Data
SR Labs Buys Wombat Platform from NYSE Tech
New York-based low-latency feed handler and market data platform vendor SR Labs has acquired the Wombat Financial Software platform and associated technologies for an undisclosed sum from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of the New York…
TPI Unveils Aggregated SDR Feed
Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, has rolled out an aggregated feed of interest rate swap data from swap data repositories, in a move to increase pre- and post-trade transparency in accordance with the Dodd…
Scotiabank Hires Childerhose For Data Governance Role
Paul Childerhose, most recently a senior reference data executive at RBC Capital Markets, joined Scotiabank on June 9
Norexeco Exchange Taps Deutsche Börse Platform
Norwegian renewables exchange Norexeco ASA has signed a deal to roll out Deutsche Börse's M7 trading platform for its new forestry and paper industry derivative exchange, which officials say will facilitate "fully transparent" price information and fair…
CQG Adds DJ Calendar Live
Data, analytics and trading platform provider CQG last month incorporated Dow Jones Calendar Live to its Integrated Client flagship data and trading platform, to support real-time trading decisions and longer-term strategy planning based on events and…
The Roberts Group Appoints Matthews CEO; Leitner to Head Advisory Board
Market data inventory and cost management software vendor The Roberts Group has hired former Omgeo chief operating officer Steve Matthews as chief executive, responsible for expanding the company's client base and furthering its product development…
Interactive Data Adds Nasdaq Indexes to BondEdge
Interactive Data's BondEdge Solutions cross-asset portfolio management and risk analytics division has added Nasdaq OMX's Global Index Family to its BondEdge portfolio management platform to enable institutional investors and wealth and asset managers to…
Bloomberg Plugs Fitch Ratings Data into Indexes, Professional Terminal
Bloomberg has incorporated credit ratings from credit ratings and research provider Fitch Ratings into the calculation of a selection of its Global Bond Indexes, to provide a measure of the indexes' credit quality for global institutional investors and…
Mizuho Gains Data Processing Capability and Savings on TimeScape
Mizuho Securities USA, the US broker-dealer arm of the Japanese firm, can sort identifier data better and faster since adopting Xenomorph's TimeScape system in February
Opening Cross: Make the Right Entrance and You Won’t Need a Graceful Exit
The ability to make a graceful exit is a talent I don’t have: ask anyone who’s participated in a fire drill with me. Nor, it seems, does the annual SIFMA technology exhibition, which straggles doggedly on this week, despite a much smaller exhibitor list…
Who’s Who at SIFMA Tech 2014
This year a varied range of new faces from Big Data players to communications and cloud services providers will exhibit at the annual SIFMA Technology exhibition, along with some of the more familiar names in the industry. So if you’re unsure how to…
Brazil’s Anbima Preps Vendor Reference Price Feed
Brazilian self-regulatory authority Anbima, an industry association that governs member trading and investment firms, is preparing to create a datafeed of fixed income price data from Brazilian market participants that will target vendors and…
On The Record: Taking Over Telx
When then-Telx chief executive Eric Shepcaro passed away in 2013, during a critical period in the company's growth, the datacenter provider tapped president and chief financial officer Chris Downie to take over the CEO role first on an interim basis,…
Tocom Taps KVH for CME Data Link
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) has deployed Japanese datacenter and hosting provider KVH's global Ether-WAN network to connect between KVH's TDC1proximity datacenter in Tokyo and CME Group's datacenters in Aurora, Illinois and at 350 East Cermak…
Attention Getters
Around the Toronto Financial Information Summit this week, talk about how to improve data quality and governance included the possibility that a major market blow-up would be required to hasten such efforts
Cordatum Spins Off Recruitment Biz
Market data consultancy Cordatum Associates has spun of its recruitment business to form a new venture, dubbed FMPI Recruitment, allowing Cordatum to focus on market data-specific projects, while devoting more specialist resources to recruitment projects.
Addicticks Adds Scenario Builder to TR Emulator Tool
Dutch market data technology provider Addicticks is developing new functionality for its TRemulator tool, which simulates data from Thomson Reuters sources─namely, the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real Time (TREP-RT), the vendor's Elektron…
Options Adds Velocimetrics Latency, Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated Velocimetrics' monitoring and performance analysis technology with its Velocity low-latency market data and connectivity product.
Toronto FIS: IRD's Editor Shares Highlights
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua notes key themes discussed at the Toronto Financial Information Summit on June 10
Barchart Expands Web Services Data
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart.com has released a number of new web services APIs for commodity futures data via its Barchart OnDemand service, which leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
Decision Near on Inclusion of LEI in Canadian Fixed-Income Data Repository
IIROC, the Canadian self-regulatory organization, is expected to finalize Rule 2800C this summer, which could include the collection of legal entity identifiers in a fixed-income data repository.
Kynetix, Contango Launch EMIR Data Matching Tool
The TRAMS tool compares the unique trade identifiers and other data elements in the records held by trade repositories and market participants to ensure they are consistent
Blaszkowsky Joins State Street
David Blaszkowsky, a data regulation executive at the Office of Financial Research and the US Securities and Exchange Commission in recent years, has been hired as a senior vice president of data governance at State Street