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Xignite Integrates Tullett Prebon Treasury Prices
Web services data vendor Xignite has expanded the content available from its on-demand online distribution platform with the addition of Tullett Prebon Information's TreasuryMarker, which includes real-time indicative prices and yields for global…
HKEx Reviews Data Policies and Procedures
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is reviewing its market data policies with a view to consolidating its newsfeed, derivatives and securities licenses, incorporating new charges for non-display usage of its data, and assessing its policy of…
Markit Boat Plans Granular Trade Tags, Tops Data Reporting
Pre- and post-trade reporting utility Markit Boat sailed to the top of an equity trade data league table compiled by Thomson Reuters last week, and while the market share study suggests that MiFID is prompting greater volumes of reported over-the-counter…
Euronext Revamps Depth, Index Fees
NYSE Euronext is reorganizing its equity markets and index data, offering a choice of market depth in its cash market feed, and breaking out its index products into a series of different packages, officials say.
UBS Migrates to Hosted MDM Software
UBS has deployed an ASP-version of the Market Data Manager (MDM) inventory management software from UK-based vendor MDSL, replacing a previous version that was hosted in-house. The bank has used of MDM for approximately seven years, but earlier this year…
CME Prepares FAST Brazilian Data
CME Group has started a project to integrate market data from Brazilian commodities and futures exchange Bolsa de Mercadorias and Futuros (BM&F) into its own feed infrastructure, and will make the content available to its customers by this fall,…
FTSE Continues Asia Push with SET, APREA Indexes
The Stock Exchange of Thailand and index provider FTSE will this week begin distributing data on a new series of Thai equity indexes, to meet growing investor demand for more tradable vehicles, officials say.
TheMarkets.com Steps Up FactSet CallStreet Integration
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com last month augmented the corporate events data available on its research platform with the addition of new data from FactSet CallStreet, which provides calendars, audio links and transcripts…
SWX, Colt Partner for Proximity Data
Swiss exchange group SWX has entered into a partnership with Colt Telecom to provide proximity hosting services to firms seeking to minimize latency of data transmission to and from the exchange, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Industry Cuts Signal Need for Quality Data
Last week's firing of NY Mets baseball team manager Willie Randolph elicited a wave of disgust from New Yorkers, shocked at what they perceive as a near-sighted, reactionary response to short-term fluctuations in performance. Odd, I thought, that one man…
Raiffeisen CM Deploys CMA Pricing
Austrian fund manager Raiffeisen Capital Management is planning to integrate end-of-day credit default swap pricing from credit and derivatives data provider Credit Market Analysis into its front-office trading platform, and has already started to use…
S&P, SuperD Integrate Valuations Datafeeds
Standard & Poor's and derivatives data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives plan to develop a datafeed that will combine information from the two companies' valuation offerings, following an alliance between the two announced last week,…
Thomson Reuters Preps Newswire Layoffs
Thomson Reuters' newswire division last week initiated a voluntary redundancy scheme as part of plans to shed around 70 London-based editorial staff, eliciting criticism from the journalists' union over the vendor's "failure to provide the full business…
Augustus Adds CMA Data to Risk System
Augustus Asset Managers has integrated end-of-day credit default swap data from credit and derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis into its Derivation risk management system, officials say.
BATS Launches BBO-Only Feed
Kansas City, Mo-based ECN BATS Trading will roll out a new datafeed today, Monday, June 16, to provide top-of-book data for firms that do not need access to the ECN's full market depth, officials say.
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 .