Data
Fidessa Adds Alliance News to UK Broker Offering
Data and trading technology vendor Fidessa has added Alliance News to its service for UK broker clients, in response to customer demand for new content.
SR Labs Taps Lava Founder for CEO, Post-Wombat Buy
New York-based low-latency data platform and feed handler provider SR Labs has appointed veteran technology industry executive Richard Korhammer as chief executive, following its recent acquisition of the Wombat data platform business from…
Managing Data Supply Chains For Golden Copy
Shoring up the components of the data supply chain is proving key to producing golden copy data. This can mean standardization and centralization, or the careful federation and linking of operations tasks, as Michael Shashoua reports
LuxCSD Goes Live with LEI Registrations
The Luxembourg securities repository has launched its legal entity identifier service, powered by the DTCC
Interactive Data Lures Vendor Vets Babarinde, Burtsal for EMEA Sales
Interactive Data has hired data industry veterans Olakunle Babarinde and Richard Burtsal as head of sales for real-time feeds and 7Ticks EMEA, and sales manager for trading solutions, respectively.
ITB Unveils New Data Display in Updated Trading Interface
ITB, a New York-based provider of fixed income liquidity aggregation and trading software, has rolled out a new trading interface with enhanced data displays geared towards better serving the data requirements of institutional bond traders and creating…
EEX Switches on Power Transparency Data Site
Leipzig, Germany-based European Energy Exchange has rolled out a new website, eex-transparency.com, to provide users with access to fundamental data and information on wholesale energy trading, in response to new requirements derived from the Regulation…
Justifying the CDO's Role
Chief data officers are more likely to be found at larger firms because of the demands created by the size of their data, writes Citisoft CEO Steve Young writes
Thomson Reuters Debuts European ESG Indexes
Thomson Reuters has rolled out a new suite of indexes that measure environmental, social and corporate governance practices of European companies, in an effort to expand its existing ESG indexes and index data offering.
Fenergo and BMO Continue Compliance Partnership
Software provider Fenergo and Bank of Montreal Capital Markets (BMO) are preparing to launch phase two of their onboarding project, designed to meet regulatory deadlines in July.
Opening Cross: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks... But New Tricks Still Need Old Dogs
It takes a certain blend of skills to combine the experience that comes with age and the dynamism of youth. For eternity, mankind has tried both to put old heads on young shoulders, and find ways to teach old dogs new tricks and recapture the energy and…
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
Supply Chain Fundamentals
Before aspiring to innovate in data management with the cloud or big data, firms would do well to examine their data supply chains, the basic resource that supports golden copy
Morningstar iPad App Ups Content, Capabilities
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar recently updated its Morningstar for iPad research, market monitoring and portfolio management app with new content and capabilities.
Interactive Data Makes Evaluated Pricing Continuous
The data services provider adds updated evaluations with continuous fixed-income evaluated-pricing service
Dagens Industri Taps Finwire for Swedish News, ‘Social' Content
Swedish daily financial news site and newspaper Dagens Industri has signed an agreement with Swedish news provider Finwire to distribute the vendor's small-cap Swedish company news and curated content from social media streams about global events,…
IDC Expands Real-Time Bond Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has expanded its continuous fixed income evaluated pricing service to provide users with real-time evaluated prices for US Treasury, agency and corporate bonds, TBA mortgage-backed securities, and mortgage-backed securities pass-through…
Mergent Adds Barchart Commodity Yearbook to Historical Document Archive
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart's Commodity Research Bureau division has made the 75-year archive of its CRB Commodity Yearbook available via company data provider Mergent's Mergent Archives, an online database of more than 180,000 indexed corporate…
Thomson Reuters Wins Taipei IBOR Benchmark Calculation Role
The Taipei Foreign Exchange Market Development Foundation has named Thomson Reuters the calculation agent for its CNT TAIBOR offshore renminbi benchmark, the Taipei Interbank Offered Rate.
Wipro Makes Impact With Collective Knowledge Service
Impact Accelerated Client Transformation (ImpACT) has saved customers $15 million in costs over four months through collectively developed data-management and processing improvements
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Datacenter
CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the former Savvis hosting and network business subsidiary acquired by internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink, has opened a new datacenter in Markham, Toronto.