Data Management
Trading Glitch Halts SWX Data
Subscribers to market data from the SWX Swiss exchange experienced a data blackout on Tuesday, Aug. 28 for products traded on its Quotematch electronic platform, following a trading halt caused by an undisclosed technical problem.
Analyst: True SOA a Pipe Dream
NEW YORK—The age of pure service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology is getting closer, but is still almost a decade away, says James Wolstenholme, research director with Garnter, who spoke at the Gartner Financial Services Technology Summit in New…
Charles River Development Initiates J-Sox Talks
Working Groups
Leap Reference Data Team Looks to Standardization
Working Groups
The Value of Evaluation
Independent Valuations
In With the New
EDITOR'S LETTER
Financial Data Storm
STREAMING QUOTES
Thomson Financial: Topical to a 't'
One of the most hotly contested spaces on the buy side at present is that covering the pricing of complex OTC derivatives – most notably credit derivatives – and the valuation of portfolios and structured products comprising such instruments. It…
It's been spotty, infrequent, inconsistent and potentially biased
TowerGroup's Matt Nelson is dismissive of current pricing methods across the buy side for hard-to-price debt instruments, which, he explains, are typically managed internally by organisations either using Excel models or broker-supplied quotes and not…
Eurex Readies New Market Data Feed
German derivatives exchange Eurex plans to roll out a new market data feed as part of the latest upgrade to its trading system, say company officials. Version 10.0 of the Eurex trading system, which is due for release on November 26, will include a new…
Fidessa Adds Data From Emerging Europe
UK trading systems and market data vendor Fidessa is expanding the range of Eastern European market data carried over its products to include markets in Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Cyprus and Romania, to meet increasing demand for connectivity into the…
CME Details CBOT Data Developments to Users
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will this month round up a series of forums to explain the implications of its merger with the Chicago Board of Trade to customers, and will make available test code for connecting to the combined market that—among other…
ICE Waives Web Data Fees
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange has waived fees for displaying its futures data on public Web sites for the remainder of this year and next. The fee holiday applies to delayed data on key benchmark contracts traded on the exchange.
LSE Preps Low-Latency 'Channels' Launch
The London Stock Exchange will launch its low-latency Performance Channels data distribution architecture in the first quarter of 2008, requiring customers of the service to upgrade their circuits from 10 megabits per second (Mbps) to 100 Mbps. Those…
OTC Val Opens for Business
Pricing and risk specialist OTC Valuations officially opened for business last week, offering valuations for illiquid over-the-counter derivatives and structured products. The company—founded by three Canadian financial industry and technology…