Data
Ruvo Quits Muni Data Vendor DPC
Roseland, NJ-based municipal bond data and disclosures provider DPC Data announced Wednesday, Nov 13 that Michael Ruvo has resigned his position as president, to take on an undisclosed "leadership opportunity with another company."
SuperDerivatives Taps JP Morgan Oil Exec
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has hired David Taban to head the firm's commodities and energy division.
Fixnetix Begins Asia-Pac Push with Equinix Global Partnership Deal
UK-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Fixnetix and datacenter provider Equinix have signed a global partnership agreement to "promote and extend" the availability of Fixnetix's datafeeds within Equinix's global financial services…
ETRE Taps SunGard to Power REIT Data-Trading Platform
Startup real estate investment trust trading platform provider ETRE Financial is using a suite of data and tools from financial IT giant SunGard to power its data and trading services, including SunGard's MarketMap datafeed, the SunGard Global Network…
Edgar Online Eyes ‘Rebirth' of Data Biz with Mashery APIs
Filings and company data provider Edgar Online is seeking to open up its content to a new audience of end-users and application developers, by enlisting integration software vendor Mashery to build custom APIs (application program interfaces) around its…
Apcon Releases TS-Associates Compatible Time-Stamping Blade
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon's Intellaflex 36-port, 1/10-gigabit time stamping aggregator blade is now compatible with UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates' Precision Instrumentation…
RavenPack Crows About Expanded Coverage
Spanish news sentiment analysis provider RavenPack has added more than 22,000 new sources of news and opinion from the online editions of newspapers, journals and trade magazines, as well as specialist financial news sites and blogs to its RavenPack News…
Interactive Data Dials PrimeTerminal Mobile App for Apple, Android
Interactive Data’s Managed Solutions division has developed a mobile application to accompany its PrimeTerminal data workstation, to enable customers to access the platform via Apple or Android smartphones and tablet devices while away from their desks.
Nasdaq Goes to SPA for MFQS Makeover
Nasdaq OMX's Mutual Fund Quotation Service (MFQS), a pricing system that collects and disseminates daily price, dividends and capital distributions data for mutual funds, money market funds, unit investment trusts and annuities, is now pricing structured…
AlgoSpan Lands in Lunda Datacenter
Ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and market data connectivity provider AlgoSpan has set up a point of presence in Nasdaq OMX's datacenter in Lunda, just outside Stockholm.
SuperDerivatives Bolsters SDX, DGX Data Coverage with Credit Options
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has added volatility surfaces for a range of credit indexes to its SDX multi-asset pricing platform for pricing structured products and its DGX market data terminal.
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
APFIC Keynote: Regulations Require Standards Collaboration
The financial industry must collaborate on standards and standardized processes if it is to successfully manage the challenges and costs of compliance with the data aspects of the current flood of new regulations─and get ahead of future rules─said Nick…
The Onward March of Managed Services
As cost-cutting measures and regulatory challenges continue, will firms increase the types of data they are willing to outsource to providers of managed services?
Opening Cross: When You Look East, Look Up and Look Out
Regulation dominated the agenda at last week's Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference. But is the region ready for the data management implications of new global and regional requirements?
HKEx Preps OMD for Derivs, New Gateways
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is preparing to migrate its derivatives market data to its new Orion Market Data platform, which went live last month for equities data, along with the implementation of the Nasdaq OMX Genium Inet platform for its…
OneMarketData Survey: Growing Interest for Data Services in the Cloud
There is growing interest across the financial industry in leveraging cloud computing technology for data-intensive processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost analysis, though adoption of cloud technology to support…
UBS Becomes First Sell-Side Client for Markit EDM Hosted Platform
In a major coup for Markit Enterprise Data Management, UBS will use its hosted platform for instrument reference data mastering across all asset classes globally
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
APFIC Panel: In Buy-vs-Build Debate, Vendor Value is Key
Data sourcing professionals at financial firms want to see vendors focus less on entrenching themselves via long-term deals to retain business and more on winning and earning business through innovation and competitive pricing─though vendors say they…
Panel: Grasp Opportunities of Regulatory Complexities
The raft of current and upcoming regulations is creating opportunities as well as challenges for trading and investment firms in the Asia-Pacific region, though many outside of the largest firms are still not prepared for the data complexities and…
Banks, Providers Failing to Innovate on Data, Says APFIC End-User Panel
Neither end-user firms nor vendors are doing enough to innovate their way out of budgetary woes towards growth, with internal cultures contributing to stagnation by not fostering creative ideas, said a panel of consumer firms at the Asia Pacific…
APFIC Keynote: Regulations Require Standards Collaboration
The financial industry must collaborate on standards and standardized processes if it is to successfully manage the challenges and costs of compliance with the data aspects of the current flood of new regulations─and get ahead of future rules─said Nick…
Lucena Readies Studies for Bloomberg App Portal, Launches Added-Value Research
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research is adding new event studies to Bloomberg's App portal of third-party applications, to meet demand from customers for out-of-the-box research based on the vendor's QuantDesk decision…