solutions Changes Bandwidth Buying Process to Cut Connectivity Costs for Clients
Network and datacenter hosting provider CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the subsidiary of internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink formerly known as Savvis, is rolling out a revised commercial model that offers clients more flexible options…
MarketAxess Bows European BASI Liquidity Measure
New York-based fixed income marketplace operator MarketAxess launched a new indicator on Thursday, Feb. 6 called the European Bid-Ask Spread Index (BASI), which tracks liquidity in the European corporate bond market by comparing the prices of actively…
Solarflare Preps ‘Lockdown' Data Protection Tool for Trading Servers
Hardware-acceleration and data network technology provider Solarflare will later this year introduce a server security product designed to protect servers used to support trading platforms from malicious intrusions designed to access or steal data, to…
Satherlund Hangs her Hat on Hatstand
Martina Satherlund has joined IT consultancy Hatstand as principal market data consultant, serving as a project manager for client engagements, covering market and reference data projects including cost optimization, exchange and vendor audits, desktop…
FIX Eyes ESMA Talks, User Participation in MMT
Trading standards body FIX Trading Community plans to boost sell-side participation in developing the Market Model Typology trade reporting tag standard, and to broaden the coverage of the standard to new areas, after absorbing the effort under its…
Nous Bows Crowd-Sourced Investor Sentiment Data
Startup trading application and data provider Nous will next week unveil a feed of crowd-sourced data aimed at banks and hedge funds that delivers a view of investor sentiment based on the trading decisions of investors using the vendor's mobile app…
Bloomberg Moves to Curb IM Connectivity
Bloomberg is removing the Federated Chat component of its Bloomberg Instant Messaging service, which allows clients to use its Bloomberg Professional terminal to directly message users of third-party communication platforms such as AOL Instant Messenger…
Opening Cross: Market Data at the Movies
They say art imitates life. But does the art form of movie-making imitate data?
ITRS Readies Market Data Integrity Monitor
UK-based real-time systems and latency monitoring vendor ITRS has added a new analytic framework to its Geneos monitoring platform, which will enable firms to monitor the quality, accuracy and completeness of real-time data feeding their derived data…
Burton-Taylor: Risk, Regulations Drive Data Spend
Annual spend on financial market risk-related data peaked at $2.52 billion in 2013, equating to roughly 10 percent the $25.77 billion spent each year on market data worldwide, and is growing by 5.74 percent year-on-year as a result of increased…
Interactive Data Deploys Vantage Pricing Platform in Asia
Interactive Data has begun rolling out the latest version of its web-based Vantage fixed income price discovery and evaluated pricing application to clients in the Asia-Pacific region, after adding content during 2013 in response to feedback on client…
