Data Management
Who Watches? Not the Watchers, Apparently
The CFTC’s data dilemma leads this week’s coverage.
Activ Financial Readies Lynx ATS and CX2 Feed Handlers
Market data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial is building out new feed handlers for Lynx ATS, Omega ATS's new Canadian alternative trading system, and CX2, Chi-X Canada's second ATS, to provide domestic and US customers with complete coverage of…
Updata Integrates Historical Data from GFD
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has integrated San Juan Capistrano Calif.-based data provider Global Financial Data's database of historical financial and economic data into its Professional analytics suite to enable users to visualize…
ICE Splits NYSE Liffe, Euronext Feeds
NYSE Euronext has introduced a new commercial model for real-time data from its Liffe derivatives market that will see London-listed derivatives unbundled from continental European derivatives, as a result of ongoing plans to spin off Euronext's European…
Kilburn's Corner: Abandonment Issues
This week, Inside Market Data's editor, Max Bowie, is taking a well-deserved vacation, and, quite frankly, it's left me with abandonment issues. While he's been gone, I have been responsible for all editorial decisions, fielded all the calls and decided…
Crowd Computing: a New Approach to Data Management—Webcast
On March 27, representatives from data vendor companies and experts in the area of crowd computing took part in a webinar to discuss how this new working method - which combines automation tools, freelance workers and captive staff - can benefit the…
egID Readies Datacenter for Egyptian Exchange Move
Egyptian information provider and software developer Egypt for Information Dissemination (egID), a joint venture between the Egyptian Exchange and Nasdaq OMX, is expanding its datacenter in New Cairo to accommodate the Egyptian Exchange (EGX), which…
Deutsche Börse Launches Eurex Full Order Book Feed
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services, the IT arm of Deutsche Börse, has launched a new information product dubbed Eurex Order by Order that provides the entire order book of benchmark futures from its Eurex derivatives exchange.
Finnish Pension Fund Elo Mutual Live on SimCorp
Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company, the product of a recent merger between Pension Fennia and Local Tapiola Pension Company managing about $24.8 billion, is now using SimCorp Dimension for integrated front-to-back data management and automated…
Dow Jones Rolls Out Customer-Driven Factivia Upgrade
Newswire Dow Jones has made a number of changes to streamline the search functionality and newsletter capabilities of its Factiva business information and research tool, based on customer feedback over the past year.
ISITC's Zoller on Conference Highlights
Jeff Zoller, chair of ISITC, talks about the new middle office group announced at the organization's 20th annual conference in Boston on March 24, as well as other issues on the agenda
CFTC Unable to Perform “Basic” Analysis of Swap Data
Most of us struggle to keep our bills and bank statements in any semblance of order, but for US regulators, trying to sift through millions of swap transaction reports is a task of Herculean proportions. A task, one senior official says, that the US…
Estimize Unveils Crowd-Sourced M&A Prediction Platform, Raises $1.2M Expansion Funding
New York-based startup crowd-sourced estimates provider Estimize will roll out a new platform today, Wednesday, March 26, dubbed Mergerize, which aggregates crowd-sourced predictions of potential mergers and acquisition activity so traders, M&A bankers…
Rimes Adds Nasdaq Global Index Family to Data Service
Benchmark and economic data provider Rimes Technologies is now publishing Nasdaq OMX's global index family on its Benchmark Data Service, to provide joint asset manager and custodian clients with access to Nasdaq's alternative benchmarks for tracking…
Interactive Data Links With Microsoft
The data services provider will deliver its data through Office 365 and Excel. Interactive Data also plans to further distribute its data through Microsoft's software-as-a-service partners
Updata Drills IIR Energy for Analytic Tools
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has partnered with Houston, Texas-based supply-side energy market data provider IIR Energy to develop a new set of analytical tools for energy traders and analysts that leverage IIR Energy data covering…
ICD Chooses Volante for Data Integration
Institutional Cash Distributors Technology will use Volante Designer to help it integrate Swift Fin, Bank Administration Institute 2 and proprietary messages in XML and other formats
Herd Instinct: Financial Firms Combat Information Overload with Social Networking Tech
As financial firms deal with ever-increasing levels of information, some are starting to look at a fusion of different technologies to harness true value from the noise. As innovative uses of concepts that have traditionally been associated with social…
Nanospeed Adds FPGA Eurex Data Support
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed has added support for the T7 trading architecture utilized by Deutsche Börse’s Eurex derivatives market to its FPGA-accelerated Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for futures and options markets,…
Bucharest Exchange Readies Index Expansion
The Bucharest Stock Exchange plans to launch two new indexes plus supporting data this year and to revise its existing Bucharest Stock Exchange Trading Index (BET) index family, in a move to turn its indicators into more accurate representations of the…
The Opaqueness of IBOR
Anthony says that asset managers have to be wary of vendors pitching an IBOR solution. There are legitimate choices out there, but even though the term is old, the field of third-party providers is rapidly growing, and there may be imposters.
The data governance culture -- webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on March 6, 2014 to discuss how financial trading firms are managing data governance considerations in light of increased management focus.
FactSet Wraps Revere Schema Integration
FactSet Research Systems has completed the integration of data from San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data, after acquiring the vendor six months ago for an undisclosed sum, and is now conducting research to…
Bloomberg, Markit Seal PMI Data Distribution Deal
Bloomberg has announced that it will begin distributing Markit's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys via the Bloomberg Professional terminal service from Mar. 24, to provide subscribers with real-time access to Markit's PMI indicators of business…