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Cutting Costs
While more firms are looking at squeezing costs, projects aimed at improving standard settlement instructions data quality and increasing automation are climbing the agenda. Tine Thoresen explores how firms can secure funding and reduce costs
Identifiers: The Vendor-Driven Way
The financial crisis has put pressure on the industry to fix the entity identification challenge. Vendors are working on helping the community by coming up with alternatives to an ISO-approved standard. Carla Mangado reports on the latest developments
XTF Bows Performance Heatmaps
Exchange-traded fund rating provider Marco Polo XTF is set to launch a Web-based heatmap display that breaks down ETF holdings by asset class and geography, and uses ETFs as a proxy for monitoring money flows between assets and regions.
AdmitOne Preps Piracy Monitor for Financial Data
Seattle-based online security and identity analytics provider AdmitOne Security has established a beta test group of financial news and market data providers for its software, to expand use of the vendor's offering into the financial markets.
Microsoft Readies CEP Play for Financial Markets
Software giant Microsoft is preparing to enter the complex event processing fray with a platform that will enter beta testing next month, and will provide event-driven capabilities for processing high rates of data, as well as integration with other…
Telekurs Boosts Emerging Markets
Swiss data vendor SIX Telekurs is adding real-time data from a number of emerging markets onto its MDF market data feed in response to client demand.
Corvil Unveils Expanded Latency Tools
In addition to an enhanced XML feed, version 5.1 of CorvilNet features a range of new capabilities, including Multicast gap detection, and support for monitoring specific message types, roundtrip order latency, and new hardware.
Deutsche Börse Sets XIM Test for Latter Part of '09
FRANKFURT-Deutsche Börse officials plan to start testing the exchange operator's new pan-European trading facility, Xetra International Market (XIM), in the second half of 2009, officials tell DWT .