Data Management
Barchart Adds Commodities Prices to OnDemand Web Services Data
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has begun distributing global commodities and futures price data via its Barchart OnDemand suite of web services-enabled datasets that leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
1010 Says 10-4 to ‘Easy-to-Use' Analysis Interface
1010Data, a New York-based provider of Big Data analytics tools for fixed income and other markets, has released a new interface to its database, to allow bond traders to more easily perform loan-level analysis on mortgage-backed securities, in addition…
Exceed, Nasdaq Ally for Structured Investment Indexes, Data Distribution
New York-based boutique financial services firm Exceed Investments is launching a new family of indexes, dubbed the Nasdaq Exceed Structured Indexes, in partnership with Nasdaq OMX. The new indexes are designed to deliver the predictability of structured…
Voltaire Keeps Up with the Jones
London-based valuation risk advisory firm Voltaire Advisors has appointed Peter Jones senior partner, with responsibility for creating and growing its online community of valuations and risk professionals, and for producing its Valuation Risk Briefing…
VWD Grows Index Content with iQ-Foxx Data
Frankfurt-based market data vendor VWD has added data on Austrian index provider iQ-Foxx’s smart beta indexes to its data products, in a move that officials say will allow users to reduce portfolio volatility, allowing them to increase their holdings in…
Opening Cross: The Challenge of Achieving True Data Transparency
Transparency has been a focus for regulators and market participants in the wake of the financial crisis as they try to combat the potential impact of illiquid assets and imperfect market structures. And transparency—albeit of a different sort—was also a…
Cost Optics Taps Ex-Arcontech Exec Dass for Growth
Singapore-based expense management specialist Cost Optics, which provides a software-as-a-service platform for large expense categories, including market data, has hired Chandra Dass as global head of business development, responsible for building the…
WSI Eyes Expense Management Tool Expansion
London-based data management technology vendor Web Services Integration is expanding the coverage of its Vendor Data Manager expense management tool──a module of its Xceptor data management platform──to cover data services from vendors besides Bloomberg.
EFIS 2014: Hanna Urges Exchange Contract Standardization
To simplify and standardize the growing number and complexity of exchange data contracts and policies, exchanges should form an independent industry group to standardize contract terms and language, and how exchanges enforce their contract terms, Rafah…
SR Labs Names ex-NYSE Exec McIntyre European COO to Drive Wombat Growth
New York-based low-latency data platform and feed handler provider SR Labs has appointed former NYSE exec Ian McIntyre as chief operating officer in Europe, to spearhead the rollout of new capabilities as part of ongoing changes to the vendor's…
FactSet Adds MNI News
FactSet Research Systems will add real-time foreign exchange and fixed income news agency Market News International's MNI Main Wire to its workstation later this month.
EFIS 2014: Tighten Inventory Controls, Seek New Sources to Combat Cost Pressures, Says User Panel
Trading and investment firms still facing budget pressures are being more proactive about managing data costs, but are also being forced to be more proactive about seeking out new, cheaper alternative sources of data and managing their data usage to…
Factoring Security Into Data Governance
Making a choice on how to manage data, including compliance applications for data, also has to include security considerations
DirectFN Signs Five for Decypha Market Intelligence App
Mizuho, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Riyad Capital──the investment arm of Saudi Arabia's Riyad Bank──and Dubai-based trading firms Tharwa Capital and Al Mal Capital have rolled out Dubai-based data vendor DirectFN's Decypha browser-based market…
NovaSparks Preps Third Gen of FPGA-Based Ticker Plant
French FPGA feed handler and data appliance provider NovaSparks is preparing to launch a new version of its hardware-only NovaTick ticker plant, which will provide users with new features such as exchange recovery, which are typically found in software…
Barchart Adds Analytics to Trader
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart.com has added advanced options analysis and an options strategy builder tool to its Barchart Trader desktop and mobile market data and trading platform for commodity, equity and foreign exchange market…
Allianz Allies with Thomson Reuters for Bond Pricing
German banking and insurance giant Allianz is to use Thomson Reuters' independent pricing service to meet the firm's fixed income pricing data needs around valuation and meeting international accounting standards.
Plunkett Joins WhaleWisdom for BizDev
WhaleWisdom, an aggregator of investor holdings data from 13F, 13D and 13G Edgar filings, recently hired Brent Plunkett as vice president of business development and a partner in the business with founder Daniel Collins, to market and improve the user…
Allianz Taps TR For Fixed Income Pricing
The global insurance and asset management giant says it will use Thomson Reuters Pricing Service (TPRS), covering 2.5 million fixed income securities, derivatives, and bank loans, to meet valuation, reporting and regulatory requirements.
EFIS Live: CDOs on Oversight
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter on the CDO end user panel from the European Financial Information Summit in London on September 16.
Infront Expands Credit Content to Boost Cross-Asset Ambitions
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added corporate bond data and analytics to its Infront Plus market data terminal, in response to increased demand for these instruments following the 2008 financial crisis.
FT Taps Morningstar for Print Price Data
The Financial Times has enlisted the UK arm of Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar to supply the price data in the back pages of its daily Companies & Markets section, as part of a new look for the newspaper, starting today,…
European Solvency II Data Template Proposed
UK, Germany and France asset management industry groups collaborate on tripartite data exchange template
Markit, Pirum Pair on Securities Finance Data
The financial information provider and securities finance post-trade processing vendor are partnering to provider mutual customers more timely and transparent data sets.