Data Management
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…
Savvis connects hedge funds to major US exchanges
Global IT networking and hosting infrastructure provider Savvis is now providing direct access to five major US exchanges through its Weehawken, NJ-based data centre.
Month in Numbers
'All regulatory concerns fundamentally say exactly the same thing - you need to follow your transactions to ensure that you're not funding Taliban Inc'
No silver bullet for sub-prime valuation challenge
The dust is yet to settle in the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage fiasco and already the analysts are hard at work suggesting techniques and technologies designed to avert such a crisis in the future. But as RiskMetrics' Christopher Finger explains in a…
Boat: No Delayed Data at Launch
Project Boat, the trade reporting utility set up by a consortium of investment banks to take advantage of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive's pre- and post-trade reporting requirements, will not initially offer data subscribers the option of…
Icap Preps Asia Reuters Rollout, Part 2
Interdealer broker Icap is planning the second phase of a Reuters market data systems rollout to its operations in Asia, officials tell IMD . The second phase will focus on back-end development for sharing data between its core data platform and…
Rhode Island Bound
Imagine a situation where key business and technical figures in the market data industry were isolated from their companies and staff, unable to reach their workplace to perform the mission-critical duties that keep the financial world turning. What…
TheMarkets Bolsters Broker Evaluation Application
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is augmenting its MeritMark broker research evaluation tool to give users more granular feedback options, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Hedge Funds Warned of Fair Value Challenges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement (SFAS) 157 has created a rougher playing field for hedge fund managers attempting to derive fair value for securities, according to panelists at a Managed Funds Association seminar in New York last…
Deloitte: Modify Data Apps for Options Symbology Changes
Preparation for conversion to revamped US options instrument identifiers in 2009 must encompass systems across user firms, including applications for market data, trading and data collection, rather than exclusively back-office systems, according to…
Börse Berlin Buy Will Fund Equiduct Feed
German regional exchange Börse Berlin is to buy a majority stake in MiFID-inspired pan-European stock market Equiduct.
Wiener Börse to Collect and Publish MiFID OTC Data
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse has launched a new trade publication service to help its members comply with the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Nasdaq Preps Options Data Products
Nasdaq has released the specifications for two forthcoming proprietary options data products that will accompany the launch of its Nasdaq Options Market, in addition to making its options data available via the Options Price Reporting Authority's…
Morningstar Eyes Institutional Users with Activ Options Data
Chicago-based research provider Morningstar is considering ways to leverage the options data and research it began providing to retail investors via its Web site last week as the basis for tradable products targeted at institutional investors.
ISE Depth Feed Advances
The International Securities Exchange is getting closer to rolling out a feed that will provide market depth data and utilize the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol to compress bandwidth requirements.
Analyst: U.S. Market Consolidation Inevitable
BOSTON—In the next two years, the U.S. equities market, which currently consists of 35 potential venues, is poised for a major consolidation, according to a recently published white paper from industry research firm Aite Group.
TheMarkets, InfoNgen Prep Search Tool
Bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is incorporating Instant Information's InfoNgen filtering tool to allow clients to perform customized searches of broker research and Internet content, officials tell Inside Market Data .
BayernLB Upgrades VWD Terminals
Germany's Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) is upgrading around 400 traders and staff in its private and retail banking departments to new data terminals from Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD, replacing the vendor's Realtime Concept 3 terminals, which it…