Data Management
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─…
Platts Sweetens Commodities Data, Ups Sugar Content
McGraw-Hill Financial-owned commodities and energy data provider Platts has released a new real-time news, data and benchmark pricing service for global agriculture markets, dubbed Platts Agriculture Alert.
COOs, CDOs Must Collaborate On Compliance-Driven Changes, Survey Finds
Collaboration at the C-level figures prominently in data and risk management improvement, according to many respondents in a survey co-sponsored by Broadridge Financial Solutions
SGX Unveils Derivatives Index Business to Boost Interest in Traded Contracts
The Singapore Exchange is rolling out the first phase of a new index calculation engine, initially to create indexes of SGX-listed derivatives, which officials say will add value to SGX's Asia-centered offering by expanding its index business while…
BATS Delays New Feed Launch After SEC Extends Review Period
BATS Global Markets has delayed the launch of its BATS One consolidated feed of data from the four equities markets operated by its BATS and Direct Edge exchange, after the Securities and Exchange Commission extended its 45-day period by a further 45…
Rimes to Include Thomson Reuters' Indices in Rimes BDS
Rimes will add several equity and fixed income indices from Thomson Reuters on its Rimes Benchmark Data Service (Rimes BDS) in order to expand its database and meet the growing demands from the buy side for more data.
Rimes Adds Thomson Reuters Indexes to BDS
Economic and benchmark data provider Rimes Technologies has added support for Thomson Reuters' equity and fixed income indexes to its Rimes Benchmark Data Service to meet demand for diverse index data from buy-side clients.
Boat Adopts MMT Standards for OTC Trade Reporting
Boat Trade Reporting, which Swedish technology supplier Cinnober Financial Technology acquired earlier this year from Markit, has implemented the full Market Model Typology (MMT) standards for OTC cash equity trade reporting, in an effort to boost data…
Estimize Taps Former S&P Research Director for PR, Research
New York-based crowd-sourced earnings estimates provider Estimize has appointed Christine Short──former director of earnings research at S&P Capital IQ──vice president of media and public relations, with additional responsibility for content generation,…
CME, CFFEX Sign Data Distribution Deal
CME Group has signed an agreement to license and distribute market data from the Shanghai-based China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX), as part of the Chinese exchange's global development activities to grow its business in international markets.
Nasdaq Index Head Jacobs Announces Retirement
John Jacobs, executive vice president of global information services at Nasdaq OMX and head of the exchange's index business, has announced he will retire from his current role effective Jan. 2, 2015.
Fitch Hires Ex-Thomson Reuters' Mattinson to Grow Biz
Fitch Solutions, the data vendor arm of ratings agency Fitch, has hired Ian Mattinson as head of product delivery and execution, responsible for accelerating the growth of the vendor's business and delivering new products to market.
Datactics Adds CTO, Board Member
Dale Richards, a financial industry operations consultant, has joined the data services provider in its new push into the industry
Morningstar Begins Historical Tick Database Revamp
The real-time data business of Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar is in the middle of a project to make its database of historical tick data more flexible and accessible to different types of users and use cases.
Credit Benchmark to Begin Publishing Consensus Credit Ratings by Year-End
London-based Credit Benchmark, a startup provider of aggregated, bank-generated credit ratings, is preparing to publish its first set of live data towards the end of this year, which will be the first of its monthly──and ultimately more frequent──rating…
UTP to Decide SIP Processor in Oct., After Renewing Nasdaq as SIP Administrator
The UTP Operating Committee, the industry body that oversees the operation of the US consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Tape C Nasdaq-listed stocks, will appoint a new tape processor next month, after selecting Nasdaq OMX as administrator of…
BRED Taps SunGard for Euronext Data, Trading Access
Paris-based BRED Banque Populaire, the cooperative commercial bank of French banking group Groupe BPCE, has rolled out SunGard's outsourced Valdi Market Access platform to connect to market data and trade on Euronext's equities market.
Investor, Regulatory Demands Drive Latest Linedata Rollout
Yesterday, it was announced that Linedata had enhanced Linedata Global Hedge, its overarching platform for hedge fund managers.
Markit, Genpact Plan Expansion of KYC Service
Architects of Markit I Genpact KYC Services plan to add an automated interface enabling direct consumption of client profiles starting in early 2015, and expansion to serve more markets
Options Grows Velocity Feed Coverage, Eyes Wider Reach
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has added new European markets to its connectivity and managed co-location platform, providing customers with direct access to equities and derivatives feeds from Spanish exchange group…
OMD Builds Social Media Data ‘Sandbox’
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData has launched a new web-based social media analysis platform that combines market data, reference data and social media sentiment scores with analytics and visualization tools, to…