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Nasdaq OMX Preps Volume Display Portal
Nasdaq OMX has released a beta-test version of a new, Web-based real-time data product, dubbed Nasdaq Trade Ads, which allows exchange customers to display their trading volume and market share for particular stocks, to attract order flow from buy-side…
Alphacet Integrates OMD Tick Database
Start-up quantitative analysis software vendor Alphacet has integrated OneTick, the real-time tick data management and analytics solution of OneMarketData into its upcoming Alphacet Discovery product, which enables quantitative analysts to create new…
Fixnetix to Power Equiduct VBBO
Pan-European multilateral trading facility Equiduct Trading has announced it is sourcing direct feeds from European exchanges and MTFs via UK-based low-latency data vendor Fixnetix, to power its Virtual Best Bid and Offer (VBBO) feed launched on April 4 …
Vhayu Takes Aim at Quants
Tick processing and complex event processing software vendor Vhayu will this week announce a new version of its Velocity tick capture engine, aimed at quantitative research analysts, officials say.
AgriCharts Unveils Workstations
AgriCharts, the commodities data arm of futures data vendor Barchart, has launched two new Web display terminals aimed at agricultural producers.
Nyfix Acquires Fixcity
NEW YORK & LONDON-Global crossing network provider Nyfix has expanded its portfolio of offerings with its recent acquisition of indications of interest (IoIs) network provider Fixcity.
Swift Plans Managed Service
NEW YORK-Attendees of the Swift Operations Forum Americas 2008 in Midtown Manhattan were given a peak at three new services that bank messaging cooperative Swift plans to launch to help members manage their Swift connections.
Opra Projections Frustrate Options Players
Data industry participants are calling for more effective quote mitigation strategies, following the Options Price Reporting Authority's latest bandwidth requirements for the Opra feed of US options trade and quote data, which increases capacity…
Citi Takes Datacenter Green
LONDON-Without investing in leading-edge green technologies, Citi has managed to achieve a 20 percent energy savings for its new datacenter serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), say bank officials who spoke during a recent conference on the…
LSE, Borsa to Consolidate Data Delivery
The merged London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana group will migrate data subscribers to the LSE's Infolect data distribution platform in the first half of 2009, and provide an integrated data distribution platform that disseminates real-time data from…
Landsbanki Deploys Infront Terminals
Icelandic banking group Landsbanki is rolling out data displays from Norwegian vendor Infront across its business lines in Iceland, and is negotiating an enterprise license to deploy the product in other regions, officials say.
SpryWare Launches Order Book Manager
Chicago-based low-latency data and ticker plant provider SpryWare has begun rolling out to clients a new order book management product, dubbed Depth Plus, which enables firms to more cost-effectively build market display applications, officials say.
Capital IQ Integrates FirstRain Company Data
The Capital IQ division of Standard & Poor's has integrated Web-sourced content links from buy-side search technology provider FirstRain into its research platform, to provide portfolio managers and buy-side research analysts with access to key…
AXE Targets ASX With Free Data
The AXE ECN, a trading platform being set up by the New Zealand Exchange and major broker-dealers to compete with the Australian Securities Exchange, will waive fees for its market data at launch, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Nasdaq OMX Readies European ITCH Feed
Nasdaq OMX will this month roll out a test version of a new datafeed that will carry market data from the exchange group's planned multilateral trading facility, dubbed Nasdaq OMX Pan-European Market, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Edgar Online Mulls XBRL Tags for Funds
Company filings and data provider Edgar Online is working on a project to apply XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) tags to mutual fund information, to enable investors and asset managers to more easily compare information across multiple funds…
Activ Financial Builds London Hub for UK Exchange Data
Chicago-based low-latency data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial has set up a datacenter in London to locally collect direct feeds from UK exchanges, in preparation for a broader program of sourcing European low-latency data and targeting…