Data
Bloomberg PolarLake CEO: Markit Deal Proves Our Independence
John Randles, chief executive officer of Bloomberg PolarLake, says a deal to distribute data from Markit proves his company is an independent entity that is open to working with third-party data vendors
IDC Adds Data on Fatca Withholding Obligations
The data and pricing vendor is helping clients prepare for the US anti-tax evasion regulation by identifying instruments that are generating US-sourced income
EESAT Readies Complex Order Book Feeds, Tools
EESAT, a startup spin-off from trading firm MEB Options providing market data on complex order books of multi-leg trades between asset classes, is preparing to unveil the first product in a suite of new data services based on tools originally developed…
Interactive Data, Icap Strike Data Distribution Deal
Interactive Data has signed a licensing agreement with Icap Information Services, the data services arm of interdealer broker Icap, to make the entire universe of Icap data available on its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over…
Infront Launches Tweetwires Twitter Data Filtering Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology vendor Infront will today announce a new service, dubbed Infront Tweetwires, which filters Twitter for real-time news and sentiment related to specific industry sectors and news events, to help users extract…
First Call, CCBN Founder Parker Named EidoSearch Chairman
Jeff Parker, founder of First Call and CCBN StreetEvents, and a former chairman and chief executive of Thomson Financial, has joined Toronto-based pattern recognition and analytics provider EidoSearch as chairman of its board, to help guide the vendor to…
KVH Preps JPX Co-Lo
Japanese network provider KVH is to begin offering co-location at the Japan Exchange Group, providing local and international trading firms with low-latency access to the market data and trading on the Osaka Securities Exchange's J-Gate derivatives…
Irish, Dutch Pre-LEI Data Added to Consolidated Files
Data from the Irish and Dutch pre-local operating units is now being included in the consolidated files of pre-legal entity identifier data available from the P-LEI.org website
Enyx Embeds TS-Associates Latency Monitoring Tools into FPGA
Paris-based hardware-accelerated data capture and network technology provider Enyx has integrated latency monitoring software vendor TS-Associates' TipOff network and latency monitoring appliance as well as its Application Tap monitoring API into its…
Post-CEO, Ownership Change, MarketPrizm Ups Colt Collaboration
Market data and trading infrastructure services provider MarketPrizm is planning to align its capital markets business more closely with that of its parent company, London-based network vendor Colt, following the repurchase of Japanese bank Nomura's…
Moody's Analytics Provides Analysis, Economic Forecasts on Fed's 2014 CCAR Scenarios
Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of ratings agency Moody's, has analyzed the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) scenarios for 2014 to produce economic scenarios for more than 50 countries and well as reports…
CameronTec, Object Trading Ally for Expansion of Catalys DMA Platform
FIX messaging engine supplier CameronTec has embedded trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading's direct market access platform into its FIX-based Catalys Market Access offering, expanding the coverage to more than 60 equity,…
Tradesignal Bows Version 7 of Data Platform
German data display and analytics vendor Tradesignal has released version 7.0 of its Enterprise Edition data and analytics workstation, which includes a new user interface to enable more efficient access to Tradesignal's functions.
DataContent's Harris Talks China at WFIC Part 2
Following a panel discussion on business inside China at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon, Keiren Harris, Hong Kong-based director of market data consultancy DataContent speaks to IMD about the types of data in demand in China, and…
PTS Partners Taps OneMarketData's OneTick
Global quantitative fund PTS Partners has deployed New York-based tick database and complex event processing engine provider OneMarketData's OneTick tick database and complex event processing system to support its quantitative investment strategies.
Bloomberg, Markit Agree Distribution Deal For EDM Businesses
An agreement between data vendors Bloomberg and Markit will see them distribute one another's reference and pricing data via their respective enterprise data management (EDM) businesses, Bloomberg PolarLake and Markit EDM
Markit Taps former UBS CIO Trogni for Solutions
Michele Trogni, former group chief information officer at UBS, has joined data provider Markit in New York as managing director and global head of the vendor's solutions business (which is co-headed by Daniel Simpson, who joined Markit as a result of its…
SIX Financial Information Adds APA Austrian News to iD Terminal
Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has added real-time news from Austrian news provider APA-Finance to its Telekurs iD desktop data, news and analysis terminal, as a free add-on for Austrian subscribers to its Wealth and Asset Management…
The March of LEI Progress
The legal entity identifier still has its hurdles to clear for full implementation, as panelists in an October 18 webcast acknowledge. Michael Shashoua reports their concerns about private-public cooperation, federated system structure and onboarding and…
Dealing With Data Dichotomies
The gap between what is required by regulations and what can realistically be achieved is becoming apparent
Activ Unveils Version 2.0 of Data Platform
Low-latency market data provider Activ Financial will this week launch an optimized version of its market data distribution platform, dubbed Activ Content Platform (ACP) 2.0, with enhanced features including a new API and next-generation FPGA (field…
Luxoft Exec on LEI Integration Strategies
Torjus Jensen, managing director for financial services at Luxoft, explains that some firms are struggling to integrate legal entity identifiers into their systems because they don’t have a legal entity master in their reference data stack
Quincy Data Sets Up Weehawken PoP
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data has established a point of presence in Savvis’ NJ2 datacenter in Weehawken, New Jersey to provide firms co-located in the facility with ultra-low-latency futures data via…
National Bank Financial Deploys NovaSparks FPGAs
Canadian investment bank National Bank Financial, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, has rolled out French data technology provider NovaSparks' FPGA Matrix feed handler framework─which delivers deterministic "wire-to-memory" and order book…