Data Management
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…
Exchanges Face MiFID Battle
European exchanges will experience increasing competitive pressures as a result of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, with latency and throughput of their technology platforms and the depth of their datasets forming key battlegrounds,…
Exchanges: Audit or Die
STREAMING QUOTES
Editor's Letter: Wake me up when the data bit's done
Like it or not, data management is boring. It's tedious, it's uninspiring but it's also undeniably crucial to every financial services organisation regardless of their business focus or location. This much emerged during my recent conversation with Mike…
No finish line
It is fair to say that data management issues reside at the heart of most buy-side operational challenges. Mike Atkin , managing director of the EDM Council, speaks with Victor Anderson about the Council's mission, the organisational and management tasks…
All carrot, no stick
With credit crunches still front and centre in the minds of hedge fund managers nursing their wounds - or pondering how best to pursue arbitrage opportunities amidst the wreckage - familiar but nonetheless pertinent calls for greater transparency and…