Data
Vulpes Uses Markit to Consolidate Valuation, Risk Infrastructure
Vulpes Investment Management is using Markit's Portfolio Valuations service to reduce the number of vendors it relies on for valuations, risk and scenario analysis from five to two
Opening Cross: What’s the Most Important Tool in Your Box?
The most useful article in my toolbox isn’t a wrench or a multi-tool: it’s a magic potion originally invented to support the space program, known today simply as WD40. Though its inventors may not have envisaged it becoming a household name, the spray…
Open Platform: Weathering the Perfect Storm of Cost, Complexity and Regulation
As the importance of data rises, so does the attention paid by regulators to how it is managed, increasing the data management burden on buy-side firms and prompting them to consider new models, such as managed services, says Steve Cheng, global head of…
Trillium Adapts Surveyor to Spot HFT Gaming
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading, has diversified the potential uses of its Surveyor tool for identifying potential market manipulation, and is positioning it for use by buy-side…
Personnel Choices
Managing resources is increasingly being seen as an important part of efforts to improve data quality and consistency. This will require unorthodox and creative approaches to organizing and deploying data staff
LEI Common File Format Published
Adoption of a common file format for pre-legal entity identifiers is intended to reduce the likelihood of duplicate records and incorrect data, and to make it easier to integrate data from different pre-local operating units
Linedata Adds Fatca Tax Withholding, AML Upgrades
Linedata's Mshare transfer agency software can now be used to automate the withholding of a 30% tax on US-sourced income to individuals and entities that are not compliant with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
Macquarie Adopts FISD Data Certification
Australian bank Macquarie has begun implementing industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification program for its market data staff, in response to requests from the bank's data team for a training and…
Exchanges, FINRA Inch Closer to CAT Plan
US self-regulatory organizations including the US exchanges and regulator FINRA are preparing to narrow down the list of candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations…
Agencia Estado Adds Content, Capabilities to Broadcast+ Terminal
Brazilian data vendor Agencia Estado has added new content and functionality to its Broadcast+ data and news terminal that the vendor soft launched last year, leveraging a completely redesigned underlying technology architecture.
Industry Firms Consult on CAT NMS Plan Response
As self-regulatory organizations evaluate bids to become the Consolidated Audit Trail processor, the Development Advisory Group of industry firms and organizations will offer input on related time stamping and manual order issues
BlueMatrix Preps Research Datacenter, Tech Revamp
Research generation and distribution platform provider BlueMatrix is migrating to a new datacenter in the New York metro area in a bid to increase performance, reliability, capacity and service quality, officials say.
SunGard Adds Real-Time, Cross-Asset Risk Capability to Front Arena
Front Arena Cross-Asset Risk is intended to help brokers and futures commission merchants reduce costs and improve efficiency by replacing the multiple risk systems many of them rely on today
Options Boosts US Co-Lo Coverage with NYSE Mahwah
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has completed the expansion of its Velocity hosting platform into NYSE Euronext's datacenter in Mahwah, NJ, in a move to provide clients with co-location services for all US equity and…
Corporate Actions special report
June 2014 -- sponsored by Fidelity ActionsXchange, SIX Financial Information and WorkFusion
Pricing special report
June 2014 -- sponsored by AIM Software and Thomson Reuters
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…