Data
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…
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…