Data Management
Custom Index Boom
With indexes and index-based products growing rapidly, firms have a choice of how to create their own custom indexes. By Ridgely Walters, senior director of client development and support at Dow Jones Indexes
Deutsche Börse Unshackles Xetra Feed
Deutsche Börse has removed throttling restraints from its CEF datafeeds that distribute data from its Xetra cash market, so that data is distributed in un-netted and un-pulsed format, providing subscribers with faster and more comprehensive data.
ISE Launches FX Options Data
The International Securities Exchange last week began distributing data on currency options products that it began trading last Wednesday, officials say.
Exchanges Grow Q1 Data Revenues
Despite increased scrutiny from pressure groups of late, exchanges' revenues from market data services continue to rise, according to the latest round of financial statements from exchanges.
Commerzbank Taps Aleri for FX Pricing Platform
Commerzbank is gearing up to roll out a new foreign exchange pricing tool that will be used by the bank's FX staff around the world as well as being made available to clients via the bank's e-commerce portal, officials say.
After New Fees, Plus Markets Preps API
UK equity market operator Plus Markets Group is preparing the rollout of a new application programming interface (API) for market data connectivity as part of a recent technology overhaul, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Townsend, Vendors Carry NYSE Bonds Data
Townsend Analytics has made minor changes to its RealTick data and trading platform in order to accommodate additional functions and data fields required to carry fixed-income data from the New York Stock Exchange's NYSE Bonds platform, which goes live…
Going Green, Seeing Red
It wasn't until I received a faxed notice from the Stockholm stock exchange about a trading firm last week which actually arrived ahead of the same news via an email consolidator that I realized the market data industry is pretty darned environmentally…
Clariden Centralises FX Pricing Data
Clariden Leu, a Swiss private bank formed in January 2007 after a merger between five Credit Suisse subsidiaries, has rolled out a foreign exchange pricing solution to centralize pricing and distribution of FX rates throughout the new organization.
Morley FM Expands FITS Coverage
Morley Fund Management is expanding its use of The Roberts Group's Financial Information Tracking System (FITS) to bring functions covering reconciliation of data expenses previously performed by the firm's accounting division into the market data group.
Shadow Complex
Demand for independent pricing shadows the rise of complex structured finance transactions as regulatory scrutiny increases. By JR Rieger, vice president of Global Evaluations, Standard & Poor's
QIM Deploys Quant House Data, Algo Tools
US hedge fund Quantitative Investment Management (QIM) has deployed low-latency data and automated trading technologies from French vendor Quant House to support algorithmic trading in the futures markets.
Tick Data Unveils Historic Options Tick Database
Nexa Technologies' market data business Tick Data has launched a tick history database for US equity options, developed with the co-operation of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Wiener Börse "Highway" to Speed Data Traffic
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse will launch its new Alliance Data Highway (ADH) datafeed next Friday, replacing the exchange's existing legacy Integrated Datafeed, following a two-month simulation phase with exchange members, officials tell Inside Market…
Saab Extends SuperDerivatives Data Deal for Pension Fund
The treasury department of Swedish defense contractor Saab is using interest rate derivatives data from SuperDerivatives to enhance the performance of its employee pension fund, officials tell Inside Market Data .
BNP Taps ValueLink for OTC Derivatives
The securities services division of BNP Paribas has extended a deal with UK-based data and services provider ValueLink to include consolidation of over-the-counter derivatives data and the production of reconciliation reports.
FSA Drafts MiFID Reporting Specs
UK regulator the Financial Services Authority has issued technical specifications for transaction reports by which it will collect trading data as part of the requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Interactive Data Launches Hedge Fund NAV Service
Interactive Data Corp.'s Pricing and Reference Data division is rolling out a new service for collecting and disseminating hedge fund net asset values in standardized format, potentially replacing laborious data collection operations at investment firms,…
S&P Adds Pension Funding Data
Standard & Poor's has added data on the performance of public companies' pension funds and benefits to the information available via its Compustat database and Xpressfeed delivery mechanism, in response to new accounting standards.