Data Management
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
Nasdaq PHLX Adds Data Specs to Options Feeds
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) is updating the specifications for three options data products, to include additional data in existing order exposure alerts and a solicitation mechanism.
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Data Audit Recoveries Boost Moscow Exchange H1 Revenues
The Moscow Exchange has reported a 42 percent year-on-year increase in first half information services revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, to RR (Russian rubles) 241.7 million ($6.7 million), from RR170.7 million ($4.7 million) in 2013.
ICBC Taps IBM's Active-Active for DR
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will employ IBM's mainframe computing solution Active-Active to provide "near-continuous" availability and disaster recovery (DR) in an effort to enhance its business continuity processes.
EPFR Jumps for Joyce
Cambridge, Mass.-based fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired data industry vet Larry Joyce as sales director, based in New York, and focusing on sales to asset managers, mutual funds and hedge funds in the New York tri-state area.
LSE Announces £938M Rights Issue to Fund Russell Acquisition
The London Stock Exchange has announced that it intends to raise £938 million ($1.561 billion) in a rights issue (an issue of rights to buy additional securities in a company made to the company's existing security holders) to fund part of the $2.7…
The Roberts Group Releases Invoice Payment Approval Module
New York-based data inventory and cost management software provider The Roberts Group has released a new module of its FITS (Financial Information Tracking System) market data inventory management platform, dubbed FITS Invoice Approval Workflow (IAW),…
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Doubles Quotation Rates
Chinese stock exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has announced that it has increased quotation rates from the Shenzhen market from 114,000 quotes per second up to 228,000 per second.
Nasdaq OMX Introduces New IP Addresses for New York Area
Nasdaq OMX has introduced new IP addresses for the New York Metro Area datacenter for its PHLX depth of darket, PHLX orders, and top of PHLX Options (TOPO) datafeeds.
NovaSparks Launches OPRA FPGA Feed Handler
French FPGA feed handler and data appliance provider NovaSparks has released a new FPGA-based feed handler for the Options Price Reporting Authority’s (OPRA) consolidated cash equity options feed, that will enable trading firms and investment banks to…
SunGard MarketMap to Focus on 'Unique Content'
SunGard MarketMap, the market data arm of technology giant SunGard, is embarking on a new initiative to build out unique and proprietary content sets that leverage other areas of SunGard's business, in a bid to better differentiate itself from…
Data and Gut Feelings
During summer vacations, IRD's editor finds some lessons for data management in the world of fantasy football, as the fall season nears for both businesses
Trendrating Unveils v1.0 of Momentum Analytics Platform
Trendrating, which provides momentum factor analytics to asset managers, has released version 1.0 of its Momentum Analytics platform.
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…