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Boat: No Delayed Data at Launch
Project Boat, the trade reporting utility set up by a consortium of investment banks to take advantage of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive's pre- and post-trade reporting requirements, will not initially offer data subscribers the option of…
Icap Preps Asia Reuters Rollout, Part 2
Interdealer broker Icap is planning the second phase of a Reuters market data systems rollout to its operations in Asia, officials tell IMD . The second phase will focus on back-end development for sharing data between its core data platform and…
Ipug Unveils New User Group Structure
UK market data industry association Ipug (the Information Providers User Group) is reorganizing the way its special interest groups (SIGs) are organized, to cover more issues and to elicit participation from a broader range of individuals at member firms.
Colt to Expand Proximity Hosting Data Service
LONDON-Infrastructure and network services provider Colt Telecom is planning to expand its proximity hosting services to include datacenters in London, Madrid and Milan, and will eventually utilize all of its 16 datacenters in 10 countries across Europe…
Colt to Expand Proximity Hosting Data Service
Infrastructure and network services provider Colt Telecom is planning to expand its proximity hosting services to include datacenters in London, Madrid and Milan, and will eventually utilize all of its 16 datacenters in 10 countries across Europe to…
Société Générale Takes Risk to Grid
PARIS-The Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division of French banking giant Société Générale (SocGen) has moved its credit risk calculations onto the bank's grid computing environment powered by Platform Computing's Symphony solution, vendor…
Börse Berlin Acquires Equiduct
BERLIN & London-German regional exchange Börse Berlin is set to buy a majority stake in pan-European market operator Equiduct, DWT has learned.
Nasdaq, Börse Dubai Enter OMX Pact
STOCKHOLM-The Nasdaq Stock Market and state-run Borse Dubai announced a deal last Thursday to join forces and acquire exchange operator and technology provider OMX.
TheMarkets Bolsters Broker Evaluation Application
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is augmenting its MeritMark broker research evaluation tool to give users more granular feedback options, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Hedge Funds Warned of Fair Value Challenges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement (SFAS) 157 has created a rougher playing field for hedge fund managers attempting to derive fair value for securities, according to panelists at a Managed Funds Association seminar in New York last…
Deloitte: Modify Data Apps for Options Symbology Changes
Preparation for conversion to revamped US options instrument identifiers in 2009 must encompass systems across user firms, including applications for market data, trading and data collection, rather than exclusively back-office systems, according to…
RTI Enlists Coral8 for CEP-Enabled Middleware
Real-Time Innovations, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of real-time messaging middleware has licensed software from Mountain View, Calif.-based complex event processing (CEP) vendor Coral8 to boost the CEP capabilities available as an integrated…
Börse Berlin Buy Will Fund Equiduct Feed
German regional exchange Börse Berlin is to buy a majority stake in MiFID-inspired pan-European stock market Equiduct.
Wiener Börse to Collect and Publish MiFID OTC Data
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse has launched a new trade publication service to help its members comply with the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Interactive Data Combines Exec Roles
Interactive Data is combining several management roles across its divisions, as part of an effort to unify its units and operate as "one company."
Nasdaq Preps Options Data Products
Nasdaq has released the specifications for two forthcoming proprietary options data products that will accompany the launch of its Nasdaq Options Market, in addition to making its options data available via the Options Price Reporting Authority's…
MiFID Challenge Is Integration, Not Volumes
The market data infrastructures of data vendors and end-user firms in Europe should be able to cope with the increases in market data expected as a result of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive's transparency rules and from new trading venues…
Looking for America
As investment banks look to expand in emerging markets, DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with Fimat Group's North American managing director for equities Douglas Engmann to discuss what the coming year has in store for wholly owned subsidiary…