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Customers Begin Testing Swift Services for EMIR Reporting
The messaging services vendor is providing two ways for market participants to report data on over-the-counter derivatives trades, when European regulatory requirements to do so come into effect on 12 February
Data Boiler Names Former JP Morgan Exec COO
Edward Lai, former vice president of the chief investment office at JP Morgan in Asia, has joined Big Data analytics startup Data Boiler Technologies as managing director and chief operating officer, responsible for product development, compliance and…
D&B, FirstRain Ally for Integrated Company Data
Information providers Dun & Bradstreet and FirstRain announced a partnership that will see the integration of FirstRain's company, industry and customer research and social analytics with D&B's structured company data.
Nominees for LEI Foundation Directors Published
Gerard Hartsink has been nominated as chair of the board of directors of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation and says he and the 15 other nominees understand the foundation and central operating unit must move quickly
Trefis Taps S&P Capital IQ for Interactive Research
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ Equity Research, the independent research arm of S&P Capital IQ, has partnered with data visualization technology vendor Trefis to allow Trefis users to access research models for roughly 600 companies and 1,500…
DTCC's Arthus Appointed Omgeo President, CEO
Paula Arthus will take over from Marianne Brown as president and chief executive officer of Omgeo on February 21
ZKB Taps Corvil for Data Quality, Latency Monitoring
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) is rolling out Dublin-based latency management technology vendor Corvil's Operational Performance Monitoring platform to monitor market data quality, FX order flow as well as quote-to-order and gateway latency.
IDC Adds BCG FX, IRS Rates to OTC Data
Interactive Data will this week make pricing data for foreign exchange and interest rate contracts from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over-the-counter sources worldwide, as…
S&P Cap IQ Adds SGX Data to Low-Latency Feed
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions (formerly French low-latency data vendor QuantHouse, which S&P acquired in 2012) has added the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to its QuantFeed consolidated datafeed and QuantLink fiber-optic network.
Financial Machineries Buys Data Contributions Ahead of Aggregated Repository Data Launch
Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics provider Financial Machineries is preparing to launch a feed of cleansed, aggregated data from trade data repositories, dubbed GTR Analytics, and has acquired London-based contributed data consultancy…
Traiana Embeds Reconciliation Engine to Address US Swaps Rules
Traiana has integrated Duco's reconciliation engine so it can reconcile reference data from central counterparties, swap execution facilities and futures commission merchants ahead of the introduction of new regulations for the US swaps industry
IPC: Firms Eye Managed Data Services in ’14
Firms will continue to increase investment in new managed services offerings for market data in 2014 to increase competitive advantage, trading efficiency and productivity, according to a survey from network and trading turret provider IPC.
Exegy Readies Software-Based Trading Application Platform
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy is preparing to launch a lightweight version of its ticker plant, dubbed Trading Application Platform (TAP), that will enable users to quickly deploy data and trading applications in globally…
Dow Jones Sues RANsquawk for $5 Million
Dow Jones has filed a lawsuit against London-based news aggregator and audio "squawk" provider RANsquawk, accusing the vendor of systematically stealing Dow Jones' news headlines and stories without a license to distribute its news, and seeking at least …
ORATS Adds Quarterly Analysis to TOES, Readies Enhanced Dividend Forecasts
Chicago-based options analytics provider Option Research and Technology Services has rolled out new quarterly analysis as part of its TOES (Tested Option Environment Strategies) service, to enable users to back-test US equity option strategies over…
Industry Optimistic for Innovation in 2014
At the start of the New Year, it’s customary to say goodbye to the past year and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the next. In keeping with this theme, Inside Market Data asks vendors what they expect to drive or hinder innovation in the…
WSE Bows Short, Leveraged Index Data
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has begun distributing data on two new indexes based on the exchange’s WIG30 blue-chip benchmark.
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
Complexity or Simplicity - The Data Quality Question
Those seeking to increase data quality, cope with new identifier standards or meet the mandates laid out by Europe's new market infrastructure regulation, are looking at how to reduce the complexity of the methods designed to meet simple goals
Spread Connects NYSE Mahwah Datacenter to Chicago
Ridgeland, MS-based low-latency fiber network operator Spread Networks has set up a point of presence for its wavelength data network between New York and Chicago at NYSE Euronext's datacenter at Mahwah, NJ, creating roundtrip latency of around 14…
Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
S&P Cap IQ Expands Asia Connectivity via HKEx Orion
S&P Capital IQ is making its QuantFeed and QuantLink low-latency datafeed and network available via Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's Orion technology platform, in a move to meet increasing demand for connectivity and high-speed data in Asia.