Data Management
Risky Payments
Decreasing risk is still a top priority in the payments reference data market, but industry complexities and slow development in the standards field are still barriers to overcome. Carla Mangado explores how the adoption of a business entity identifier…
Hedge funds managing in tougher operational environment
Despite ongoing turbulence in the global financial markets, some sectors of the hedge fund industry are not only surviving but adapting to successfully achieve their investment mandates. A new Celent report does not discount the casualties among hedge…
GTA Rolls Out Pan-Asia Data Desktop
Shenzhen-based market data vendor GTA Data last week launched a new data desktop display providing real-time equity and index market data, focused on the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea markets.
TMX Melds TSX, Montreal Data Teams
TMX, the Canadian exchange group formed by the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges on May 1, has appointed a number of staff to new roles following the merger of the two exchanges' market data groups.
Nasdaq Preps New PHLX Data Products
Nasdaq OMX is planning to develop a range of new data products for release early next year that will provide options market data from newly acquired subsidiary the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, officials announced last week.
The Building BRICs of a Global Data Strategy
Sometimes as I sit writing this column late at night, I enjoy-or rather, endure-a swig or two of guarana soda from Brazil to stave off exhaustion and give me a little boost in the wee hours. And high-caffeine soda isn't the only Brazilian import that the…
Micex Considers Domestic Data Fees
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) is considering a change to its market data policy that would introduce new charges for domestic consumers of the exchange's real-time data, officials say.
Interactive Data Adds Emerging Markets
Interactive Data is broadening the coverage of its PlusFeed consolidated datafeed with data from exchanges in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as data from new trading venues in developed markets.
EPFR Expands Middle East, Africa Funds Data
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has recently expanded its coverage of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to enable users to more accurately monitor flows of money into and out of the region.
Nasdaq Adds Indexes, Rethinks Replay
Nasdaq OMX is releasing a slew of new indexes that combine components of indexes from OMX and Nasdaq, and has revised the licensing terms for Market Replay, its tool for downloading and replaying market data to analyze price movements, making the product…
Carrel: Valuation's Risky Business
The ongoing credit crunch is driving firms to re-examine the quality of data behind their valuation models, and pay greater attention to valuation risk, says Philippe Carrel, global head of business development at Thomson Reuters
When Blog Mining Goes Bust
After offering a real-time platform to monitor blogs and message boards for market-moving data, software startup Monitor110 shut down in mid-July.
Turquoise Preps Soft Launch; Vendors Ready to Go
Bank consortium-backed European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) Turquoise will launch trading on a select group of UK and German stocks on Friday Aug. 15, with a number of vendors already prepared to carry market data from the venue at launch,…
TFX Eyes Remote Traders with GL, Co-Lo
The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), the former Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange, will this week announce a partnership with French data and trading technology provider GL Trade to promote remote memberships for firms based outside Japan,…
Bonds.com Preps Structured Products
Online trading platform Bonds.com will add terms and conditions data for structured products to its BondStation trading platform when it begins listing structured products later this month, officials say.
TMX Unveils New Canada-US Data Site
TMX, the exchange group formed by the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, has launched a new Web site, TMXmoney.com, designed to be a first port of call for investors and professionals seeking quote and company data for listings on the Toronto…
Chi-X Mulls New Feeds to Cut Bandwidth
European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X is planning to roll out a choice of data delivery options in the first half of next year to address bandwidth challenges associated with growing data volumes.
Setting the Record Straight
In the final scene of Billy Wilder's classic movie Some Like it Hot , when Jack Lemmon discards his wig and reveals to ageing playboy Joe E. Brown-who has been unwittingly wooing Lemmon-that he's a man disguised as a woman, Brown merely shrugs and says, …
EcoWin Buy Expands ISI Coverage
ISI Emerging Markets, a division of Euromoney Institutional Investor that provides economic and business information, will almost double the country coverage of its CEIC Data time-series database product, following the acquisition of Thomson Reuters'…
CAPIS Co-Lo Boosts Data Bandwidth
Dallas-based broker Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) will next month move its market data operations to co-location facilities provided by third-party datacenter operator Data Bank, and will discontinue use of its two in-house datacenters.