Data Management
Thomson Reuters Launches KYC Managed Service
Thomson Reuters has launched a central hub for know-your-client data to make it easier and cheaper for financial firms to manage their regulatory requirements
ITG Launches Trading Cost Index, App
Agency brokerage and trading technology provider ITG unveiled a new index today, Wednesday, March 19, that tracks daily transaction costs across different regions and assets, to provide portfolio managers and traders with a quick, aggregate view of…
Consultancy D-fine Deploys SuperDerivatives DGX Terminals
German quantitative and technical consulting firm D-fine is rolling out data, pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives' DGX data and news terminal to its consultants, freeing them from inflexible fee schedules offered by other…
Markit Debuts Securities Finance Data Platform
Markit has announced the launch of a new platform geared towards data provision for securities lending.
9W Search Bows Mobile Company Data Query App
Financial search engine provider 9W Search has launched a mobile app for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone devices and Android tablets and smartphones, to make it easy for investors to obtain answers to any question about US public company data.
EDI, Beast Apps Partner on Fixed-Income Derived Data
Algorithms provided by the Beast Apps are using data from Exchange Data International to derive 11 data fields that are available in a new feed
Muscat Securities Market Rolls Out DirectFN Apps
Oman stock exchange the Muscat Securities Market has adopted real-time data apps by Dubai-based market data and financial technology provider DirectFN, in an effort to boost transparency on its capital markets.
Bloomberg Formalizes Third-Party Partner Program Amid Growth
Data and technology provider Bloomberg has announced a formal structure around its partner program, operated by its Enterprise Solutions division, which allows third-party vendors to integrate Bloomberg data into their platforms and connect to…
Dickey to Direct OPRA
Market data industry veteran Steve Dickey has been appointed director of the Options Price Reporting Authority, which manages the OPRA consolidated feed of US exchange-traded options quote and trade data.
Deutsche Börse Launches Economic Indicators Alert Feed
Deutsche Börse has launched AlphaFlash Risk Signal, a notification feed that helps automated traders and other market participants improve their risk management by informing them of upcoming economic indicators, and alerting them when the releases are…
How Many Utilities Does the Industry Need?
The industry will not see the full benefits of the utility model if it becomes spread thinly across a multitude of rival offerings
Moscow Exchange Preps Unified Data Policy
The Moscow Exchange is expected to approve a new fee policy document within the next two months that will standardize the contract terms and costs of market data usage by its trading members, data vendors and other users, exchange officials say.
MarketPsych Readies Revamped V2.0 of TRMI Sentiment Indexes
Los Angeles-based behavioral finance and analysis provider MarketPsych is preparing to launch a new version of its Thomson Reuters MarketPsych Indexes (TRMI) machine-readable news service, which will incorporate sentiment on global equity indexes and…
CNSX Mulls ITCH Feed, Continues Equinix Migration
Canadian exchange group CNSX Markets is considering rolling out new versions of its market data feeds based on Nasdaq OMX's ITCH protocol in a bid to grow its membership base of market makers, algorithmic traders and low-latency trading firms.
Confluence Taps SunGard Vet Byrne for EU Sales
Pittsburgh-based fund data management software vendor Confluence has hired former SunGard executive Hugh Byrne as managing director of sales, responsible for driving Confluence's strategic sales and growth strategy in Europe.
S&P Real-Time Debuts FPGA OPRA Feed
The Real-Time Solutions division of S&P Capital IQ (formerly QuantHouse, prior to its acquisition by S&P in 2012) has unveiled QuantFeed FPGA for OPRA, a hardware-accelerated version of its consolidated datafeed that delivers additional processing power…
Charles River to Enter the IBOR Fray
Later this year Charles River is set to unveil a module that will allow its buy-side clients to manage their investment book of record (IBOR) activities. The IBOR functionality will be deployed along with version 9.2 of the Charles River Investment…
Thomson Reuters, Cambridge Associates Aggregate Private Fund Benchmarks
The financial information provider and global investment firm have collaborated on a jointly-developed online platform to provide benchmark pricing on a range of alternative funds.
Thomson Reuters Adds Cambridge Assocs Fund Performance Benchmarks
Thomson Reuters is to begin making private fund performance benchmark data from investment firm Cambridge Associates available via its Eikon data desktop to provide "a next-generation benchmarking system for the [financial] industry," officials say.
Markit Expands European Pricing Data Service
The data services provider has more than doubled the number of European asset-backed securities pricings it offers
SIX Data Supports Hessegim Bond Analytics
Fixed-income software vendor Hessegim is using a web-based application program interface to integrate SIX's reference data into its new bond analytics tool
Analyzing direct and indirect global networks to understand true risk exposure -- special report
What you don’t know can hurt you: Analyzing direct and indirect global networks to understand true risk exposure
Barchart Adds EDI Historical Equities Data to OnDemand Cloud
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has begun making end-of-day and historical equity price data from reference data provider Exchange Data International available to clients of its Barchart OnDemand cloud data service.
Hessegim Adds SIX Bond, Reference Data
Israeli fixed income analytics software provider Hessegim Software has added global fixed income pricing and reference data from SIX Financial Information to its Prafis analytical tool.