Inside Market Data - Vol 23 No 44
Articles in this issue
India's NSE Migrates Network to Cut Latency
The Mumbai-based National Stock Exchange of India is migrating from a market data distribution network that uses the legacy x.25 protocol to a new network utilizing TCP/IP, to increase capacity and reduce latency.
Shanghai Wind Unveils Economic Database
China-focused data vendor Shanghai Wind Information has rolled out a new bilingual database of macro-economic data covering major industry sectors in China, as part of a push to attract more international data consumers.
CAPIS Co-Lo Boosts Data Bandwidth
Dallas-based broker Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) will next month move its market data operations to co-location facilities provided by third-party datacenter operator Data Bank, and will discontinue use of its two in-house datacenters.
TMX Preps Pan-Canadian Datafeed
Exchange group TMX, which was formed by the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, is beta testing a low-latency consolidated datafeed of full Level 2 data from all visible markets in Canada.
Thomson Reuters Averts IM Shutdown
Thomson Reuters last week migrated its instant messaging service to a new compliance engine from Global Relay, a Vancouver, BC-based provider of email archiving and compliance software, in time to prevent having to shut down Reuters Messaging after…
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.
A New Paradigm for Data Strategies
With capital markets facing a stream of new data that is growing in complexity, density and speed by the day, outsourcing underlying technology is one option for firms designing data strategies that encompass a broad spectrum of requirements. By Sinan…
EcoWin Buy Expands ISI Coverage
ISI Emerging Markets, a division of Euromoney Institutional Investor that provides economic and business information, will almost double the country coverage of its CEIC Data time-series database product, following the acquisition of Thomson Reuters'…
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…
The Case for Consolidated Market Feeds
In this age of low-latency direct feeds, consolidated market feeds such as the CTS, CQS and Opra are viewed more as necessary evils than sexy must-haves. Yet not only do these feeds remain basic essentials for firms to gain a consolidated view of an…