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CQG QTrader to Perform Charting and Execution
CQG has released CQG QTrader, a charting and execution platform to make its market data, charting, and electronic trading more accessible.
S&P Cap IQ Expands ‘Regional Leaders' for Asia Focus
S&P Capital IQ has created three new positions across the Asia-Pacific region and appointed "regional market leaders" to serve as senior representatives for the vendor and its entire product line while providing local market expertise in specific…
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
APFIC Panel: In Buy-vs-Build Debate, Vendor Value is Key
Data sourcing professionals at financial firms want to see vendors focus less on entrenching themselves via long-term deals to retain business and more on winning and earning business through innovation and competitive pricing─though vendors say they…
Panel: Grasp Opportunities of Regulatory Complexities
The raft of current and upcoming regulations is creating opportunities as well as challenges for trading and investment firms in the Asia-Pacific region, though many outside of the largest firms are still not prepared for the data complexities and…
Banks, Providers Failing to Innovate on Data, Says APFIC End-User Panel
Neither end-user firms nor vendors are doing enough to innovate their way out of budgetary woes towards growth, with internal cultures contributing to stagnation by not fostering creative ideas, said a panel of consumer firms at the Asia Pacific…
APFIC Keynote: Regulations Require Standards Collaboration
The financial industry must collaborate on standards and standardized processes if it is to successfully manage the challenges and costs of compliance with the data aspects of the current flood of new regulations─and get ahead of future rules─said Nick…
Kim Hammonds Replaces Anthony McCarthy as Deutsche Bank's CIO
Deutsche Bank has named Kim Hammonds as its chief information officer and global co-head of group technology & operations (GTO).
Lucena Readies Studies for Bloomberg App Portal, Launches Added-Value Research
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research is adding new event studies to Bloomberg's App portal of third-party applications, to meet demand from customers for out-of-the-box research based on the vendor's QuantDesk decision…
NexxCom Taps ENYX for Network Policing
La Jolla, California,-based NexxCom Wireless has selected the latest nxLink Fair Bandwidth Management (FBM) solution from Paris-based ENYX to enhance its proprietary low-latency wireless networks, supporting financial venues globally.
IDC Adds Data on Fatca Withholding Obligations
The data and pricing vendor is helping clients prepare for the US anti-tax evasion regulation by identifying instruments that are generating US-sourced income
EESAT Readies Complex Order Book Feeds, Tools
EESAT, a startup spin-off from trading firm MEB Options providing market data on complex order books of multi-leg trades between asset classes, is preparing to unveil the first product in a suite of new data services based on tools originally developed…
Interactive Data, Icap Strike Data Distribution Deal
Interactive Data has signed a licensing agreement with Icap Information Services, the data services arm of interdealer broker Icap, to make the entire universe of Icap data available on its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over…
Infront Launches Tweetwires Twitter Data Filtering Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology vendor Infront will today announce a new service, dubbed Infront Tweetwires, which filters Twitter for real-time news and sentiment related to specific industry sectors and news events, to help users extract…
First Call, CCBN Founder Parker Named EidoSearch Chairman
Jeff Parker, founder of First Call and CCBN StreetEvents, and a former chairman and chief executive of Thomson Financial, has joined Toronto-based pattern recognition and analytics provider EidoSearch as chairman of its board, to help guide the vendor to…
TT Connects to Nasdaq OMX eSpeed Platform
Trading Technologies International (TT) has announced it will connect to the Nasdaq OMX eSpeed platform in the first quarter of 2014.
RealTick Users to Get CQG Connectivity
CQG’s Continuum order routing network is now available in Eze Software’s RealTick execution management system (EMS).
Alpha Omega Makes Global Launch of Post-Trade Solution
Alpha Omega Financial Systems, a post-trade technology provider based in San Francisco, has globally launched FIXAffirm, a post-trade solution based on the industry standard FIX protocol.
Trading Technologies Announces LSEG, Borsa Italiana Links
The provider will introduce connectivity to the London Stock Exchange Group's Derivatives Market in early 2014, which will also provide clients a single gateway into IDEM, the derivatives venue for Borsa Italiana, as well as Norway's Oslo Børs.
Mercer Up with Milestone in Australia
Mercer, which in the Asia-Pacific focuses on superannuation, investments, and financial advisory, has adopted Milestone's regulatory oversight service ahead of new Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) superannuation fund reporting…
KVH Preps JPX Co-Lo
Japanese network provider KVH is to begin offering co-location at the Japan Exchange Group, providing local and international trading firms with low-latency access to the market data and trading on the Osaka Securities Exchange's J-Gate derivatives…
Barchart Bows Android Data-Trading App
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has launched a mobile version of its Barchart Trader market data and commodities trading platform for Android devices.
Citi to Mix Retail and Institutional Flow in Mexico
With its new Mexican order facilitation platform, Retail Price Improvement, Citi will provide full penny price improvement to retail investors, and ultimately institutional investors, on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV).
Chilton Announces Surprise Departure from CFTC
Bart Chilton, one of the most senior figures in the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has announced that he will leave the regulator at the end of his term as commissioner.