Data Management
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…
Month in Numbers
"That's happened pre- and post-Amaranth, and it's been big hedge fund shops posting losses as well as small ones. Have they learned from Amaranth? Of course not"
GFI Launches Eastern European Data
Interdealer broker GFI will this month launch a new data product that will provide foreign exchange rates and money market data from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, officials say.
PhaseCap Rolls Out StreamBase CEP
Boston-based PhaseCapital, a new quantitative investment firm that will launch next month, has rolled out technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems for managing market and trade data within the firm's proprietary…
Acquire Grows Web Data Tools
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is expanding the custom service it provides for incorporating information culled from Web sites and blogs based on lists of preferred Web-based information sources provided by clients.
Dow Jones Adds Ratings to Algo News
Dow Jones is enhancing its Elementized News Feed to incorporate ratings changes from Standard & Poor's in a standardized data format that allows the information to be easily integrated into algorithmic and black-box trading strategies, officials tell…
Panel: Budgets Steer '09 Strategies
Cost issues will be the primary drivers in 2009 for firms to seek greater value from data vendors and decide potential changes to their market data infrastructures, including switching data providers or tapping new technologies, panelists said at a…
Start with the Gateway
The benefit of offering cross-asset trading is obvious to any broker-dealer: It simplifies the trading life of institutional clients by giving them a single point of contact with their brokers. However, delivering this capability, especially…
Trading Technologies Releases X_Trader 7.6
LONDON—Derivatives trading system provider Trading Technologies International (TT) plans to release version 7.6 of its trading platform X_Trader this week.
BofA Bows Sybase RAP for Risk Data
Bank of America Securities has begun a project to consolidate data from across different business lines to produce more accurate, real-time risk and pricing metrics, using Sybase's RAP (Risk Analytics Platform) Trading Edition.
NYSE Preps Non-CTA Trade Data Feeds
The New York Stock Exchange will this week begin a pilot test phase of two new feeds of trade data from its main NYSE and NYSE Arca markets, separate from the Consolidated Tape Association feed, to meet the latency needs of high-frequency trading firms,…
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.