Data Management
Going Native: Avoiding the Common Mistakes in Entering Emerging Markets
As global markets tank and institutional investors continue to demand good returns, more broker-dealers find themselves expanding into new emerging markets. Most firms are faced with either routing an order via a local broker or setting up shop…
Dow Jones Postpones Global Dow as Index Providers Weigh Strategies
Dow Jones has delayed the launch of its planned Global Dow Index as a result of turbulent market conditions, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CNQ Migrates to New Feed Format, Delivery
Canadian stock exchange CNQ has revamped its datafeed offering and has begun distributing data direct to subscribers, as well as via the Toronto Stock Exchange, following the migration of its market onto a new trading platform.
Tabb: European Broker Spend to Rise
Broker-dealer spend on market data-related technologies is likely to increase in Europe over the next two years, despite budget cutbacks triggered by the ongoing economic crisis, as firms adapt to rising numbers of new trading venues, according to new…
YouDevise Speeds Up Trade Ideas
Trade ideas distribution utility YouDevise has rolled out changes to its technology in response to demand from sell-side and buy-side firms to be able to speed up distribution and capture of trade ideas, which is being driven by current market volatility…
NYSE Ramps Up Arca Bandwidth
NYSE Euronext last week almost doubled the bandwidth required by trading firms to receive the ArcaBook multicast feed of equities data from its NYSE Arca market in the face of rapidly rising data volumes, giving subscribers only a few hours' notice to…
Capital IQ Buys Reuters Research, Estimates Copies
Standard & Poor's subsidiary Capital IQ has launched a proprietary estimates service and plans to unveil access to proprietary aftermarket research by year-end, after acquiring copies of the Reuters Estimates and Reuters Research on Demand databases from…
Asia Passes U.S. in 2009 IT Spending Growth
HONG KONG-Asia is expected to hold steady, while IT spending in the U.S. will likely slow next year to more than originally expected, according to a recent report published by Forrester Research.
Knight Unveils Data Capacity Projects
Knight Capital is in the midst of a series of technology upgrade programs designed to enable the broker to cope with ever-increasing volumes of market data, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Winterflood Preps Fixnetix MTF Data
UK-based market maker Winterflood Securities is implementing data and connectivity services from low-latency data infrastructure provider Fixnetix, to support trading on three pan- European multilateral trading facilities, officials tell Inside Market…
Capital IQ Expands Credit Content
Standard & Poor's subsidiary Capital IQ has released an upgrade to its Web-based data terminal that adds new content and capabilities, with a focus on the credit markets, officials say.
User Firms Tighten Data Spend
Continued economic uncertainty is forcing user firms to step up their data administration efforts in order to cut per-user market data spend, according to a panel of institutions at last week's European Financial Information Summit.
Credit, Risk Top Demand for 'Hot' Data
Accurate data for performing valuations, structuring complex securities and risk management-particularly in the credit markets-is a hot topic, and is being demanded in ever-increasing volumes by end-user firms, according to a panel at last week's…
Burgundy Preps Free Scandinavian Data
Burgundy, a pan-Nordic multilateral trading facility being set up by a consortium of 10 Scandinavian banks, will offer its market data free of charge when it begins trading in the second quarter of 2009, officials say.
RTS Embraces FIX FAST for New Datafeed
Russian exchange RTS plans to release a new vendor feed later this year that will utilize the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol and FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) compression standards to cut the technical cost of receiving its data.
What a Difference a Year Makes
Much of the discussion at last year's European Financial Information Summit centered around how the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive would re-shape the European financial markets. Now, one year on, the markets are certainly seeing unprecedented…
NYSE Takes Over Amex Data, Staff
The New York Stock Exchange is in the process of integrating its market data team and data administration and billing functions with those of the American Stock Exchange, following the completion of NYSE's takeover of Amex last week.
BNY ConvergEx Taps StreamBase CEP
Agency brokerage BNY Convergex has rolled out complex event processing software from Lexington, Mass.-based technology provider StreamBase to monitor trading and market data in its US equities trading operations.
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