Data
Redline Opens Windows to InRush Ticker
Woburn, Mass.-based feed handler and ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions has added support for the Microsoft Windows Server platform to its InRush ticker plant, which previously only ran on the Linux operating system, to open up the vendor's…
EFIS 2014: AXA CIO Says Make IT Costs Transparent to Incentivize Business Lines to Manage Budgets
Financial firms can reduce their IT costs and improve relations between internal teams by adopting a service-based budget and a clear governance model aimed at enhancing staff accountability and incentives, following an example recently implemented at…
EFIS 2014: CDO Role Must Focus on Data Transparency, Panel Says
Making data ownership and costs simple and transparent to business users will result in lower costs and better data quality, and should be a key focus of chief data officers, said a panel of CDOs, who spoke at this week's European Financial Information…
DirectFN Signs Five for Decypha Market Intelligence App
Mizuho, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Riyad Capital──the investment arm of Saudi Arabia's Riyad Bank──and Dubai-based trading firms Tharwa Capital and Al Mal Capital have rolled out Dubai-based data vendor DirectFN's Decypha browser-based market…
NovaSparks Preps Third Gen of FPGA-Based Ticker Plant
French FPGA feed handler and data appliance provider NovaSparks is preparing to launch a new version of its hardware-only NovaTick ticker plant, which will provide users with new features such as exchange recovery, which are typically found in software…
Barchart Adds Analytics to Trader
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart.com has added advanced options analysis and an options strategy builder tool to its Barchart Trader desktop and mobile market data and trading platform for commodity, equity and foreign exchange market…
Allianz Allies with Thomson Reuters for Bond Pricing
German banking and insurance giant Allianz is to use Thomson Reuters' independent pricing service to meet the firm's fixed income pricing data needs around valuation and meeting international accounting standards.
Plunkett Joins WhaleWisdom for BizDev
WhaleWisdom, an aggregator of investor holdings data from 13F, 13D and 13G Edgar filings, recently hired Brent Plunkett as vice president of business development and a partner in the business with founder Daniel Collins, to market and improve the user…
EFIS Live: CDOs on Oversight
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter on the CDO end user panel from the European Financial Information Summit in London on September 16.
ITRS Opens Singapore Office
ITRS Group, a London-based provider of real-time systems monitoring and management technology, announced it has opened an office in Singapore in response to increased customer demand in the region.
Infront Expands Credit Content to Boost Cross-Asset Ambitions
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added corporate bond data and analytics to its Infront Plus market data terminal, in response to increased demand for these instruments following the 2008 financial crisis.
Celoxica Gets £1.5M Funding to Grow Global Presence, Segments
Celoxica, a London-based provider of FPGA-accelerated low-latency data, trading and risk technologies, has raised £1.5 million in funding from Beringea Growth Finance, a private equity firm specializing in asset-based and working capital finance.
FT Taps Morningstar for Print Price Data
The Financial Times has enlisted the UK arm of Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar to supply the price data in the back pages of its daily Companies & Markets section, as part of a new look for the newspaper, starting today,…
Activ Adds Victor Volatilities for Real-Time Risk Analytics
Market data and ticker plant vendor Activ Financial is planning to distribute real-time volatilities on US options from Englewood, New Jersey-based analytics provider Victor Technologies over its market data aggregation and distribution platform, as an…
Markit, Pirum Ink Securities Finance Data Delivery Partnership
Market data provider Markit has expanded the breadth of its securities finance data via a partnership with Pirum, a provider of post-trade securities finance automation tools, which enables mutual clients to access Pirum's end-of-day and intraday trade…
TMX Bows Short Sale Data Report
TMX Datalinx, the market data division of Canadian exchange group TMX, has begun publishing a daily Short Sale Summary that provides a consolidated summary of short selling activity for each security in the S&P/TSX Composite Index trading on the Toronto…
Victory Networks Bows US Feed Handlers
Chicago-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Victory Networks is taking the wraps off a set of low-latency feed handlers for the US equities, futures and equity options markets, dubbed SpeedEdge, which the vendor says will offer an…
Opening Cross: Data Is as Much About Getting Together as Getting It Together!
This week, all eyes will be on London and Inside Market Data’s European Financial Information Summit, which promises its usual array of lively panel discussions and roundtable debates. These events—which IMD holds in key market centers worldwide…
Euronext Ups ’15 Data, Non-Display Fees
European exchange group Euronext has notified customers of changes to its market data licensing agreement, dubbed the Euronext Market Data Dissemination Agreement, including new fees for use and redistribution of real-time and delayed data from its…
TeraExchange Launches USD-Bitcoin Price Index
Registered swap execution facility TeraExchange has created a new spot bitcoin price index, dubbed the Tera Bitcoin Price Index, as part of the launch of a new regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives trading to meet demand from global merchants,…
Canadian LOU Chooses GMEI Utility
CDS Clearing and Depository Services will use DTCC and Swift's Global Markets Entity Identifier utility for legal entity identifier registration
Trendrating Unveils Index Strategy Optimization Module
Swiss momentum ratings and analytics provider Trendrating has added an Index Builder module to its recently launched Momentum Analytics Platform, to support alpha-capture strategies for active fund managers and beta models for index fund managers by…
BvD Ups Bank Compliance Data
Dutch company information provider Bureau van Dijk will this month begin rolling out enhanced features to Bankscope, its database of banks' financial statements, ratings and intelligence, in response to increased customer demand for quick and user…
Questions for EFIS
The upcoming European Financial Information Summit promises to capture the important shifts in data management operations issues that are happening in the industry