Data Management
Big interview: Talking shortt
It is no secret that a number of the sharpest business and IT minds in the financial services industry are firmly ensconced within top-tier investment banks. It follows, therefore, that some of the industry’s most advanced trading and risk management…
S&P rolls out CreditStats Direct
Standard & Poor's last month launched CreditStats Direct, a new web-based analytics service that provides data and tools to view the adjustments underlying S&P's ratings of debt issued by North American and European corporates and utilities.
Opra Sneezes, Exchanges Get the Hiccups
Much of the financial markets' technology focus post 9/11 has centered on business continuity, resiliency, and eliminating single points of failure, where an issue with one link in the chain that is today's financial markets can potentially impact all…
Turquoise Preps Apama Analysis Platform
European multilateral trading facility Turquoise is preparing to roll out a real-time market surveillance platform from event processing and algorithmic trading software vendor Progress Apama and consultancy Detica that can also be used for general…
The Exchanges Strike Back
What a difference a week can make. Last week the industry was wondering what NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer planned to purchase and he surprised us with a twofer-the American Stock Exchange (Amex) and Wombat Financial Software.
A Busy Week for the NYSE and Friends
According to Benjamin Disraeli, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Allow me to add another category-rumors. Sometimes these rumors get swept under the carpet; other times they turn out to be true. Take, for example, the New York Stock Exchange,…
Equiduct Picks KTS for VBBO Data Display
European equity market operator Equiduct announced last week that it has engaged UK-based data and technology vendor Knowledge Technology Solutions to create a hosted Web application for traders and investors to view data from Equiduct's Virtual Best Bid…
LSE Readies Performance Channels for Live Production
The London Stock Exchange made the production version of its Performance Channels low-latency datafeed available via its customer development service last Monday, Jan. 14, ending a pilot phase that has been running since the exchange's TradElect platform…
HKEx to Focus On Data in '08
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing plans a number of data dissemination initiatives in the first half of 2008, to meet pressures from rising market turnover, according to HKEx chief executive Paul Chow.
S&P Launches CreditStats Direct Analysis
Standard & Poor's last week launched CreditStats Direct, a new online content and analytics service that provides fundamental data and tools to view the adjustments underlying S&P's ratings of debt issued by North American and European corporates and…
Navellier Mulls AI Data Adds to Models
Reno, NV-based portfolio manager Navellier & Associates is considering whether to incorporate company ratings data from Audit Integrity into its investment models, after using the vendor's data as an additional input to its investment process since…
BoA to Exit Equity Prime Brokerage
NEW YORK-As investment banks north and south of the U.S.-Canadian border are restructuring in response to the credit meltdown, Bank of America (BoA) plans to sell its equity prime brokerage business and separately, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce …
NYSE: Wombat to Boost SFTI Connectivity
NYSE Euronext plans to integrate feed handler and data management technology from Wombat Financial Software with the order routing and communications network of NYSE TransactTools, following the exchange's announcement last week of plans to acquire the…
NYSE Euronext's Expansion Plan
As NYSE Euronext continues its aggressive mergers and acquisition strategy ( see story, this issue ), growth seems to be the name of the game. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with NYSE Euronext CIO Steven Rubinow to discuss the exchange's…
And Then There Were Five?
According to press reports, NYSE Euronext chairman Duncan Neiderauer is following in his predecessor's footsteps with the rumored purchase of the American Stock Exchange (Amex), one of the few non-demutualized exchanges left in the U.S.
Will "Caring" Exchanges Prevent Flight to MTFs?
We've barely begun 2008, yet already our front page is filled with news from the participants in what will be one of the key battlegrounds for this year-the struggle for trading volumes between exchanges, ECNs and new, multiple dealer-backed venues,…
Credit Markets' Electronic Evolution Gathers Steam
With more firms trading fixed-income securities and derivatives electronically, and an expanding range of products making the leap to electronic trading, the market will require multi-asset transparency solutions. By Robert MacLeod, chief executive,…
Fitch Revamps Search Engine
Fitch Ratings has rolled out a revamped search engine for accessing the rating agency's archive of research reports online, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Integrity's Investment Research Forecasts
Changes in the way that investors use, receive and pay for research are prompting growing numbers of commentators to express concerns about the outlook for the investment research industry, as buy-side firms focus on generating more research in-house. By…
Credit Markets Face 10-Year Itch
Recent high demand for data on the credit markets and their derivatives could face a spoiler in the form of the underlying markets following 2007's credit crunch. Steve Miller, managing director of Standard & Poor's Leveraged Commentary & Data business,…