Data Management
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…
SimCorp, TechMahindra Collaborate on Contingency Service
The vendors are preparing to pilot a new service that will help asset managers improve their contingency planning by providing critical data points if one of their service providers fails
Xenomorph Integrates Aqumin Data Visualization Technology
Integration of Aqumin's data visualization functionality will allow users to view data in multiple dimensions and gain a deeper, contextual understanding of it
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December 2013 - sponsored by: DTCC, SIX Financial Information, S&P Capital IQ
Thomson Reuters, SGX Ally on Bond Indexes
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a suite of Singapore dollar bond indexes, developed with the Singapore Exchange, to help fund managers, asset owners and custodians benchmark investment performance and to provide increased transparency into local bond…
Ex-DPC President Ruvo Bonds with BondWave
Michael Ruvo, former president of municipal bond data vendor DPC Data, has joined BondWave-a Wheaton, Illinois-based provider of trade support, monitoring, alerting and reporting software for fixed income investors and financial advisors-as president,…
Mizuho Chooses GoldenSource for Data Quality, Regulatory Compliance
Mizuho International will use GoldenSource's enterprise data management platform to help it comply with regulations such as the European Market Infrastructure Regulation by improving data quality and transparency
SIX FinInfo Unveils ‘Ticks by SIX' Historical Data Service
SIX Financial Information, the data vendor business of Swiss exchange operator and clearing organization SIX Group, has launched a new historical data service of trade and quote data back to June 2007 for its universe of global equities, bonds, indices,…
Senior Technologists Discuss the Drive Toward Standardization, Automation
At this year's Waters USA conference at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, a panel of C-level technologists from across the industry discussed their drive toward standardization and automation, while contemplating new cost structures to help…
Senior Technologists Discuss the Drive Toward Standardization, Automation
At this year's Waters USA conference at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, a panel of C-level technologists from across the industry discussed their drive toward standardization and automation, while contemplating new cost structures to help…
Nasdaq's Sears: FinQloud to Expand from Storage into Better Access
Nasdaq FinQloud's Julia Sears foreshadowed an expanded business model at Waters USA.
Tora Trading Taps Activ for Asia-Pac Data
Asia-focused trading platform provider Tora Trading Services has selected US-based low-latency data vendor Activ Financial to deliver market data from Asia-Pacific marketplaces to its customer base of traders at hedge funds, long-only funds and sell-side…
Update: SBI Securities Adopts MarketPrizm Low-Latency Feed As Asia Brokers Face Latency Demands
Japanese online brokerage SBI Securities has gone live with low-latency provide normalized feeds of market data from the Japan Exchange Group's TSE FLEX platform and proprietary trading system SBI Japannext delivered via London-based market data and…
US Exchanges, SEC Mull Anti-Data Glitch Proposals
In the past month, stock and option exchanges have agreed and submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission recommendations to strengthen the performance of the US capital markets infrastructure, following several well-publicized data failures…
CME Readies Non-Display Data Fees
CME Group has notified customers of changes to its market data license agreement for 2014, including plans to introduce new fees for certain types of non-display data usage, Inside Market Data has learned.
Data Vet Raw Departs FTSE
Tony Raw has left his role as managing director of index provider FTSE International, Inside Market Data has learned.
IRD's Editor on Data Management Collaboration
Pricing transparency and regulatory compliance efforts share a common thread: the need for collaboration.