Inside Market Data - Vol 24 No 8
Articles in this issue
Credit Suisse Taps Fixnetix For AES Data
Credit Suisse is to utilize services including market data and hosting from UK-based data and trading connectivity vendor Fixnetix to support the bank's Advanced Execution Services (AES) business, under the terms of a deal signed last week, officials…
TNS Expands MTF Access, Low-Latency Services
Network service provider Transaction Network Services is expanding the number of European multilateral trading facilities to which it provides connectivity, and plans to offer new technologies already established in the US market to help European clients…
Swiss Exchange Weighs Feeds as SWX Europe Bows Out
The SIX Swiss Exchange is likely to consolidate its own Swiss market datafeed with that of its SWX Europe (formerly Virt-x) subsidiary, after deciding last week to close SWX Europe by mid-2009 and migrate trading of blue-chip Swiss stocks back to its…
Tenfore Rounds Out Asia Coverage
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems has added data from the Korea Exchange and the Taiwan Stock Exchange to its TDX consolidated datafeed, to expand its coverage in Asia Pacific.
Icap Buys Into Prism Valuation
Interdealer broker Icap announced last week that it has taken an equity stake in Prism Valuation, an independent provider of valuations for complex assets and structured securities.
Nasdaq Tests Boston Version of TotalView
Nasdaq OMX will this week begin client testing of a new datafeed based on its TotalView-ITCH product for its Nasdaq OMX BX market-formerly the Boston Stock Exchange-which is scheduled to go into live production when the revamped market begins trading on…
Thomson Reuters Speeds Estimates for Algos
Thomson Reuters has launched a new, RSS-based feed of revisions to broker earnings estimates, dubbed Reuters Estimates Delta, designed to allow quantitative traders to take advantage of the time between a revision being issued on a company and resulting…
LSE Migrates Italian Data to Infolect
The London Stock Exchange last week migrated Borsa Italiana's Italian equity trading onto the LSE's TradElect trading platform, allowing clients to receive Italian equity market data via the exchange's Infolect data distribution platform.
Savvis Adds Connectivity Options
Network and hosting services provider Savvis has expanded the options available for trading firms to connect to data from exchanges and other trading venues in recent weeks, in response to client demand for access to more data, and data from new venues,…
Shanghai Wind Gathers Force Outside China
China-focused financial data vendor Shanghai Wind Information is continuing its international expansion with the opening of new offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Taiwan next year, and plans to double its overall staff numbers in 2009, officials say.
CME in Retreat on Historical Data Fees
CME Group has delayed a controversial set of fees for redistribution of historical exchange data, following complaints from end-users.
A Sign of Eastern Promise?
One of the issues under fire at last month's Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference in Hong Kong was China's proposals to effectively create a state-run monopoly on the flow of financial news and market data into the country, in an apparent effort…
