Data
FTSE TMX JV Buys MTS Indexes
FTSE TMX Global Debt Capital Markets--a joint venture between FTSE Group and TMX Datalinx, the information services division of Canadian exchange TMX Group--has bought the indexes business of MTS, the London Stock Exchange-majority owned electronic fixed…
Direct FX Taps First Derivatives to Deliver FX Rates, Trading to CQG Clients
Australian foreign exchange broker Direct FX is rolling out Newry, Northern Ireland-based software and consulting services First Derivatives' Delta Flow product to provide FX rates and order management capabilities to clients of US market data and…
Software AG Develops Data-Driven Market Surveillance Tool
Enterprise management and analytics software provider Software AG is launching a new market surveillance tool as part of its suite of data, integration and process platforms, to enable financial firms to monitor market activity and identify manipulative…
Quality's Governing Principles
Data governance efforts, in early stages for many firms, require navigation of the divide between business and IT units, as well as cost, data quality and value concerns. Michael Shashoua reports on a discussion held during a March 6 webcast
Not the Home Stretch
The data management demands facing the industry continue to expand, and the plans and systems available or being devised to deal with them need to grow at the same rate, as ISITC's chair observed at its recent annual conference.
Metamako Updates MetaConnect Switch, Touts STAC Stats
Startup Australian low-latency technology provider Metamako has made a number of updates to its MetaConnect switch, to make it easier for exchanges and high-frequency trading firms to manage the switch in an enterprise environment.
Can Alternative Providers Disrupt Index Inertia?
Though there are almost a hundred mainstream index providers in the industry today, the market remains dominated by a small and elite group of providers—MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Russell Indexes and FTSE Group. With the industry clamoring for change…
Crowd Control
Crowd computing is an operating model that brings together freelance workers, subject matter experts and automation tools. For data vendors, it could be a cost effective way to expand their content and harness big data, writes Nicholas Hamilton
Pico Buys SpryWare for Data Tools; Preps Integration, International Expansion
New York-based agency broker and trading infrastructure provider Pico Quantitative Trading has acquired Chicago-based ticker plant, feed handler and historical data store vendor SpryWare, in a move to strengthen its data technology assets and expand its…
Emerging Markets News, Data Vendors BNE, EMD to Merge
BNE, a provider of English-language business, economics and political news and analysis covering central, eastern and southeast Europe and former Soviet Union countries, is to merge with central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa news and…
Recommind Automates Extraction, Display of OTC Contract Data
Perceptiv Derivatives Contract Analysis is intended to replace the often manual processes used to extract data from over-the-counter derivatives contracts, so they can fully understand the agreements and comply with new regulations
MarketPrizm Taps BT Vet Man for Asia Sales
Veteran data and financial network executive Richard Man joined Colt-owned trading and data infrastructure provider MarketPrizm in March as head of sales for the Asia-Pacific region.
Polaris Buys Majority Stake in The Roberts Group
Waltham, Mass.-based venture capital firm Polaris Partners has acquired a controlling stake in market data inventory software provider The Roberts Group (TRG) to enable the company to reduce the lead time for new services and products as well as expand…
Bloomberg Buys UBS Aussie Bond Indexes
After 25 years of calculating a family of Australian bond indexes, Swiss investment bank UBS has sold the indexes─including the benchmark UBS Composite Bond Index─to data giant Bloomberg.
FWI Taps MDSL for Market Data Management
Fidelity Worldwide Investment, the non-US asset management spinoff from Fidelity Management and Research, has selected market data usage and contract management software vendor MDSL's Market Data Manager (MDM) inventory management platform to improve the…
MarketPrizm, Fusion Ally for Asia Managed Low-Latency Data
London-based market data and trading infrastructure services provider MarketPrizm is partnering with Hong Kong-headquartered technology vendor Fusion Systems to offer a joint low-latency trading gateway and risk management solution for Fusion's clients…
Nasdaq, Chaikin Ally for Alpha-Enhanced Indexes
Philadelphia-based investment analytics provider Chaikin Analytics has partnered with Nasdaq OMX to develop three new equal-weighted US equity indexes that are designed to outperform their respective benchmarks.
Rimes Swipes Swinhoe for Canada Sales
Benchmark managed data provider Rimes Technologies has opened a Toronto office and has hired Paul Swinhoe as a sales manager in Canada to support the vendor's efforts in the country.
Markit Readies Swaps Identification for September Launch
Markit plans to expand its RED codes to handle reference requirements set by ISDA for credit default swaps, in an effort to better support the credit event process.
Rimes Welcomes Swinhoe to New Toronto Office
Paul Swinhoe, a business development executive with middle-office and market data experience at several service providers, has joined Rimes Technologies as sales manager in the company's new Toronto office
Nasdaq Adopts SevOne Latency Performance Monitoring
Nasdaq OMX will roll out Wilmington, Del.-based network performance monitoring provider SevOne's platform to monitor its datacenters and low-latency networks in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
DTCC Adds Four to Board
Executives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs join the 20-member board of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
iMeta Adds Credit and Legal Functions to Entity Data Platform
A new module providing legal and credit information now sits alongside the know-your-customer and standing settlement instruction data functionality of iMeta's Assassin platform