Data
Xignite Taps Nasdaq FinQloud to ‘Accelerate’ Data Cloud Adoption
San Mateo, Calif.-based on-demand data provider Xignite has migrated its entire web services data infrastructure to Nasdaq OMX’s FinQloud hybrid financial services-dedicated cloud computing environment, to accelerate cloud acceptance and adoption among…
Redline Preps Asian Feeds, HK Presence
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions is adding support for datafeeds from Asian exchanges, and has established an office in Hong Kong to provide technical support to clients in the region.
Opening Cross: Things That Go Bump in the Night
The combination of Halloween and Mercury in retrograde is creating some haunting technical glitches and cost challenges for the data industry.
Thomson Reuters to Retire 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has notified customers that it plans to withdraw support for its Reuters 3000 Xtra legacy market data desktop terminal after Dec. 31, 2013, and has begun the process of decommissioning the platform’s corresponding services and local…
Ungovernable Data?
During a roundtable discussion hosted by Rimes Technologies, senior representatives from asset management firms discussed the data governance challenges facing them. From controlling data and managing regulatory change to securing board-level support,…
BATS Enlists Interactive Data for Low-Cost Data Terminals
US exchange operator BATS Global Markets has launched two new desktop data and analytics workstations, developed in conjunction with Interactive Data and based on the vendor's own terminal products, utilizing BATS' free-of-charge equities data.
Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange Startup Readies Data, Research Ahead of Launch
The Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange (APX), a new Sydney, Australia-based exchange that will list equities in Chinese and Australian companies, will begin rolling out a suite of data services with an emphasis on news and fundamental research, when it launches…
Nanospeed Readies FPGAs for Asia, Europe
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed, which this week launched its Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for US equities and options markets, is now developing support for a number of additional Asian and European markets in response to…
ISE Blames OPRA for NBBO Data Exclusion
A technical issue at the Options Price Reporting Authority resulted in the International Securities Exchange's main market and secondary options exchange Gemini not being included in the OPRA national best bid and offer (NBBO) feed for part of the…
Thomson Reuters to Slash 3,000 Jobs
Thomson Reuters has announced that it will cut around 3,000 jobs from its Financial and Risk unit, despite reporting positive net sales for the division in its third quarter results this week.
ISE Shuffles Data Execs, Soule Exits
The International Securities Exchange has reorganized the team of executives responsible for the exchange's market data, resulting in an expanded role for business development officer Jeanine Hightower and the departure of former head of market data Jeff…
Nanotick Launches Historical On-Demand CME Data Service
Nanotick, a joint venture between direct market access software provider Onix Solutions and proximity hosting and market data provider VDIware, has launched an on-demand service that provides historical market data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange …
HKEx Data Goes Live on NYSE SuperFeed
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is making consolidated market data from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's new Orion Market Data platform-which utilizes underlying technology from NYSE Technologies-via NYSE Technologies'…
'Human Error' Blamed for Nasdaq Index Outage
Human error forced Nasdaq OMX to halt trading for a number of derivatives contracts linked to its Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) earlier today, Tuesday Oct. 29, after the exchange's Global Index Data Service (GIDS 2.0) failed to disseminate values for about 45…
BT Nabs MarketPrizm CEO Randery
Network and telecoms provider BT has appointed Tanuja Randery president of strategy and marketing at BT Global Services, responsible for driving the growth of the division.
State Street's Saul: FIBO is Adding Transparency, Reducing Risk
State Street's David Saul has put himself right in the middle of efforts to promote the FIBO ontology as a means to reduce risk through better data management. He speaks with Michael Shashoua about FIBO's progress and the virtues of "smart data"
Towards Transparent Pricing
Increased transparency is a common goal of regulators who are shaking up the financial industry. When experts in pricing and valuations took part in a panel discussion at the European Financial Information Summit, they explained what these new regulatory…
Options, Redline Ally For Managed Ticker Plant Service
Hosted infrastructure and private cloud provider Options (formerly Options IT), has expanded its partnership with low-latency market data provider Redline Trading Solutions to provide customers with a fully managed ticker plant for options and equities…
NanoSpeed Launches High-Performance FPGA Trading Gateway
London-based hardware provider NanoSpeed has launched an ultra-low latency trading gateway, dubbed Nano-TG, targeted at investment banks, prop traders, hedge funds, exchanges and other financial institutions.
HFN Completes Network Upgrade, Touts Performance Improvements
Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network has completed a major upgrade to its fiber network in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, enabling the vendor to improve the performance on all its routes between the region's major financial…
GFI Adds Next-Gen Exotic Pricing Models to Fenics
London-based interdealer broker GFI has launched a new version of its Fenics FX options pricing and risk tool with enhanced mathematical models, including a Local Stochastic Volatility (LSV) pricing model to enable users to price complex exotic options,…
ITRS Raids Fidessa for Senior Sales, Biz Dev Hires
UK-based real-time systems and latency monitoring vendor ITRS has hired Angie Walker as global head of sales and Ian Salmon as global head of business development. Both join from UK trading technology provider Fidessa, where Walker was enterprise sales…
Power to the Business
Front-office staff usually avoid getting involved in data strategy, but new efforts are being made to engage them by giving them greater control over the data they need
S&P CapIQ Adds Credit Risk Indicators to XpressFeed
S&P Capital IQ is planning to make its entire universe of pre-scored point-in-time, short- to mid-term and long-term credit risk indicators for financial institutions and non-financial corporates available via its XpressFeed data platform.