Data Management
Something to hide
If the red flag needed raising any higher, we'd need a longer pole. Evidence undermining the hedge fund industry's longstanding 'just trust us' argument against greater regulatory supervision continues to come to light, most recently in a US academic…
Buy-side alpha, leverage strategies in flux
According to a new Tabb Group survey, Alternative investments 2007: The quest for alpha , traditional buy-side firms and hedge fund managers are pursuing more active, globally oriented alpha-generation initiatives, while simultaneously shifting their…
Canadian buy side to expand use of trading technologies
Buy-side traders in Canada are expected to make significantly greater use of electronic trading, algorithmic and dark liquidity tools through next year (2008) as the country's equity markets move from dual to multiple structures.
StanChart Deploys Traderforce in Asia
Standard Chartered Bank has rolled out more than 30 market data display terminals from French data vendor Traderforce to its new private banking division in Singapore, officials tell Inside Market Data.
SGX Readies OMX Derivatives Feed Test
The Singapore Exchange will begin testing a new data platform for its derivatives feed in December, based on the Genium data platform from Swedish exchange operator and technology provider OMX, and plans to fully implement the platform in January,…
Thomson, BQuotes Partner for CDS Data
Thomson Financial’s analysis and commentary subsidiary Thomson IFR Markets has begun providing real-time credit default swap commentary, analysis and forecasts to BestQuotes and BestData—the real-time price discovery and intra-day price services from…
Reuters Readies MiFID Tools
Reuters will this week launch two new services that provide data and analysis of trade information to aid client compliance with the best-execution components of the European Commission’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
FTSE Deploys Caplin-Kalahari Data Platform
Index provider FTSE has deployed a data backbone from Caplin Systems and calculation engine from Kalahari to help support the production of its bond and gilt index data, officials say.
FTSE Deploys Caplin-Kalahari Data Platform
Index provider FTSE has deployed a data backbone from Caplin Systems and calculation engine from Kalahari to help support the production of its bond and gilt index data, officials say.
Tenfore Grows Far East Feeds
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems is preparing to roll out data from a number of new Asian sources onto its consolidated datafeed, to expand its coverage of the region, officials say.
HVB, Unicredit Consolidate Data Functions
The market data groups of Italian bank Unicredit, Bank Austria and Germany’s Hypovereinsbank (HVB) are being consolidated into HVB’s head office in Munich, following the merger of the Unicredit and HVB groups in 2005.
Asia Data: Prepping for Take-off, or Flying High?
By the time you read this, I—along with a few of my industry colleagues—will be making the long, long flight to Singapore for Inside Market Data’s Asia-Pacific Financial Information Summit, to gauge how much the market has evolved over the past 12 months.
Deutsche Börse Preps FAST Eurex Feed
Deutsche Börse will launch a new low-latency datafeed for vendors and non-member trading firms on Dec. 3 that will also provide increased market depth data, following the launch of a new trading API being rolled out by the exchange's Eurex derivatives…
NeoNet Connects to Chi-X
Direct market access (DMA) agency broker and trading technology provider NeoNet's clients will now have access to Chi-X, Instinet's pan-European alternative trading system (ATS), NeoNet officials announced today, Oct. 22. NeoNet is currently connected to…
Keynote Highlights Value of Data
Market data will prove a constant area of value and differentiation between exchanges as new competitive landscapes and regulations rewrite traditional exchange models, according to the European Financial Information Summit's keynote speaker, Miguel…
Searching for Alpha Through Data
The burden of finding new datasets that add value to a trader's ability to achieve alpha-the elusive difference by which someone outperforms an index through skill, timing and asset selection-is falling to data managers and traders or asset managers, as…
Ref Data Panel: Trust, Governance Key for Data Management
Governance issues and the ability of firms to have confidence in data are key challenges for reference data management strategies, according to a panel on the Inside Reference Data stream of last week's European Financial Information Summit.
Vendors: More Mergers Won't Stifle Innovation
The trend towards consolidation among data providers is set to continue, as vendors grapple with issues of scalability, complexity and infrastructure costs, according to panelists at last week's European Financial Information Summit.
Wombat Debuts DART Feed Entitlements Tools
Wombat Financial Software's entitlements division, which the vendor acquired with the purchase of Harco Technology in January, will this week unveil two new entitlements software systems based on Harco's DART (Data Access and Reporting Tool) technology.
DJN Adds to Algo News Feed
Dow Jones Newswires has added company-related news items to its Elementized News Feed, which provides a feed of news items with XML tags that can be processed by investment models and algorithmic trading applications.
Turning Back the Clock
Now that we are in the midst of autumn, it is just a matter of a few short weeks before we in the U.S. turn back the clocks by an hour as we leave Daylight Saving Time and get that extra hour of sleep.