Data Management
eVestment Adds Nasdaq Index Data
Nasdaq OMX has begun distributing data on its Nasdaq Global Index Family and Nasdaq Dividend Achiever Indexes via fund management software provider eVestment’s suite of analytics products.
Infront Adds Morningstar Mutual Funds Data, Fund Search Tool
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added new mutual funds content to its data terminal to meet increasing demand from portfolio managers and financial advisors for coverage of the US and European funds markets.
Barchart Bolsters Equity Options Web Data
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has unveiled an Equity Option Center on its website, in response to demand from users for more extensive coverage of the asset class.
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind
The choice to outsource data management functions is not as simple as it might seem, says Matthew Cox, a longtime industry data executive and consultant
Managing the Front Office - Back Office Data Gap
Firms’ leadership and front offices tend to harbor skepticism about back-office handling of reference data. Michael Shashoua hears from users and providers on how front- and back-office staff can have constructive dialogue and work together instead of at…
Swift Partners with Major Banks on KYC Utility
Swift plans to launch a central utility for know-your-customer data later this year and is working with six major banks, who are sharing their views on the processes, documentation and data needed
FRS Launches Analytical Tool for Life Insurer
Financial Risk Solutions (FRS), the Dublin-based software provider to the life insurance industry, has announced the launch of Invest|Pro Analytics, a web-based reporting and control tool for fund administration.
Mexico's Intangible Investments Live on iLevel
The Mexico City-based venture capital firm will be the first in the country using iLevel's Private Capital Data platform, and third in Latin America after Colombia's Tribeca Asset Management and Brazil's Patria Investimentos.
Markit Taps SMA for Social Media Sentiment Indicators
Markit has integrated social media sentiment indicators from Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois.-based provider of social media-based analytics and trading indicators, into its Markit Research Signals suite of more than 400 investment…
Nasdaq Extends New Feed Tests
Nasdaq OMX has delayed the end of beta testing for a suite of enhanced datafeeds by two weeks to ensure direct feed subscribers have adequate time to test the new versions.
Thomson Reuters Adds Oil Supply Flows Data to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added a new tool to its Eikon desktop to enable commodity traders and investors to track the global movement of oil assets in real time and forecast the impact of supply and demand on market prices.
New OpenCorporates API Includes Access to Corporate Network Data
The new application programming interface gives users of the database of corporate entity data access to the US Federal Reserve's hierarchy data on bank holding companies and other new information
Exchanges See Data Revenues Rise
Exchanges continue to report increases in market data revenues in their financial results, following a raft of similarly largely positive results in recent weeks (IMD, Feb. 17)—though, post-financial crisis, Latin America and Asia are no longer…
Tradition Revamps Forward Swaps Data; Preps ParFX Data Offering, HFT Neutralizer
Interdealer broker Tradition has launched a new data service that combines executable price data from Trad-X—the interest-rate swap trading platform run by Tradition in partnership with 12 investment banks that covers 250 of the most liquid interest-rate…
Maple Leaves HFT Co-Lo for SpryWare Cloud
A proprietary trading group at Maple Securities USA, the US subsidiary of Canada’s Maple Financial Group, is finalizing a migration from direct exchange feeds and an in-house co-location operation to a managed market data infrastructure run by Chicago…
Rewiring the Data Management Brain
Crowdsourcing elements of reference data production, if done right, can elevate the quality of that data, as a newer service provider in the space asserts
Roberts Group Adds Bloomberg Price List Processing Utility to New FITS Release
New York-based data inventory and cost management software provider The Roberts Group has rolled out version 3.61 of its FITS (Financial Information Tracking System) market data inventory management platform, which includes a new tool for automating pre…
SimCorp Acquires Client Reporting Software Provider
SimCorp hopes to capitalize on demand for client reporting technology by combining its performance, risk and accounting capabilities with the reporting functionality from Equipos
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…