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Fund of funds market shows healthy growth
Research note illustrates the extent to which the global fund of hedge funds industry is expected to flourish, even though this growth will be concentrated within a handful of the largest fund managers and administrators. By Victor Anderson
Winterflood Expands DMA with Fixnetix Data
UK-based market maker Winterflood Securities is to implement low-latency data connectivity from Fixnetix to exchanges in continental Europe to support the firm's trading operations.
Reuters Deal Ignites OMX Vendor Drive
Nordic exchange group and technology provider OMX is expanding the reach of its Genium FIX low-latency datafeed with a new initiative intended to target the feed at data vendors that distribute direct exchange feeds, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tradition Revamps Contributions, Feeds Tech
Interdealer broker Tradition is deploying technology from UK-based data technology vendor Arcontech to support its contribution of over-the-counter prices to Bloomberg, and is extending the vendor's CityVision StarNet data distribution platform as its…
Regulators Bare Their Gums
Perhaps the only thing greater than data professionals' curiosity about which businesses competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic would force Thomson and Reuters to divest before blessing the proposed merger of the two data giants is their…
CME Preps Data Recovery Tool
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will later this year introduce a new service allowing clients to request retransmission of specific subsets of market data using the FIX Protocol, to populate applications with missing data in the event of an outage or a…
Data Error Halts NGM Trading
Swedish exchange the Nordic Growth Market was forced to suspend trading last week after data was not properly updated within its trading system, officials say.
SGX Rolls Out OMX-Cicada Data Engine
The Singapore Exchange announced last Friday, Feb. 22 that it has begun rolling out a new data engine, dubbed Singapore Exchange Data Engine (SGXDE), based on the new Genium Market Info market data distribution platform developed by OMX and Cicada, to…
Fortis Integrates Sophis Data in DACS
Belgian banking group Fortis has integrated its Sophis Risque application with Reuters' Data Access Control System (DACS) to increase visibility of internal market data distribution and ensure compliance with data policies from both exchanges and vendors…
Explore Your Options
Too many options: not just a problem for those who can't decide what to buy their valentine, but also for anyone serious about trading in the options markets today-and dealing with the sheer volume of data generated by US options trading.
Chi-X Targets ASX With Free Australian Data
Chi-X Australia, an alternative trading system (ATS) set up by the Chi-X business of inter-agency broker Instinet to compete with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), will provide its market data free of charge when the platform goes live in the…
CME Prepares to Resurrect LDB
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is set to reverse a decision to retire the Chicago Board of Trade's Liquidity Data Bank service for end-of-day net and total volume data for CBOT-listed contracts by trader type, and re-launch LDB by April in response to…
Thomson Preps Tagged Algo News
Thomson Financial is preparing to launch a tagged, machine-readable news feed and a tagged archive of news that trading firms can use to power algorithmic trading systems that use news stories and events to generate trades, officials say.
What's in a Name?
Is content still king? In this age of low latency, is speed everything? Or, with everyone trying to make the most of the market's merger and acquisition frenzy, is branding the next big thing?
ISE Rethinks Rebate Rates
The International Securities Exchange has introduced inverted pricing for members, which eliminates market data rebates based on quoting activity on the ISE Stock Exchange, while increasing the rebate for executions that add liquidity, in a move designed…
Benelux Banks Form InfoMatch User Group
Three Brussels-based banks-KBC Group, Fortis and ING Southwest Europe-have formed a user group to share ideas on how best to utilize their InfoMatch market data inventory management software from Dutch vendor Screen Consultants.