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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
Eurex Strikes Deal with GMEX over Swap Futures
German firm licenses Euro-denominated constant maturity future.
4Cast Founder Park Sets up Consultancy
Rowland Park, founder of London-based real-time analysis and research vendor 4Cast, has left the company to set up a consulting firm, Park Horizon, focusing on providing strategic consulting services to startup software companies.
Euronext Broadens Derivatives Validation and Confirmation Capabilities
New service positions Euronext to capture migration of OTC derivatives
TradingScreen, MainstreamBPO Sign APAC Deal
Providers take aim at regional end-to-end offering
Liquidnet Launches Trade Advisory and Execution Solutions
New hires to deliver Liquidnet's next gen of execution services & quant trading strategies
SmartTrade Opens Singapore Office
SmartTrade has seen the need to increase its local presence due to growing demand for its solutions.
CJC Expands Managed Services Offering
Cleint demand for managed services drives CJC to build out development team
Panel: Firms Must Tap Talent to Exploit More Value from Regulatory Datasets
Waters USA panel says firms can wring more value from regulation-mandatated data