Data Management
World Wide Wedges
While service providers seem to be able to leverage clients with global footprints, the inter-governmental difficulties encountered with Fatca tax law implementation sound a note of caution for their efforts
Euroclear's Groot on Data Utilities
Martijn Groot of post-trade services vendor Euroclear explains how data utilities can help financial firms reduce costs and improve data quality
SeekingAlpha Lists OTC Markets Data, Links
Financial news, analysis and transcript website Seeking Alpha has added marketplace designations for the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink markets operated by OTC Markets Group to company information on its website, to denote the listing market of each security…
MainstreamBPO Expands DST HiPortfolio Usage
Sydney-based fund administration provider has expanded its use of DST Global Solutions' HiPortfolio product, to support large-scale growth.
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
Updating the data quality toolbox -- Webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on December 17, 2013 to discuss what financial trading firms are doing to improve data quality and the measures they are taking in light of increased reporting rules and regulation.
Chaikin Bows Desktop App, ETF Data
Chaikin Analytics has adapted its Chaikin Analytics for iPad app to create a desktop workstation, incorporating its Chaikin Power Gauge alpha model of 20 fundamental and technical factors that provides a bullish or bearish rating, and six pairs of buy…
InfoReach Adds eSpeed Fixed Income Data
Chicago-based trading technology provider InfoReach has integrated market data from Nasdaq OMX's eSpeed fixed income market into its trading application to support direct execution on eSpeed.
IEX Taps Redline Ticker NBBO Feed for Price Matching
Mutual fund-owned alternative trading system IEX Group has confirmed it is using Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency data technology provider Redline Trading Solutions' InRush 3 hardware-accelerated ticker plant to capture US equity market data to support…
Exegy Grows FX Coverage with Bloomberg, Currenex, Gain Feed Handlers
St. Louis, MO-based low-latency feed handler and data platform appliance vendor Exegy has rolled out new feed handlers for foreign exchange trading platforms Bloomberg Tradebook, Currenex ITCH and Gain GTX within its Exegy Ticker Plant to expand its…
Bureau van Dijk Adds to Orbis Company Database
Bureau van Dijk, a Dutch provider of company information, has rolled out an updated version of its Orbis company database, containing broader and new datasets.
High Time for Cybercrime
Tackling issues head on.
Interactive Data Adds GFI, Icap, Commodities to FutureSource
Interactive Data is adding new commodities datasets from interdealer brokers GFI and Icap, UK-based agricultural specialist Informa Agra and pricing and news provider OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) to its FutureSource market data and analytics…
Quandl Bows Crowd-Sourced Data, Curation
Quandl, a Toronto-based startup search engine covering financial, economic and sociological datasets is preparing to roll out Quandl-as-a-Service, enabling firms to curate and add public data to the site.
Russell Revamps, Unbundles Index Pricing
Russell Indexes, the index provider subsidiary of asset manager Russell Investments, is introducing a new pricing model for its RussellTick real-time feed of US and global consolidated index data, reflecting enhancements made to the product as part of an…
IMD's 10 Days of Christmas: The Top 10 Trends of 2013
In the spirit of the season, Inside Market Data will be publishing its Top 10 Trends of 2013 over the coming 10 days in the run-up to Christmas.
Oslo Børs Nibor U-Turn Irks End-Users
Norwegian exchange group Oslo Børs last week began calculating the Norwegian Interbank Offered Rate (Nibor) benchmark rate, after being appointed the calculation agent by Norwegian financial industry association Finance Norway. However, end-users are…
Empirasign Adds to Dealer Run Quotes
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of dealer offerings and "trade color" for mortgage and asset-backed securities, is adding new datasets covering bids and two-way markets to its database of fixed-income pricing, in response to client…
Conning Turns to Markit for Depth and Scope of Corporates Pricing
Conning, an $82 billion Hartford, Conn.-based global asset manager, holds a majority of its assets, much of them on behalf of insurance clients, in bonds. In switching to Markit's pricing service, Conning's chief data officer Brian Baczyk says the…
Thomson Reuters Adds ANZ Bond Pricing
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun contributing prices for more than 2,700 credit bonds denominated in Australian, New Zealand and US dollars as well as pounds sterling and euros on Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading bond platform.
Big Data Opportunities, Perils Discussed at Waters USA
The paradigm shift of big data has led to new opportunities for trading firms to create more efficient and cutting-edge trading strategies. But firms should take care when investing in high-end analytics platforms, according to panelists at this year's…
Energy Data Hub Taps Sapient
Houston, Texas-based energy data processing utility Energy Data Hub has enlisted Sapient Global Markets to contribute to the development of its EDH Platform central repository for global energy trade data, to help EDH provide improved data transparency…
Integral Readies FX Benchmark Rate Fixings
Foreign exchange trading software vendor Integral Development Corp is preparing to launch a set of benchmark rates for major currency pairs, updated at one-second intervals and made available at the end of every trading day, to provide more reliable data…
SpryWare Adds Data to Cloud Ticker Plant
Chicago-based low-latency feed handler and ticker plant provider SpryWare has expanded its Proximity Cloud hosted ticker plant to include full order book data, including 45 days of historical full order book data and a calculated top-of-book price, with…