Inside Market Data - Vol 28 No 48
Articles in this issue
Pricing Vet Kelsey Moves to Mortgage CRM Vendor
Former Reuters exec Michele Kelsey has joined Vantage Integrated Production, a provider of CRM, workflow and data management tools for mortgage lenders, as regional vice president of sales for the Midwest US, based in New York.
Tradition Taps Corvil for Monitoring
Interdealer broker Tradition has rolled out Dublin-based latency and performance monitoring technology provider Corvil's CorvilNet monitoring platform to provide real-time visibility into data and execution latency and operational performance statistics…
CQG Adds FastMarkets Metals Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG has added London-based FastMarkets' Premium Metals News to the metals market data and trading capabilities already available in CQG's platform.
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
BME Preps Real-Time Volatility Indexes
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles will begin calculating a new family of eight target volatility indexes on Sept. 24, dubbed the IBEX Volatilidad Objetivo or IBEX 35 Target Volatility, expanding the exchange's existing IBEX 35 index…
ML Bond Index Adds Fitch Ratings
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added credit ratings content from Fitch Ratings to its ML Bond Market index, as an additional factor in the assessment of investment-grade and speculative-grade bonds.
Mariner Trawls MSCI ESG Data for Alpha
New York-based alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group is to use ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings and portfolio analysis tools from MSCI ESG Research, to support the incorporation of ESG factors into Mariner's investment…
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Xignite Grows Market Data Cloud Cover
San Mateo-based on-demand data provider Xignite has added two new services-CloudFiles and CloudStreaming─to its Market Data Cloud service, in addition to its existing CloudAPIs for applications and developers to access the vendor's data.
Tradition Taps Bloomberg Price Fixings for Volatis Trading Platform
Interdealer broker Tradition is to use daily price fixing observations from Bloomberg's independent valuation services for derivatives and structured notes, to provide prices that more accurately reflect realized volatility to Volatis, the broker's newly…
First Derivatives Picks Pruett for US Growth
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data management technology vendor First Derivatives has appointed former SIX Financial Information executive Jonathan Pruett head of strategic business development for the Americas, responsible for expanding the vendor's…
Panel: Firms Must Master "Dark Art" of Data Analytics to Gain Competitive Advantage
The faster a trading firm can analyze datasets that are growing in both size and complexity to extract meaningful "data about the data," the greater competitive advantage they will have, said participants on a panel discussing how analytics can be…
IMD Chicago: Exchange Data Fees, Policies Hindering New Entrants
The high cost of exchange market data─combined with unscheduled fee increases and a proliferation of new fees for previously free-of-charge data─continues to burden consumers, and is preventing newer firms from entering the market, according to a panel…
Apcon Releases Sub-10ns Timestamping Blade Switch
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon has released a new aggregator blade, dubbed the Intellaflex Timestamping and Packet Slicing Blade, which will enable financial institutions to timestamp message packets with sub…
Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
IMD Chicago: Firms Outsource Infrastructure to Address Data Storage, Regulation
End-user firms are increasingly turning to outsourcing to deal with the storage challenges associated with big datasets caused by rising data volumes and the ongoing raft of new regulatory initiatives requiring more intensive data collection, according…
Panel: Latency Monitoring More Important than Low Latency
Whereas 10 years ago, low latency was the preserve of a select few firms whose sole focus was chasing zero, the commoditization and ubiquity of low-latency technologies has made raw speed more of a necessity to keep pace with the rest of the market, and…
Interactive Data Names Daffron New CEO
Interactive Data has appointed Stephen C. Daffron president and chief executive effective Sept. 20, replacing Mason Slaine, who has held the position for three years.
Pico, SpryWare Ally on Latency Offerings
Chicago-based ticker plant and feed handler provider SpryWare has struck a deal with New York-based agency broker and infrastructure provider Pico Trading to offer Pico’s clients access to the vendor’s feed handlers, and in return gain access to Pico’s…
Morningstar Expands Commodities Pricing, News; Adds Commentary, Context to Quant Ratings
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has added new content to the products of its Morningstar Commodity Data business—the former Logical Information Machines, prior to its 2009 purchase by Morningstar—which aggregates market…
OliveTree Taps Markit for SecLending Data
London-based analytics provider OliveTree Financial Group has integrated securities lending data from data provider Markit into its OTAS (OliveTree Trading Analysis System) analytics platform, which captures data on different asset classes and factors to…
