Data
EC Defines ‘Reasonable' MiFID 2 Data Fee Levels
The European Commission's latest guidance documents set out the principles for how execution venues should determine a "reasonable cost" for data──though the EC stops short of specifying a level.
Infinigon Adds Echo to Eikon
The vendor's social media analytics platform will be available as a third-party application on Thomson Reuters' Eikon desktop.
SIX Nets Shapiro for Sales
With more than 20 years in market data sales, Shapiro has worked at FactSet, Morningstar, Tenfore, Thomson Financial and ILX.
Telx Opens Second San Francisco Datacenter
The datacenter has been designated an "essential" building for its earthquake-resistant construction.
CBOE Launches New Livevol Data Portal
The new site will allow users to subscribe to data on a more granular level, giving access to just the specific datasets they need.
Dow Jones Bows Factiva App, Licensed Content
In addition to a new mobile app for Factiva on iPhone devices, Dow Jones is licensing curated news to third-party websites.
The Search For Identity
For OTC derivatives transactions, market participants seeing more challenges beyond just regulatory reporting demands
Thomson Reuters Taps FD-Kx for Velocity Analytics
The vendor will use First Derivatives' Kx technology to provide the underlying analytics and data management for Velocity.
SmartStream Hires Ben Pielow
Solutions provider announces new sales director for UK and Ireland
Hargreaves Lansdown Live with Calastone Settlement Service
Solution automates settlements for fund distributor
StatPro Adds Benchmark Analysis to Revolution
The latest version of StatPro's analytics platform includes functionality for creating composite benchmarks, and other performance-related tools.
Alacra Integrates Companies House API Beta
Platform to integrate more data over next few months
Opening Cross: Have the Heavyweights Handle the Heavy Lifting
In every walk of life, experts are urging people to oursource specialist tasks: why not in data?
GlobalView Preps Excel-Like ‘CurveBuilder’
The platform offers an "Excel-like" interface for those used to pricing energy and commodities contracts using spreadsheets.
Almax Nets Funding to Grow Analytics Platform
Officials say the funding will help the vendor to enhance and grow its platform while working with early adopters.
Corporate Actions: Only the Strong Survive
Spending by market participants in this area will increase over the next five years, says new report
Golden Copy: The Blockchain is Just a Database
Banks are looking into use cases where blockchain has little application
SGX Readies Research Deals to Support New Indexes
The Singapore Exchange is to partner with several research providers as it looks to expand its index services and raise its profile as a custom index calculation engine.
National Bank of Canada Taps TickSmith
The bank is using TickSmith's TickVault program to cope with volumes of quote and trade data that were exceeding the limits of traditional technologies.
Euronext Inks Data Deals with Three Chinese Vendors
The deals will bring Euronext data to more than 100 million Chinese investors in their local language.
Icap Taps OpenFin for Desktop Version of Fusion Data, Trading Portal
Icap is using OpenFin's technology to create a desktop version of its Fusion portal that also allows it to interoperate with other applications and data sources.
Thomson Reuters Releases Power Markets App on Eikon
The new tool will help power companies balance supply and consumption, and help traders plan day-ahead strategies.
RSRCHXchange Adds Dashboard of Research Use, Spend
The new dashboard will help firms understand their research spend and consumption, as well as comply with MiFID 2 requirements.
MayStreet Bows DaaS Packet Capture, Data Processing
The cloud-based service allows clients to convert data from high-precision formats to those used for research and compliance.