Inside Market Data - Vol 23 No 35
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Kempen Deploys CMA for CDS Pricing
Kempen Capital Management, the buy-side subsidiary of Dutch merchant bank Kempen & Co., is sourcing credit derivatives pricing data from UK-based vendor Credit Market Analysis to support daily valuations for its credit derivative funds, officials tell…
Mighter: Count Keyboards, Cut Data Costs
UK-based trading hardware manufacturer Mighter is proposing that keyboards should be used as a unit of count, which could enable firms to save money for the same data used on multiple applications running across different PCs, officials tell Inside…
Gissing Launches Hedge Fund Data Platform
UK-based data technology vendor Gissing Software, acquired earlier this year by Thomson Reuters, will this week launch a market data integration platform for hedge funds to support algorithmic trading and other analytics, officials tell Inside Market…
EquityFeed Adds 'Idea' Algos
Montreal-based data provider EquityFeed Corp. has revamped its terminal application to include algorithmic alerting and filtering functions, in a move to refocus on providing idea-generation technologies.
FINRA Pursues TRACE Data Expansion
The Financial Industry Regulation Authority is pressing ahead with plans to expand the data disseminated via its TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) corporate bond trade reporting facility, despite some concerns that increased data transparency…
Schneider Trading Cuts Latency as Volumes Rise
London-based execution broker Schneider Trading Associates expects to cut the latency of its data network by at least half in September, when the firm will complete an upgrade of its internal network infrastructure to cope with rising data volumes,…
Alphacet Enlists BT, Interactive for Quant Platform
Stamford, CT-based start-up quantitative analysis software vendor Alphacet has collaborated with BT and Interactive Data Corp. to launch Alphacet Discovery, a strategy development platform incorporating feeds for real-time, historical and reference data,…
RTS Extends Data Distribution Hours
Russian exchange RTS last week began distributing data from a new trading session for its FORTS derivatives trading platform that runs from 6pm until 10 minutes to midnight local time, enabling local members to continue receiving data and trading on RTS…
Thomson Reuters Adds SGX to RDF Direct
Thomson Reuters is adding the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to the list of direct datafeeds from Asian exchanges supported by its Reuters DataFeed Direct (RDFD) service, in response to demand from investors in the region for low-latency data from SGX, the…
Exegy Adds Futures Handler, Co-Lo Sites
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy has added support for financial futures contracts to its Exegy Ticker Plant appliance, with the development of a feed handler for data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
DJ Cuts Tech Staff in Outsourcing Play
Dow Jones will this month begin laying off 90 staff in its technology and operations department, following a decision to outsource some of its underlying group technology and support functions to Indian offshore development and IT outsourcing provider…
Junk Mail? What About Junk Data?
Just as the bane of a data manager's existence is dealing with ever-increasing volumes of often irrelevant quote data, a journalist's nightmare is dealing with the incessant flow of press releases from PR professionals desperate to share the latest news…
