Data
Empirasign Unveils Enterprise Data Integration Platform
New York-based Empirasign Strategies, a provider of fixed income dealer offerings and trade color, has unveiled a new integration platform, dubbed Empirasign Enterprise, that allows users to combine data from their internal databases with Empirasign’s…
New Constructs Revises Mutual Fund, ETF Rankings
New Constructs, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of independent research and stock recommendations based on analysis of footnotes in financial statements, has revamped the way it rates mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to deliver more value to…
ESMA Selects Data Advisers
Pan-European regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has named the 20 members of a market data consultative group charged with advising the watchdog on potential data complications stemming from the overlap of two recent pan…
BCBS 239 Wasn't The Start of Risk Data Aggregation
Experienced data executives consider whether BCBS 239 risk data aggregation guidelines have an unrealistic deadline or are behind what the industry already has ready for compliance
JSE Maps Out Derivatives Data Migration
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) plans to start delivering derivatives market data to London-based trading firms via its point-of-presence at Equinix's LD4 datacenter in Slough within the next two to three years, as part of its ongoing migration to…
Tradier Offers Discounted MotiveWave Analytics Access
Cloud-based brokerage platform Tradier is offering clients access to analytics provider MotiveWave's tools at discounted rates or free of charge, depending on the level of trading they conduct via the platform.
Scivantage Integrates TickSmith Tick Data
Online brokerage technology provider Scivantage has incorporated Montreal-based startup tick data provider TickSmith Corp.'s historical intraday and end-of-day tick data into its Scivantage Investor brokerage platform to provide its clients with…
Burton-Taylor Seeks to Grow Survey Sample for Industry Report
Data consultancy and industry research firm Burton-Taylor International Consulting has opened the survey period for its annual report, which details industry spending growth on data services by region and job function, and is urging more firms to…
Industry Participants Asked for Views on Demand for Data
Burton-Taylor International Consulting is asking industry participants to take part in its annual survey of demand for financial data, which has previously highlighted growing requirements for pricing and reference data
Nasdaq OMX Adopts Bloomberg Open Symbology
Nasdaq OMX says incorporation of Bloomberg's security identifiers into its market data feed will improve transparency and help clients to streamline data integration
Eagle Alpha Bows Social Data ‘Influencer' Lists for Quant Traders
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has released Quant Offering, a stream of posts from targeted subject lists of around 10,000 individuals on Twitter that the vendor has deemed market-moving influencers, which it says will boost the…
HFN Wireless Network Halves Latency Between NJ2, NY4 Datacenters
Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) has gone live with a new radio frequency (RF) wireless route between two key datacenter locations in New Jersey, halving the latency of HFN's previous fiber-only routes between the facilities.
Tsianaxis Joins Accenture
Vangelis Tsianaxis, who has worked on identifier, financial crime and risk issues at Deloitte and Citi, has joined the consulting firm
Interactive Data Names Lauterbach President, Managed Solutions
Market data vendor Interactive Data has hired Joachim Lauterbach as president, global head and chairman of the board of Interactive Data Managed Solutions (IDMS).
Markit Launches Loan Covenant Interface
The Markit Loan Covenant Library is intended to support better analysis of loan covenant data, and is expected to grow to cover 6,000 covenants by the third quarter of the year.
Nasdaq, MasterCard Ally for Distribution Deal
Nasdaq OMX has signed a distribution deal with MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of multinational financial services corporation MasterCard, to redistribute MasterCard's macro-economic reports on global retail sales activity through its…
Celent: Market Data Providers to Offer More Infrastructure Capabilities, Real-Time Analytics
After a decade of heavy investment in low-latency infrastructure technologies, firms are now looking to lessen their spend and focus their budgets on enhancing those infrastructures to better deliver data and to provide real-time analytics, according to…
AIM Commits to Three-Month, Fixed-Price Implementations
The enterprise data management software vendor says it is addressing concerns in the industry about expensive, drawn-out implementations by committing to implement its pricing and corporate actions application in three months for a fixed, pre-negotiated…
SunGard Launches Risk Reporting Service for Hedge Funds
SunGard's new managed service validates the data it receives from hedge funds against its risk model database and produces standard and customized risk reports overnight
Hanweck Associates Adds European, Asian Markets to Analytics Feed, Historical Database
Options analytics provider Hanweck Associates is expanding the global coverage of its VoleraFeed real-time datafeed of implied volatilities and Greek values for options on equities, indexes and futures, as well as its hosted tick database of historical…
Infront Enhances Navigation Options in Data Terminal
Norwegian data vendor Infront has released version 6 of its market data terminal in an effort to provide its buy- and sell-side clients with more effective search functionality and an easier-to-navigate platform, officials say.
Hanweck Taps NYSE Euronext's Watson for Sales Role
New York-based options analytics provider Hanweck Associates has hired Thomas Watson as head of sales.
Xenomorph Readies Marketplace of Third-Party Data Services
UK-based data management and analytics software provider Xenomorph is rolling out a portal of APIs and connectivity tools that will enable data consumers to access Web Services-based data sources for use in their internal applications or the vendor's…