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Liberate the Datacenter
It's time to shake up the organization chart a bit. For the longest time, corporate datacenters have been managed by banks' operations and real estate organizations. This needs to stop-and stop now. Administering a datacenter should be in the hands of…
DZ Bank Readies VWD Terminal Rollout
Frankfurt-based Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank (DZ Bank) is preparing a major initiative to roll out new market data terminals from local vendor VWD to service thousands of end users over the course of 2008, sources tell Inside Market Data .
Weisel Taps Pivot for Research Distribution
San Francisco-based investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners is rolling out technology from messaging and collaboration infrastructure vendor Pivot for distributing research, prices and indications of interest via instant messaging, officials say.
Arbitragis Picks Quant House for Arb Algos
French proprietary trading firm Arbitragis has begun using low-latency market data from local vendor Quant House to power its algorithmic arbitrage trading strategies, officials say.
BNP Private Bank Deploys Traderforce
BNP Paribas has deployed a market data platform from Paris-based data and trading technology vendor Traderforce to support its private banking operations in the US and the Middle East.
Winterflood Expands DMA with Fixnetix Data
UK-based market maker Winterflood Securities is to implement low-latency data connectivity from Fixnetix to exchanges in continental Europe to support the firm's trading operations.
Tradition Revamps Contributions, Feeds Tech
Interdealer broker Tradition is deploying technology from UK-based data technology vendor Arcontech to support its contribution of over-the-counter prices to Bloomberg, and is extending the vendor's CityVision StarNet data distribution platform as its…
Munder Reviews Data, Rolls Out Thomson
Birmingham, MI-based asset manager Munder Capital Management is in the final stages of migrating analysts and portfolio managers off products from FactSet Research Systems to replacements from Thomson Financial, as part of a broader project to cut data…
KBC Begins Data Control Project
Brussels-based bank KBC Group is rolling out a major initiative to track and control market data usage and eliminate duplication of data services across the firm's global subsidiaries, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Ballista Preps to Launch Activ Data Arsenal
Ballista Securities, a new broker-dealer currently in the final stages of formation, will go live on a hosted ticker plant and multiple North American datafeeds from low-latency data provider Activ Financial when the firm begins operations next month.
StanChart Rolls Out MDSL in Asia
Standard Chartered Bank is deploying the MDM (Market Data Manager) and RPM (Request & Procurement Manager) systems from MDSL to provide data usage and cost management services across its offices in Asia.
Navellier Mulls AI Data Adds to Models
Reno, NV-based portfolio manager Navellier & Associates is considering whether to incorporate company ratings data from Audit Integrity into its investment models, after using the vendor's data as an additional input to its investment process since…
George Weiss Installs Aleri CEP Engine
Hartford, Conn.-based multi-strategy investment manager George Weiss Associates is deploying complex event processing technology to perform calculations on real-time market data in the face of rising data volumes, officials tell Inside Market Data .
UniCredit to Roll Out InfoMatch to HVB
Germany's HVB Group will next year begin using the InfoMatch inventory management software from Dutch vendor Screen Consultants to monitor and manage market data vendor usage and contracts, Inside Market Data has learned, extending the scope of an…
CLSA Preps Low-Latency Data Platform
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, a Hong Kong-based broker and investment firm, is rolling out a new market data infrastructure to reduce data latency, as part of a project to implement a next-generation trading system for handling increased message volumes…
Credit Suisse Ramps Up Data Capacity
Credit Suisse was able to handle record data volumes in August without system disruptions as a result of a capacity upgrade program that enabled the bank to prioritize improvements for different business lines based on their contribution to-and the…
HSBC Cross-Asset Platform Grows Legs
HSBC is working on technology to price components of multi-leg trades and reduce "slippage" between derived or implied prices and prices at which a trade or hedge is executed, as part of a broader project to develop a cross-asset-class trading and…
At Your Service
In-house use of SOA-based technology combined with sophisticated vendor-supplied business services for data management is on the rise, says Dale Richards, CEO of LakeFront Data Ventures
StanChart Deploys Traderforce in Asia
Standard Chartered Bank has rolled out more than 30 market data display terminals from French data vendor Traderforce to its new private banking division in Singapore, officials tell Inside Market Data.
HVB, Unicredit Consolidate Data Functions
The market data groups of Italian bank Unicredit, Bank Austria and Germany’s Hypovereinsbank (HVB) are being consolidated into HVB’s head office in Munich, following the merger of the Unicredit and HVB groups in 2005.
ICE Futures Resumes Exchange Data Audits
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) will begin conducting market data audits on member firms that subscribe to data from its ICE Futures Europe market (formerly the International Petroleum Exchange), ending a five-year hiatus period during…
Fortis Americas Takes Spryware Co-Lo
Fortis Clearing Americas last month completed the rollout of a hosted ticker plant and datafeed under a multi-year deal with Chicago-based vendor Spryware, designed to reduce the technology footprint required to support the firm's data system.
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…