Data Management
Get on Your Bike and Buy a House... or Two
They say an Englishman's home is his castle. They also say that home is where the heart is. But over the past year, we've seen an awful lot of hearts broken and castles under seige-all for that symbol of success and security, a home of one's own.
FTSE Readies Italian Indexes
FTSE Group, the index provider venture of the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange, has secured a deal to calculate and distribute Italian equity benchmark indexes on behalf of LSE-owned Borsa Italiana.
HKEx Seeks Web Partners for Free Data Campaign
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will begin providing real-time, basic market data free of charge over select Web sites in Hong Kong and mainland China in the second half of 2009, to raise the profile of the exchange and its data offerings among Chinese…
Fitch Boosts Financial Fundamentals Data
Fitch Solutions, the non-ratings data and technology delivery arm of ratings agency Fitch, has increased its fundamental data coverage of both public and privately held global financial institutions, to provide more timely information to help firms…
Integrity Preps New Client Portal
New York-based alternative research provider Integrity Research will later this month unveil a new client portal for accessing information on specialist research providers directly from its database.
Euronext Preps UTP Feed for Europe
NYSE Euronext last week rolled out a pre-production version of its new UTP datafeed, which will over the course of 2009 replace its current Euronext Multicast Feed (EMF) as the primary delivery mechanism for data from the exchange's European cash markets.
Will the Changes of 2008 Drive Innovation in 2009?
Welcome to 2009, which will be the Chinese year of the ox. Last year, of course, will be remembered as the year of the MTF.
Audit Integrity Puts Ratings in Excel
Los Angeles-based corporate integrity ratings provider Audit Integrity last week released a soft launch of RiskLink, an Excel add-on that lets users view the vendor's data directly in spreadsheets, and incorporate the ratings into investment analyses.
Knight Enlists Quant House in Europe
Knight Capital has begun using low-latency data and connectivity to European markets from French data and trading technology vendor Quant House, to support its London operations, officials tell Inside Market Data .
ISE, Xasax Partner for Member Data
The International Securities Exchange is preparing to offer low-latency access to data from other equity and options exchanges for members that co-locate trading servers within its datacenter, by allowing connectivity provider Xasax to set up access to…
Guest Editorial, The Case for a European Consolidated Tape in 2009
As we enter the New Year, Hirander Misra, chief operating officer of Chi-X Europe, looks ahead to the potential for a consolidated tape of data for the European markets
Celent: Asian Exchanges Lag on Data
Although demand for market data in Asia continues to grow, especially with increased electronification of trading in equity and index options, exchanges in the region will focus less on generating revenues from data sales in 2009 than exchanges in Europe…
TMX Preps Ontario, Quebec Indexes
TMX Group, the merged Toronto and Montreal exchanges, is preparing to launch two fixed-income indexes, each comprising six benchmark bonds issued by the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Deutsche Börse Buys MNI for Algo News
German exchange group Deutsche Börse is planning to create a feed of machine-readable news for use in algorithmic trading, as a result of its acquisition of newswire provider Market News International from Xinhua Finance, according to a spokesperson for…
NYSE Files OpenBook, NOII Changes
The New York Stock Exchange has filed two proposed rule changes with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to introduce non-professional fees for its OpenBook order book feed and separate fees for its NYSE Order Imbalance Information feed.
Nasdaq OMX Readies Genium Feed, Slates XTP Delivery for Retirement
Nasdaq OMX will roll out a full production version of its Genium Market Info feed to distribute data from its Nordic and Baltic markets in the first quarter of this year, and plans to consolidate its feeds onto two data distribution platforms after…
Data Volumes Drive BATS Multicast Feed
The BATS Exchange (formerly BATS Trading) will next week release a multicast version of its PITCH datafeed for beta testing, in response to client demand for better handling of rising volumes of quote and trade data over its platform, officials tell…
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