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EESAT Preps Equinix NY4 Datacenter Move for COB Feeds
Chicago-based EESAT, a provider of market data on complex order book trading activity──comprising multi-leg trades between options and other asset classes──is moving its datacenter to Equinix's NY4 facility in Secaucus, NJ, to make it easier for…
Pricing Vet Blance Unveils Voltaire Advisors Valuation Risk Consultancy
Market data and evaluated pricing industry veteran Ian Blance has set up a new London-based company, Voltaire Advisors, to provide consulting services around valuation risk to buy-side clients and the hedge fund administrators, asset servicing firms and…
Thomson Reuters/Aite Survey: Big Data Usage Remains Limited in Capital Markets
Almost 95 percent of financial firms claim to have no experience or knowledge of Big Data, according to a survey of buy-side and sell-side firms by Aite Group on behalf of Thomson Reuters, reflecting relatively slow adoption of Big Data strategies…
JSE Reports Data Revenue Rise
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has reported first-half data revenues of 95.4 million South African rand, a 16 percent increase over the same period last year, on overall group operating revenue of R869 million, itself a 9 percent increase over the…
Platts Expands Chinese Coal Data Deal
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has added two new price assessments for thermal coal in China as a result of expanding an existing agreement with Chinese commodities data provider Shanxi Fenwei Energy Consulting Company.
Consultancy Quanticks Repositions as Order Book Feed Processor
US-based market data consultancy Quanticks Capital Solutions has suspended its existing market data consulting and custom development business and repositioned itself as a provider of a technology platform for consolidating order book data from US…
Options Turns to Morrow for Account Management
Managed data and trading infrastructure provider Options has appointed Stephen Morrow senior vice president and global head of account management, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Aegon AM Unifies Global Data Procurement
Aegon Asset Management, the investment management arm of Netherlands-based multinational life insurance, pensions and asset management company Aegon, is embarking on a project to centralize vendor management, market data and IT procurement across its…
TMX Preps US-Canada Microwave Network with Strike Acquisition
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange operator TMX Group, has bought the StrikeNet low-latency microwave network business of Strike Technologies from parent group, New York-based market maker and trading technology provider Global…
CQG Unveils ‘Stripped' Data, Charting Terminal
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics software vendor CQG has released a new, low-cost market data workstation, dubbed CQG Select, to provide an alternative to more expensive terminal displays for proprietary trading firms facing cost pressures.
HKEx Bows ASP Partner Program
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has set up a program to allow application service providers to establish direct links to HKEx's trading and data systems to provide managed connectivity services to clients, which exchange officials say can lower…
Markit Signs Options to Collaboration Services
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated federation and directory elements of Markit's Collaboration Services──including the Markit Directory "phone book" of validated identity and contact data, and the Federated Chat platform──into…
Rimes Adds Dow Jones Commodity Index
Benchmark index and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has added Dow Jones' Commodity Index series to its Benchmark Data Service, providing buy-side clients with processed and validated access to the data.
Thomson Reuters Debuts ‘Watchlist Pulse' Buy-Side Insight App
Thomson Reuters has unveiled Watchlist Pulse, an application within the vendor's Eikon data workstation aimed at providing buy-side professionals with a series of easy-to-understand scores for companies in their portfolios, which allow users to quickly…
Recognia Hires TD e-Trading Vet Harvie
Ottawa, Canada-based technical analysis software vendor Recognia recently hired Jeff Harvie as vice president of global sales, responsible for growing the vendor's reach worldwide and setting strategy for its sales organization.
Opening Cross: Enterprise Messaging to Enterprise Management—It’s About Broadening Appeal
Pity my colleagues in London: Last Tuesday, workmen severed an ISDN cable in the street outside our office, cutting off all internet, phone, email and server access. Then on Wednesday, an explosion at an adjacent power sub-station forced a building…
NYSE Outlines XDP Feed Migration Roadmap
NYSE Global Market Data, the market data arm of the New York Stock Exchange, has notified clients that it is migrating its NYSE and NYSE MKT best bid and offer datafeeds to its proprietary Exchange Data Publisher (XDP) format, as part of an ongoing…
OTCGH Targets International Traders with Crude Oil Data Product
EOX Holdings, the data arm of over-the-counter energy and commodities interdealer broker consortium OTC Global Holdings, is expanding its market data sales team and will launch new data products covering international crude oil markets in the coming…
Dow Jones Rebrands, Reorgs ‘Institutional’ Biz
Following a review of its Institutional Business strategy after the departure of former chief executive Lex Fenwick, Dow Jones has rebranded the division “Professional Information Business,” and has combined its previously-separate Consumer and…
Thomson Reuters Draws Drew for Platform Services
Thomson Reuters has hired Jeff Drew as enterprise proposition manager, responsible for strategy for its platform transactions business, supporting the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and Elektron Managed Services propositions.
Infront, Infinancials Consolidate on FactSet Equities Data
Norwegian market data vendor Infront and French fundamental data and analytics vendor Infinancials, in which Infront holds a majority ownership stake, have extended an existing agreement with data vendor FactSet Research Systems to expand both vendors'…
Thomson Reuters Adds Platts Data to DataScope
Thomson Reuters has added commodities market data from McGraw-Hill Financial-owned commodities and energy data provider Platts to its DataScope Select product to provide clients with increased transparency to support valuations, risk management and…
GoldenSource Hires Hulse For EMEA Role
Stephen Hulse, a financial technology sales executive who has worked for NYSE Technologies and Thomson Financial, joins the EDM provider in London
Jefferies Joins Markit Collaboration Services Messaging Network
Investment bank Jefferies has joined Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative developed by data vendor Markit that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.