Data display and analytics
Markit Prepares New Desktop Features
UK-based data vendor Markit has added a portfolio upload tool to version 1.1 of its Markit Desktop data product, and plans to add additional content sets, enhanced graphics and the option of a Web-based interface in future releases.
CQG Adds Icap Asia Data
Denver, Colo.-based data and analytics provider CQG is to expand the range of contributed data it carries from interdealer broker Icap, under the terms of a deal between the two for multi-asset-class data from Asian markets, Inside Market Data has…
LIM Debuts XMIM Options Tester
Chicago-based derivatives data vendor Logical Information Machines will this week release XMIM Options Tester, a tool for back-testing the performance of equity and futures options strategies using historical end-of-day bid-and-ask price data to create…
EquityFeed Preps Screening Tools
Montreal-based micro-cap data vendor EquityFeed is planning to add an industry sector data analysis tool and an earnings calendar to its products as part of a software upgrade scheduled for Nov. 1, officials tell Inside Market Data .
OptionMetrics Adds Europe Data
New York-based options data vendor OptionMetrics has added expanded exchange coverage and enhanced proprietary models for calculating dividends to its product for European historical equity and index option prices, and implied volatility data.
CQG Bolsters TradeFlow Tools
Denver, Colo.-based data and analytics vendor CQG is in the process of migrating clients to the latest release of its charting software, which includes new studies for using other traders' activity to identify and predict price trends.
Limas Rolls Out Tullett Prebon FX Data
Jakarta, Indonesia-based data vendor Limas Centric Indonesia last week unveiled plans to add foreign exchange data from interdealer broker Tullett Prebon's data arm to its Limas StockWatch Desktop terminal and Web-based StockWatch Retail product, as well…
Barchart Preps Web Workstation, Agri Commodities News Feed
Chicago-based data and charting vendor Barchart.com will this month roll out two data and news products aimed at futures traders.
eSignal Adds to Desktop, Charting Apps
Interactive Data's Hayward, Calif.-based data and analytics subsidiary eSignal has released a trio of product enhancements for institutional and individual traders.
QuoteMedia Premieres QuoteStream Pro
Arizona-based market data, news and charting vendor QuoteMedia is preparing to release QuoteStream Pro, a data desktop product aimed at traders within broker-dealer firms, which will also provide seamless data integration between desktops and wireless…
Coral8 Further Enhances Query Mechanism
California-based event processing engine provider Coral8 is enhancing its query writing interface, providing new options for receiving alerts and incorporating a new charting package in the latest release of its Coral8 Engine, officials tell Inside…
Edgar Adds Summaries for Buy Side
Filings and company information provider Edgar Online has created new display options for clients viewing data using the vendor's I-Metrix Professional, a Web-based tool for accessing financial statements tagged in eXtensible Business Reporting Language …
Perfect Info Adds Indexing Tool for Sub-Prime Exposure
UK-based data vendor Perfect Information has launched a new indexing category within its Perfect Debt archive of fixed-income prospectuses and pricing supplements to help users search for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and collateralized loan…
TSX Signs Aussie Deal for Index Analysis Software
Bond Index Systems, a new Australian company being set up by Melbourne-based Australian Indices and Kevin Lamont, a former fixed-income risk manager at the Bank of Nova Scotia, is preparing to roll out the Toronto Stock Exchange's PC Bond index analysis…
AC Capital Takes On-Demand CDO² Pricing
Dublin-based asset manager AC Capital Partners last week went live using derivatives pricing and risk analytics from UK-based vendor CDO², running on a pay-on-demand grid computing solution from Sun Microsystems’ Network.com subsidiary.
Bloomberg Integrates Numerix Analytics
Bloomberg is rolling out multi-asset-class analytical tools for pricing structured products and over-the-counter derivatives from New York-based pricing and risk analytics provider Numerix integrated within Bloomberg Professional terminals, the vendors…
IDC's Analytix Direct Bows in US
Interactive Data is rolling out its Analytix Direct risk analytics system to the North American market, to address data consolidation and region-specific risk factors.
FirstRain Adds Global Info
Research software provider FirstRain will this week unveil a new release of its FirstRain Financial application for asset managers that includes data on global markets as well as just US equities, officials tell Inside Market Data . The new version will…
Detica Signs Kx to Support FSA's Sabre II
UK-based technology consultancy Detica is using Kx Systems' kdb+ database to store and query multiple terabytes of real-time and historic data as the basis of the Sabre II market monitoring system that Detica is building for UK regulator the Financial…
New LIM Releases Simplify Queries, Fix Java Bug
Logical Information Machines, a Chicago-based provider of financial, energy and commodities data, last week released the latest version of its XMIM analytical software that simplifies the way that users construct queries to run on market data.
Townsend, Zacks Combine Wares
Trading software and data vendor Townsend Analytics is integrating its RealTick front end with the research content and analytical capabilities of Zacks Investment Research in a bid to create a more comprehensive product to compete with services from…
QuoteMedia Looks Beyond Retail with Quotestream II
QuoteMedia, a provider of market data, news and charts primarily to retail banking and investment groups, is completing the rollout of new exchange data and capabilities to the latest version of its Quotestream product, which the vendor hopes will allow…
Xenomorph Adds Tick Data to TimeScape
UK-based data management software vendor Xenomorph has added a new tick-capture engine to its flagship TimeScape product, to provide more granular analysis of intra-day data for strategy testing and risk management, officials tell IMD .
Thomson Launches Credit Tool for Multi-Asset Analysis
Thomson Financial is in the process of rolling out a new Credit Analysis module as part of its Thomson One family of products, which ties together corporate bond, credit default swap and equity data using a series of cross-asset class analytics to enable…