Data Management
How the Hell Did We Get Here?
Exactly 12 months ago, I had a bit of a rude awakening as I moved from a features-driven monthly to a news-driven weekly when I took over the editorship of DWT . Since then, the market has suffered its own rude awakening as well.
Thomson Readies Local Asia Products
Thomson Financial is increasing its focus on Asian markets with the addition of data sourced from China and local-language components for its Thomson One workstation products, and is looking to bring US products to the region.
Markit Preps Global Index With IIC, CDSI
UK-based credit and derivatives data provider Markit is planning to create a global credit index, following its acquisitions of the International Index Company and CDS IndexCo, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Credit Suisse Ramps Up Data Capacity
Credit Suisse was able to handle record data volumes in August without system disruptions as a result of a capacity upgrade program that enabled the bank to prioritize improvements for different business lines based on their contribution to-and the…
Credit Risk to Drive Data Demand
Market data will become a "critical component" of credit risk management for dealers, hedge funds and regulators following this year's sub-prime crisis and resulting fallout, as market participants seek better ways to value credit derivatives, according…
NeoNet Adds Warsaw Stock Exchange
Clients of direct market access (DMA) agency broker and trading technology provider NeoNet will now have access to the Warsaw Stock Exchange, officials announced today, Nov. 12.
No Time for Downtime (or Sub-Prime)
Having spent the last week complaining to anyone who would listen about missing luggage and a six-hour stopover in Heathrow Airport on my way back to the US, the glitch that disrupted trading and data distribution from the London Stock Exchange last week…
Rating Agencies Face Brussels Probe
The Committee of European Securities Regulators last week outlined its timetable to review the role of rating agencies in the wake of this summer's credit crisis, responding to a request by the European Commission in September. This article from Credit…
LSE Glitch Sparks Price Confusion
A problem with the London Stock Exchange's Infolect data distribution platform that disrupted trading and data dissemination last week could prompt the market to review the way it derives end-of-day prices for exchange-traded stocks.
HSBC Cross-Asset Platform Grows Legs
HSBC is working on technology to price components of multi-leg trades and reduce "slippage" between derived or implied prices and prices at which a trade or hedge is executed, as part of a broader project to develop a cross-asset-class trading and…
MTS Revises Data Packages, Fees for '08
European bond trading platform MTS will change the way it packages and charges for data via vendors to introduce an "all-you-can-eat" model from the start of next year, officials tell Inside Market Data .
IDC Data Boosts Proquote TCA Service
The London Stock Exchange's Proquote data vendor subsidiary is expanding its Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) service to cover European markets, using the PlusFeed consolidated datafeed from Interactive Data's Real-Time Services division.
Brokers, Vendors Predict More Exotics, Credit Algos
In the wake of this year's sub-prime meltdown, fixed-income market participants are predicting that traders and investors will seek out new structured and derivative fixed-income instruments over the next year, while the more liquid asset classes will…
PHLX Buy Broadens Nasdaq Options
NEW YORK-In an effort to beef up and diversify its options market approach, the Nasdaq Stock Market announced its intention to acquire the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) in a deal set to close in the first quarter of 2008, say exchange officials.
The Lion City Roars
The big news in Singapore last week wasn’t our prestigious Asia-Pacific Financial Information Summit, or even the influx of foreign cash (and resulting linen shortage) as I raced around the city trying to replace my luggage (which apparently decided to…
China Embraces Change; More Needed
Differences between Western and Chinese financial markets are narrowing fast, though concerns still exist around data quality and piracy, according to a panel discussing data solutions for East Asia.
NSX Rebates Target ECN Flow
The Chicago-based National Stock Exchange has restructured its market data and liquidity rebates in a push to attract higher order volumes from ECNs and alternative trading systems.
APFIS Keynote: Asia-Pac’s Key Data Drivers
Data management is more important than ever for financial institutions in Asia, due to rising trade volumes and increasingly complex markets in the region, according to John Burns, managing director and chief information officer at Credit Suisse in Asia…
BvD Grows Sinorating China Data, Revamps Interface
Belgium-based fundamental data provider Bureau van Dijk (BvD) is integrating company data from more than 300,000 Chinese corporations into its international data products following a deal with Sinorating, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned credit…
Bank of Scotland Achieves 98% Accuracy
APFIS 2007
The Reference Data Staff Shortage
Settlement