Data Management
Burton-Taylor: Data Demand Falls in 2013; Spend Driven by Price Hikes
Global spend on market data and analysis increased by 1.1 percent last year from $25.5 billion in 2012 to $25.88 billion in 2013, but would have been fallen if not for vendor price increases of an average two percent, according to research from Burton…
CMC Picks Colt as Datacenter Provider
London-based derivatives dealer CMC Markets has signed a 12-year agreement with UK-based network and hosting services provider Colt to act as its preferred datacenter provider, in a move to boost operational efficiency and increase clients' connectivity…
Spain's BME Grows IBEX Index Data
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Españoles plans to begin distributing data on eight new tradable indexes to its IBEX series that will serve as underlying assets for financial products, such as warrants, certificates and exchange-traded funds, to…
Interactive Data Adds MT Newswires' US, Canada News to Market-Q Desktop, App
Interactive Data has integrated US and Canadian news and analysis from MT Newswires─a division of Midnight Trader─into its Market-Q web-based data terminal and its accompanying Market-Q Mobile platform.
Challenger Taps SuperDerivatives for Revaluation, DGX Terminals
Australian Investment manager Challenger is to roll out derivatives pricing and risk software vendor SuperDerivatives' bespoke portfolio revaluation service, allowing the firm to price basket options and underlying securities for ASX 200 index…
Feldstein Fits at BAML
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has appointed Josh Feldstein as vice president of market data sourcing, based in New York.
Tokyo Stock Exchange Offers Corvil Latency Measurement to Network Clients
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is to begin offering Dublin-based technology vendor Corvil's CorvilClear latency performance management solution to trading firms connected to its Arrownet network on an as-a-service basis, to provide them with visibility into…
Bond Analytics Vendor Hessegim Adds Fitch ratings data
Israeli fixed income software provider Hessegim Software has added credit rating data from Fitch Solutions-the software arm of ratings agency Fitch-to its Prafis fixed income analytics desktop.
Take Away Spreadsheets? From My Cold, Dead Hands
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets will continue to be widely used at asset management firms for the foreseeable future. But new regulations, technological advancements, and risk management concerns are leading buy-side firms to examine ways to lessen their…
Thomson Reuters Adds Buy-Side Focused Features to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its flagship desktop Eikon platform with a raft of new features designed specifically for buy-side customers.
Redi Adds OTC Markets Data
Trading technology provider Redi Global Technologies has begun distributing real-time Level 1 and Level 2 market data from New York-based over-the-counter equities exchange OTC Markets Group, to offer its clients access to a broader range of traded…
CME Eyes Summer Data Protocol Switch
CME Group is preparing to launch a new version of its market data platform later this year, MDP 3.0, which will feature a binary market data protocol designed to reduce the bandwidth required to deliver CME market data.
That Fun Intersection between Technology and Behavior
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BATS–Direct Edge to Equalize NY4, NY5 Latency, Post-2015 Equinix Move
BATS Global Markets will ensure that trading members of its BATS and Direct Edge exchanges will experience the same latency whether they co-locate in datacenter provider Equinix’s Secaucus, NJ NY4 or NY5 facilities when the US equities and options…
TPI, Nasdaq Ally for eSpeed Treasury Data, Sales Deal
Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, and Nasdaq OMX have struck a partnership for TPI to integrate benchmark US Treasury bond data from Nasdaq’s eSpeed electronic trading platform into its products and…
BATS CIO Explains Datacenter Move
Among the integration questions that needed answering when BATS and Direct Edge agreed to merge regarded that of their respective datacenters. BATS had its exchanges situated at Savvis' NJ2 facility in Weehauken, New Jersey. Direct Edge's were located at…
Morningstar Plots Brilliant Australasia CEO Path
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Heather Brilliant and Mark Roomans-currently global director of equity and corporate credit research, and chief operating officer of Morningstar Europe, respectively-as co…
NYSE Liffe Taps SuperDerivatives Volatility Data for Settlement Pricing
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software provider SuperDerivatives has begun providing IntercontinentalExchange's London-based NYSE Liffe derivatives market with volatility data to enhance daily settlement price calculations for flexible…
BATS to Transition Primary Exchanges to NY5 Datacenter
BATS has selected Equinix as its primary data center provider for all of the BATS exchange platforms, including the Direct Edge exchanges EDGA and EDGX.
BATS Taps Equinix as Primary Datacenter, Preps 2015 Move for BATS, Direct Edge Platforms
As part of its efforts to integrate the operations of its recent Direct Edge acquisition, US stock and options exchange operator BATS Global Markets will migrate both markets' trading technology to Equinix's new NY5 datacenter next year under a long-term…
Invea Bows FPGA Data, Trading Appliance
Invea-Tech, a provider of hardware acceleration technologies based in Brno in the Czech Republic, has released an FPGA (field-programmable gate array)-based trading system, TradeCope, which combines software management with hardware for handling market…
Alacra Adds CounterpartyLink Access to KYC Tool
Users of Alacra's know-your-customer tool can now access CounterpartyLink's legal entity intelligence, including primary-source documents that can be used to verify entities and changes in directors and legal structures
Fidessa Sets Up SGX Data, Trading Co-Lo
Trading technology and market data provider Fidessa will establish a point of presence at the Singapore Exchange's datacenter to provide the vendor's clients in Southeast Asia with sub-millisecond access to the SGX matching engine and market data.