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2014 Review: ESMA Weighs in on EU Consolidated Tape; Details TBC
While 2014 saw European regulators take important steps towards making a pan-European consolidated tape a reality, market data professionals are still waiting for the crucial details that will shape its implementation.
2014 Review: In US, Consolidated Tape Saga Comes Full Circle
While Europe has yet to establish a consolidated tape, the US market spent 2014 pushing through changes to make its own tapes more resilient to market outages following a series of glitches last year. However, the path towards change was not smooth.
2014 Review: Industry Finds Ways to Derive Value from the Crowd
New datasets created using crowd-sourcing continued to grow in 2014, with new players entering the market with propositions to solicit crowd-sourced investor predictions that could provide leading indicators of market movements to institutional traders.
2014 Review: Cloud Makes Crucial Gains, Despite FinQloud Exit
The financial data industry continued to pursue cloud adoption in 2014 to achieve IT cost efficiencies and manage rising volumes of data, despite one of the key financial cloud players pulling out of the business.
2014 Review: As Volumes Intensify, Data Search Tools Get Smart
According to Interactive Data’s chief information officer Alex Goor, speaking at Inside Market Data’s Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference, about 90 percent of current data levels were created within the last two years. In the financial sector,…
2014 Review: Herd in Review: Bloomberg’s Back, and So Are Other Data Vets
January: Norwegian vendor Infront named Urs Rutschmann chief operating officer. Rutschmann was previously COO of Swedish trading systems vendor Tbricks. Fidessa promoted Emily Thomas to global head of new business sales, and hired Phil Jeffrey—former…
DelphX Plans Expansion, Data on Quandl
Bond trading venue operator DelphX plans to expand its Mav=n (Market-Adjusted Value per congruent Nexus) pricing service, to provide users with fair value prices for SEC Rule 144A private placements, asset-backed and mortgage backed securities, and…
Opening Cross: Rudy the High-Speed Trader
Max presents a festive Christmas column for your entertainment
Fincad Preps Upgrades, Install Boost in ’15
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad will roll out new functionality in 2015 to facilitate faster implementations of its F3 enterprise valuation and risk analytics platform.
Desirability Of Data Management Strategies
Chasing greater insights through combinations of sources is proving more attractive than cost-cutting
Visual Trader Readies HTML5 Terminal, Updated Risk Control Tool
New workstation interface will make it easier for users to access Visual Trader's data via multiple methods.
StatPro Adds Benchmark, Equity Valuation Pages to Revolution
Portfolio and data analytics provider StatPro has rolled out a December update to its Revolution data desktop, which includes upgraded benchmark pages, and new equity valuation and currency overlay pages.
EDM Council Releases FIBO Process
Implementation guidelines backed by Bloomberg, Wells Fargo
BCBS Revises Basel III Guidelines
Regulatory body changes hierarchy of ratings considerations
Swift’s KYC Registry Goes Live
Central Utility Lets Firms Retain Data Ownership
4Cast Founder Park Sets up Consultancy
Rowland Park, founder of London-based real-time analysis and research vendor 4Cast, has left the company to set up a consulting firm, Park Horizon, focusing on providing strategic consulting services to startup software companies.
CJC Expands Managed Services Offering
Cleint demand for managed services drives CJC to build out development team
Panel: Firms Must Tap Talent to Exploit More Value from Regulatory Datasets
Waters USA panel says firms can wring more value from regulation-mandatated data
Waters USA Panel: Traders, Vendors Eye Convergence of Latency, Analytics
Panel says it's not just how fast you are, but what you can analyze that fast that counts
Options Takes Space in Equinix Tokyo Co-Lo Center
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has expanded into Equinix's TY3 datacenter in Tokyo to provide co-location services and access to global foreign exchange markets in response to increased customer demand.
BME to Open New London PoP
Spanish exchange Bolsas y Mercados Españoles is to open a third point of access in London through its technology subsidiary Visual Trader, to allow investors to connect to its electronic equity and derivatives markets with a latency of 11.3 milliseconds.
BMO Bows Xignite Data Distribution Platform
Canada's BMO Financial Group has rolled out San Mateo-based web services data provider Xignite's cloud-based Enterprise data distribution platform for centralizing and distributing vendor market and reference data.
Morgan Stanley Plans Data Improvements
Firm Addressing Governance and Quality, Executive Says
Redline Taps Chen to Drive Product Development
Former Broadridge, Thomson Financial exec joins ticker plant vendor