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Kempen Deploys CMA for CDS Pricing
Kempen Capital Management, the buy-side subsidiary of Dutch merchant bank Kempen & Co., is sourcing credit derivatives pricing data from UK-based vendor Credit Market Analysis to support daily valuations for its credit derivative funds, officials tell…
DJ Cuts Tech Staff in Outsourcing Play
Dow Jones will this month begin laying off 90 staff in its technology and operations department, following a decision to outsource some of its underlying group technology and support functions to Indian offshore development and IT outsourcing provider…
FINRA Pursues TRACE Data Expansion
The Financial Industry Regulation Authority is pressing ahead with plans to expand the data disseminated via its TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) corporate bond trade reporting facility, despite some concerns that increased data transparency…
Knight Cuts Knight Link Latency
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Broker-dealer Knight Capital Group is reducing the latency in its internal crossing network, Knight Link, almost by half, firm officials tell DWT .
Schneider Upgrades Backbone
LONDON-To handle increased trading traffic and in preparation for adopting server virtualization and thin-client computing, execution broker Schneider Trading Associates plans to replace its dual 1 Gbps connections to its offsite datacenter in central…
DKIB Bolsters IT Audits
NEW YORK-After a two-year project to standardize, harmonize and enforce architectural standards for the investment bank's IT infrastructure, Dresdner Kleinwort (DKIB) is on the verge of using its enterprise infrastructure audit platform, Tideway Systems'…
Quant House Expands Equinix Co-location
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has expanded its hosting partnership with Equinix to provide clients with low-latency data and co-location services in Chicago, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Thomson Reuters Touts Custom Solutions
Thomson Reuters is combining its products for pricing, analytics and risk management to provide valuation risk solutions customized to client needs, to address the challenges of valuing complex securities and provide a comprehensive view of risk exposure.
Quodd Preps Filtering, Display Upgrade
Jersey City, NJ-based Quodd Financial Information Services, a provider of real-time North American equities and options market data, will beef up its Equity+ MarketMonitor Web-based data display product, with enhanced filtering and display capabilities…
Wiener Börse Adds Bosnian Data
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse is incorporating new data from the Sarajevo and Banja Luka stock exchanges in the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina onto its feed distribution architecture, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Aleri Readies Live OLAP Tool
Complex event processing software vendor Aleri will next month launch a new version of Aleri Live OLAP, an engine for performing visual analysis of multidimensional data sets on live, streaming data, sourced from the vendor's CEP platform.
Barchart Launches AgriCharts Mobile Service
AgriCharts, the commodities data subsidiary of Chicago-based futures data and charting vendor Barchart, will this week unveil a new mobile data product aimed at brokers of agricultural commodities and farmers and agricultural suppliers looking for price…
Aegisoft Updates AthenaTrader
NEW YORK-Several Aegisoft clients are in the process of testing and will be going into production with version 4.0 of AthenaTrader, an algorithmic multi-asset execution management system (EMS).
SGX Readies Proximity Hosting
SINGAPORE-Traders on the Singapore Exchange's (SGX's) equities and derivatives markets can expect sub-millisecond trade executions in August as SGX rolls out a proximity hosting service, say SGX officials.