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Fund accounting system spend to hit $500 million by 2012
The market for hedge fund portfolio accounting systems will grow from $394.4 million this year to a shade under $500 million in 2012 as managers seek to meet evolving regulatory requirements and develop more automated processes to handle derivatives and…
Demand Drives Index Evolution
As the underlying basis for derivatives and exchange-traded funds, and a means of gaining exposure to new markets, indexes are multi-purpose investment vehicles. But with end-user demand for more index types, asset classes and more granular data, index…
Actively Managed ETFs: Big Bang or Misfire?
A new breed of ETF is evolving. More flexible, more agile, and faster to respond to change, do actively managed ETFs represent the next stage of evolution, or will liquidity and transparency concerns drive them into extinction?
Credit Suisse Centralizes Index Licensing Function
Credit Suisse has centralized its index data licensing and administration function under one person, separate from its market data business, to reduce the overall cost of the bank's index usage by eliminating duplication by different business lines and…
FTSE Preps US Operations, Ticker Plant
Index provider FTSE is to set up regional support and operations functions in North America and Asia, to enable the vendor to source and process data locally, and to respond faster to customer inquiries.
New Kid on the Block
UK data vendor Markit, traditionally known for consensus credit pricing and reference entity data, has stealthily grown into a major mainstream vendor, and is now establishing itself-with last year's purchase of the International Index Company and CDS…
HSBC Ramps Up Custom Indexes Business
HSBC is creating a growing number of custom indexes, in response to investor appetite for targeted investment vehicles, which has spurred demand for the bank's index data and calculation services, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Deutsche Börse Launches DAX Super-Sector Indexes
Deutsche Börse last week launched a new family of sector-based indexes, within its DAX family of German company indexes, designed to be used as the basis for creating investment vehicles, exchange officials say.
Oil, Credit Crunch Boost Sharia Indexes; Data Sourcing Remains a Challenge
The choice of investable Sharia-compliant indexes has increased significantly over the past year-primarily driven by banks and fund managers trying to appeal to Islamic investors and attract wealth from oil-rich Middle Eastern countries by creating…
Lawyers: ISE Suit Threatens Index Industry
Pending litigation between the International Securities Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange and index providers Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's could negatively impact the exclusive licensing of index products, lawyers say.
STAC: 10GE Rivals InfiniBand
Tests conducted by the Securities Technology Analysis Center show high throughput and low latency for the Reuters Market Data System, when using 10-gigabit Ethernet switches and network cards from networking technology provider Teak Technologies.
State Street Completes Currenex Deal
Global financial services provider State Street Corp. has announced that it has completed its purchase of foreign-exchange (FX) trading network Currenex.
StanChart Adds API Link to 360T
Global wholesale bank Standard Chartered recently went live with a FIX-based application programming interface (API) that will provide users access to a number of pools of liquidity via the bank's Straight2Bank Stream electronic trading platform or the…
Living in Interesting Times
When it comes to algorithmic trading the cash equity markets have been in the vanguard of adoption. However, the electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) markets are catching up quickly. For a little over the past 15 months, the markets have seen increased…
Velocity Opens in London
As part of a company relaunch, Australian Web-based foreign exchange (FX) trading lifecycle software provider Velocity Systems International has opened an office in the City of London, say officials.
Citi Readies FX-Specific Front End
The bank's new graphical user interface (GUI) will run in parallel with Citi Treasury Interactive and includes stack pricing, decimal pricing and algorithmic execution capabilities.
The Future of E-FX
Since the beginning 2007, the electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) market has gone through dramatic changes with the adoption of algorithmic execution as volume and volatility have reached record levels.
Investor demand for customised benchmarks on the rise
According to new research, pension funds in the US and Europe are set to rely on more customised benchmarks in order to accurately measure the performances of the buy-side institutions to which they allocate capital and the instruments in which they…
Fund of funds market shows healthy growth
Research note illustrates the extent to which the global fund of hedge funds industry is expected to flourish, even though this growth will be concentrated within a handful of the largest fund managers and administrators. By Victor Anderson
Fixed Income, FX Drive 2007 Data Spend
Global spend on financial data could reach $24.3 billion in 2008, driven by demand from sales and trading operations, up from $23 billion last year, according to research released last week from Burton-Taylor International Consulting.