Data Management
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…
The Small Print
Market data contracts are often up for discussion at industry forums, while reference data contracts have received less attention. This may soon change as reference data contracts are starting to be seen as more critical. Tine Thoresen reports on why…