Inside Market Data - Vol 29 No 11
Articles in this issue
Waters Panel: Big Data Analytics to Get Bigger, Smaller
With Big Data analysis and business intelligence tools becoming more functional and sophisticated, firms can now extract more valuable data from a broader range of data sources in a fraction of the time that it would have taken in the past. As a result,…
SIX FinInfo Unveils ‘Ticks by SIX' Historical Data Service
SIX Financial Information, the data vendor business of Swiss exchange operator and clearing organization SIX Group, has launched a new historical data service of trade and quote data back to June 2007 for its universe of global equities, bonds, indices,…
Ex-DPC President Ruvo Bonds with BondWave
Michael Ruvo, former president of municipal bond data vendor DPC Data, has joined BondWave-a Wheaton, Illinois-based provider of trade support, monitoring, alerting and reporting software for fixed income investors and financial advisors-as president,…
Thomson Reuters, SGX Ally on Bond Indexes
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a suite of Singapore dollar bond indexes, developed with the Singapore Exchange, to help fund managers, asset owners and custodians benchmark investment performance and to provide increased transparency into local bond…
Markham to Head Updata's Houston Office
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has named William Markham senior vice president of business development at of the vendor's new office in Houston, Texas, which is due to open in early 2014 to meet the needs of a growing customer base in…
B-next Taps Data Vet Rhoden
Market surveillance and compliance software provider B-next has hired Mike Rhoden as product consultant, based in London, to strengthen the vendor's UK operations and expand its international client base.
SpryWare Adds Data to Cloud Ticker Plant
Chicago-based low-latency feed handler and ticker plant provider SpryWare has expanded its Proximity Cloud hosted ticker plant to include full order book data, including 45 days of historical full order book data and a calculated top-of-book price, with…
Integral Readies FX Benchmark Rate Fixings
Foreign exchange trading software vendor Integral Development Corp is preparing to launch a set of benchmark rates for major currency pairs, updated at one-second intervals and made available at the end of every trading day, to provide more reliable data…
Energy Data Hub Taps Sapient
Houston, Texas-based energy data processing utility Energy Data Hub has enlisted Sapient Global Markets to contribute to the development of its EDH Platform central repository for global energy trade data, to help EDH provide improved data transparency…
Thomson Reuters Adds ANZ Bond Pricing
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun contributing prices for more than 2,700 credit bonds denominated in Australian, New Zealand and US dollars as well as pounds sterling and euros on Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading bond platform.
Empirasign Adds to Dealer Run Quotes
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of dealer offerings and "trade color" for mortgage and asset-backed securities, is adding new datasets covering bids and two-way markets to its database of fixed-income pricing, in response to client…
ESMA Seeks Data Expert Advisors
European regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is recruiting market data reporting experts to advise on potential complications stemming from the overlap of recent EU financial regulation.
Oslo Børs Nibor U-Turn Irks End-Users
Norwegian exchange group Oslo Børs last week began calculating the Norwegian Interbank Offered Rate (Nibor) benchmark rate, after being appointed the calculation agent by Norwegian financial industry association Finance Norway. However, end-users are…
Russell Revamps, Unbundles Index Pricing
Russell Indexes, the index provider subsidiary of asset manager Russell Investments, is introducing a new pricing model for its RussellTick real-time feed of US and global consolidated index data, reflecting enhancements made to the product as part of an…
Interactive Data Adds GFI, Icap, Commodities to FutureSource
Interactive Data is adding new commodities datasets from interdealer brokers GFI and Icap, UK-based agricultural specialist Informa Agra and pricing and news provider OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) to its FutureSource market data and analytics…
Opening Cross: Inside Market Data’s 12 Days of Christmas
Inside Market Data will take a break from printing over Christmas and the New Year, with our next print issue on Monday, Jan. 13. In the meantime, we’ll continue to update the IMD website with news over the holidays. So until we print again, season’s…
VWD Preps Metals App for iPhone, iPad
Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD will this week launch a new iPhone and iPad app for metals traders, in a move designed to meet increasing demand from its desktop users for more targeted mobile products.
Quandl Bows Crowd-Sourced Data, Curation
Quandl, a Toronto-based startup search engine covering financial, economic and sociological datasets is preparing to roll out Quandl-as-a-Service, enabling firms to curate and add public data to the site.
Market Data Industry's Top Quotes of 2013
Our gift to you: some of the most poignant and pithy comments from our pages in 2013
2013 Review: Budgets Drive, Hamper End-User Innovation
End-user firms continued to struggle with budget concerns in 2013, while striving to embrace innovative ways to view and use data.
2013 Review: OTC Derivatives Electronification Prompts Flurry of Data Capture, Reporting Activity
As result of a subdued global equities market, 2013 saw an uptick in over-the-counter derivatives trading. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total national value of the OTC derivatives markets reached almost $700 billion in June…
2013 Review: 2013: A Year of Disruption for Data Vendors
While market share in the data industry was dominated by the long-established heavyweights, one of the most potentially disruptive developments of the year came from a fast-growing middleweight.
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
2013 Review: For Exchanges in 2013, Life’s a Glitch
US stock and options exchanges suffered such significant outages in 2013 that regulators step ped in to bring the markets to task over the failures, many of which were linked to problems with the exchanges’ ability to disseminate market data.
2013 Review: Traders Weigh Importance of Fast Data vs Big Data
While still a focus for high-frequency traders with latency-sensitive strategies, the latency arms race appeared to have reached a stalemate in 2013, with low latency a necessity but ultra-low latency more of an expensive luxury, with some firms…
2013 Review: Crowd-Sourced Content, Search Gain Traction
As traders and investors seek new ways to find alpha in increasingly commoditized datasets, the accuracy of data and how it is sourced—and the ease with which it can be searched—is becoming more important, prompting the creation of new services for…
2013 Review: Social Media, ‘Hash Crash’ Are 2013’s #trendingtopics
Just as 2010 was the year of the Flash Clash, 2013 will be remembered as teh year of the “Hash Crash,” when the debate over whether social media influences stock prices was settled by hackers.
2013 Review: EU Consolidated Tape Encounters Hurdles to Implemenation
Progress continued on the long uphill road toward the introduction of a pan-European consolidated tape, but suffered a setback this year after regulatory uncertainty over MiFID 2 led to the dismantling of industry-led group The COBA Project, which was…
2013 Review: Herd in Review: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
As we take today to celebrate and surround ourselves with friends and family, it's worth remembering the difference that the actions of other people make--in the data industry as well as in our everyday lives. So in IMD's final 2013 Year in Review…
IMD's 10 Days of Christmas: The Top 10 Trends of 2013
In the spirit of the season, Inside Market Data will be publishing its Top 10 Trends of 2013 over the coming 10 days in the run-up to Christmas.