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Belzberg Founders Hatch Twitter Analysis Tool
Infinigon Group, the social media analytics startup created by Belzberg Technologies founders Sid and Alicia Belzberg, is beginning to roll out its financial markets-focused Echo service that monitors Twitter activity to identify price-impacting…
Swift Unveils Revamped Payments Reference Data Tool
International payments utility Swift has unveiled a new version of its Bankers World Online directory─part of its SwiftRef payments reference data suite─that now includes broader coverage and datasets, such as Business Identification Codes (BICs),…
SIX Exchange Bows New Index Data
The SIX Swiss Exchange is to roll out real-time, delayed and historical data on a new index that tracks the 20 stocks from its Swiss Performance index with the highest dividend payments and profitability.
Shanghai Exchange to Distribute Deutsche Börse Data in China
Under a new partnership between Deutsche Börse and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), SSE will license and distribute Deutsche Börse's market data in mainland China through its subsidiary China Investment Information Services.
Fincad Bows F3 Valuation, Analytics Platform
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad has rolled out its F3 platform for enterprise valuation and risk analytics, which provides views of risk, margin and collateral requirements across an enterprise,…
Tradier Gets $3M Funding to Expand API, Developer Base
Cloud-based brokerage platform and supporting data, trading and analytics application hosting environment provider Tradier has raised $3 million in new funding from Devonshire Investors-the private investment arm of Fidelity Investments' owners, the…
Quincy Extends Microwave Data Service to Europe
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency microwave connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data service into Europe, to provide automated trading firms in London and Frankfurt with low-latency futures market data from…
FTSE-TMX Index JV Preps LatAm Indexes
FTSE TMS Global Debt Capital Markets, the index joint venture between London Stock Exchange-owned index provider FTSE and Canadian exchange group TMX, is preparing to launch a family of Latin American indexes, in partnership with Mexico-based pricing…
Direct Edge Expands Attributed Quote Program
BATS Global Markets' Direct Edge Exchange is expanding its attributed trading program to allow participating firms to show their order flow as being comprised of retail orders, rather than revealing their identity.
Data Vet Richards Starts New Advisory Firm
Data industry veteran Dale Richards has founded Island 20 Ventures, a Toronto-based advisory firm specializing in financial markets technology, including information products, Big Data, analytics and data management.
Nasdaq Bows Managed Reporting, New Fees for BONO, ITTO Options Data
Nasdaq OMX has introduced a new distribution option and accompanying fees for data from its Nasdaq Options Market's Best of Nasdaq Options (BONO) and ITCH to Trade Options (ITTO) feeds that allows distributor firms to redistribute the data to consumer…
Ex-First Derivatives' Richards Starts Advisory Firm
Dale Richards, previously a data management executive and strategist at First Derivatives, has founded Island 20 Ventures, based in Toronto
ICBC Financial Services Uses XSP to Adopt ISO 20022
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services is now using the XSPrisa software from SunGard's XSP business to process corporate actions in ISO 20022, rather than using the DTCC's CCF files
xCelor Adds FPGA Filtering, ‘Muxing’ to Single-Digit Nanosecond Switch
Chicago-based low-latency switch and data technology provider xCelor has released a new version of its XPM switch series, XPM², that allows users to run their own applications on the switch itself, and adds features for filtering incoming multicast…
Nasdaq Increases UTP Tape SIP Capacity
Nasdaq OMX, operator of the Securities Information Processor (SIP) for the consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Nasdaq-listed stocks—known as Tape C, or the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan—has announced that it will increase the bandwidth…
Bayes Analytic Preps Price Prediction Engine
Bainbridge Island WA-based startup Bayes Analytic is preparing to launch a new stock analysis and trading recommendation engine that leverages advanced trading algorithms and machine learning to predict future price movements based on past trading…
Estimize Hires Product, Design Heads
Estimize, a New York-based provider of crowd-sourced earnings estimates and mergers and acquisitions predictions, recently hired Josh Dulberger as head of product and analytics, and Cynthia Koo as head of design, to support the creation of its new…
Finding A Key For Data Quality
In the field of standing settlement instructions, Omgeo appears to have found a way to improve upon data quality by opening sourcing and access to its database
Quartet FS Taps ‘Many-Core' Processors to Boost for ActivePivot V5
In-memory analytics technology provider Quartet FS is planning to roll out version 5 of its ActivePivot data aggregation and analytics platform in June, which features improved microprocessor technology that will make the platform 10 times faster,…
Seeking Alpha Mulls Breaking Out Research Platform into Separate Subscriptions
Financial news, analysis and transcript website Seeking Alpha is considering spinning off components of its investment research platform into standalone products in order to reach a broader audience of hedge funds, investment advisors and retail traders.
Cordatum Appointed Sales Agent for Financial Machineries' Trade Data Analytics
Cordatum Associates, a London-based consultancy providing advisory services around market data sales and procurement to content providers has signed a global sales agreement to act as sales agent for Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics…
ISI Emerging Markets Rebrands as EMIS
Emerging markets data provider ISI Emerging Markets has changed its name to EMIS in a bid to simplify its branding and reflect its data product brands.