Data Management
Exchanges get up to speed
ASIA REPORT - EXCHANGES
Future Tech: Mashups Rock
COVER STORY
New Messaging Format To Ease Algo Deployment
SPECIAL REPORT: NEXT-GENERATION ALGOS
Instinet, Nomura Meld Offerings
SPECIAL REPORT: NEXT-GENERATION ALGOS
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SPECIAL REPORT: NEXT-GENERATION ALGOS
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RESEARCH ROUNDUP
Spotlight on Dan Bukowski
After a 22-year stint on the buy side, most recently as chief information officer (CIO) at Citigroup Asset Management, Dan Bukowski has opted to head up research at equity analytics technology developer Quantitative Services Group (QSG). He discusses the…
Search for alpha to push quant assets towards $7 trillion in 2008
Quantitative investment strategies had amassed an estimated 12 per cent of global assets under management by the close of 2007, a clear indication that more buy-side and hedge fund managers have deployed such models in the pursuit of alpha. Stewart…
When Weighing Your Options, Less is More
Data consumers often liken their applications to a baseball catcher's mitt, attempting to catch the high-speed data being pitched at them by US options exchanges. And in the example of options data, just like a pitcher who can keep his pitch count low,…
Options Data's Growing Pains
Data volumes in the options markets continue to grow at frustrating rates as exchanges list more instruments, algorithmic trading of options gains traction, and the Securities and Exchange Commission expands the quoting of options in penny increments…
Europe Braces for Options Data Growth
European options data volumes-while low compared to their US equivalents-are rising fast, prompting options exchanges in the region to deploy new technologies and upgrade client bandwidth connectivity to accommodate current and anticipated rises.
FactSet Buys Fundamentals "Copy"
FactSet Research Systems has emerged as the first vendor to buy a "copy" of the Thomson Fundamentals database, which Thomson Reuters is required to sell for competition reasons, after regulators in the US and Europe imposed the sale of copies of certain…
LSE Delays Performance Channels Rollout
The London Stock Exchange last week told members that it will delay the full production launch of its Performance Channels low-latency datafeed until June 9, to give members sufficient time to complete full tests of the feed with their systems, officials…
Tokyo Grain Exchange Hit by Data Outage
The Tokyo Grain Exchange experienced interruptions to market data distribution and a trading suspension on Friday, April 18 and Monday, April 21-the third set of interruptions in the past four months, according to industry sources.
LaCrosse Grows Valuations with CMA Data
LaCrosse Global Fund Services, a New York-based provider of fund administration and operations services to hedge funds, is looking to migrate its global client base to daily credit derivative valuations from credit data provider CMA's DataVision service.