Inside Market Data - Vol 23 No 2
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Exchanges Face MiFID Battle
European exchanges will experience increasing competitive pressures as a result of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, with latency and throughput of their technology platforms and the depth of their datasets forming key battlegrounds,…
Barchart Preps Web Workstation, Agri Commodities News Feed
Chicago-based data and charting vendor Barchart.com will this month roll out two data and news products aimed at futures traders.
CAPIS Deploys Pivot for Trading, Research
Dallas-based agency broker and research provider Capital Institutional Services is deploying technology from trade messaging and collaboration infrastructure provider Pivot, to automate trade order messages and for distribution of investment research.
Demand Rises for Certified Prices
Diversified investment strategies, together with market structure changes, are driving a heightened need for third-party services providing certified prices for instruments such as foreign, illiquid or complex securities and derivatives, industry…
CME Rolls Out FIX FAST For Data
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has begun using a FIX FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) format in live production for distributing market data at lower latency and reduced bandwidth consumption, officials say.
BlueMatrix Updates Research Tool
BlueMatrix, a New York-based software provider, last week unveiled a new version of its research report authoring application designed to improve speed and performance, which the vendor will roll out to customers in the fourth quarter of this year.
SGX Targets International Firms with TNS Direct Feeds
The Singapore Exchange has gone live with a connection to Transaction Network Services' Secure Trading Extranet, to provide trading firms outside Singapore with access to direct feeds of data from SGX's securities and derivatives markets.
FASB Rule Leads Funds to Change Side-Pocket Valuations
Valuation processes used by hedge funds to price illiquid investments held in so-called "side pockets" are being disrupted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement 157, auditors warn.
ICE Revamps Historical Data Delivery
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange is launching a new Web site that will provide access to historical data for products traded on its ICE Futures Europe market, and will also incorporate historical data on US over-the-counter traded contracts.
Quant House Builds Chi-X Handler
French low-latency data and trading technology provider Quant House has completed the development of a feed handler to carry data from Instinet's MiFID-inspired European trading venue, Chi-X, to allow automated trading operations to process Chi-X market…
Aleri Partners, Appoints Tech Gurus
Chicago-based event processing software vendor Aleri has struck a deal with low-latency data provider Fixnetix to offer clients hosted access to the vendor's analytical capabilities, and has hired data industry veteran Ian Hillier-Brook to pursue further…
Report From Rhode Island
With its cruises, mansion tours and beachfront clambakes, you might be forgiven for thinking that the FISD's World Financial Information Conference in Newport, Rhode Island last week was just one big market data love-in. However, there was a range of…