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Deutsche Börse Bows Historical Data Cloud
German exchange Deutsche Börse will this week launch a cloud-based historical data service, Data on Demand, to provide analysts, application developers and vendors with on-demand access to historical data from its Xetra and Eurex securities and…
Tech Panel: Act ‘Appropriate,' But Speed Still Needs Spend
With today's capital markets increasingly automated and reliant on high-performance technologies, budget constraints resulting from the economic crisis of recent years are forcing firms to be more selective about building proprietary systems in-house…
CJC Taps Beebeejaun as Sales Head
Market data consultancy and real-time systems support and management provider CJC has hired Feroze Beebeejaun as head of sales, responsible for generating new business for CJC's outsourced support operations and for its commercial management business…
Trillium Begins Post-Trade Analytics Push
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading has filed a patent for a new post-trade compliance monitoring tool for US equities trading that compares traders' order data to full order book…
Misys Adds Medlock as CFO
Rick Medlock will join the buy-side technology provider in 2014 after leaving Inmarsat, a mobile satellite services company where he has overseen finances since 2004.
New Regulations Will Drive Data Costs Higher, Panel Warns
The growing raft of new regulations are increasing the market data burden on all market participants for risk analysis and for meeting reporting requirements, while also increasing the cost of connecting to and aggregating new datasets, said panelists at…
UBS Finds Data Opportunity in Client Onboarding
Client onboarding teams have taken on responsibility for managing data, particularly for linking client and legal entity data with other key reference data, operations executive Simon Feddo said at the European Financial Information Summit
EFIS User Panel: Data Cost Control Becomes Cultural Shift
Continuing pressure on data budgets at end-user firms following the financial crisis is creating challenges for market data managers, but is also creating opportunities to bring new approaches to how firms source and consume data, said panelists at this…
Data Execs: "We Need Consolidated Pre-LEI Files"
As the number of utilities issuing pre-legal entity identifiers increases, delegates at the European Financial Information Summit called for a single source they can use to find all of the pre-LEI data they need
EFIS Keynote: HSBC Chief Data Officer Baker Defines Value of Data
Unlike precious assets such as gold, the value of market data is governed not by its rarity, but by its significance and usefulness, which depends on its ability to inform decisions and solve problems-and which in turn depends on having a dedicated…
Thomson Reuters Expands TRPS Evaluations with CDO Pricing
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new collateralized debt obligation pricing service, providing end-of-day valuations based on asset-level analysis by the vendor's evaluators for CDOs on asset-backed securities, commercial real estate, and trust preferred…
Hedgebay Launches Electronic Settlement for Secondaries
The Nassau-based platform for trading in hedge fund secondaries and related products has added the new settlement service to speed up transactions, reducing overall trading time by 20 percent.
Apama to Provide Third-Party Aggregation for EBS Direct
EBS, ICAP’s electronic foreign exchange (FX) business, has selected Apama Software AG’s platform to deliver third-party aggregation to EBS Direct, a new liquidity service with direct streaming of tailored prices.
MarketAxess SEF Online with Traiana's CreditLink
MarketAxess says it has completed the first live trade through its swap execution facility (SEF), using risk checks provided by Traiana's CreditLink hub.
CFTC Approves Tullett Prebon’s SEF Status
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has granted interdealer broker Tullett Prebon temporary registration to operate as a swap execution facility (SEF).
FIX Trading Community Publishes SEF Guidelines
The FIX Trading Community, formerly FPL, has published guidelines on the exchange of information between broker-dealers and swap execution facilities (SEFs).
TMX Lights 10Gb Amsterdam-Frankfurt Network
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has increased the bandwidth of its network between Amsterdam and Frankfurt to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to meet demand from proprietary trading firms in the Netherlands for higher…
Northern Trust's Guenther On the Challenges of Risk Management at Inside Market Data Chicago 2013
Joerg Guenther, head of information technology at Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services discusses his presentation at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago conference, on the challenges faced by his organization as it embarked on a project to centralize…
Industry Vet Scouse Founds Data Cost, Content, Compliance Consultancy
Trevor Scouse, a 35-year veteran of the financial services and market data industries, has set up a consultancy, TJS Data, to advise data consumers and distributors on cost and compliance issues surrounding market data acquisition and management.
Saudi Stock Exchange Upgrades Platform with Nasdaq OMX
The Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul) has agreed to upgrade its current trading platform with Nasdaq OMX in order to cater to growth in the region.
Integral Launches ISEF Swap Execution Facility
Foreign exchange (FX) trading solutions provider Integral Development Corp has received the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC’s) temporary approval to operate as a swap execution facility (SEF).
Myra Trading's Yanilmaz Discusses the Growing Cost of Market Data at IMD Chicago 2013
Mehmet Yanilmaz, partner at Chicago-based proprietary algorithmic trading firm Myra Trading, reflects on market data costs after moderating a panel on the topic at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago event.
Linedata Launches NAV, Unit Pricing Solution
Investment management solutions provider Linedata announced today the launch of I-CIPS, a Collective Investment Pricing System (CIPS) for net asset value (NAV) and unit pricing calculation and validation.
Telx Expands NY Co-Lo Space
Datacenter provider Telx has added 69,000 square feet of co-location space within its NYC1 facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York via a partnership with DataGryd Data Centers-a wholesale datacenter provider with existing space in the building-to…