Data Management
Swedish Pension Fund AP3 Rolls Out SuperDerivatives DataX, DGX Direct
Swedish national pension fund AP3, with SEK 258.5 billion ($38.7 billion) has rolled out over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives' DataX market data service for investment analysis and valuation, as well as the vendor…
Swedish Pension Fund AP3 Rolls Out SuperDerivatives DataX, DGX Direct
Swedish national pension fund AP3 has rolled out over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives' DataX market data service for investment analysis and valuation, as well as the vendor's DGX real-time market data, news and…
Update: BGC Sets New Non-Display Data Policies
Editor's note: This story has been amended to reflect clarifications provided by BGC that the new policy will not introduce fees for "Public" datasets. Inside Market Data apologizes for the errors.
EESAT Preps Equinix NY4 Datacenter Move for COB Feeds
Chicago-based EESAT, a provider of market data on complex order book trading activity──comprising multi-leg trades between options and other asset classes──is moving its datacenter to Equinix's NY4 facility in Secaucus, NJ, to make it easier for…
SimCorp Adds Data Capabilities in Dimension 5.6
Copenhagen-headquartered vendor SimCorp has announced the latest release of its flagship Dimension platform, which includes data capabilities specifically geared toward asset managers and owners.
Pricing Vet Blance Unveils Voltaire Advisors Valuation Risk Consultancy
Market data and evaluated pricing industry veteran Ian Blance has set up a new London-based company, Voltaire Advisors, to provide consulting services around valuation risk to buy-side clients and the hedge fund administrators, asset servicing firms and…
JSE Reports Data Revenue Rise
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has reported first-half data revenues of 95.4 million South African rand, a 16 percent increase over the same period last year, on overall group operating revenue of R869 million, itself a 9 percent increase over the…
Platts Expands Chinese Coal Data Deal
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has added two new price assessments for thermal coal in China as a result of expanding an existing agreement with Chinese commodities data provider Shanxi Fenwei Energy Consulting Company.
Consultancy Quanticks Repositions as Order Book Feed Processor
US-based market data consultancy Quanticks Capital Solutions has suspended its existing market data consulting and custom development business and repositioned itself as a provider of a technology platform for consolidating order book data from US…
Aegon AM Unifies Global Data Procurement
Aegon Asset Management, the investment management arm of Netherlands-based multinational life insurance, pensions and asset management company Aegon, is embarking on a project to centralize vendor management, market data and IT procurement across its…
CQG Unveils ‘Stripped' Data, Charting Terminal
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics software vendor CQG has released a new, low-cost market data workstation, dubbed CQG Select, to provide an alternative to more expensive terminal displays for proprietary trading firms facing cost pressures.
HKEx Bows ASP Partner Program
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has set up a program to allow application service providers to establish direct links to HKEx's trading and data systems to provide managed connectivity services to clients, which exchange officials say can lower…
Thomson Reuters Launches Buy-Side App on Eikon
In an effort to enable the buy-side community to quickly monitor and review significant activities impacting companies in their portfolios and coverage lists, Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of Watchlist Pulse, an application for its Eikon data…
Rimes Adds Dow Jones Commodity Index
Benchmark index and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has added Dow Jones' Commodity Index series to its Benchmark Data Service, providing buy-side clients with processed and validated access to the data.
Thomson Reuters Debuts ‘Watchlist Pulse' Buy-Side Insight App
Thomson Reuters has unveiled Watchlist Pulse, an application within the vendor's Eikon data workstation aimed at providing buy-side professionals with a series of easy-to-understand scores for companies in their portfolios, which allow users to quickly…
NYSE Outlines XDP Feed Migration Roadmap
NYSE Global Market Data, the market data arm of the New York Stock Exchange, has notified clients that it is migrating its NYSE and NYSE MKT best bid and offer datafeeds to its proprietary Exchange Data Publisher (XDP) format, as part of an ongoing…
OTCGH Targets International Traders with Crude Oil Data Product
EOX Holdings, the data arm of over-the-counter energy and commodities interdealer broker consortium OTC Global Holdings, is expanding its market data sales team and will launch new data products covering international crude oil markets in the coming…
Dow Jones Rebrands, Reorgs ‘Institutional’ Biz
Following a review of its Institutional Business strategy after the departure of former chief executive Lex Fenwick, Dow Jones has rebranded the division “Professional Information Business,” and has combined its previously-separate Consumer and…
Infront, Infinancials Consolidate on FactSet Equities Data
Norwegian market data vendor Infront and French fundamental data and analytics vendor Infinancials, in which Infront holds a majority ownership stake, have extended an existing agreement with data vendor FactSet Research Systems to expand both vendors'…
Thomson Reuters Adds Platts Data to DataScope
Thomson Reuters has added commodities market data from McGraw-Hill Financial-owned commodities and energy data provider Platts to its DataScope Select product to provide clients with increased transparency to support valuations, risk management and…
Quest For Data Quality
Pursuing data quality requires consideration of big data, data tools and resources, error correction and getting various interests to work together. Recent Inside Reference Data stories explore all these factors.
EDI Expands African Economic Database with Beta Client Feedback, Preps Options Corporate Actions Data
Exchange Data International, a London-based provider of pricing and reference data, is finalizing beta testing of its African Financial & Economic Data (AFED) database, and is in the middle of developing a new pricing and reference data product to help…
Vendors Begin Testing GMEX Feeds, Driven by Buy-Side Demand
Data vendors have begun testing new market data feeds from derivatives exchange operator and exchange technology platform provider Global Markets Exchange Group, ahead of the launch of its trading platforms for futures, fixed income and currency markets…
OTCGH's EOX Market Data Group Hires for ‘Rainey' Day
Over-the-counter energy and commodities broker consortium OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) has hired Catherine Rainey as director of its technology and data subsidiary EOX Holdings' market data group.