Data Management
Pricing Partners and Reuters pricing alliance
Pricing Partners, the Paris-based independent valuation specialist in OTC derivatives and structured product industries, has announced that its Price-it Excel '09 version can be connected to Reuters 3000 Xtra market data by virtue of a set of Excel…
SunGard tweaks Fame platform
SunGard has released a new version of its Fame data management product to enable financial institutions and public sector organisations to analyse and back-test tick-level pricing data on an intra-day basis.
Slew of regulations to impact asset and hedge fund managers
With efforts to set new regulatory structures in place for the financial services industry underway on multiple fronts, the impact on buy-side firms' technologies and operations will be profound and long-lasting, says a recent TowerGroup report. By…
XData Adds African Exchanges, Inks Interactive Data Deal
Dubai-based XData, a provider of data from exchanges in the Middle East and Africa, is expanding its market coverage, and has signed a deal to provide data from Middle East exchanges to Interactive Data, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Revere Grows Global Classifications
San Francisco-based Revere Data is expanding its classification schema to cover more international markets, to enable clients to identify like-for-like companies and supplier relationships in different countries to support algorithmic trading strategies.
Morgan a Casualty of LSE Job Culls
Wendy Morgan has left her role as head of real-time data at the London Stock Exchange, as part of a broader raft of redundancies resulting from a review conducted by new chief executive Xavier Rolet, who took over the role when former CEO Clara Furse…
Acquire Media Prepares to Unleash Tiger
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is testing a new feed of machine-readable tagged news to power algorithmic trading engines.
Eurex, MTS Delve Into Historical Data
German exchange group Deutsche Börse and European fixed-income trading platform EuroMTS are working to expand the range of historical data they provide to clients for developing and testing their trading or hedging strategies.
Deutsche Börse Launches MNI Algo News
Deutsche Börse will this week launch a low-latency feed of machine-readable economic news, dubbed CEF Alpha+ Macro, which has been developed in partnership with subsidiary news agency Market News International, which the exchange acquired at the end of…
Morningstar Integrates Tenfore Data
Chicago-based market data vendor Morningstar has begun a project to update all of its key browser-based products to carry streaming data from its Real-Time division, formed by the acquisition of UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems last year ( IMD , Dec…
Apama Expands Market Surveillance Platform
Complex event processing and algorithmic trading software vendor Progress Apama will this week release new monitoring features within its market surveillance platform, to enable users to detect operational risk, as well as more pre-built pattern…
Xignite Enables On-Demand Data Platforms
Web services data provider Xignite will this week announce plans to commercialize its online platform for on-demand data, by enabling data providers to use it as the basis for building their own online marketplaces for their data.
NYSE Taps Jordan & Jordan to Bolster Data Admin Tools
NYSE Technologies, the data technology division of NYSE Euronext, has taken over Jordan & Jordan's Vendor Reporting System data reporting tool for an undisclosed sum, and has integrated it with the exchange's DART reporting and entitlements tool to…
Direct Edge Expands 29West Messaging
Jersey City, NJ-based equity ECN operator Direct Edge, which is in the process of becoming a fully fledged exchange, is expanding a rollout of messaging technology from 29West, which the ECN already uses to support the part of its business acquired via…
Open Market Data: Why Not?
As cost pressures push the financial industry to consider more "open" technologies, is the time right for data vendors to abandon proprietary tactics in favor of more collaborative approaches? By Richard Reichgut, director of financial services at…
Morgan Stanley Restructures Data Group
Morgan Stanley has reorganized its Enterprise Data group to ensure that management of the bank's real-time market data technology is more tightly aligned with its most demanding internal customer, the Equity IT group, which builds and supports most of…
Theoriem Preps TimeScape for Trading
Philadelphia-based multi-asset quantitative trading firm Theoriem is preparing to go live with data management technology vendor Xenomorph's TimeScape database product, to support the firm as it moves from start-up phase into live trading, officials tell…
BATS Europe Changes Tick Size, Promotes Harmonization
Pan-European multilateral trading facility BATS Europe is changing the granularity of tick sizes for certain stocks traded on its platform, and is driving an industry initiative to harmonize tick sizes across all European exchanges and MTFs, which could…