Data Management
TriCygnet Adds New Assets to TimeScape
New York-based global macro fund TriCygnet has expanded its use of data management technology vendor Xenomorph's TimeScape product to support trading and analysis of new asset classes within its analytical models.
BGC to Distribute ELX Market Data
ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange, a new futures exchange founded by a consortium of broker-dealers and trading firms, is to use BGCantor Market Data, the data arm of interdealer broker BGC Partners, as its exclusive distributor of market data.
MDSL Shuffles Execs
UK-based market data cost management software vendor MDSL has realigned its senior staff to take over the duties of David Toomey-Wilson, president of its US operations, who left MDSL last week.
YouDevise Improves TIM Analysis
YouDevise, a provider of technology for distributing trade ideas between dealers and buy-side clients, has added new features to its Trade Idea Monitor platform to perform more detailed sentiment analysis and more flexible reporting, officials tell…
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RESEARCH ROUNDUP
The More Things Change...
STREAMING QUOTES
Future Holds Many Uncertainties
OPEN PLATFORM
Accessing the Russian Markets
SPECIAL REPORT
On Messaging
Waters Survey
Solving Data Congestion
CITY#GRID ROUNDTABLE
Is KYP the New KYC?
The ever-increasing focus on risk and compliance has resulted in a growing need to combine KYP and KYC processes, linking client and instrument data. Tine Thoresen reports
Valuations remain top priority for the buy side
Financial research firm Standard & Poor's (S&P) has unveiled a new service to help investors accurately value structured assets and complex securities.
Thomson Reuters expands news analytics
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a machine-readable news offering allowing clients to incorporate news into their trading and risk management strategies. The product, NewsScope Event Indices (NEI), is targeted at hedge funds and investment banks pursuing…
New battle lines
If there's one thing I've learned about stock exchanges, it's that they love numbers. Usually record-breaking numbers. No matter how negative or doom-laden a set of financial results may be, exchanges nearly always manage to spin them so that somewhere,…
There will be risk
Energy and commodities markets provided no safe haven for buy-side firms last year. Abysmal performances combined with higher margins and mounting investor redemptions could be chalked up to the fact that 2008 punished the financial industry…