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Connors Group Powers Up 'The Machine'
Financial information and commentary portal provider Connors Group has rolled out its Web-based analytics platform, The Machine, including a new tool aimed at investment advisers for building quantified portfolios.
LSE Chief Urges Review of Data Regs
The European Commission should address the costs and inefficiencies associated with a fragmented European trading and market data landscape as part of its review this year of the current Markets in Financial Instruments Directive regulation, London Stock…
CME Adds New IDs to FAST Data Messages
CME Group will release version 2.0 of its FIX FAST market data messaging format in June, in a bid to make it easier for firms' data and trading systems to identify data updates for specific traded products among messages distributed by the exchange.
MDSL Grows 'Expert' Services
Market data usage monitoring and contract reconciliation software vendor MDSL has expanded the range of services provided by its MDX (Market Data Expert) outsourced management service, where MDSL's in-house consultants use the vendor's market data…
Exegy Update Boosts Ticker Plant Performance
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy will this week release version 3.0 of its ticker plant, featuring lower latency, higher capacity and more interfaces for connection to other systems, to meet client demand, as well as new…
STAC to Expand Benchmarking Tools
The Securities Technology Analysis Center is modifying the test environment it uses to benchmark the performance of feed handlers, to enable clients to choose off-the-shelf latency measurement and time synchronization devices from multiple vendors for…
Thomson Reuters Preps Elektron Stream
Thomson Reuters' new Elektron global data network, which the vendor plans to roll out by July, will be key to sourcing data from markets and broker contributors and distributing it to applications, third parties and consumers in future.
Markit Readies Enhanced ETF Data
UK-based data vendor Markit is launching a new set of exchange-traded fund data services, dubbed ETF Services, as a result of adding more content to its legacy ETF Hub feed product recently.
Winterflood Elects IFS as TCA Provider
LONDON-U.K. broker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis (TCA) platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems (IFS) to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market-making platform.
Icap Adds Japanese Data to TR Deal
Icap has extended its redistribution agreement with Thomson Reuters to allow clients to distribute market data from Totan Icap-a joint venture data provider formed by Icap and Japanese broker Totan Capital Markets-within their firms via Thomson Reuters'…
Fidessa EMS Gains U.S. Options Support
NEW YORK-Market connectivity and trading platform provider Fidessa has integrated real-time market data and trading capabilities for U.S. options into its global EMS Workstation, vendor officials announced today, April 26.
Russell Vet Forms Index-ETF Startup
Two index industry veterans are setting up a new index venture that will create new types of indexes and exchange-traded funds, Inside Market Data has learned.
Swift Signals Five-Year Tech Plan
NEW YORK-During its recent Swift Operations Forum-Americas (SOFA), held in Manhattan, industry messaging cooperative Swift laid out its five most important technology focuses for its five-year business strategy, dubbed Swift 2015.
Informatica Eyes Virtual Databases
NEW YORK-Data integration software vendor Informatica is planning to expand the "virtual database" capabilities of its Informatica 9 data integration platform in 2011, vendor officials tell DWT .
Winterflood Deploys IFS BestEx Analytics
UK stockbroker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market making platform by comparing…
FXall Prepares Trade Analytics
NEW YORK-Foreign exchange (FX) ECN operator FXall plans to introduce a set of pre- and post-trade analytics based on the trading trends that officials observe within the FXall's trading platforms, DWT has learned.
Thomson Reuters Charges Ahead with Elektron
LONDON-Market data and trading platform provider Thomson Reuters recently gave the industry a sneak peek of its next-generation data distribution network, dubbed Elektron.
Savvis Deploys Corvil Appliances for Network Latency Monitoring
Network and hosting service provider Savvis is building out a global latency monitoring service to help clients monitor latencies for up to 20 different trading venues using hardware and software from Dublin-based latency monitoring technology vendor…
Sybase, Panopticon Partner on Visualization
LONDON-Database provider Sybase has selected the data visualization platform from Panopticon Software to provide real-time data visualization for its recently acquired Aleri complex event processing (CEP) business, which should be launched this week, DWT…
Arcontech Revs Excelerator Performance
Data technology vendor Arcontech is in the final stages of developing Version 3.0 of its Excelerator add-in for integrating real-time data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, after entering beta testing with bank and hedge fund clients earlier this month.