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Nasdaq Delays New Feeds Test
Nasdaq OMX has delayed the start of testing for enhanced versions of its US equity datafeeds covering its Nasdaq Stock Market, BX and PSX marketplaces until the end of January.
Rimes' Cheng: ‘Clear and Present Danger' of Regulation Will Cause ‘Tipping Point' for Managed Data Services
Steve Cheng, global head of data management solutions at economic and benchmark data and managed service provider Rimes Technologies, warns of the need for firms to investigate and leverage new technologies to address regulatory change.
NFEA Taps Moscow Exchange FX Fixing for Swap Rates
Russia's National Foreign Exchange Association has announced that from Jan. 9, it will begin using the Moscow Exchange's US dollar-ruble price fixing to calculate the NFEA FX swap rate instead of the current Central Bank of Russia rate.
Thomson Reuters' Brittan: Analytics Will Be Key to Unlocking Value in 2014
Philip Brittan, chief technology officer and global head of platform for Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk division, discusses the importance of analytics in delivering competitive edge from commoditized content.
Edgar Online President: Industry Must Face Fear of Change to Exploit Apps, Mobile in 2014
David Frankel, president of Edgar Online, explains why he believes analytics─increasingly delivered through apps and mobile devices─will be the source of innovation for the financial technology and data industries next year.
Market Data Industry's Top Quotes of 2013
Our gift to you: some of the most poignant and pithy comments from our pages in 2013
2013 Review: Herd in Review: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
As we take today to celebrate and surround ourselves with friends and family, it's worth remembering the difference that the actions of other people make--in the data industry as well as in our everyday lives. So in IMD's final 2013 Year in Review…
Season's Greetings from Inside Market Data
I remember Christmas as a child, being overpowered by the sights, smells and sounds, from bright tinsel and baubles on the tree to the aroma of sizzling turkey, and carol singers─and of course, a pile of presents beneath the tree.
2013 Review: Social Media, ‘Hash Crash’ Are 2013’s #trendingtopics
Just as 2010 was the year of the Flash Clash, 2013 will be remembered as teh year of the “Hash Crash,” when the debate over whether social media influences stock prices was settled by hackers.
NYSE Delays Order Imbalance Data Fees─Again
NYSE Technologies has delayed the introduction of new fees for order imbalance data from parent NYSE Euronext's New York Stock Exchange and NYSE MKT marketplaces for a second time.
2013 Review: EU Consolidated Tape Encounters Hurdles to Implemenation
Progress continued on the long uphill road toward the introduction of a pan-European consolidated tape, but suffered a setback this year after regulatory uncertainty over MiFID 2 led to the dismantling of industry-led group The COBA Project, which was…
2013 Review: Crowd-Sourced Content, Search Gain Traction
As traders and investors seek new ways to find alpha in increasingly commoditized datasets, the accuracy of data and how it is sourced—and the ease with which it can be searched—is becoming more important, prompting the creation of new services for…
World Wide Wedges
While service providers seem to be able to leverage clients with global footprints, the inter-governmental difficulties encountered with Fatca tax law implementation sound a note of caution for their efforts
OPRA Seeks New SIP Operator, Enlists Jordan & Jordan to Run RFP
The Options Price Reporting Authority has begun a tender process for a technology supplier to manage the SIP (securities information processor) that collects data from US options exchanges, calculates a best bid and offer, and distributes OPRA's…
2013 Review: Traders Weigh Importance of Fast Data vs Big Data
While still a focus for high-frequency traders with latency-sensitive strategies, the latency arms race appeared to have reached a stalemate in 2013, with low latency a necessity but ultra-low latency more of an expensive luxury, with some firms…
Bloomberg Names Risk and Compliance Exec
Bloomberg is making good on its promise to beef up compliance and data security measures-following the revelation earlier this year that its journalists were able to access some client terminal usage data-by hiring Paul Wood as the vendor's first chief…
Kaplan Swaps Telx for Equinix
Shawn Kaplan recently joined datacenter and hosting provider Equinix as sales director for the vendor's major accounts team covering financial services, a newly-created role leading a sales team focused on building strategic relationships with Equinix's…
Moody's, Nasdaq Sign On For CRISP Contracts
The organizations will beta test the standardized appendix for data contracts developed by a group from the FISD industry association.
Euroclear's Groot on Data Utilities
Martijn Groot of post-trade services vendor Euroclear explains how data utilities can help financial firms reduce costs and improve data quality
2013 Review: For Exchanges in 2013, Life’s a Glitch
US stock and options exchanges suffered such significant outages in 2013 that regulators step ped in to bring the markets to task over the failures, many of which were linked to problems with the exchanges’ ability to disseminate market data.
Open Platform: Cash in on Your Cache─Using CPU Cache, Hybrid Models and Vectors to Ditch Database Delays
As data volumes continue to rise, processing this data efficiently requires database developers to employ new methods of storing and processing data, says Steve Graves, chief executive of in-memory database provider McObject
SeekingAlpha Lists OTC Markets Data, Links
Financial news, analysis and transcript website Seeking Alpha has added marketplace designations for the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink markets operated by OTC Markets Group to company information on its website, to denote the listing market of each security…