Inside Market Data - Vol 29 No 40
Articles in this issue
S&P DJI to Manage Mexican Exchange Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed all the indexes produced by Mexican stock exchange Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), and will assume responsibility for marketing and commercially licensing the indexes, while working with BMV on the development of new…
IDC Names Goldman Sachs' Black Infrastructure CIO
Interactive Data has appointed former Goldman Sachs executive James Black as chief information officer for infrastructure, a newly created role reporting to company CIO Alex Goor.
Citic Taps Fincad F3 for New Equity Derivatives Unit
Chinese investment bank Citic Securities has rolled out Canadian OTC derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad's F3 analytics platform to support the bank's growing equity derivatives business in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
EDI Adds African Central Bank Data to AFED Database
UK-based data provider Exchange Data International has added African Central Bank economic data to its African Financial and Economic Data (AFED) online database of macroeconomic data, which the vendor launched in May.
HKEx Shuffles Senior Info Execs
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has named Roger Lee head of its new Market Operations group, which comprises cash and derivatives trading and market data.
O'Brien Departs BATS; CEO Ratterman Adds President Duties
BATS Global Markets has announced the immediate departure of president William O'Brien, who joined the company in January following its merger with Direct Edge, where he was chief executive.
Activ Names Collins Global Sales Head
Market data provider Activ Financial has promoted Ben Collins to global head of sales in London, where he continues to report to Frank Piasecki, president of Activ in New York.
Thomson Reuters Adds BGC OTC Data
Thomson Reuters is making real-time over-the-counter data from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Eikon desktop, its Elektron Real Time feeds infrastructure, and its Tick History and DataScope Select products, to increase OTC data…
Morningstar Adds 20 Markets to Consolidated Feeds
The real-time division of data and investment research provider Morningstar has added data from more than 20 new marketplaces to its consolidated feeds, in response to client demand, particularly from online brokerages and wealth managers in North…
Velocimetrics Nabs TS-A Sales Head Woolhouse
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has hired former TS-Associates sales head Adam Woolhouse as strategic account manager, responsible for global account development and client relationship strategy.
Altibase, Microstrategy Ally for In-Memory/Disk Hybrid Data ‘Marts'
In-memory database provider Altibase has unveiled a partnership with business intelligence and analytics software provider MicroStrategy that creates a high-performance business intelligence environment for data availability and analysis in real time,…
Money.net Adds ETF, Mutual Funds Data, Bows Mobile Apps
New York-based low-cost market data display vendor Money.net has added new content to its datasets and has rolled out native mobile apps to accompany its data desktop and web-based terminals, and is planning significant analytics enhancements for future…
Nasdaq Targets Q3 for ITCH eSpeed Feed
Nasdaq OMX is set to release a new market data feed for its eSpeed fixed income platform on Sept. 30, based on its ITCH data protocol, to provide algorithmic and high-frequency trading firms with a higher-performance alternative for distributing data on…
Canadian Market Participants Skeptical of Proposed Exchange Data Fee Regulation
Proposed regulations in Canada to curb the fees that Canadian trading venues can charge for their real-time market data have received mixed reactions from market participants, who are unconvinced that the new proposals will significantly reduce the cost…
Updata Powers Energy Feed with NGX Data
UK-based technical analysis software provider Updata has added futures and index data from Canada’s Alberta-based Natural Gas Exchange (NGX) to its Professional analytics workstation to provide natural gas and commodities traders with prices for illiquid…
Opening Cross: Strength in Numbers—A History Lesson in Surviving The Data Purge
This week, our New York office has been gearing up for Purge Day, when we purge our desks of papers and items that we no longer need, and in return the company buys us a pizza lunch. In preparing for Purge Day, clearing out a closet of old copies of…
Exegy Touts Enterprise Migration Package to Dig Out Wombats
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy is positioning its new Enterprise Migration Package as a replacement for the Wombat Financial Software platform following the sale of Wombat to New York-based low-latency feed handler and market…
NuPont Integrates Aussie Tech Firm for Asia-Pac IT Support Services
Market data and technology product and marketing consultancy NuPont is planning to begin offering technical support and development services via an operation in Australia to provide support for consulting clients seeking to expand into new markets.
