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Mob Index Adds Sectors, Stock Levels
MobIndex.com, a Web site that provides an indicator of investing sentiment by analyzing institutional money flows between countries, has added a sector breakdown and index levels for institutional ownership of individual US-listed stocks, to show flows…
Fidessa Opens Up Fragmentation Index Data
UK-based trading technology and market data vendor Fidessa is preparing to provide its clients with access to a historical database of European market data, which can be used to analyze changes in liquidity between exchanges and multilateral trading…
Serena Releases Mashup Designer
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF.-The latest version of automated mashups environment product Business Mashups 2009 is now available from application lifecycle management software provider Serena Software.
Ukrainian Exchange to Roll Out Micex Platform
KIEV-Later this month Ukrainian PFTS Stock Exchange is set to deploy a new trading and settlement system, dubbed PFTS Next, based on technology from the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex), as well as exchange operator and technology provider…
Quote MTF Moves Launch to Q3
BUDAPEST-Officials at Hungarian multilateral trading facility (MTF) Quote MTF have delayed the venue's launch to Sept. 4 from its planned June 5 debut since unnamed "major players" could not connect to the platform by then, DWT has learned.
CLS, Icap Enter Post-Trade JV
LONDON-The joint venture (JV) foreign exchange (FX) trade aggregation service set for launch by CLS and Icap is being met with cautious optimism from major dealers, with details of the project still unresolved.
Vienna Exchange Adopts Xetra for Warrants
VIENNA-Officials at the Wiener Börse expect to complete the migration of warrants to the Xetra platform, provided by Deutsche Börse, by the end of June in a single-day switchover. Once completed, all Vienna cash market products will be run on Xetra,…
YouDevise Expands HIP Analytics
Trade ideas distribution software vendor YouDevise has added a series of new reporting capabilities to its Web-based Hedge Fund Information Provider (HIP) analytics tool, to provide granular breakdowns of portfolio performance, exposure and liquidity to…
Tervela, Volante Ally for Integration
Hardware messaging provider Tervela is to re-sell integration software vendor Volante Technologies' Designer tool as a preconfigured integration layer between data sources, client applications and Tervela's Open Data Framework.
Kabrik Enlists EquityFeed for Trade Suite
New York Stock Exchange floor broker Kabrik Trading is creating a new suite of data, execution and research tools for its own brokers and institutional buy-side clients using the new EquityPipe data workstation from Montreal-based vendor EquityFeed.
BGC Aims for Front-End Consolidation
NEW YORK-Interdealer voice and electronic broker BGC Partners is currently looking at a way to provide a single trading front end for all instruments it supports. Part of the plan being studied is incorporating the creation, pricing and management of…
FTSE Mulls Tick-by-Tick Index Data
Index provider FTSE is holding discussions with clients to determine whether there is sufficient demand for the vendor to launch a real-time feed of index data, which would deliver streaming index values on a tick-by-tick basis.
Market Meltdown Fuels Operational Efficiency Drive
NEW YORK-For the remainder of the year, the futures industry is set to spend most of its IT dollars on improving operational efficiency and preparing for new regulations, according to industry insiders.
Volante Debuts Tervela Integration Platform
NEW YORK-In a bid to help firms speed the deployment of low-latency messaging architectures, integration tool provider Volante Technologies and low-latency messaging platform provider Tervela announced today, April 13, the general availability of Volante…
Ionic Deploys DJ News to Replace AFX Feed
UK-based data vendor Ionic Information will roll out content from Dow Jones Newswires as its main financial news provider in June after incumbent supplier Thomson Reuters gave notice that it will terminate the vendor's distribution contract, Ionic…
BNY ConvergEx Brings Algo Trading for Brazil Online
Despite the global economic downturn, interest in accessing the large emerging markets has not subsided. Asset mangers are seeking to diversify their portfolios geographically. One of the hottest markets is Brazil. In this issue, DWT looks at how the…
CSI Unveils Open-Source Feed Handlers
Collaborative Software Initiative, a Portland, Oregon venture for collaborative software development, will this week release the first set of open-source feed handlers based on technology developed by hardware messaging provider Tervela.
Wiener Börse Adds Balkans to ADH
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse has added real-time Slovenian market data from the Ljubljana Stock Exchange onto its Alliance Data Highway (ADH) feed, and will this month add data from the Banja Luka Stock Exchange in Bosnia and Herzegovina, officials…
DJ Kicks Off NewsPlus Changes
Dow Jones has revamped its News Plus portal and added a range of new content, as part of an ongoing project to upgrade the service and repackage the vendor's content and target new types of end-users.