Data Management
March of the Robo-Traders
Asia report
Crossing the Data Chasm
The main driver for outsourcing reference data management is typically cost control, but data control is also a key concern. Netik's Colin Close explains how this can be addressed
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One of the key focus areas for the new year is liquidity risk and valuation risk. But to deal with the upcoming challenges, firms are looking for more granular and better integrated data. Tine Thoresen speaks to AIG's Suresh Jayaraman about what data…
Month in Numbers
"The Commission will be seeking views on applying position limits consistently across all markets and participants, including index traders and managers of exchange-traded funds; whether such limits would enhance market integrity and efficiency; whether…
Valuation vendor market to expand through 2012
A new Aite Group report anticipates that the pricing and valuation services industry will grow to $2.9 billion by the end of 2012, reflecting pressure from regulators and investors on buy-side managers and their custodians to improve these functions…
LatAm Taps CMA for Price Display
Miami, Fla-based broker-dealer LatAm Investments is using market data and technology from Brazilian data vendor CMA to enable it to display orders from client firms in the US to clients of clearing brokers in Mexico and Brazil.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas...
'Twas the night before Christmas, and empty was Wall Street,
Algorithmic News Gathers Pace
News providers found new ways to deliver and present their content to users during 2009, notably by broadening and reducing the latency associated with machine-readable news offerings as algorithmic and high-frequency traders increasingly seek to…
Exchanges, ATSs Battle for Share
2009 was a tough year for exchanges worldwide, especially in Europe, where continued fragmentation has resulted in lower market share for most incumbent markets at a time of subdued trading volumes compared to 2008.
Vendors Vie for Share with New Platforms
Though Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg maintained dominant market shares and unveiled major initiatives in 2009, other data providers launched their own projects to broaden their client bases as they vie with rivals for the remainder of the market.
Deutsche Börse Expands Latency Reports
Deutsche Börse has begun providing members of its Xetra cash market with the same latency statistics that it rolled out to members of its Eurex derivatives market earlier this year ( IMD , Nov. 6), to show firms their latency to and from the exchange and…
UNX Initiatives Cut Internal Data Latency
Los Angeles-based agency broker and trading technology provider UNX has reduced its internal data latency by up to 15 percent as a result of a series of projects conducted in the fourth quarter of 2009, including a move to using multicast technology for…
Euro Market Data Preps Exchange Policy Tool
UK-based consultancy Euro Market Data (EMD) is piloting a Web-based application that allows users to view and compare exchange data policies from around the world.
Nasdaq OMX to Consolidate Nordic ITCH, GCF Feeds
Nasdaq OMX will release a new version of its Nordic ITCH feed next year, adding the value-added data and analytics currently carried by the exchange's Genium Consolidated Feed (GCF) to its existing Nordic ITCH feed of unnetted market data, officials tell…
Thomson Reuters Issues 2010 Price List
Thomson Reuters will increase the price of most of its products by 3 percent next year, a reduction from this year's standard price increase of 4.75 percent ( IMD , Nov. 24, 2008), reflecting tighter budgets for market data services at client firms in…