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Bitcoin Venue LedgerX Seeks CFTC Approval
Commission opens public comment period
Trading Central Buys Analytics Vendor Recognia
Acquisition of Recognia to create "market leader" in technical and fundamental analysis.
Wall Street Horizon to Expand Dataset in 2015
WSH will add new types of calendar data for new user types next year.
2014 Review: Firms Stretch Tight Budgets to Meet Regs, ID New Data
Data consumers continued to feel the pressure of tight budgets and new regulation in 2014, but also faced the added pressure of trying to find ways to generate alpha from data within those budgetary constraints.
2014 Review: Infrastructure Deals Drive M&A, Funding Activity in 2014
This year saw its fair share of mergers, acquisitions and investments, with some deals driven by expansion plans, others by strategic opportunism, and others spurred by unforeseen circumstances.
2014 Review: Vendors, Venues Diversify Services to Meet Demand
Data vendors and exchanges sought to broaden their reach and diversify their offerings through new content and partnerships in 2014, while retiring legacy products and setting new market data policies.
2014 Review: Data Industry Sends a Message on Chat Platforms
Only a year ago, data vendor Markit had just unveiled its Collaboration Services initiative, an open messaging network, directory and set of collaboration tools designed to allow firms to share information with each other across different communications…
2014 Review: ESMA Weighs in on EU Consolidated Tape; Details TBC
While 2014 saw European regulators take important steps towards making a pan-European consolidated tape a reality, market data professionals are still waiting for the crucial details that will shape its implementation.
2014 Review: In US, Consolidated Tape Saga Comes Full Circle
While Europe has yet to establish a consolidated tape, the US market spent 2014 pushing through changes to make its own tapes more resilient to market outages following a series of glitches last year. However, the path towards change was not smooth.
2014 Review: Industry Finds Ways to Derive Value from the Crowd
New datasets created using crowd-sourcing continued to grow in 2014, with new players entering the market with propositions to solicit crowd-sourced investor predictions that could provide leading indicators of market movements to institutional traders.
2014 Review: Cloud Makes Crucial Gains, Despite FinQloud Exit
The financial data industry continued to pursue cloud adoption in 2014 to achieve IT cost efficiencies and manage rising volumes of data, despite one of the key financial cloud players pulling out of the business.
2014 Review: As Volumes Intensify, Data Search Tools Get Smart
According to Interactive Data’s chief information officer Alex Goor, speaking at Inside Market Data’s Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference, about 90 percent of current data levels were created within the last two years. In the financial sector,…
2014 Review: Herd in Review: Bloomberg’s Back, and So Are Other Data Vets
January: Norwegian vendor Infront named Urs Rutschmann chief operating officer. Rutschmann was previously COO of Swedish trading systems vendor Tbricks. Fidessa promoted Emily Thomas to global head of new business sales, and hired Phil Jeffrey—former…
DelphX Plans Expansion, Data on Quandl
Bond trading venue operator DelphX plans to expand its Mav=n (Market-Adjusted Value per congruent Nexus) pricing service, to provide users with fair value prices for SEC Rule 144A private placements, asset-backed and mortgage backed securities, and…
Fincad Preps Upgrades, Install Boost in ’15
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad will roll out new functionality in 2015 to facilitate faster implementations of its F3 enterprise valuation and risk analytics platform.
Markit Tackles Derivatives Paperwork with Thunderhead
Markit has announced a partnership with Thunderhead.com, which will see the latter's One platform integrated with the former's Counterparty Manager for the purposes of electronically managing master confirmation agreements (MCAs).
Visual Trader Readies HTML5 Terminal, Updated Risk Control Tool
New workstation interface will make it easier for users to access Visual Trader's data via multiple methods.
StatPro Adds Benchmark, Equity Valuation Pages to Revolution
Portfolio and data analytics provider StatPro has rolled out a December update to its Revolution data desktop, which includes upgraded benchmark pages, and new equity valuation and currency overlay pages.
EDM Council Releases FIBO Process
Implementation guidelines backed by Bloomberg, Wells Fargo
WEX Introduces Options Vega Trader
Applet geared towards multi-strike trading
BCBS Revises Basel III Guidelines
Regulatory body changes hierarchy of ratings considerations
SWIFT Officially Launches KYC Registry
Move comes after pilot with handful of banks
Swift’s KYC Registry Goes Live
Central Utility Lets Firms Retain Data Ownership
Cantor Fitzgerald Adds IEX To Algo Suite
IEX's SOR and ATS will be used on Cantor Connect Clean Algo Suite