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HKEx Seeks Web Partners for Free Data Campaign
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will begin providing real-time, basic market data free of charge over select Web sites in Hong Kong and mainland China in the second half of 2009, to raise the profile of the exchange and its data offerings among Chinese…
Thomson Reuters Bows News Indexes
Thomson Reuters last week unveiled NewsScope Event Indices, a real-time feed of news analytics that separates news into different indexes to price movements and volatility based on deviations in the amount of news within specific categories.
EquityFeed Revamps Data App
Montreal-based data workstation provider EquityFeed has released an upgrade to its platform, designed to target new users among the active retail trader community, and to provide a series of specialized, new displays targeted separately at institutional…
Fitch Boosts Financial Fundamentals Data
Fitch Solutions, the non-ratings data and technology delivery arm of ratings agency Fitch, has increased its fundamental data coverage of both public and privately held global financial institutions, to provide more timely information to help firms…
Integrity Preps New Client Portal
New York-based alternative research provider Integrity Research will later this month unveil a new client portal for accessing information on specialist research providers directly from its database.
NYSE Euronext Launches Unified Order Book
PARIS-Exchange operator NYSE Euronext has reached a recent milestone in consolidating its order books. Traders on the Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris bourses can trade on a single consolidated order book.
LSE Adds to Baikal Management Team
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has shed more light on its Baikal dark-liquidity trading platform, announcing two senior appointments to the business.
HKEx Plans to Double Futures Capacity
HONG KONG-Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) plans to increase capacity on its derivatives trading system by 50 percent by the end of the year and begin developing a next-generation trading system for its securities market over the next three years,…
Client Goes Live with Tervela, FIX Flyer
NEW YORK-An unnamed global investment bank is in production with a deterministic order-routing architecture that enables it to provide clients with service-level agreements on messaging between the broker-dealer and local cash equities exchange,…
Thomson Reuters Adds Risk Event Indices
LONDON-Market data provider Thomson Reuters announced at press time that it has rounded out its stable of machine-readable newsfeeds with its new NewScope Event Indices (NEI) datafeed.
Nasdaq OMX's Genium Imminent
STOCKHOLM-The long-anticipated implementation of exchange platform provider and operator Nasdaq OMX's Genium trading platform is slated for the second half of this year, with a number of clients taking the platform live in 2010, officials tell DWT .
Trayport Readies for Algorithmic Trading
LONDON-Although the commodities markets are still in the early stages of adopting algorithmic trading, commodities trading platform provider Trayport is busily readying its broker platform, Trader Gateway, to handle the expected increase in volume, DWT…
Nyfix Debuts IoI Network
NEW YORK-Global alternative trading system operator Nyfix announced today, Jan. 19, that it has completed its integration of European FIX-based indications of interest (IoIs) network provider Fixcity and has launched its re-branded Nyfix Ioinet liquidity…
Euronext Preps UTP Feed for Europe
NYSE Euronext last week rolled out a pre-production version of its new UTP datafeed, which will over the course of 2009 replace its current Euronext Multicast Feed (EMF) as the primary delivery mechanism for data from the exchange's European cash markets.
FISD OKs Derived, Non-Display Policies
Industry association FISD has ratified a series of best-practice recommendations for policies that content providers should adopt when licensing their data for use in non-display applications and for the creation of derived data.
Fixnetix to Offer Skyler Euro BBO Feed
UK-based low-latency market data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has developed a low-latency feed of European Best Bid and Offer (EBBO) data for stocks traded on multiple venues, created using prices from exchanges and multilateral trading…
S&P Unveils RatingsDirect Facelift
Standard & Poor's will this week launch a new version of its Web-based RatingsDirect credit data platform, featuring a revised interface, added content and capabilities to make the portal a more comprehensive workflow tool for users to analyze credit…
ClearSight Debuts Latency Monitor
Fremont, Calif.-based network monitoring provider ClearSight Networks will this week unveil Cronos, a combined hardware and software solution for monitoring latency and detecting message loss.
Marketcetra Releases Open-Source OMS
SAN FRANCISCO-Open-source platform provider Marketcetra plans to announce later this week the general availability of its Marketcetra Automated Trading Platform, DWT has learned.
Audit Integrity Puts Ratings in Excel
Los Angeles-based corporate integrity ratings provider Audit Integrity last week released a soft launch of RiskLink, an Excel add-on that lets users view the vendor's data directly in spreadsheets, and incorporate the ratings into investment analyses.
Capital IQ Expands Analytics
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ data desktop division is rolling out analytics from Tibco's Spotfire business across components of the Capital IQ workstation.