Emerging Technologies
'Too Early' to Assess IT Impact After UBS Split
ZURICH-The future of UBS' IT infrastructure is unclear after officials from the Swiss banking giant announced plans to separate the investment banking and wealth management units, following a CHF358 million ($329.2 million) second quarter net loss.
Monitor110 Auctions Assets Post-Closure
A mystery data vendor has bought some of the assets of Monitor110, a New York-based provider of technology for firms to monitor information on the Web in real time and correlate that information against investments, which closed down last month after…
Marketcetera Integrates Activ Data
Open-source trading system provider Marketcetera and low-latency data vendor Activ Financial will this week announce a deal to integrate their technologies, so that Marketcetera clients can immediately deploy Marketcetera against Activ datafeeds, while…
Newedge Consolidates U.S. Operations
NEW YORK-Multi-asset brokerage Newedge plans to complete the integration of all of its operations in the U.S. into one entity, dubbed Newedge USA, by Sept. 1, DWT has learned.
SunGard Readies GL Buyout
Financial technology giant SunGard last week announced plans to acquire French data and trading technology vendor GL Trade, in a deal that would value GL at just over €400 million.
ISE Price Glitch Sparks Opra BBO Error
A technical problem with a software update at the International Securities Exchange caused problems with the best bid and offer data calculated and distributed as part of the Options Price Reporting Authority's consolidated feed of US options quote and…
Charity Begins On the Trading Floor
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Counterparty Time
Counterparty data projects are appearing across the industry. Market veteran David Goldberg talks to Carla Mangado about this newly emerging career path
FactSet Rebrands Thomson Fundamentals
FactSet Research Systems has launched FactSet Fundamentals, a historical financial information database of income statements, balance sheets, cash flows and related underlying data from the footnotes of financial statements for more than 43,000 companies…
Thomson Reuters to Consolidate Networks
Thomson Reuters is planning to merge its five combined data delivery networks over the next five years, to produce a single data infrastructure based on the Reuters Integrated Data Network (IDN), officials tell Inside Market Data .
Associations Challenge SEC's Arca Data Fee Approval
Industry groups have expressed opposition to a proposal last month by the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the introduction of market data fees by NYSE Arca, rejecting the SEC's argument that the fees are reasonable because the exchange…