Inside Market Data - Vol 23 No 46
Articles in this issue
Carrel: Valuation's Risky Business
The ongoing credit crunch is driving firms to re-examine the quality of data behind their valuation models, and pay greater attention to valuation risk, says Philippe Carrel, global head of business development at Thomson Reuters
Nasdaq Adds Indexes, Rethinks Replay
Nasdaq OMX is releasing a slew of new indexes that combine components of indexes from OMX and Nasdaq, and has revised the licensing terms for Market Replay, its tool for downloading and replaying market data to analyze price movements, making the product…
Imagine Integrates Markit CDS Prices, GICS Industries
New York-based trading systems provider Imagine Software is about to integrate credit default swap data from UK-based data vendor Markit to the Imagine Trading System, and is preparing to adopt the GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) taxonomy…
Hillier-Brook Forms BHW Systems
Market data industry veteran Ian Hillier-Brook has formed a new company, dubbed BHW Systems, which will re-sell the Smart TS XL software analytics toolkit from Dallas, TX-based vendor IN-COM Data Systems to potential clients in Europe.
Monitor110 Auctions Assets Post-Closure
A mystery data vendor has bought some of the assets of Monitor110, a New York-based provider of technology for firms to monitor information on the Web in real time and correlate that information against investments, which closed down last month after…
StreamBase Takes Plunge Into Dark Pools
Complex event processing technology vendor StreamBase is targeting a new client base in the form of dark pool trading venues, to help their founders address complex datafeed integration and trading strategy development needs, officials say.
TNS in Asia-Pacific Exchange Data Drive
Network provider Transaction Network Services is expanding its Asia-Pacific exchange coverage by adding access to market data from several exchanges in the region via its Secure Trading Extranet, officials say.
Glocer: 3000 Xtra 'Successor' for 2009
Thomson Reuters is preparing to roll out a new trading floor desktop next year that the vendor is touting as a successor to its flagship 3000 Xtra terminal.
EPFR Expands Middle East, Africa Funds Data
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has recently expanded its coverage of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to enable users to more accurately monitor flows of money into and out of the region.
The Most Valuable Part of Your Data Business?
We often hear how market data is the third-highest cost base for today's financial firms, behind only real estate and staff salaries. But do we focus on that third cost at the expense of the second-the people that make it all work?