Data Management
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.
Taking Control
Hands up-who's ever downloaded a song from an online file-sharing program without paying for it? Yet how many of you are scrupulous about data audits and appalled by data piracy? Ultimately, we're talking about the same action on a different scale. And…
Understanding Under-Reporting
With changes to the industry as a whole and the way market data is distributed, exchanges are set to step up their data auditing functions to protect their market data from unauthorized distribution, leaving end-user firms facing greater administrative…
ISE Adds Order Info to Depth Feed
The International Securities Exchange has enhanced its recently launched market depth datafeed with new fields indicating the quantity of customer orders for each price level.
ICE Futures Resumes Exchange Data Audits
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) will begin conducting market data audits on member firms that subscribe to data from its ICE Futures Europe market (formerly the International Petroleum Exchange), ending a five-year hiatus period during…
TSX Rolls Out Multi-Dealer Index
The Toronto Stock Exchange has switched its PC Bond fixed-income index from being based on prices contributed from a single dealer-Scotia Capital, from whom TSX bought the index and fixed-income analytics software business last year-to prices contributed…
Data Evolution Prompts Exchange Audit Rise
Exchanges are increasing the number of data audits they perform to verify that market data usage is in accordance with the levels authorized in their contracts with customers, and are shifting their focus more from data vendors to end-user firms,…
Fortis Americas Takes Spryware Co-Lo
Fortis Clearing Americas last month completed the rollout of a hosted ticker plant and datafeed under a multi-year deal with Chicago-based vendor Spryware, designed to reduce the technology footprint required to support the firm's data system.
Ipreo Automates Meetings Data
Ipreo, the business created by the merger of Hemscott, i-Deal and MarketPipe, is preparing to launch a new service aimed at automating meeting communications as part of the investment research process between broker dealers and investment managers.
Dealers Gain TradeWeb Stake
NEW YORK-Electronic trading of interest rates swaps is heating up as nine major global dealers have invested $180 million to gain a minority interest in electronic dealer-to-client over-the-counter (OTC) trading network Thomson TradeWeb.
Evolving Risk
With the front office trading faster and more creatively, can a firm's risk management system ever keep up? DWT European reporter Cecilia Bergamaschi sits down with Andrew White, global head of trade and risk management with Reuters, to discuss the…
Euronext Preps Feed; Brings SFTI to Europe
NYSE Euronext is preparing to launch a new, low-latency feed later this year to consolidate data from its cash equity NSC trading platform with full derivatives order book depth from its Liffe Connect platform, and is also preparing to provide clients in…
CS Preps TF-Paladyne Data for Hedge Funds
Hedge fund clients of Credit Suisse's prime brokerage service unit will be the first end-users to go live on a software platform that integrates portfolio management, analytics and accounting components from Paladyne Systems with a datafeed from Thomson…
TheMarkets.com Scores a Bullseye
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com will this week unveil a new real-time query tool that melds broker research and information gathered from the Internet, dubbed Bullseye.