Data Management
Winterflood Deploys IFS BestEx Analytics
UK stockbroker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market making platform by comparing…
Opening Cross: The Case for the Defense
One of the beneficial results of the credit crunch and financial crisis is that the financial industry has begun focusing on-and being more critical of-the quality of data it receives, especially in those instances where the price or value of an…
Algo Tech Readies VoR Feed Service
Algo Technologies, the data and trading technology vendor headed by former Chi-X Europe chief operating officer Hirander Misra, plans to establish itself as a vendor-of-record for data from exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, officials say.
Fidessa Adds International Data to Canadian Trading Platform
Trading technology and data provider Fidessa is planning to add data on US and Canadian equity options to its Canadian trading platform-following the integration of the platform with its global trading service-in response to increasing demand for global…
Telekurs Buys CSV for Evaluated Pricing Growth
As Inside Market Data went to press, SIX Telekurs acquired the assets of CSV (Complex Security Valuations), a Ridgefield, Conn.-based specialist provider of evaluated prices for illiquid securities and complex derivative instruments, for an undisclosed…
Quick Adds Multi-Asset Fixings to Icap Deal
Japanese market data vendor Quick has extended its partnership with interdealer broker Icap to include redistribution rights for the Icap FIX data service, which the broker launched at the end of last year to meet demand for its data services, driven by…
Robeco Cuts Costs with Infomatch ASP
Dutch asset manager Robeco has migrated to a hosted version of the Infomatch market data inventory management software from Dutch vendor Screen Consultants, in a bid to trim the firm's overall cost of supporting the software.
Report Compares Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters FI News
A comparative analysis of fixed income news coverage from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting reveals that while the two vendors deliver roughly the same number of fixed income news items per day, they differ…
Atrium Opens EU Access to Nasdaq US Feeds
London-based network connectivity provider Atrium Network has begun distributing direct feeds of US market data from Nasdaq OMX to clients across Europe and North America, who can access the data via any of the vendor's network points of presence (PoPs),…
Credit Data Vendors Focus on Liquidity Metrics
Liquidity analytics are becoming increasingly important to the process of risk management and for understanding price formation in the credit markets, according to credit data providers with liquidity management tools.
SunGard Opens MarketMap Display to US
SunGard's Global Trading division is planning to create links between its MarketMap data terminal product and data from products within its other business lines, as part of an initiative to roll out MarketMap in the US.
Nasdaq OMX Delays Enhanced ITCH Switch
Nasdaq OMX has delayed plans to migrate its European markets to a consolidated feed based on a variant of its ITCH data distribution protocol, which was ultimately expected to replace its Genium Consolidated Feed of Nordic and Baltic data ( IMD , Dec. 14…
Deutsche Börse Bows Hybrid Algo News Feed
Deutsche Börse has migrated clients of its machine-readable news feeds-including the CEF Alpha+ Macro feed developed last year with subsidiary Market News International, and the Lightning Bolt feed from Need To Know News, which the exchange bought last…
LSE to Launch ITCH Feed on Turquoise
European multilateral trading facility Turquoise, which was acquired by the London Stock Exchange earlier this year, plans to migrate to a new technology platform from fellow LSE subsidiary MillenniumIT a few weeks before the LSE migrates its main UK…
Exchanges' Dark Volume Tools in Works
NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq are building mechanisms for distributing daily trading volume data from alternative trading system dark pools operated by trading firms, following last month's Securities and Exchange Commission approval of their proposals to…
Nomura Eyes Data Tech Latency Gains
The London-based algorithmic trading group of Japanese banking group Nomura is examining technology strategies for reducing market data and trading application latency, after successfully reducing order processing latency by up to 35 percent as a result…
Xtrakter Preps Volume Data Expansion
European fixed-income trade matching and data utility Xtrakter is preparing to expand the rollout of its XVol service, which provides monthly trading volumes for European fixed-income securities, to enable users to assess liquidity levels for specific…
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