Exchange Data
Atrium Adds Nasdaq Stockholm PoP
Atrium Network has set up a Point of Presence (PoP) in the Stockholm-based datacenter where Nasdaq OMX offers co-located access to its Inet matching engine technology, to provide Atrium clients in London and Europe with low-latency access to the exchange…
RTS Eyes Broader Base for Russian Data
The RTS (Russian Trading System) Stock Exchange introduced a new commercial policy in April to provide discounts for retail investors subscribing to the exchange's real-time data, in a bid to broaden its customer base.
ICE Preps Low-Bandwidth TCP Datafeed
The IntercontinentalExchange has begun testing a new version of its TCP transport protocol-based Impact datafeed that delivers snapshots of market data, with prices netted at regular intervals and provided in batch updates, officials tell Inside Market…
CME Taps Xignite for On-Demand OTC Data
CME Group is readying a Web-services platform for on-demand access to prices and other content on over-the-counter asset classes cleared via its ClearPort system, using technology from on-demand data provider Xignite.
LSE Chief Urges Review of Data Regs
The European Commission should address the costs and inefficiencies associated with a fragmented European trading and market data landscape as part of its review this year of the current Markets in Financial Instruments Directive regulation, London Stock…
CME Adds New IDs to FAST Data Messages
CME Group will release version 2.0 of its FIX FAST market data messaging format in June, in a bid to make it easier for firms' data and trading systems to identify data updates for specific traded products among messages distributed by the exchange.
Algo Tech Readies VoR Feed Service
Algo Technologies, the data and trading technology vendor headed by former Chi-X Europe chief operating officer Hirander Misra, plans to establish itself as a vendor-of-record for data from exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, officials say.
Atrium Opens EU Access to Nasdaq US Feeds
London-based network connectivity provider Atrium Network has begun distributing direct feeds of US market data from Nasdaq OMX to clients across Europe and North America, who can access the data via any of the vendor's network points of presence (PoPs),…
Nasdaq OMX Delays Enhanced ITCH Switch
Nasdaq OMX has delayed plans to migrate its European markets to a consolidated feed based on a variant of its ITCH data distribution protocol, which was ultimately expected to replace its Genium Consolidated Feed of Nordic and Baltic data ( IMD , Dec. 14…
Deutsche Börse Bows Hybrid Algo News Feed
Deutsche Börse has migrated clients of its machine-readable news feeds-including the CEF Alpha+ Macro feed developed last year with subsidiary Market News International, and the Lightning Bolt feed from Need To Know News, which the exchange bought last…
LSE to Launch ITCH Feed on Turquoise
European multilateral trading facility Turquoise, which was acquired by the London Stock Exchange earlier this year, plans to migrate to a new technology platform from fellow LSE subsidiary MillenniumIT a few weeks before the LSE migrates its main UK…
Exchanges' Dark Volume Tools in Works
NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq are building mechanisms for distributing daily trading volume data from alternative trading system dark pools operated by trading firms, following last month's Securities and Exchange Commission approval of their proposals to…
Omega Eyes Expansion with Atrium Link
Canadian alternative trading system Omega ATS is connecting to an "Exchange Ring" network of multiple Canadian trading venues provided by Atrium Network, to expand the ATS's potential client base of trading participants by making it easier for firms to…
Opening Cross: "Fragmented" Doesn't Mean "Broken"
This issue of Inside Market Data should be accompanied by our latest special report on Fragmentation (also available on our Web site), which includes a spirited Q&A on the changes to European equity markets since the introduction of the recent Markets in…
LSE: Standalone Trade Data Key to EU Tape
The London Stock Exchange is to begin a consultation period with member firms to assess demand for a real-time feed of time-and-sales data via new subscription products, separate from its existing datafeeds, to help market participants create a…
Chi-X Enlists Thomson Reuters for Euro Data
Pan-European equity multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe has implemented low-latency, direct exchange datafeeds sourced from Thomson Reuters-along with access to the vendor's consolidated pricing and reference data-to benchmark the quality of…
'Avenues' Calls For Centralized Data Utility to Combat MiFID Abuse
A UK-based group of specialist consultants dubbed the Alliance of Independent Advisors to Financial Markets-or Avenues-has called for the creation of a centralized utility to create a pan-European "consolidated tape" of market data from European…
MTS Preps Non-Display Data Policy
Bond trading platform EuroMTS is introducing a new license and fees for use of its market data in non-display applications, such as for calculating derived values or for algorithmic trading.
BATS Readies Fees for Value-Add Data
The BATS Exchange is preparing to introduce its first fee-liable market data products, designed to improve transparency and execution quality, though officials insist the exchange will continue to provide direct access to its core feeds of market data…
BATS Enlists QuantHouse, Updates Multicast
BATS Europe, the pan-European multilateral trading facility subsidiary of US-based BATS Exchange, has enlisted French low-latency data vendor QuantHouse to supply real-time feeds of market data from other European trading venues to support its trading…
Firm Be Nimble
Open Platform
March of the Robo-Traders
Asia report
Clearing and Present Danger
CLEARING