Data Management
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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Counter Party Risk - Managing Counterparty Risk
The recent market turmoil has highlighted the need for improved counterparty data management, and counterparty risk has become a new buzz word. Inside Reference Data gathers leading industry professionals to discuss the most successful strategies to…
Infrastructure under pressure as hedge funds contract
The industry-wide shrinking of assets managed by hedge funds is creating a strain on infrastructure and technology as operating budgets are reduced, according to both Thomson Reuters and SunGard.
Xtrakter launches mark-to-market valuation service
Xtrakter has launched XM2M, a mark-to-market valuation service designed to assist inter-dealer brokers and market makers with the accurate valuation of their securities.
MarketAxess integrates Markit's CDS quotes to e-trading platform
MarketAxess and Markit have agreed an alliance to integrate Markit Quotes into the MarketAxess client-to-multi-dealer trading platform. Markit Quotes is a real-time quote parsing service that extracts indicative over-the-counter prices from electronic…
Spotlight on Ryan Pierce
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL), the organisation driving adoption of the FIX protocol, has appointed Ryan Pierce as its new technical director. He discusses the challenges of expanding implementation of FIX among financial services firms in the midst of an…
MiFID Changes Spur EU Consolidated Tape
One year after the introduction of the European Commission's long-anticipated and dreaded Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the European equity markets have undergone a huge facelift.
Economy Weighs Heavy on Data Spend in '08
This year's troubled economic climate has forced firms to delay investments in market data in some areas, and find ways to do more with the same resources, as many firms face uncertainty following the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the…
Exchanges, Users Face Off Over Data Fees
Exchanges faced increasing push-back from their subscribers over market data fees in 2008 as new charges and price hikes met hostility from user firms battling to reduce their data budgets.