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Research's Technology Revolution
Just as technology improved the management of trade orders between the buy side and sell side, new research tools and protocols are starting to solve communication and management problems between buy-side research consumers and sell-side providers. By…
Post Credit Crunch, Investors Eye New Ratings
With credit ratings taking a battering in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, investors are seeking additional inputs and ways to better rate the ratings themselves. By Audit Integrity chief executive Jack Zwingli, and chairman and founder James Kaplan
News Consumers in Search of Better Search
The way that traders obtain news and other information is changing as mainstream news becomes a commodity and end-users seek out niche sources and ways to customize content.
GL Trade to Debut TASE Link
PARIS & TEL AVIV-Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) officials expect to raise their exchange's international profile by connecting to GL Trade's pan-European application service provider (ASP) platform in April, say vendor officials.
InfoReach to Adopt FIXATDL
CHICAGO-BrokerReach, a light-weight Web-based execution management system (EMS) from financial trading software vendor InfoReach, should be sporting support for FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXATDL) in its wizard function in the near…
Deutsche Börse Revamps Data Policy
Deutsche Börse will this year implement a new fee policy for firms that use the exchange's real-time data to generate derived values such as indexes, risk and portfolio analytics, and for use within non-display applications such as algorithmic trading…
AXE Preps Q1 Launch with BT Proximity
AXE, an Australian ECN set up jointly by the New Zealand Exchange, Citigroup, CommSec, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Macquarie Bank and Merrill Lynch in 2006 to provide competition for trading and reporting in Australian Securities Exchange-listed stocks, will…
Turquoise to Waive Data Fees at Launch
Project Turquoise, the European multilateral trading facility formed by a consortium of nine broker-dealers, plans to make its quote-and-trade data available free of charge when the platform goes live later this year.
TSE Set to Take Derivatives Engine Live
TOKYO-The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is going live on a new derivatives trading engine this Tuesday, Jan. 15, and at the same time, will launch an electronic off-auction trading market for derivatives.
CESR to Weigh Rating Agencies' Responses
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) last month published rating agencies' responses to a recent questionnaire that forms part of its probe into the role of agencies in rating structured finance securities, such as the sub-prime…
Execution Venue Competition, Post-MiFID
Despite a host of potential new European trading venues and data sources created as a result of MiFID, it may prove hard for new markets to grab share and create value. By Paul Pickup, director, Trading Technology.
Innovation to Combat Fragmentation
Exchange Watch-Following a year of consolidation, exchanges face growing challenges from rival ECNs and their own customers, who are forming utility-style venues for traditional exchange functions such as trading and reporting.
Capacity, Identifiers, Piracy, Outsourcing
INDUSTRY ISSUES-The issues faced by the data industry during 2007 will make good preparations for another challenging year in 2008, say industry officials.
Financial Information Forum: Ask the Audience
Growing competition among trading venues for the grand prize of market share is expected to highlight capacity issues and symbology changes during 2008. By Jeff Wells, co-chair of the FIF Market Data Capacity Working Group, and vice president of product…
SICOM Plans Data Overhaul
The Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) is replacing its market data system to enable the exchange to handle greater data volumes and to introduce new data services this year.
Exchanges Must Seek 'Intellectual' Innovation
In the face of competition from their members and a consolidating market, exchanges need to answer end-user issues while also coming up with the Next Big Thing-or "Next Big Think." By Rafah Hanna, head of data at MTS
Trading Evolution Drives Tech Facelifts
Delivery Technologies-As trading becomes more automated and algorithmic, the relationship between market data and technology has become ever more tightly intertwined, and is driving greater focus on latency, new data inputs and struggling legacy…
Activ: Low Latency to 'Get Real' in 2008
In 2008, the data industry must heed the ghosts of Christmas past if it is to prevent history from repeating itself and deliver cost-effective latency reduction. By Shawn Kaplan, business development manager, Activ Financial
London Stock Exchange Spells Out 2008 Priorities
With exchange mergers focusing efforts on integration, the London Stock Exchange sets out the data and technology projects that will be most relevant to customers in 2008. By David Lester, chief information officer, London Stock Exchange