Data Management
Exchange "Dinosaurs" Bite Back
Anyone who thought in recent years that exchanges might soon become a thing of the past in the face of start-up, bank-backed trading venues should check out the various exchange initiatives detailed in this week's Inside Market Data . Far from going the…
Breakingviews to Widen Distribution
Financial commentary and news analysis provider Breakingviews.com plans to broaden the distribution of its content, including expanding its coverage and commercial relationships in Asia, in a bid to establish itself as a global content provider.
NYSE Standardizes Unit of Count
NYSE Euronext has changed the unit of count by which vendors count and charge for market data from the exchange, to recognize "subscribers"-to include individual traders or applications-rather than "devices."
Roberts Group Boosts FITS Automation
Market data inventory and management service provider The Roberts Group has released a new version of its Financial Information Tracking System, which incorporates additional features to help users speed up and automate processes.
NSX Eyes Direct Feeds in Latency Drive
The National Stock Exchange is setting up direct connections to other US equity exchanges to cut data latency by capturing quote and trade data from direct feeds rather than from the Securities Information Processors that support the consolidated…
SIX Signs Vendors for Low-Latency Feed
The SIX Swiss Exchange is conducting conformance testing with a number of data vendors to carry data from its recently launched, low-latency Market Data Interface feed.
LSE Readies FAST Feed for Borsa Data
The London Stock Exchange is to launch a new feed of Italian market data from subsidiary Borsa Italiana that will utilize the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming) Protocol for data compression, as part of version 5.0 of its TradElect trading engine, which…
Fixnetix Bows Arca Europe
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix last week launched low-latency data and order-routing connectivity to NYSE Euronext's new multilateral trading facility NYSE Arca Europe.
Harris Compiles Asia Financial Directory
Keiren Harris, chief executive of Hong Kong-based data consultancy Information Concepts, has launched Open-Asia.info, a Web-based resource of financial industry organizations in the Asia Pacific region, including trading firms and investment managers,…
What's in Store for Algorithmic Trading?
In the midst of the current wild market swings, many on Wall Street wouldn't be surprised to see institutional investors start favoring the return to high-touch executions over routing institutional orders through algorithmic trading platforms. However,…
CME Doubles Futures Market Depth
CME Group will over the coming month increase the amount of market depth data available for its exchange-traded futures products from five to 10 levels of depth, in response to demand from customers.
Turquoise to Pick Second Data Vendor
Bank consortium-owned multilateral trading facility Turquoise is close to selecting a second data vendor to support functions of its trading platform that rely on market data from other exchanges and rival MTFs, officials tell Inside Market Data .
NYSE Arca Europe Readies Launch; Preps London Move
NYSE Euronext will begin disseminating real-time quote and trade data on European securities free of charge from this Monday, March 9, when the exchange group launches its pan-European multilateral trading facility, NYSE Arca Europe.
NYSE Euronext to Boost Co-Lo Space
NYSE Euronext is in the process of building a new datacenter in the New York metropolitan area that will consolidate its three existing North American datacenters into one location, to meet demand for more co-location space from trading firms seeking low…
Susquehanna Expands Derivix Options Pricing
Broker-dealer Susquehanna Financial Group is increasing the number of trading positions that use New York-based options pricing and risk analytics software provider Derivix's pricing and analytics platform, to help its traders to quote options prices to…
Fidessa Adds Asian Data to US Platform
Trading technology and data provider Fidessa has integrated market data from trading venues across Asia with its US trading platform to enable clients of its global trading service to trade Asian equities during local trading hours.
WSOD Upgrades, Integrates Broker Voting Module
Boulder, Colo.-based research platform provider Wall Street on Demand has upgraded the broker voting module of its research software suite to provide more granular reporting of broker performance and an integrated link between events being tracked and…
WSS Expands Free Filings, Holdings Data
New York-based news aggregator Wall Street Source has begun making some former subscription-only datasets available free of charge via its Web site, in addition to the aggregated news stories available for free on the vendor's homepage.