Emerging Technologies
Editor’s Letter - All grown up
December and January editor's letters in just about every magazine ranging from Calligraphy Monthly to GQ are almost certain to carry either a retrospective analysis of the year that's been or a prospective view of the year to come... or both. Perhaps…
Thomson-Reuters Overshadows Consolidation Frenzy
After years of buying up smaller competitors to boost their own assets, Thomson and Reuters finally agreed to pool their resources this year, making 2007 the year of the largest-ever single takeover deal to hit the market data industry.
Kimsey Forecasts Flat UK Data Spend
Spending on market data in the UK is expected to stagnate in 2008, according to an annual survey of UK dealing room technology conducted by Kimsey Consulting.
Markit Makes Confirmation Buy with SwapsWire
LONDON-U.K.-based over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives processor Markit last week announced a deal to acquire SwapsWire, a post-trade services provider for the OTC derivatives market. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is expected to generate synergies with…
Opra Data Outage Prompts Tech Fixes
The Options Price Reporting Authority is rewriting software processes that contributed to a data outage last Monday, Dec. 3, following a "rare" hardware failure at The Securities Industry Automation Corp which processes Opra's feed of US options quote…
Eurex EBS Feed Cuts Latency, Jitter
German derivatives exchange Eurex is rolling out a new feed of derivatives data on Monday Dec. 3, dubbed Enhanced Broadcast Solution (EBS), which aims to reduce latency and also minimize "jitter"-variance in data latency at times of peak message traffic…
A Question of Time
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
O'Keefe, Morris, Lombardy, Saxton
POSITION KEEPING
Ipreo Buys NSight to Bolster Bigdough
Ipreo, the data and technology vendor formed last year by the combination of Hemscott, I-Deal and MarketPipe, will this week announce that it has acquired New York-based CRM software vendor NSight Enterprise Software, Inside Market Data has learned.