Data
Markit Taps SMA for Social Media Sentiment Indicators
Markit has integrated social media sentiment indicators from Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois.-based provider of social media-based analytics and trading indicators, into its Markit Research Signals suite of more than 400 investment…
Perseus Bakes Low-Latency London Microwave Network
New York-based fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom has built a series of wireless microwave networks connecting key datacenters in and around London to provide market makers and latency-sensitive traders with ultra-low latency…
Nasdaq Extends New Feed Tests
Nasdaq OMX has delayed the end of beta testing for a suite of enhanced datafeeds by two weeks to ensure direct feed subscribers have adequate time to test the new versions.
Thomson Reuters Adds Oil Supply Flows Data to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added a new tool to its Eikon desktop to enable commodity traders and investors to track the global movement of oil assets in real time and forecast the impact of supply and demand on market prices.
New OpenCorporates API Includes Access to Corporate Network Data
The new application programming interface gives users of the database of corporate entity data access to the US Federal Reserve's hierarchy data on bank holding companies and other new information
McKay Offers Three-Month, No-Obligation Microwave Contract
Oakland, Calif.-based microwave connectivity provider McKay Brothers has established a new market data service that makes it easy for traders to test its service over a three-month period, in response to an increase in the number of firms expressing…
Exchanges See Data Revenues Rise
Exchanges continue to report increases in market data revenues in their financial results, following a raft of similarly largely positive results in recent weeks (IMD, Feb. 17)—though, post-financial crisis, Latin America and Asia are no longer…
Tradition Revamps Forward Swaps Data; Preps ParFX Data Offering, HFT Neutralizer
Interdealer broker Tradition has launched a new data service that combines executable price data from Trad-X—the interest-rate swap trading platform run by Tradition in partnership with 12 investment banks that covers 250 of the most liquid interest-rate…
Maple Leaves HFT Co-Lo for SpryWare Cloud
A proprietary trading group at Maple Securities USA, the US subsidiary of Canada’s Maple Financial Group, is finalizing a migration from direct exchange feeds and an in-house co-location operation to a managed market data infrastructure run by Chicago…
Startup Arialytics Exits Platform Sales, Re-Positions as Data Vendor; Nests with RavenPack
Rye, NY-based analytics startup Arialytics has repositioned its offering over the last six months to now solely sell predictive indicators generated by its Aria cross-asset-class predictive analytics platform─which the vendor unveiled last May─rather…
Rewiring the Data Management Brain
Crowdsourcing elements of reference data production, if done right, can elevate the quality of that data, as a newer service provider in the space asserts
Roberts Group Adds Bloomberg Price List Processing Utility to New FITS Release
New York-based data inventory and cost management software provider The Roberts Group has rolled out version 3.61 of its FITS (Financial Information Tracking System) market data inventory management platform, which includes a new tool for automating pre…
Options Opens West End London Support, Sales Office
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has opened a new office in London's West End district─in addition to its existing base in Wimbledon, in southwest London─to better support customers located in central London.
Datacom Expands TradeView Monitoring Appliance
East Syracuse, New York hardware switch vendor Datacom Systems has released version 1.6 of its FPGA-accelerated TradeView appliance for monitoring multicast gap, traffic and microbursts.
SimCorp Acquires Client Reporting Software Provider
SimCorp hopes to capitalize on demand for client reporting technology by combining its performance, risk and accounting capabilities with the reporting functionality from Equipos
Burton-Taylor: Data Demand Falls in 2013; Spend Driven by Price Hikes
Global spend on market data and analysis increased by 1.1 percent last year from $25.5 billion in 2012 to $25.88 billion in 2013, but would have been fallen if not for vendor price increases of an average two percent, according to research from Burton…
CMC Picks Colt as Datacenter Provider
London-based derivatives dealer CMC Markets has signed a 12-year agreement with UK-based network and hosting services provider Colt to act as its preferred datacenter provider, in a move to boost operational efficiency and increase clients' connectivity…
Kinetix Adds New Regs Support to Data Compliance Tool
Princeton, NJ-based trading technology provider Kinetix Trading Solutions has added support for new regulations to the Pre-Trade Verification module of its Monaco trading platform, which combines market data with trading firms' databases of counterparty…
Spain's BME Grows IBEX Index Data
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Españoles plans to begin distributing data on eight new tradable indexes to its IBEX series that will serve as underlying assets for financial products, such as warrants, certificates and exchange-traded funds, to…
Interactive Data Adds MT Newswires' US, Canada News to Market-Q Desktop, App
Interactive Data has integrated US and Canadian news and analysis from MT Newswires─a division of Midnight Trader─into its Market-Q web-based data terminal and its accompanying Market-Q Mobile platform.
Charles Thomas Appointed Wells Fargo CDO
Charles Thomas, who has worked at the United Services Automobile Association since 2008, will take up the role of chief data officer at Wells Fargo in March
Perseus Buys TLV for Low-Latency CME-ICE Microwave Data
Network provider Perseus Telecom has acquired Broadview, Illinois-based TLV Networks, which operates a low-latency microwave network connecting Chicago-based futures exchange matching engines, from wireless network infrastructure design and management…