Data Management
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…
KVH Preps JPX Co-Lo
Japanese network provider KVH is to begin offering co-location at the Japan Exchange Group, providing local and international trading firms with low-latency access to the market data and trading on the Osaka Securities Exchange's J-Gate derivatives…
Moody's Analytics Provides Analysis, Economic Forecasts on Fed's 2014 CCAR Scenarios
Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of ratings agency Moody's, has analyzed the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) scenarios for 2014 to produce economic scenarios for more than 50 countries and well as reports…
PTS Partners Taps OneMarketData's OneTick
Global quantitative fund PTS Partners has deployed New York-based tick database and complex event processing engine provider OneMarketData's OneTick tick database and complex event processing system to support its quantitative investment strategies.
Bloomberg, Markit Agree Distribution Deal For EDM Businesses
An agreement between data vendors Bloomberg and Markit will see them distribute one another's reference and pricing data via their respective enterprise data management (EDM) businesses, Bloomberg PolarLake and Markit EDM
SIX Financial Information Adds APA Austrian News to iD Terminal
Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has added real-time news from Austrian news provider APA-Finance to its Telekurs iD desktop data, news and analysis terminal, as a free add-on for Austrian subscribers to its Wealth and Asset Management…
Dealing With Data Dichotomies
The gap between what is required by regulations and what can realistically be achieved is becoming apparent
Luxoft Exec on LEI Integration Strategies
Torjus Jensen, managing director for financial services at Luxoft, explains that some firms are struggling to integrate legal entity identifiers into their systems because they don’t have a legal entity master in their reference data stack
National Bank Financial Deploys NovaSparks FPGAs
Canadian investment bank National Bank Financial, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, has rolled out French data technology provider NovaSparks' FPGA Matrix feed handler framework─which delivers deterministic "wire-to-memory" and order book…
Redline Preps Asian Feeds, HK Presence
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions is adding support for datafeeds from Asian exchanges, and has established an office in Hong Kong to provide technical support to clients in the region.
Congrats to the BST Award Winners, as Data/Risk Rule the Day
At an event today in London, the winners of this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards were announced. Anthony discusses what made those entrants special and also notes that data and risk management played a major a role.
Ungovernable Data?
During a roundtable discussion hosted by Rimes Technologies, senior representatives from asset management firms discussed the data governance challenges facing them. From controlling data and managing regulatory change to securing board-level support,…
BATS Enlists Interactive Data for Low-Cost Data Terminals
US exchange operator BATS Global Markets has launched two new desktop data and analytics workstations, developed in conjunction with Interactive Data and based on the vendor's own terminal products, utilizing BATS' free-of-charge equities data.
Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange Startup Readies Data, Research Ahead of Launch
The Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange (APX), a new Sydney, Australia-based exchange that will list equities in Chinese and Australian companies, will begin rolling out a suite of data services with an emphasis on news and fundamental research, when it launches…
Nanospeed Readies FPGAs for Asia, Europe
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed, which this week launched its Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for US equities and options markets, is now developing support for a number of additional Asian and European markets in response to…
ISE Blames OPRA for NBBO Data Exclusion
A technical issue at the Options Price Reporting Authority resulted in the International Securities Exchange's main market and secondary options exchange Gemini not being included in the OPRA national best bid and offer (NBBO) feed for part of the…
ISE Shuffles Data Execs, Soule Exits
The International Securities Exchange has reorganized the team of executives responsible for the exchange's market data, resulting in an expanded role for business development officer Jeanine Hightower and the departure of former head of market data Jeff…
Buy-Side Data Governance Requires a Cultural Change
At a recent Rimes Technologies roundtable, hosted by Waters, senior representatives from the buy side debated the issue of data governance within asset management firms. The problem with implementing effective governance, they said, may be cultural…