Inside Market Data - Vol 29 No 4
Articles in this issue
Markit's Johnson Explains Collaboration Services
Heidi Johnson, managing director of Markit Collaboration Services and Markit Library talks to Inside Market Data at FISD's recent World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon about the vendor's new chat initiative which seeks to bring open…
Perseus, ITRS Ally for Latency Monitoring
New York-based low-latency network provider Perseus Telecom has launched a new real-time latency monitoring application in partnership with UK-based systems and latency monitoring technology vendor ITRS, dubbed PrecisionView, to provide customers with…
TMX Links to K13 Moscow Datacenter
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX has added a connectivity point on its network to the Kislovsky 13 (K13) datacenter in Moscow.
Deutsche Börse Opens Data-Trading Simulation Cloud
Deutsche Börse's Market Data and Services division has unveiled a cloud-based market simulation environment for trading firms to develop and test applications designed to work with its Eurex derivatives market's T7 trading architecture-which is designed…
Post-Zeptonics Lawsuit, Zomojo Spins Off Exablaze, Releases Sub-Microsecond NIC
Australian technology provider Exablaze, a spin-off from high-frequency trading firm Zomojo, has built and released an ultra-low-latency network interface card that officials say can distribute market data within an organization with less than a…
SecLending Data Vendor DataLend Grows Coverage
DataLend, the New York-based market data vendor arm of securities finance trading and post-trade platform provider EquiLend, has expanded the number of firms contributing data to its service, bringing the total inventory value covered by its data to $10…
SuperDerivatives Debuts DGX Direct Feed
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is launching a new real-time data feed dubbed DGX Direct, in response to demand from customers for the ability to stream the range of cash and derivatives market data…
HKEx Taps NYSE Tech XDP for Data Distribution
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has selected the XDP market data engine from NYSE Technologies, the technology arm of NYSE Euronext, to power its Orion Market Data (OMD) platform.
TR Bows Canadian MBS Pricing
Thomson Reuters has launched an evaluated pricing service for Canadian mortgage-backed securities as part of its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service that prices 2.5 million global fixed income securities, derivatives and loans daily, to help clients assess…
TS-A Integrates Solarflare for ‘Virtual' Monitoring Appliances
London-based latency monitoring and instrumentation provider TS-Associates has integrated Irvine, Calif.-based data and networking technology vendor Solarflare's Flareon server input/output adapters and its SolarCapture packet capture technology with TS…
Moody's Brings in S&P's Burleigh
Damian Burleigh recently left his role as managing director of S&P Capital IQ for EMEA in London to join Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of rival ratings agency Moody's as senior director of sales and client services.
Macrobond Bolsters EMEA Sales Team
Swedish time-series data and analytics vendor Macrobond Financial has promoted Jacob Johannesson to head of sales in EMEA. Johannesson held his previous role as product specialist and international account manager for over three years, prior to which he…
Macrobond Adds Matlab API, Histograms, Readies New York Office
Swedish time-series data and analytics vendor Macrobond Financial is launching a new version of its Macrobond Application data workstation, which features connectivity to the The Mathworks' Matlab data analysis development environment and enhanced…
Famanet-Thomson Reuters Court Case Begins in Cyprus
Hearings have finally begun in the long-running lawsuit brought by Cyprus-based data vendor Famanet Holdings against Thomson Reuters.
Moscow Exchange Outlines Data IT Roadmap
The Moscow Exchange is changing the way it distributes market data as part of an ongoing technology consolidation that began in 2011, following the government-ordered merger of the RTS and Micex exchanges into a single national venue.
NetDania Preps Trading-Data FX Workstation
Danish foreign exchange data display and technology provider NetDania is preparing to roll out a trading-enabled version of its NetStation data and analytics workstation, which will allow retail brokerage firms to white-label the platform as a trading…
TR Adds ‘Chat to Email’ to Messenger
Thomson Reuters has added a new feature, dubbed Chat to Email, to its Eikon Messenger messaging tool, to enable users to send instant chat messages to the email addresses of non-Eikon Messenger users.
Opening Cross: ‘Connect’ With Your Clients As Well As Their Algos
Long ago, the barrier to being an independent trader was money—the capital required to buy a seat on an exchange. As exchanges became electronic, the barrier became not just money, but also the technology required to access the exchange’s data. Now, this…
CQG Readies QTrader Entry-Level Data-Trading Workstation
Denver, Colorado-based data, charting and trading technology provider CQG is preparing to unveil a new, low-cost data and trading terminal, dubbed QTrader, aimed at semi-professional futures traders and the futures commission merchants that serve them.
S&P CapIQ Adds Credit Risk Indicators to XpressFeed
S&P Capital IQ is planning to make its entire universe of pre-scored point-in-time, short- to mid-term and long-term credit risk indicators for financial institutions and non-financial corporates available via its XpressFeed data platform.
KUDOS* to the Humble Spreadsheet (*KUDOS = Known and Unknown Dependency of Spreadsheets)
Firms don’t often think of spreadsheets as big contributors to their data budget. But they’d be mistaken. And not only can these be drains on data resources; they can also present tricky problems when updating them to ensure they are properly consuming…
