Data Management
Weaving a Market Fabric
The European markets will soon see the number of active multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) more than double and will come a step closer to creating a new European market structure, which industry consultant Bob Giffords dubs "a market fabric." With…
LSE Outage Prompts Calls for European Consolidated Tape of Exchange Data
Some market participants and observers are calling for the creation of a US-style consolidated tape of exchange data for trading venues in Europe, following a trading outage at the London Stock Exchange that also hit trading volumes on other markets…
Acquire Media Combines Newswire Apps
Roseland, NJ-based Acquire Media is rolling out a revamped version of its newswire product that combines its own NewsTrade feed and the NewsEdge Live news service acquired last year from Thomson Corporation ( IMD , July 2, 2007), bundled together under…
NYSE Arca Wins SEC Approval for Pilot Fees
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has granted accelerated approval to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to launch a pilot service this week, dubbed NYSE Arca Real-Time Reference Prices, which will make real-time last sale prices for…
LSE Adds FTSE to Infolect; Launches Hosting Service
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has added real-time valuations data from index provider FTSE to its Infolect data distribution architecture, and also announced a new service last week, dubbed Exchange Hosting, which offers co-location services to its…
Nasdaq OMX Merges Data Licenses, Index Products
Nasdaq OMX has consolidated the subscription agreements for data products from all of its markets into a single document, dubbed the Nasdaq OMX Global Data Agreement, and now plans to consolidate all of its global index data into a single product.
Index Data Providers See Interest in China
Index providers China Securities Index (CSI) and Standard & Poor's have both recently launched new products to address growing demand for Chinese company index data from both domestic and global investors, while FTSE has recently signed a deal to provide…
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High Expectations
While the market has seen rapidly growing demand for independent valuations in the past year, third-party vendors have focused on expanding offerings and helping clients meet new requirements. The vendors providing these services have become vital for…
The Governance Plot
Only the combined efforts of IT and business can lead to true data governance, says Cadis Software's Stuart Plane
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…