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Obama Administration rolls out new hedge fund registration rules
In a widely expected move , the US Treasury Department has proposed new legislation that would require hedge funds and other private investment funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Exchanges Take Data Hit as Layoffs Cause Decline in Terminal Numbers
Despite higher overall revenues for the second quarter, exchanges are making less money from market data sales in 2009, largely as a result of fewer workstations subscribing to their data, according to a raft of recent financial results.
TradeSignal Integrates Morningstar Data
German analytics vendor TradeSignal is adding real-time and historical price data from Morningstar's Real-Time division, the business created via the acquisition of Tenfore Systems ( IMD , Dec. 22, 2008), into its desktop charting display products,…
Screen Preps Infomatch Update
Dutch market data software vendor Screen Consultants is preparing to launch a new version of its Infomatch data inventory management software, which will include new reporting features and the ability to automatically reconcile invoice information for…
Edgar Online Provides 'Real-Time' XBRL Filings Access
Company filings and data provider Edgar Online has been able to streamline the collection and processing of new filings for its XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) filings database to provide users with access to the reports as soon as they are…
InfoNgen Aims Tags at Broker Research
Web-based content aggregator InfoNgen is launching a campaign to encourage sell-side research providers to adopt its Intelligent Research Tags, developed for tagging news content with metadata about stories and the companies and subjects mentioned, to…
Caplin Systems 'Flexes' its Data Infrastructure
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Caplin Systems is adding more adapters to its Caplin Platform data infrastructure to support integration with display applications built in newer programming environments, such as Microsoft Silverlight and…
MSCI Barra Expands Historical Data
Index and risk software provider MSCI Barra has expanded the amount of monthly historical data available via its Gem2 (Global Equity Model) product for more detailed portfolio attribution and back-testing, and is planning to increase the amount and…
XtremeData Bows Database Analytics System
Schaumburg, Ill.-based database analytics appliance vendor XtremeData will this week introduce dbX, a hardware-accelerated appliance that enables users to run ad hoc queries across large datasets.
FTIL Takes Aegisoft for FIX Testing
NEW YORK-Multi-asset exchange platform provider Financial Technologies India Ltd. (FTIL) has adopted the FIX messaging simulator from FIX validation vendor Aegisoft to test and support FTIL's FIX-based trading gateway, vendor officials announced today,…
XtremeData Debuts High-Performance Database Appliance
SCHAUMBURG, ILL.-Hardware-based analytics accelerator platform provider XtremeData has released a new database product for analytic queries, dubbed dbX Analytics System, today, Monday, July 27.
Equiduct Gains Citadel Cash, Eyes Retail Flow
LONDON—Citadel Securities, an arm of alternative asset manager Citadel Investment Group, has taken a majority stake in Equiduct Trading, a move that should transform the multilateral trading facility (MTF) after a slow start in the European market, say…
AboveNet Grows U.K. Network
LONDON-Global network service provider AboveNet is expanding its fiber-optic network to meet increasing demand for direct fiber connectivity to a growing numbers of exchanges and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) located in and around the City of…
AMD to Round Out Istanbul Family with Cloud Offering
NEW YORK-On the heels of last month's introduction of the six-core version of its Opteron processor line, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) expects to add an Extremely Efficient (EE) line of processors tailored to the needs of high-density and…