Data Management
WestLB Globalizes FX, Money Market Rates
German bank WestLB has expanded an agreement with London-based Gissing Software to use the vendor's technology to distribute prices on foreign exchange and money market instruments across its offices globally in support of the bank's dealing operations.
"Direct" Comparisons
Last week in this column, I compared the financial results of the big three listed real-time data vendors—Reuters, Thomson Financial and Interactive Data (minus Bloomberg, of course, which is privately held). One thing that became clear—apart from the…
FISD Preps for Next Stage of MDDL
US-based industry body FISD is getting ready to begin promoting adoption of Market Data Definition Language (MDDL), having completed development work on Version 3 of the XML-based standard and its accompanying documentation, officials tell Inside Market…
DJIA Drop Glitch Remains Unknown
The calculation engine for the Dow Jones Industrial Average index returned to smooth running last week after experiencing technical difficulties on Tuesday, Feb. 27 that led to an apparent sudden massive drop in the index in the middle of an already bad…
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Data-driven decisions
Quantitative techniques are increasingly becoming a major component of equity-based investment products for money managers of all sizes and styles. Benefiting from a quantitative methodology, however, requires a comprehensive strategy and technology…
Pivotal to the future of the buy side
Utilising Instant Messaging (IM) technologies is not new to the buy side, although technologies that automatically translate IMs to FIX messages in real-time in order to convey trade-related data, are finding traction. BST investigates Pivot Solutions’…