Inside Market Data - Vol 23 No 33
Articles in this issue
Wachovia Rolls Out TheMarkets' MeritMark Platform
Wachovia Securities recently rolled out TheMarkets.com's MeritMark Web-based broker vote platform to its clients, to automate the collection and distribution of buy-side feedback on sell-side research personnel and services to the broker-dealer, vendor…
CMA, Julius Finance Ally for Credit Pricing
Credit data provider Credit Market Analysis, which was recently acquired by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, is expanding its coverage of credit derivative index pricing with the addition of interpolated prices from New York-based credit modelling…
Sinara Launches Market Data Platform
UK-based data technology vendor Sinara Consultants will this week launch its Sinara Market Data Platform (SinaraMDP), which incorporates a new component for streaming real-time data to mobile display applications and a data contribution API for…
KTS to Exit Data Vendor Business
UK-based data and technology vendor Knowledge Technology Solutions is negotiating a sale of its MarketTerminal data display terminal subscriber base in order to focus operations on selling its underlying data platform technologies and related services,…
Infinancials Releases New Analytics for Stock Comparison
Paris-based analytics provider Infinancials has developed a new graphical display for visually comparing key ratios between stocks, and to benchmark stocks against sector averages or bespoke portfolios.
NYSE Bows Order Imbalance Feed
NYSE Euronext will on July 1 launch NYSE Order Imbalances, a datafeed of order imbalance data provided prior to market open and close, and will make the service available at no additional charge to clients of its OpenBook Ultra and OpenBook Aggregated…
Thomson Reuters Braces for Cuts
Thomson Reuters is set to announce a swathe of redundancies this week that will reduce duplicative roles created by the merger of Thomson Corp and Reuters, according to an internal memo distributed last week by Devin Wenig, chief executive of the vendor…
South Africa's Nedbank Rolls Out Coral8
Johannesburg-based investment bank Nedbank Capital, a division of Nedbank Ltd., last month deployed software vendor Coral 8's complex event processing engine, to support the bank's migration to new trading systems.
S&P Integrates, Rebrands, Targets Structured Products
Standard & Poor's new Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS) unit is rebranding disparate products under a unified umbrella to reflect their integration into a single business unit, and is building a solution to enable clients to easily integrate…
West Highland Launches Status Monitoring for Wombat
West Highland Support Services, a New York-based provider of remote systems support and monitoring for financial institutions' market data platform installations, is rolling out a new tool to its engineers and clients, in response to increasing demand…
Wall Street Source Sues Thomson Reuters
New York-based news aggregator Wall Street Source has filed a lawsuit against Thomson Reuters, claiming that the former Thomson Financial breached its fiduciary duty as a stakeholder in WSS by poaching crucial staff and copying the vendor's products.
A Case of Déjà Vu for Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters hit the mainstream news again this week amid fears that the vendor plans to lay off thousands of staff as a cost cutting measure following last month's merger. If we rewind-or perhaps "Fast Forward"-a few years, haven't we seen this…
