Data Management
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.
Activ Adds Victor Volatilities for Real-Time Risk Analytics
Market data and ticker plant vendor Activ Financial is planning to distribute real-time volatilities on US options from Englewood, New Jersey-based analytics provider Victor Technologies over its market data aggregation and distribution platform, as an…
Markit, Pirum Ink Securities Finance Data Delivery Partnership
Market data provider Markit has expanded the breadth of its securities finance data via a partnership with Pirum, a provider of post-trade securities finance automation tools, which enables mutual clients to access Pirum's end-of-day and intraday trade…
TMX Bows Short Sale Data Report
TMX Datalinx, the market data division of Canadian exchange group TMX, has begun publishing a daily Short Sale Summary that provides a consolidated summary of short selling activity for each security in the S&P/TSX Composite Index trading on the Toronto…
Victory Networks Bows US Feed Handlers
Chicago-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Victory Networks is taking the wraps off a set of low-latency feed handlers for the US equities, futures and equity options markets, dubbed SpeedEdge, which the vendor says will offer an…
Euronext Ups ’15 Data, Non-Display Fees
European exchange group Euronext has notified customers of changes to its market data licensing agreement, dubbed the Euronext Market Data Dissemination Agreement, including new fees for use and redistribution of real-time and delayed data from its…
TeraExchange Launches USD-Bitcoin Price Index
Registered swap execution facility TeraExchange has created a new spot bitcoin price index, dubbed the Tera Bitcoin Price Index, as part of the launch of a new regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives trading to meet demand from global merchants,…
Trendrating Unveils Index Strategy Optimization Module
Swiss momentum ratings and analytics provider Trendrating has added an Index Builder module to its recently launched Momentum Analytics Platform, to support alpha-capture strategies for active fund managers and beta models for index fund managers by…
BvD Ups Bank Compliance Data
Dutch company information provider Bureau van Dijk will this month begin rolling out enhanced features to Bankscope, its database of banks' financial statements, ratings and intelligence, in response to increased customer demand for quick and user…
Questions for EFIS
The upcoming European Financial Information Summit promises to capture the important shifts in data management operations issues that are happening in the industry
To Support Data Tech Innovation Surge, Spread a Little API-ness
Financial markets firms are demanding changes to the way they access and analyze financial data, leading to a rise in technology innovation among companies leading the charge to meet this demand and change the status quo, says Andrew Lewkowicz, managing…
Activ Adds EU Alternative Venues to ActivFeed
Market data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial has added new content from four European alternative trading venues to its ActivFeed low-latency consolidated datafeed, in response to customer demand and to provide traders with complete coverage of…
Bangladesh Broker LankaBangla Taps DirectFN for Data-Trading Platform
Dhaka, Bangladesh-based broker LankaBangla Securities has enlisted Dubai-based data provider DirectFN to integrate datafeeds from Bangladesh's Chittagong and Dhaka stock exchanges into a trading platform to enhance the firm's online trading capabilities,…
ICE's SuperDerivatives Buy Welcomed, Though Integration Details Still Unclear
Less than a calendar quarter after selling one data technology business──NYSE Technologies' Wombat platform──to SR Labs (IMD, June 18, 2014), Intercontinental Exchange acquired another in the form of derivatives pricing and risk management vendor…