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Quant House Grows US Feeds, Ops
French low-latency data provider Quant House is planning to add to the range of US markets accessible via its feed handlers and QuantFeed low-latency feed, and to bolster its US presence with a Chicago office, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Nasdaq Readies Sentiment Tool
Nasdaq OMX is beta-testing a tool for measuring market sentiment, dubbed Nasdaq Market Pathfinders, which tracks the number of "pathfinders" buying and selling volumes of a specific stock, pending Securities and Exchange Commission approval to formally…
Turquoise Selects NeoNet for "Internal" Data
Bank-backed multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise last week signed a deal with Swedish agency broker, data and technology vendor NeoNet to provide the pan-European equity market data that will drive Turquoise's trading platform.
Edgar Online Adds Ratios, Plans White-Label Tools
Filings and company data provider Edgar Online has increased the number of ratios, for assessing companies' risk and identifying trends from figures in financial statements, within its I-Metrix product suite for viewing and filtering financial statement…
Sybase Integrates CEP Vendor Tools
Database vendor Sybase is preparing to launch a new technology platform targeted at addressing different data speed and throughput requirements of trading desks for different data types, such as streaming data, historic data and trade messages, within…
Sybase Gears Up for Hybrid Offering
NEW YORK-Database vendor Sybase plans to release a new platform offering targeting the trading desk's need for streaming, transaction and historic data, officials say.
FX Lags in TCA Adoption
NEW YORK-Transaction cost analysis (TCA) will take a back seat in 2008, as markets focus on challenges in credit, liquidity and balance sheets, say senior bankers in London.
ITG Rolls Out Netting Service
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage and crossing network provider ITG has recently added a new trade-ticket netting service, dubbed Single Ticket Clearing, to its ITG Net order routing network, according to firm officials.
IBM Readies Diskless On-Demand Environment
NEW YORK-IBM is working on releasing a diskless environment for the Dynamic option of its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) offering to debut early in the second quarter, DWT has learned.
Study: Green IT Adoption Wanting
LONDON-European firms are increasingly alert to the green IT agenda, but lack an understanding of what environmental technology options are available in the market, according to a white paper published by IT market research firm Vanson Bourne.
Egenera Expands OEM Partnerships
MARLBORO, MASS.-Datacenter virtualization software and hardware provider Egenera is on the verge of announcing a newly inked original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with a "global firm," DWT has learned.
SWX Preps Non-Display Data Fees
Exfeed, the market data subsidiary of the SWX Swiss Exchange, plans to roll out a new data licensing policy on July 1 that will introduce charges for use of the exchange's real-time data in non-display applications.
Bloomberg SID Move Raises Admin Concerns
Bloomberg clients may face increased administration when consolidating usage and invoice information for market data inventory management, following the vendor's apparent decision to stop granting new requests to customers wishing to access enterprise…
LSE Issues New Borsa Feed Specs
The merged London Stock Exchange-Borsa Italiana has announced revised specifications for Borsa Italiana's MDF/DDM+ datafeed, which will distribute Italian equity market data from the LSE's TradElect electronic trading platform once the Italian exchange…
Microsoft Integrates Turrets
LONDON-Global software and technology provider Microsoft announced today, March 17, the launch of its Institutional Client Platform (ICP) that enables firms to integrate their entire communication infrastructure including instant messaging (IM), e-mail…
CLSA to Outsource Datacenters to BT
HONG KONG-Broker-dealer Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) has contracted BT to manage its global datacenter, according to a vendor spokesperson.
Centralized Order Books Take Hit Under Mifid
LONDON-Reconstructing a centralized order book in a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) environment is proving a serious challenge for many investment banks, according to research by Mifid think tank JWG-IT, which will be released in April.
Coral8 Release Boosts Query, Pattern-Tracking Capabilities
Complex event processing engine provider Coral8 has released version 5.2 of its Coral8 Engine, which includes enhancements for narrowing the range of queries and creating audit trails.
Skyler to Integrate European Data
Skyler Technologies, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based data software vendor, will this week announce plans to integrate data from European and Asian markets into its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution to enable firms to locate liquidity and the best price for…