Data Management
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…
CME Lifts LSE's Stuart for Sales
CME Group has hired former London Stock Exchange exec Ross Stuart as senior director of information products management.
Shenzhen Exchange Taps Kx for Trade Analytics
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange's Laboratory for Financial Innovation-which produces market performance reports on metrics relating to the exchange's operations-is to roll out Palo Alto, Calif.-based tick database provider Kx Systems' database and time…
Dilliger Adds Vendor Comparison Reports to Procurement Platform
Diliger, a London-based market startup data procurement platform, has officially released new functionalities designed to allow end-user firms to more easily compare similar vendor offerings and improve the procurement management cycle.
Exegy Grows FX Feed Handlers
St. Louis, Mis.-based hardware ticker plant appliance vendor Exegy has expanded its range of foreign exchange feed handlers with support for six new FX datafeeds from brokers and trading platforms.
RavenPack Hatches V.4.0 of News Analytics Service
Spanish news sentiment analysis provider RavenPack has launched a new version of its real-time news analysis service, dubbed RavenPack News Analytics (RPNA) 4.0, which provides a 70 percent increase in coverage of market-moving events compared to…
Opening Cross: Teenage Takeover!
I can still recall my first days at then-Risk Waters Group in 2000 as a greenhorn researcher working on Risk magazine and FX Week, trying to quickly learn new industries and lingo, while at the same time trying to hide my inexperience. One of my earliest…
Unexpected Sources Of Value
Value, in relation to data operations and management, can mean more than just the importance of the information. It can also be derived from smart collaboration and cultivation.
Thomson Reuters Maps 12-Month Retirement-Upgrade Schedule
Thomson Reuters has notified customers that it will retire a number of legacy products over the next 12 months, as part of an ongoing program to migrate all customers to its next generation Elektron Real Time datafeed.
ICE to Buy SuperDerivatives for $350 Million
Intercontinental Exchange has announced plans to acquire derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives for $350 million in cash to "accelerate the expansion of ICE's comprehensive multi-asset class clearing strategy."