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FTSE Adds JSE Data to Index App

Index provider FTSE has added real-time values for the FTSE/Johannesburg Stock Exchange Top 40 South African benchmark index to the FTSE iPhone app, to allow users to access headline index performance data from Africa's largest equity market via mobile...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 28 Nov 2011

Nasdaq Raises Bandwidth Advice, Expands ICB Adoption

Nasdaq OMX last week updated the recommended bandwidths required to support its Level 1 and Level 2 proprietary datafeeds—from 48 Megabits to 60 Mb for best bid and offer data, and from 27 Mb to 30 Mb for its Level 2 feed. Separately, Nasdaq announced...

Inside Market Data | News | Connectivity & Networks | 31 Oct 2011

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Live: Data Providers to Discuss Original Content and Continuous Change

Tine Thoresesn is reporting live from a panel debate on content providers, the first link in the value chain, at the World Financial Information Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday 11 October. Speakers represent companies that provide original content,...

Inside Reference Data | News | Data Management | 10 Oct 2011

FTSE Targets Reviews Takeup

Index provider FTSE is expanding access to its Monthly Index Reviews, which provide month-end data on FTSE’s All-World Index Series, by allowing two professional users per firm to access the data for free, with reduced charges for additional users,...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 10 Oct 2011

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Turquoise Introduces FTSE Index Options

Multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise has announced that it has introduced FTSE Index Options onto its Turquoise Derivatives platform. Citigroup and Tibra Trading Europe have signed up to provide liquidity on the platform. Along with the launch,...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Exchanges | 26 Sep 2011

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Opening Cross: How Do You Measure Up?

Inscribed over an archway at the University of Chicago—hometown of last week’s Inside Market Data Chicago event—is Lord Kelvin’s quote “To measure is to know. If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” And in an industry so focused...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Latency | 19 Sep 2011

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Opening Cross: Reaping the Data Whirlwind

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

FTSE, DJI Part Ways on ICB

Dow Jones Indexes has sold its 50 percent holding in the Industry Classification Benchmark to FTSE, its partner in the joint venture. Dow Jones officials decline to comment on details of the agreement, but say that the vendor will immediately begin...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 20 Jun 2011

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Data Management Shifts Gears

For investment strategy incubator Research Affiliates, data matters. The small Newport Beach, Calif.-based firm creates index-based investment algorithms, which it then licenses to a number of partners around the globe, like Nomura, FTSE and Charles Schwab,...

Waters | Feature | Data Management | 02 May 2011

FTSE Dials Up iPhone App

Index provider FTSE has released an iPhone app for delivering streaming values for a range of FTSE indexes to individuals, providing real-time overviews of market activity, calculated on real-time price movements of underlying stocks. The app provides...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 14 Mar 2011

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