Inside Market Data - Vol 29 No 41
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Tabb: Firms Spend $25 Billion on Content, $3.1 Billion on Data Tech in 2013
Research firm Tabb Group’s Data and Analytics (DnA) group has released a new report, "Market Data Technology Innovation: Bigger Data, Simpler Solutions, Better Functionality," which estimates global spend on market data at about $25 billion in 2013,…
Colt Hires Net Vet Hutchinson as US Capital Markets Director
UK-based telecom provider Colt has hired Julie Hutchinson as US director of capital markets, responsible for developing its US capital markets business by helping US content providers, trading firms and platform providers to expand their presence to…
SunGard Survey: Firms Still Face Tech Challenges to Extract Value from Data
Financial organizations are struggling to fully utilize analytical tools and data management technologies to extract value or "business intelligence" from raw data because of a lack of adoption of new techniques, a multitude of inconsistent data formats,…
CME to Buy GFI's Fenics and Trayport Pricing, Trading Tech Businesses
CME Group has announced plans to acquire interdealer broker GFI Group's Fenics suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software and its Trayport commodities and energy trading technology.
Fincad Snaps up Garfield for Product Marketing Role
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad has hired Rob Garfield as global head of product marketing.
Barchart Rolls Out Canadian Securities Exchange Data
Chicago-based data and analytics vendor Barchart has added market data from the Canadian Securities Exchange to its data services.
Bloomberg Touts New Toronto Ticker
Bloomberg has gone live with a new ticker plant in Toronto, to provide financial firms with faster access to data captured from Canadian exchanges, reducing latency by 71 percent compared to its previous offering.
Update: HP Vet Potter Joins Solarflare Board
High-performance network technology provider Solarflare has appointed Mark Potter, senior vice president and chief technology officer of hardware supplier HP's Enterprise Group, to its board of directors, to help "guide" the company to a leading position…
Redline Gets $5M VC Funds, Adds Ex-Thomson CEO Harrington to Board
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has raised $5 million in new funds from Cue Ball Group, a Boston-based venture capital firm chaired by Richard Harrington, the former president and chief…
Quandl Adds Nasdaq Index Data to Free Financial Search Portal
Toronto-based online economic and financial data search engine Quandl has added Nasdaq OMX's global index family to its web-based platform for financial, economic and sociological datasets, to provide analysts, traders and economists with daily index…
Wiener Börse Bows Intraday Corporate Actions Data to Grow Trader Appeal
Wiener Börse, the Vienna Stock Exchange, has released a new service designed to attract new investors to the region's markets, by providing data vendors, analysts, traders and index trackers with timely, intraday access to corporate actions data from…
Aspect Enterprise Expands Commodities, Shipping Data
UK-based commodities data and technology vendor Aspect Enterprise plans to expand the coverage of its AspectDSC data and analytics solution with the addition of data from marine fuels and shipping prices provider Bunkerworld, and chemical, energy and…
StockViews Eyes Institutional Market for Retail Ratings, Research Platform
London-based startup crowdsourced investment platform StockViews plans to start selling its product to institutional investors within the next 18 to 24 months, to respond to demand for cheaper and more accurate research, officials say.
Opening Cross: Consumer Power, Or the Power of Consumer Data?
It has always seemed ironic to me that the building at 628 Broadway in New York City, now an Urban Outfitters store, was once home to the New York Mercantile Exchange, trading the very materials used to make the clothes sold in the building’s current…
Thomson Reuters Taps Celoxica Tech for FPGA Feed
Thomson Reuters has rolled out Elektron Direct Feed, a hardware-accelerated datafeed, using FPGA cards from UK-based data technology vendor Celoxica to deliver single-digit microsecond latency.
