Data Management
Charles River Adds Thomson Reuters Data
Thomson Reuters follows other major data providers in making its information available through Charles River
Xignite Partners with FactSet
Cloud-based financial market data provider Xignite announced a partnership with data provider FactSet.
Thomson Reuters Bows M&A Arbitrage Data
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new collection of mergers and acquisitions data within its Deals database targeting the needs of event-driven hedge fund managers.
Update: Xignite Adds FactSet Fundamentals to On-Demand Data
San Mateo-based web services data provider Xignite is adding fundamental data and estimates from FactSet Research Systems to its suite of on-demand datasets, to provide clients with access to global company fundamental and financial data.
Frankfurt FIS Live
Inside Reference Data reporter Joanna Wright tweeted highlights from the Frankfurt Financial Information Summit on October 14
Gibraltar Stock Exchange Readies Market Data for Phase Two of Launch
GSX Limited (GSX), Gibraltar's recently launched stock exchange, is planning to launch new market data feeds in late 2015 or early 2016, after receiving authorization from the Financial Services Commission of Gibraltar to commence its operations this…
CTA, UTP Revisit Consolidated Tape Fees
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) and the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan, which together oversee the collection and distribution of the consolidated tapes of quote and trade data for US equity markets, have proposed new fee policies for the…
CDO Advocacy and Influence
Chief data officers, now more established at their firms throughout the industry, are weighing in on how to pursue higher data quality by several means. Will they address the legal entity identifier next?
BST North America Panel: Will Cloud Kill the IT Department?
As more firms outsource technology solutions via the cloud, one asset manager questions the need for an internal technology department at all.
Post-Launch and Funding, Vetr Eyes Institutional Clients for Crowd-Sourced Ratings
Crowd-sourced stock ratings provider Vetr has completed the second stage of a $1 million investment round, and is now focusing on attracting more users and contributors to its portal, to make its content more appealing to institutional traders and hedge…
WorkFusion's ‘Automation Notification' Boosts Data Extraction Options
New York-based software-as-a-service vendor WorkFusion has launched new "automation recommendation" functionality on its WorkFusion data extraction platform to automatically notify customers when the software is able to automate data extraction processes…
BST North America Panel: Different Approaches to Improving Data Management
At the Buy-Side North American Summit, held this week in New York, end-users and vendors on the buy side discussed improvements firms can make to their data management.
Centralizing Data Improves Oversight, CDOs Say
Centralization of data, as part of a chief data officer's management initiatives, can reduce costs and address excess complexity created by fragmented firm structures, according to industry executives at the European Financial Information Summit
ITRS Adds Bloomberg B-Pipe Monitoring to Geneos
ITRS Group, a provider of performance monitoring technology for real-time systems, has launched an interface that provides monitoring support for customers of Bloomberg's B-Pipe real-time market data feed within ITRS' Geneos monitoring platform via a new…
BATS Pushes MMT for BXTR Reporting
Pan-European equity exchange BATS Chi-X Europe has made the Market Model Typology a key component of its BXTR trade reporting service, to help boost market transparency and contribute to creating the underlying conditions to support a European…
YCharts Preps Unstructured Company IR Datasets for Screening, Research
Chicago-based fundamental analysis provider YCharts has begun collecting, parsing and tagging information from investor relations websites to provide traders with more idea generation and stock-screening tools that leverage unstructured and text-based…
UBS Aligns Managed Services For Consistency
UBS’s London operations director Simon Feddo speaks with Michael Shashoua about how the firm has managed and succeeded in making improvements to know-your-customer and onboarding-related data
Bloomberg to Carry U.Michigan Consumer Data from 2015
Bloomberg will begin distributing consumer sentiment index data created by the University of Michigan from January 2015, in a non-exclusive partnership that runs until 2019, with provisions to extend the deal longer.
IHS Adds SIX FI Equities Pricing
Market and economic information provider IHS has added global daily and historical equities pricing data from SIX Financial Information to its market intelligence, economic forecasting and research services.
Thomson Reuters Preps 2015 Fee Hikes
Thomson Reuters is to raise prices for certain data products and services by up to 10 percent, effective Jan. 1, 2015, especially for legacy products and services and for contracts agreed at a discount to the current list price, Inside Market Data has…
Sibos 2014: SmartStream CEO on Reference Data Offerings
Philippe Chamabdal, CEO of SmartStream, speaks about the company's reference data offerings at Sibos 2014 in Boston
Barchart Launches 'EDM' Service, Revamped Content Portal
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart has officially unveiled Barchart EDM──a new integrated solution that combines components of its various content and data delivery mechanisms into a managed service for market data capture, management and distribution─…