Nasdaq OMX
Bahrain Bourse Goes Live with Nasdaq Tech
Bahrain Bourse has implemented and gone live with a new trading engine built from Nasdaq OMX's X-stream technology, the two exchange groups have announced.
Opening Cross: Looking for Data (and Beer) in All the Right Places
Over the July 4 long weekend, I strolled around the new residential skyscrapers built along the Long Island City waterfront, and the redeveloped Gantry Plaza State Park overlooking the East River and the UN building. A few blocks inland, in a parking lot…
StatPro Gives Asset Managers Access to Nasdaq Index Data on Revolution
Portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro is to make more than 41,000 indexes in the Nasdaq Global Index Family available to asset managers via its cloud-based Revolution analytics desktop platform, as a result of joining Nasdaq OMX's Elite…
Open Platform: The ‘Hidden Tax’ of Index Data
As index use has grown, so have the ways in which entrenched index providers are extracting revenues from licensing their indexes and underlying data. But with cost still a key concern, with the popularity of exchange-traded funds growing, and with…
Opening Cross: Declare Your Independence from Traditional Data Uses
While the majority of Inside Market Data’s coverage has traditionally centered around the use of data to directly support trading activities—such as the transmission of prices via datafeeds or terminal displays to traders and trading applications—and…
Informa IS Adds Nasdaq Indexes to Fund Management Platforms
New York-based investment technology provider Informa Investment Solutions, a subsidiary of UK publisher Informa, is adding index data from Nasdaq OMX to its Zephyr StyleAdvisor and PSN Enterprise products, to provide its customer base of consultants and…
Philippine Stock Exchange Adopts Nasdaq Tech
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) will adopt X-stream Trading technology from Nasdaq OMX for trading equities and ETFs. It is expected to go live in mid-2015.
Quincy Adds ICE Futures, eSpeed Treasuries to QED Microwave Data
Low-latency market data provider Quincy Data has added equity and energy futures data from the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and US Treasury bond data from Nasdaq’s eSpeed electronic bond trading platform to its Quincy Extreme Data microwave service, to…
Interactive Data Adds Nasdaq Indexes to BondEdge
Interactive Data's BondEdge Solutions cross-asset portfolio management and risk analytics division has added Nasdaq OMX's Global Index Family to its BondEdge portfolio management platform to enable institutional investors and wealth and asset managers to…
TOM MTF Bows Data on New Dutch Index
The TOM (The Order Machine) multilateral trading facility has launches a new total return index, the NL20 Index, which reflects performance of the 20 largest listed Dutch companies, designed to deliver "transparency, predictability, efficiency,…
Opening Cross: Everything Comes at a Cost, Even Cloud
Any discussion of return on investment relies on the ability to measure two things: the return generated, and the amount spent to achieve it. In the world of market data, the question is, “How much money can I make as a result of buying and using dataset…
Nasdaq Guts FinQloud, Amazon Web Services Gets Clients
Nasdaq OMX is scrapping parts of its FinQloud financial services-dedicated cloud computing service, handing off some components to partner Amazon Web Services—which provides the underlying cloud infrastructure—and ending support for other key aspects of…
Nasdaq Reports eSpeed Data Outage
One day after reporting the successful completion of migrating its eSpeed electronic treasuries market to the Nasdaq OMX datacenter in Carteret, NJ, Nasdaq experienced an interruption in eSpeed data this morning, May 29.
Nasdaq Completes eSpeed Datacenter Migration
Nasdaq OMX's eSpeed US treasuries trading platform has completed its migration to Nasdaq's datacenter in Carteret, NJ, resulting in a 100 microsecond improvement in market data distribution, and a 25 percent improvement in roundtrip order-entry response…
eSpeed Completes Migration to Nasdaq OMX Data Center
eSpeed, the electronic trading platform for the US fixed-income market, acquired by the Nasdaq OMX group in April 2013, has completed its migration to the Nasdaq OMX data center in Carteret, New Jersey.
Nasdaq OMX To Launch Business Intelligence Tool
Nasdaq OMX has announced the launch of MiQ, a business intelligence solution that provides actionable data for exchanges, clearinghouses, central security depositories (CSDs), and other financial market operators across the globe.
Getting the Vote Out
Various polls in Europe and beyond lead this week's coverage, along with Icap's SEF debut and a pair of big Nasdaq stories.
Opening Cross: This Year’s Data Oscars Are Gonna Be Monster!
The latest big-budget Godzilla movie, which has just opened in the US may be unlikely to pick up any awards at next year’s Oscars, but is still my most-anticipated movie of 2014. I don’t consider myself at the mega-geek level of sci-fi aficionados (I…
Markit to Seek Listing on Nasdaq
Information and systems vendor Markit will pursue a listing for its planned initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq, the exchange group has confirmed.
Nasdaq OMX Adopts Bloomberg Open Symbology
Nasdaq OMX says incorporation of Bloomberg's security identifiers into its market data feed will improve transparency and help clients to streamline data integration
Nasdaq Breaks New Ground with FX Surveillance Module
Nasdaq OMX has announced the release of a surveillance platform specifically designed to monitor trading activity in foreign-exchange (FX) markets, named Smarts FX Trade Surveillance.
Nasdaq, MasterCard Ally for Distribution Deal
Nasdaq OMX has signed a distribution deal with MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of multinational financial services corporation MasterCard, to redistribute MasterCard's macro-economic reports on global retail sales activity through its…
Friedman Returns to Nasdaq, Jochumsen Promoted President
Nasdaq OMX has announced that former chief financial officer Adena Friedman will rejoin the firm to serve as president of the company’s corporate client group business segment, information services and technology solutions.
Kilburn's Corner: The Devil's in the Detail
Every three months at Inside Market Data, we report on the quarterly financial results of the world's stock exchanges. This time round, I had the not-so-enviable task of wading through the marketing spiel in the announcements to dig out the only piece of…