Inside Market Data - Vol 29 No 32
Articles in this issue
CFH Clearing, NetDania Partner on NetStation Data-Trading Platform
London-based prime brokerage firm CFH Clearing and NetDania Markets, the subsidiary of Danish foreign exchange data display and technology provider NetDania, have launched a new data and trading platform, dubbed NetStation, aimed at retail brokers.
Martyn Moves to OTAS for Analytics Sales
London-based analytics provider OTAS Technologies has hired Jennifer Martyn as product sales manager, responsible for driving the sales of the vendor's cloud-based OTAS analytics platform and its TraderShaper real-time microstructure analysis and trade…
Enyx, Options Ally for FPGA-Accelerated US Equities Data Distribution
Paris-based hardware-accelerated data capture and network technology vendor Enyx is enabling clients of infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) to access its managed NXFeed ultra-low-latency market data distribution system via…
Rimes Survey: Inconsistent Buy-Side Index, Benchmark Management
Competing priorities between data end-users and those in central management functions such as IT and operations are leading to inconsistent approaches to index and benchmark data management within buy-side firms, making it harder to improve data…
Volta, Venus Offer Co-Lo with AWS
Datacenter provider Volta Data Centres and fiber network vendor Venus Business Communications have partnered to offer enhanced hybrid co-location solutions via Amazon Web Services at Volta's Great Sutton Street datacenter in London, in a move to provide…
FXStreet's FXBeat Newswire Now a Premium Subscription Service
Foreign exchange news, commentary and data provider FXStreet has upgraded its FXBeat news and commentary feed to a premium service for traders and for brokers to integrate into their own trading platforms.
Former ISE Exec Soule Boards Redline
Jeff Soule, former head of market data at the International Securities Exchange, has joined Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions as vice president of business development, responsible for bringing new data…
SMA Eyes Front-Office Traders, PMs with Social Indicators Excel Add-in
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals derived from analysis of social media sentiment, is rolling out a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet add-in to make its proprietary S-Factor sentiment scores more accessible by…
4th Story Combines Market, Fundamental Analytics, Boosts Analyst Automation
San Francisco-based data and trading software developer 4th Story has unveiled a new tool for analysts and portfolio managers that runs analytics on a combination of traditional price data and fundamental information, and which also automates time…
Nasdaq Completes eSpeed Datacenter Migration
Nasdaq OMX's eSpeed US treasuries trading platform has completed its migration to Nasdaq's datacenter in Carteret, NJ, resulting in a 100 microsecond improvement in market data distribution, and a 25 percent improvement in roundtrip order-entry response…
SIX Financial Info Pushes FISD FIA Certification
The US arm of Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has begun mandating that its client-facing staff achieve industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification, to demonstrate the expertise of its employees.
Nasdaq Reports eSpeed Data Outage
One day after reporting the successful completion of migrating its eSpeed electronic treasuries market to the Nasdaq OMX datacenter in Carteret, NJ, Nasdaq experienced an interruption in eSpeed data this morning, May 29.
DataContent Bows SmartSuite Market Data Governance, Cost Analysis Service
UK- and Hong Kong-based data consultancy DataContent has created a data governance service, dubbed SmartSuite, that puts in place a series of processes for data consumers to establish relationships between datasets and their parent sources, and to…
Empirasign Bows MyData Excel Integration Web Service
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of fixed income dealer offerings and trade color, has rolled out Empirasign MyData, which allows users to upload a list of bond tickers to Empirasign's website and have the vendor return updated prices for…
Industry Split on Impact of ESMA Data Plan
Industry participants and experts seem divided over the likely outcome of European regulator the European Securities and Markets Association’s consultation process as well as over the impact of the provisions on end-users and data providers, after ESMA…
Nasdaq Guts FinQloud, Amazon Web Services Gets Clients
Nasdaq OMX is scrapping parts of its FinQloud financial services-dedicated cloud computing service, handing off some components to partner Amazon Web Services—which provides the underlying cloud infrastructure—and ending support for other key aspects of…
Opening Cross: Everything Comes at a Cost, Even Cloud
Any discussion of return on investment relies on the ability to measure two things: the return generated, and the amount spent to achieve it. In the world of market data, the question is, “How much money can I make as a result of buying and using dataset…