FIF (Financial Information Forum)
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US exchanges and regulator FINRA -- collectively known as self-regulatory organizations (SROs) -- published a request-for-proposal on Feb. 26, to solicit...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 28 Feb 2013
Company will provide strategic and product management advisory services to small and medium-sized technology providers entering financial markets.
Inside Market Data | News | Organization & Management | 06 Nov 2012
Without a set of acceptable standards, hiring a cloud services provider is like walking a new labyrinth each time. A BST panel tries to lay down a familiar trail of breadcrumbs.
Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Buy-Side Operations | 10 Oct 2012
Despite the increasing cost and difficulty of gaining a trading advantage from speed, the race to zero is expected to continue apace as firms roll out new technologies to reduce latency compared to their competitors, according to a panel of experts at...
Inside Market Data | News | Latency | 23 Apr 2012
The quest for the holy grail of low latency has been one of the driving forces of innovation in the market data industry over the last decade, but as this becomes harder and more expensive to achieve, firms are focusing on new ways to find value and speed-related...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Latency | 26 Mar 2012
The Options Price Reporting Authority has updated its projections for options data traffic and bandwidth requirements for 2012 and 2013, predicting that the number of messages per second and the bandwidth required to handle OPRA’s consolidated feed...
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 06 Feb 2012
At industry association FISD's World Financial Information Conference in San Francisco, Jeff Wells, vice president of product marketing at Exegy and co-chair of the Financial Information Forum's market data capacity working group, says that data volumes...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 12 Oct 2011
As Hurricane Irene menacingly crept northwards to New York, exchanges assured members and clients that they planned to open last Monday, despite whatever wrath Irene may wreak, and would have plans in place to cope with any damage to their datacenters....
Inside Market Data | Opinion | Exchanges | 06 Sep 2011
A new working group set up by data industry association the Financial Information Forum is claiming early progress towards its aim of creating standard practices for options trade data reporting, even before the group has held its first official meeting....
Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 30 May 2011
After much industry speculation, as Inside Market Data went to press last week, Nasdaq and the IntercontinentalExchange teamed up to bid for NYSE Euronext, offering a 19 percent premium over Deutsche Börse’s proposed deal, leaving NYSE shareholders...
Inside Market Data | Opinion | alliances, mergers & acquisitions | 04 Apr 2011
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