Data Management
Pricing: the Meaning and Impact of Transparency -- Webcast
On November 13, 2013, five industry experts took part in an Inside Reference Data webcast exploring how requirements for increased levels of transparency are affecting the pricing and valuations space
Ruvo Quits Muni Data Vendor DPC
Roseland, NJ-based municipal bond data and disclosures provider DPC Data announced Wednesday, Nov 13 that Michael Ruvo has resigned his position as president, to take on an undisclosed "leadership opportunity with another company."
SuperDerivatives Taps JP Morgan Oil Exec
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has hired David Taban to head the firm's commodities and energy division.
ETRE Taps SunGard to Power REIT Data-Trading Platform
Startup real estate investment trust trading platform provider ETRE Financial is using a suite of data and tools from financial IT giant SunGard to power its data and trading services, including SunGard's MarketMap datafeed, the SunGard Global Network…
Edgar Online Eyes ‘Rebirth' of Data Biz with Mashery APIs
Filings and company data provider Edgar Online is seeking to open up its content to a new audience of end-users and application developers, by enlisting integration software vendor Mashery to build custom APIs (application program interfaces) around its…
Nittan Capital Opts for GFI's Fenics Pro
Tokyo-headquartered interdealer broker Nittan Capital has deployed London-based interdealer broker GFI's Fenics Professional pricing and risk management system for foreign exchange options in its Singapore and Hong Kong operations to improve workflow…
RavenPack Crows About Expanded Coverage
Spanish news sentiment analysis provider RavenPack has added more than 22,000 new sources of news and opinion from the online editions of newspapers, journals and trade magazines, as well as specialist financial news sites and blogs to its RavenPack News…
Nittan Capital Chooses Fenics for FX Options Risk and Pricing
Nittan Capital, an Asia-Pac interdealer broker specializing in derivatives, has deployed Fenics Professional, a pricing and risk management system for FX options, in its Singapore and Hong Kong offices.
Study: Asset Managers Grapple with Effective Data Aggregation, Analytics
In a survey commissioned by State Street and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, buy-side firms indicated that more stringent risk management standards, a growing volume of trading data, and the need to expand into new regions and asset classes…
Nasdaq Goes to SPA for MFQS Makeover
Nasdaq OMX's Mutual Fund Quotation Service (MFQS), a pricing system that collects and disseminates daily price, dividends and capital distributions data for mutual funds, money market funds, unit investment trusts and annuities, is now pricing structured…
AlgoSpan Lands in Lunda Datacenter
Ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and market data connectivity provider AlgoSpan has set up a point of presence in Nasdaq OMX's datacenter in Lunda, just outside Stockholm.
SuperDerivatives Bolsters SDX, DGX Data Coverage with Credit Options
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has added volatility surfaces for a range of credit indexes to its SDX multi-asset pricing platform for pricing structured products and its DGX market data terminal.
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
The Onward March of Managed Services
As cost-cutting measures and regulatory challenges continue, will firms increase the types of data they are willing to outsource to providers of managed services?
HKEx Preps OMD for Derivs, New Gateways
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is preparing to migrate its derivatives market data to its new Orion Market Data platform, which went live last month for equities data, along with the implementation of the Nasdaq OMX Genium Inet platform for its…
OneMarketData Survey: Growing Interest for Data Services in the Cloud
There is growing interest across the financial industry in leveraging cloud computing technology for data-intensive processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost analysis, though adoption of cloud technology to support…
UBS Becomes First Sell-Side Client for Markit EDM Hosted Platform
In a major coup for Markit Enterprise Data Management, UBS will use its hosted platform for instrument reference data mastering across all asset classes globally
CQG QTrader to Perform Charting and Execution
CQG has released CQG QTrader, a charting and execution platform to make its market data, charting, and electronic trading more accessible.
APFIC Panel: In Buy-vs-Build Debate, Vendor Value is Key
Data sourcing professionals at financial firms want to see vendors focus less on entrenching themselves via long-term deals to retain business and more on winning and earning business through innovation and competitive pricing─though vendors say they…
Banks, Providers Failing to Innovate on Data, Says APFIC End-User Panel
Neither end-user firms nor vendors are doing enough to innovate their way out of budgetary woes towards growth, with internal cultures contributing to stagnation by not fostering creative ideas, said a panel of consumer firms at the Asia Pacific…
Bloomberg PolarLake CEO: Markit Deal Proves Our Independence
John Randles, chief executive officer of Bloomberg PolarLake, says a deal to distribute data from Markit proves his company is an independent entity that is open to working with third-party data vendors
EESAT Readies Complex Order Book Feeds, Tools
EESAT, a startup spin-off from trading firm MEB Options providing market data on complex order books of multi-leg trades between asset classes, is preparing to unveil the first product in a suite of new data services based on tools originally developed…
Interactive Data, Icap Strike Data Distribution Deal
Interactive Data has signed a licensing agreement with Icap Information Services, the data services arm of interdealer broker Icap, to make the entire universe of Icap data available on its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over…
Infront Launches Tweetwires Twitter Data Filtering Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology vendor Infront will today announce a new service, dubbed Infront Tweetwires, which filters Twitter for real-time news and sentiment related to specific industry sectors and news events, to help users extract…