Data Management
Consolidating Positions
This year's SIFMA show may not have grabbed the headlines of years gone by with extravagant deals or earth-shattering benchmark claims, but represented a year of vendors bedding-in systems and consolidating their positions-perhaps reflecting the…
Taiwan Stock Exchange Plans FAST Data
The Taiwan Stock Exchange is planning to adopt the bandwidth-reducing FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol next year, in a move designed to help serve global trading participants via an international standard, officials say.
Terra Nova Adds TSX via Hosted SpryWare
Chicago-based broker and clearer Terra Nova Financial is preparing to roll out data from the Toronto Stock Exchange to institutional and active trader clients of the firm's electronic trading workstation from its Tradient Technologies subsidiary, using…
MUSI Preps Contributions Data Upgrade
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International is planning a global pricing system for rates and exotic derivative products contributed by dealers, made possible by the latest version of Gissing Software's ConteX price contribution system, which the firm will…
FirstRain Adds to Blog Reports
Search technology provider and content aggregator FirstRain will this week launch two new sets of email reports, the FirstRain Blog Monitor and FirstRain Capital Markets Monitor, that consolidate information from the Web with blog metrics and company…
BGI Deploys OMD OneTick
Barclays Global Investors has rolled out the OneTick solution for processing historical and real-time tick data from tick data management vendor OneMarketData, vendor officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tick Data Adds Japan Equity Data
Nexa Technologies' Tick Data division has launched a database of historic tick data for Japanese equity markets, in partnership with Nikkei America, the US arm of Japanese index provider Nikkei, completing plans originally announced one year ago ( IMD ,…
Screen Sets InfoMatch Rules
Dutch software vendor Screen Consultants will this week unveil version 3.4 of its InfoMatch market data inventory management software, which includes a new rules toolkit for tracking exchange and third party vendor data usage policies, as well as a…
LSE Performance Channels Go Live
The London Stock Exchange will put its new, low-latency Performance Channels datafeed into live production today, Monday, June 9, after resolving customer testing issues that caused the exchange to delay the launch from its original date in April ( IMD ,…
Smart Routing to Define Brokerages
Until the launch of the Chi-X multilateral trading facility (MTF) and the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) in Nov. 2007, smart order routing was a foreign concept for many European market participants. Since then,…
Mighter: Count Keyboards, Cut Data Costs
UK-based trading hardware manufacturer Mighter is proposing that keyboards should be used as a unit of count, which could enable firms to save money for the same data used on multiple applications running across different PCs, officials tell Inside…
Junk Mail? What About Junk Data?
Just as the bane of a data manager's existence is dealing with ever-increasing volumes of often irrelevant quote data, a journalist's nightmare is dealing with the incessant flow of press releases from PR professionals desperate to share the latest news…
RTS Extends Data Distribution Hours
Russian exchange RTS last week began distributing data from a new trading session for its FORTS derivatives trading platform that runs from 6pm until 10 minutes to midnight local time, enabling local members to continue receiving data and trading on RTS…
Schneider Trading Cuts Latency as Volumes Rise
London-based execution broker Schneider Trading Associates expects to cut the latency of its data network by at least half in September, when the firm will complete an upgrade of its internal network infrastructure to cope with rising data volumes,…
Leapfrogging Dark Pools
Asia Report
Targeting Transparency
The credit crunch has led to a rapidly growing awareness of independent valuations. But market conditions have not been the only driver. New accounting standards are putting pressure on firms to take control of the process. Tine Thoresen explores why the…