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In-house use of SOA-based technology combined with sophisticated vendor-supplied business services for data management is on the rise, says Dale Richards, CEO of LakeFront Data Ventures
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UBS brings new algos to Europe to tap liquidity
Swiss investment bank UBS has introduced two new algorithms into the European markets, known as UBS Tap and UBS TapNow.
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.