Emerging Technologies
Exegy, Solace Boost Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based Exegy is integrating its Total Connect ticker plant appliance with hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems' Message Router, to provide a hardware-accelerated, high-throughput and low-latency platform for enterprise-wide data…
Opening Cross: Spotting the Right Opportunity
Last week's crisis in the Greek economy followed by a nosediving-then recovering-Dow Jones Industrial Average must have prompted concerned investors to wonder whether this slow and painful financial recovery might yet crumble beneath their feet.
DirectFN Targets MidEast Institutional Data
Dubai-based data provider DirectFN is targeting institutional investors and trading firms with a new desktop data display and datafeeds, in a bid to expand its client base both within and beyond the region.
Jordan & Jordan Bolsters London Staff
New York-based consultancy Jordan & Jordan is beefing up its London operations to support an unnamed, London-based bank client that has engaged J&J to perform outsourced business management for its market data billing and reporting functions, including…
Interactive Data Buyout Drives IT Integration
Interactive Data plans to accelerate a project to adopt a common technology platform for supporting the storage and distribution of its data products and services, following the vendor's acquisition last week by private equity firms Silver Lake and…
Hedgehogs Curls Up With MoneyScience
UK-based private equity firm Thematic Capital, which owns hedge fund information and networking community portal Hedgehogs.net, has acquired a majority stake in MoneyScience, a niche information portal that aggregates content for quantitative investors…
Kohler Quits Icap to Head CMA
Antoine Kohler, head of information services at Icap, is leaving the interdealer broker to become chief executive of London-based derivatives data vendor Credit Market Analysis.
The New Spring Fashion
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Dealing with Technology would be going through some major and exciting changes in the coming months and I want to provide a sharper picture of what that will entail.
Don't Stop Believing
The concept of a reference data utility has continued to gain momentum over the past year, and the industry may be set for a structural change. Tine Thoresen speaks to the ECB's Francis Gross
Up Close and Personal
It is no longer enough to be supplied with basic reference data. Firms must know the inputs used to form the data record, as well as how, by whom and when it was last validated, says Markit's Ross E. Chapman
ITRS, 29West Ally for Messaging Monitoring
UK-based real-time systems monitoring software vendor ITRS and messaging technology provider 29West-recently acquired by Calif.-based integration software vendor Informatica-are developing an adapter that will enable clients to monitor the performance of…
LSE Chief Urges Review of Data Regs
The European Commission should address the costs and inefficiencies associated with a fragmented European trading and market data landscape as part of its review this year of the current Markets in Financial Instruments Directive regulation, London Stock…
MDSL Grows 'Expert' Services
Market data usage monitoring and contract reconciliation software vendor MDSL has expanded the range of services provided by its MDX (Market Data Expert) outsourced management service, where MDSL's in-house consultants use the vendor's market data…
STAC to Expand Benchmarking Tools
The Securities Technology Analysis Center is modifying the test environment it uses to benchmark the performance of feed handlers, to enable clients to choose off-the-shelf latency measurement and time synchronization devices from multiple vendors for…