News
Thomson Reuters fights fragmentation
Thomson Reuters last month unveiled two new initiatives to tackle the fragmentation of market data that has taken hold in Europ-ean markets since the introduction of Mifid in November 2007.
Month in Numbers
"That's happened pre- and post-Amaranth, and it's been big hedge fund shops posting losses as well as small ones. Have they learned from Amaranth? Of course not"
Manulife selects Broadridge's Dataphile platform
Canadian broker-dealer, Manulife Securities, a division of Manulife Financial, has implemented Broad-ridge Financial Solutions' Dataphile platform for over 1,500 advisors in both its securities and mutual funds businesses. Manulife Securities acquired…
GFI Launches Eastern European Data
Interdealer broker GFI will this month launch a new data product that will provide foreign exchange rates and money market data from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, officials say.
Tibco Rolls Out Rendezvous Appliance
PALO ALTO, CALIF.-Later this week, Tibco Software plans to announce the availability of the new appliance-based version of its Rendezvous messaging platform.
Tibco Debuts Messaging ‘Appliance'
Tibco will this week unveil its new hardware-based messaging appliance, which embeds the vendor's Rendezvous middleware product into networking hardware to reduce messaging latency and server space requirements while handling rising data throughput.
Equiduct Trading Sets New Launch Date
LONDON-After pushing back the launch date for Equiduct Trading, the multilateral trading facility's (MTF's) officials expect the venue to go live later this quarter.
PhaseCap Rolls Out StreamBase CEP
Boston-based PhaseCapital, a new quantitative investment firm that will launch next month, has rolled out technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems for managing market and trade data within the firm's proprietary…
Baikal Selects TradElect
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange's (LSE's) dark-liquidity trading platform, Baikal, will run on the exchange's TradElect trading platform and is scheduled to go live in June this year, according to recent industry reports.
Reliance Boosts European Coverage
Network provider Reliance Globalcom has expanded the coverage of European trading venues available via its FinancialConnect extranet with the addition of access to multilateral trading facilities Chi-X, Nasdaq OMX Europe and BATS Europe.
Acquire Grows Web Data Tools
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is expanding the custom service it provides for incorporating information culled from Web sites and blogs based on lists of preferred Web-based information sources provided by clients.
Dow Jones Adds Ratings to Algo News
Dow Jones is enhancing its Elementized News Feed to incorporate ratings changes from Standard & Poor's in a standardized data format that allows the information to be easily integrated into algorithmic and black-box trading strategies, officials tell…