Data Management
Alliance News Launches UK Equities Newswire, Partners with DPA-AFX, Proquote
UK-based newswire startup Alliance News will launch a real-time equities news service covering all listed UK stocks today, Friday, Oct. 4, to meet demand from traders and investors for UK-focused news to inform investment decisions.
Interxion to Host ASX London PoP
The Australian Securities Exchange has set up a point of presence for its ASX Net Global connectivity network at European datacenter provider Interxion's facility in the City of London, to provide UK and European trading firms with cross-connect access…
Centralization Takes Center Stage
Data management professionals are increasingly looking for ways to integrate and centralize reference data, as seen in stories in the October issue of IRD. Channeling data directly from its sources could be a helpful pre-requisite
Markit Announces CDS Index Licensing to SEFs
The financial information provider will license its credit default swap indices, including CDX North America IG, HY and iTraxx Europe, to any swap execution facility (SEF) under a single set of commercial terms.
Thomson Reuters Taps TPI for China Bond Data
Thomson Reuters has added real-time Chinese bond data from Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, to its Eikon desktop terminal and standalone data applications, to provide domestic and international customers with…
Platts Forges Metals Partnership with Germany's MVS
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has struck a deal to take an undisclosed investment stake in German iron ore and steel data provider Minerals Value Service and become the exclusive distributor of MVS's web-based value-in-use tool, which…
MDX, Ropnoy Ally for Spreadsheet Data Migrations
London-based market data connectivity platform and spreadsheet add-in provider MDX Technology has enlisted Ropnoy, a UK-based market data consultancy and software vendor, to help clients convert spreadsheets that consume data within their organizations…
The Rise of the Multi-Firm Financial Data Utility
Strapline: Industry Warehouse
DTCC, Global Banks Prepare Comprehensive Data Utility
The post-trade services provider, working with some major global firms, plans to create a single utility addressing legal entity, know-your-customer and other compliance data needs
AIM Software Adds Two Apps to its GAIN EDM Platform
Enterprise data management software vendor AIM Software has added GAIN Portfolio Pricing and GAIN Corporate Actions DM to its GAIN EDM platform.
HKEx Unveils Phase One of New ‘Orion' Data Platform
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has begun deploying the first phase of its new Orion Market Data platform, which will enable the exchange to distribute low-latency datafeeds with differing content to meet the needs of data vendors, market participants…
Bloomberg Bows ‘First Word FX' News
Bloomberg has rolled out a new dedicated foreign exchange news service, dubbed First Word Foreign Exchange, that provides concise 24-hour economic, geopolitical and currency-specific news, including daily event previews and exclusive market summaries,…
CQG Sets up Data, Trading Co-Lo at SGX
Denver, Colo-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG will establish a co-location presence at the Singapore Exchange's datacenter and connect directly to SGX's Derivatives Market Direct Feed, to provide clients in the region with low-latency…
Interactive Data Expands Japan Data on Consolidated Feed
Interactive Data has added market data from proprietary trading systems Chi-X Japan and SBI Japannext to its Consolidated Feed of real-time exchange and over-the-counter data (formerly known as PlusFeed) to meet demand from firms in Asia, Europe and the…
IDC Automates Vantage Workflow
Interactive Data has enhanced the workflow module of its web-based Vantage application for viewing the data behind evaluated prices, such as anonymous trades, quotes, dealer runs and market posts, to include automated routines and price tests to enable…
Wells Fargo's Johnson Discusses Regulations' Effect on Valuations
Michael Shashoua speaks to Daniel Johnson of Wells Fargo Global Fund Services about the challenges for valuations teams created by AIFMD and IFRS 13
Interactive Data Upgrades Workflow for Fixed-Income Web Portal
The pricing and data vendor says enhancements to its Vantage web portal will allow users to avoid the manual price review processes usually required to explore price movements
NYSE Taps ITRS for Performance Monitoring UPDATED
NYSE Euronext has completed the first phase of a multi-phase project to deploy UK-based real-time systems and latency monitoring vendor ITRS’ Geneos monitoring platform across its US equities and options exchange environment to gain an end-to-end view of…
Deutsche Börse Bows Historical Data Cloud
German exchange Deutsche Börse will this week launch a cloud-based historical data service, Data on Demand, to provide analysts, application developers and vendors with on-demand access to historical data from its Xetra and Eurex securities and…
Tech Panel: Act ‘Appropriate,' But Speed Still Needs Spend
With today's capital markets increasingly automated and reliant on high-performance technologies, budget constraints resulting from the economic crisis of recent years are forcing firms to be more selective about building proprietary systems in-house…
Trillium Begins Post-Trade Analytics Push
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading has filed a patent for a new post-trade compliance monitoring tool for US equities trading that compares traders' order data to full order book…
The Origin of Data
A growing drumbeat for generating or collecting data closer to its source—the issuer—is beginning to be heard
UBS Finds Data Opportunity in Client Onboarding
Client onboarding teams have taken on responsibility for managing data, particularly for linking client and legal entity data with other key reference data, operations executive Simon Feddo said at the European Financial Information Summit
EFIS User Panel: Data Cost Control Becomes Cultural Shift
Continuing pressure on data budgets at end-user firms following the financial crisis is creating challenges for market data managers, but is also creating opportunities to bring new approaches to how firms source and consume data, said panelists at this…