Data
Metamako Taps Covington to Drive European Expansion
Metamako, an Australian provider of low-latency switch appliances for high-frequency trading, has enlisted data industry veteran Kevin Covington to set up a European infrastructure to support an expansion of its business into the region.
Opening Cross: Will Cost Concerns Neuter Future Litters of CATs?
Belgian beer-maker Stella Artois’ long-running “Reassuringly Expensive” ad probably didn’t win fans among market data managers, who continue to shudder at the thought of any kind of cost increase.
CTA, UTP Revisit Consolidated Tape Fees
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) and the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan, which together oversee the collection and distribution of the consolidated tapes of quote and trade data for US equity markets, have proposed new fee policies for the…
Lucena Enables Trading from Analytics via Interactive Brokers Integration
Atlanta, Ga.-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research is integrating direct trading capabilities from US brokerage firm Interactive Brokers into the vendor’s QuantDesk predictive analytics platform, to enable joint customers among…
CDO Advocacy and Influence
Chief data officers, now more established at their firms throughout the industry, are weighing in on how to pursue higher data quality by several means. Will they address the legal entity identifier next?
Kx Names Quill Global Head, Sales Engineering
Tick database provider Kx Systems has promoted Fintan Quill from senior engineer to global head of sales engineering, expanding his prior role beyond just North America and to cover more technical sales and support the vendor's push into new industries,…
Post-Launch and Funding, Vetr Eyes Institutional Clients for Crowd-Sourced Ratings
Crowd-sourced stock ratings provider Vetr has completed the second stage of a $1 million investment round, and is now focusing on attracting more users and contributors to its portal, to make its content more appealing to institutional traders and hedge…
WorkFusion's ‘Automation Notification' Boosts Data Extraction Options
New York-based software-as-a-service vendor WorkFusion has launched new "automation recommendation" functionality on its WorkFusion data extraction platform to automatically notify customers when the software is able to automate data extraction processes…
LEI Benefits Emerge As Implementation Progresses
The legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative is gaining strength with recognizable data quality benefits, greater awareness and participation, and more complete standards guidelines. Michael Shashoua reports on how all these developments are coming…
Centralizing Data Improves Oversight, CDOs Say
Centralization of data, as part of a chief data officer's management initiatives, can reduce costs and address excess complexity created by fragmented firm structures, according to industry executives at the European Financial Information Summit
Are Firms Ready for Fatca 2.0?
Financial institutions who have prepared to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) still must ensure they are remaining flexible to deal with the Fatca-inspired automatic exchange of financial information between countries. Joanna…
MDSL Taps Ex-Deutsche Bank Data Exec DeMaio as COO
UK-based cost and inventory management software vendor MDSL has hired Lou DeMaio, former global head of market data service delivery at Deutsche Bank, as Americas chief operating officer to spearhead growth of the vendor's MDX (Market Data Expert)…
eClerx Launches KYC Solution
Knowing your customer is a major priority for firms in an age of strict regulation and massive fines, says eClerx principal Alan Paris.
ITRS Adds Bloomberg B-Pipe Monitoring to Geneos
ITRS Group, a provider of performance monitoring technology for real-time systems, has launched an interface that provides monitoring support for customers of Bloomberg's B-Pipe real-time market data feed within ITRS' Geneos monitoring platform via a new…
BATS Pushes MMT for BXTR Reporting
Pan-European equity exchange BATS Chi-X Europe has made the Market Model Typology a key component of its BXTR trade reporting service, to help boost market transparency and contribute to creating the underlying conditions to support a European…
ISO Committee Proposes LEI Form Standard
Members of the ISO Technical Committee for Financial Services (ISO/TC 68) will vote during early December on whether to develop a new standard for Entity Legal Forms
YCharts Preps Unstructured Company IR Datasets for Screening, Research
Chicago-based fundamental analysis provider YCharts has begun collecting, parsing and tagging information from investor relations websites to provide traders with more idea generation and stock-screening tools that leverage unstructured and text-based…
NY Fed: Capital Markets Must Be More Wary of Data Cyber Threats
Capital markets firms must take more steps to protect sensitive information and market data from cyber-terrorists intent on stealing and reselling valuable data, including carefully guarding their internal data architectures and external providers,…
CounterpartyLink Chooses Datactics For Data Matching
The data quality and matching software provider Datactics will supply its FlowDesigner matching and research product to the legal entity data source
UBS Aligns Managed Services For Consistency
UBS’s London operations director Simon Feddo speaks with Michael Shashoua about how the firm has managed and succeeded in making improvements to know-your-customer and onboarding-related data
Re-Shaping Corporate Actions Through Big Data, Back Office and Automation
Regulatory and front-office demands are creating a need for corporate actions services that can handle greater complexity. Will Dolan of Fidelity ActionsXchange describes how back-office, big data and automation efforts can address that demand
RepRisk Rolls Out Country-Sector Risk Matrix
Zurich-based environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk data provider RepRisk has rolled out a new matrix that tracks ESG risk by combining country- and sector-level analysis in response to increased customer demand for more granular data, officials…
Recognia Unveils Options Analytics
Ottawa-based technical analysis software vendor Recognia has unveiled a technical analysis tool for options trading, dubbed Options Ideas, to help brokers educate equities trading clients on options strategies.