Data Management
WSE Bows Short, Leveraged Index Data
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has begun distributing data on two new indexes based on the exchange’s WIG30 blue-chip benchmark.
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
Complexity or Simplicity - The Data Quality Question
Those seeking to increase data quality, cope with new identifier standards or meet the mandates laid out by Europe's new market infrastructure regulation, are looking at how to reduce the complexity of the methods designed to meet simple goals
Spread Connects NYSE Mahwah Datacenter to Chicago
Ridgeland, MS-based low-latency fiber network operator Spread Networks has set up a point of presence for its wavelength data network between New York and Chicago at NYSE Euronext's datacenter at Mahwah, NJ, creating roundtrip latency of around 14…
Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
S&P Capital IQ Extends Trading and Data Services Through Hong Kong Exchange
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions has reinforced its Asia offering by extending its QuantFEED and QuantLINK solutions through Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEx) Orion program. The new service provides participants with faster access to both…
Rutschmann Named Infront COO
Norwegian data vendor Infront has appointed Urs Rutschmann as chief operating officer, responsible for managing all the vendor's operational activities, including strategy, sales, marketing, product development and client services.
Metadata Gains Role in Semantic Modeling
Semantic data modeling efforts, which have gained traction in the financial services industry, are increasingly being driven by metadata, said an IT processing services company executive
Max Bowie: Cost, Regs, Volumes, Analytics to Drive Data Innovation in 2014
With economic woes hampering innovation in recent years, Max says the winds of change blowing from different directions may create a perfect storm of pressures that force the industry to consider new options in 2014.
Big Data Webcast: Analyze This
As a consequence of their participation in the capital markets, the necessary evils that all buy-side and sell-side firms have been forced to address include mounting data volumes, greater data varieties, and increased data velocity, all of which must be…
YCharts Revamps Screener, Charting; Preps New Content, Research
Fundamental data analysis provider YCharts has enhanced its stock screener tool to allow users of its YCharts Pro Platinum professional-grade analysis platform to create custom combinations of screening criteria based on the 4,000 financial factors…
Markit's McPherson Returns to NewOak
Neil McPherson, former managing director and global head of structured finance at Markit, has rejoined New York-based risk advisory and asset management firm NewOak--where he previously served as a managing director between October 2008 and April 2009-…
BNY Mellon Taps Markit for Enterprise Data Management
BNY Mellon Asset Management has chosen the Markit Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform for the harmonization and automation of its data operations.
Quality's Matrix
Data quality improvement efforts—even those aimed at making the process simpler—are proving to be a complex mix involving different actions for different types of data, regulations to contend with, and management issues to be grasped. Michael Shashoua…
QSuper Extends Rimes for Performance Benchmarking
QSuper, a AUD46 billion Australian superannuation fund for Queensland, will use the buy-side data services provider's benchmark data service (BDS) to develop customized benchmarking tools for performance attribution and post-trade compliance analysis.
Resource Capital Funds Live on iLevel
The Denver-based private equity firm Resource Capital Funds (RCF), which specializes in hard mineral mining firm investments, will use iLevel's private capital data platform to manage to data collection, reporting, and performance measurement.
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1010 Says 10-4 to Fannie Loan Data
Big Data analytics and database provider 1010Data has aggregated Fannie Mae loan-level credit performance data for fixed-rate single family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae over the past 13 years into two tables as an ongoing time-series dataset that…
Borsa Istanbul Takes Nasdaq Data, Trading Platforms
Nasdaq OMX will supply Turkish exchange Borsa Istanbul with technology and advisory services─including the provision of a new market data distribution system─under the terms of a deal that will also see Nasdaq take a five percent stake in the exchange,…
Nasdaq Delays New Feeds Test
Nasdaq OMX has delayed the start of testing for enhanced versions of its US equity datafeeds covering its Nasdaq Stock Market, BX and PSX marketplaces until the end of January.
Rimes' Cheng: ‘Clear and Present Danger' of Regulation Will Cause ‘Tipping Point' for Managed Data Services
Steve Cheng, global head of data management solutions at economic and benchmark data and managed service provider Rimes Technologies, warns of the need for firms to investigate and leverage new technologies to address regulatory change.
NFEA Taps Moscow Exchange FX Fixing for Swap Rates
Russia's National Foreign Exchange Association has announced that from Jan. 9, it will begin using the Moscow Exchange's US dollar-ruble price fixing to calculate the NFEA FX swap rate instead of the current Central Bank of Russia rate.