Data Management
New York Sweeps Boston... Sort Of...
For the benefit of non-US readers, we're in the Post-season. The baseball season is over, and the winners now battle it out for the World Series-the Cubs, Indians, Diamondbacks, Angels, Rockies and Phillies, and of course arch-rivals the Yankees and Red…
Compustat Beefs Up Emerging Markets, Industry Data
& Poor's is planning a major upgrade to its Compustat feed in December, which will include company data from emerging markets, new industry-specific datasets and indicators, and improved analyst notes.
NSX Drops Data Credits, Ups Rebates
The National Stock Exchange has increased its liquidity rebates for approximately 500 exchange-traded funds, while scrapping market data revenue transaction credits for those shares.
CSAs Enable Firms to Price Proprietary Research
US investment managers are taking steps toward placing firm values on proprietary research provided via soft-dollar arrangements-increasingly by the use of commission-sharing arrangements (CSAs)-though industry experts say some stumbling blocks to…
LSE, ICMA Gain ARM Status
LONDON-The exchange reporting service (ERS) of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the Trax2 system of ICMA Limited-the market services division of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-are now Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs), say…
Data Key to Nasdaq's Boston Buy
Nasdaq officials say the exchange will leverage quote data and symbology assets acquired via its $61 million purchase of the Boston Stock Exchange last week to increase data revenues and attract new listings.
CAPIS Deploys Pivot for Trading, Research
Dallas-based agency broker and research provider Capital Institutional Services is deploying technology from trade messaging and collaboration infrastructure provider Pivot, to automate trade order messages and for distribution of investment research.
CME Rolls Out FIX FAST For Data
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has begun using a FIX FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) format in live production for distributing market data at lower latency and reduced bandwidth consumption, officials say.
Standardizing Asia
Asia faces complex reference data challenges, with diversity leading to a lack of market harmonization. Carla Mangado reports on the nature of these barriers and how the market is striving to achieve greater standardization in a period of globalization
Report From Rhode Island
With its cruises, mansion tours and beachfront clambakes, you might be forgiven for thinking that the FISD's World Financial Information Conference in Newport, Rhode Island last week was just one big market data love-in. However, there was a range of…
ICE Revamps Historical Data Delivery
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange is launching a new Web site that will provide access to historical data for products traded on its ICE Futures Europe market, and will also incorporate historical data on US over-the-counter traded contracts.
SGX Targets International Firms with TNS Direct Feeds
The Singapore Exchange has gone live with a connection to Transaction Network Services' Secure Trading Extranet, to provide trading firms outside Singapore with access to direct feeds of data from SGX's securities and derivatives markets.
BlueMatrix Updates Research Tool
BlueMatrix, a New York-based software provider, last week unveiled a new version of its research report authoring application designed to improve speed and performance, which the vendor will roll out to customers in the fourth quarter of this year.
Demand Rises for Certified Prices
Diversified investment strategies, together with market structure changes, are driving a heightened need for third-party services providing certified prices for instruments such as foreign, illiquid or complex securities and derivatives, industry…