Data
IDC Automates Vantage Workflow
Interactive Data has enhanced the workflow module of its web-based Vantage application for viewing the data behind evaluated prices, such as anonymous trades, quotes, dealer runs and market posts, to include automated routines and price tests to enable…
SIX on Financial Transaction Taxes' European Impact
SIX Financial Information's Darren Marsh explains how the rollout of financial transaction taxes in Europe is affecting data management
Wells Fargo's Johnson Discusses Regulations' Effect on Valuations
Michael Shashoua speaks to Daniel Johnson of Wells Fargo Global Fund Services about the challenges for valuations teams created by AIFMD and IFRS 13
HSBC's Johnson Outlines Lessons Learned from New Regulations
Chris Johnson of HSBC Securities Services shares the lessons he has learned from his close analysis of regulatory announcements in recent years
Interactive Data Upgrades Workflow for Fixed-Income Web Portal
The pricing and data vendor says enhancements to its Vantage web portal will allow users to avoid the manual price review processes usually required to explore price movements
HSBC Hires Experienced Data Executive
Lorraine Waters has joined the firm's data management unit as deputy group chief data officer and head of data policies
NYSE Taps ITRS for Performance Monitoring UPDATED
NYSE Euronext has completed the first phase of a multi-phase project to deploy UK-based real-time systems and latency monitoring vendor ITRS’ Geneos monitoring platform across its US equities and options exchange environment to gain an end-to-end view of…
Deutsche Börse Bows Historical Data Cloud
German exchange Deutsche Börse will this week launch a cloud-based historical data service, Data on Demand, to provide analysts, application developers and vendors with on-demand access to historical data from its Xetra and Eurex securities and…
Tech Panel: Act ‘Appropriate,' But Speed Still Needs Spend
With today's capital markets increasingly automated and reliant on high-performance technologies, budget constraints resulting from the economic crisis of recent years are forcing firms to be more selective about building proprietary systems in-house…
CJC Taps Beebeejaun as Sales Head
Market data consultancy and real-time systems support and management provider CJC has hired Feroze Beebeejaun as head of sales, responsible for generating new business for CJC's outsourced support operations and for its commercial management business…
Trillium Begins Post-Trade Analytics Push
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading has filed a patent for a new post-trade compliance monitoring tool for US equities trading that compares traders' order data to full order book…
The Origin of Data
A growing drumbeat for generating or collecting data closer to its source—the issuer—is beginning to be heard
UBS Finds Data Opportunity in Client Onboarding
Client onboarding teams have taken on responsibility for managing data, particularly for linking client and legal entity data with other key reference data, operations executive Simon Feddo said at the European Financial Information Summit
EFIS User Panel: Data Cost Control Becomes Cultural Shift
Continuing pressure on data budgets at end-user firms following the financial crisis is creating challenges for market data managers, but is also creating opportunities to bring new approaches to how firms source and consume data, said panelists at this…
Data Execs: "We Need Consolidated Pre-LEI Files"
As the number of utilities issuing pre-legal entity identifiers increases, delegates at the European Financial Information Summit called for a single source they can use to find all of the pre-LEI data they need
EFIS Keynote: HSBC Chief Data Officer Baker Defines Value of Data
Unlike precious assets such as gold, the value of market data is governed not by its rarity, but by its significance and usefulness, which depends on its ability to inform decisions and solve problems-and which in turn depends on having a dedicated…
IBOR Takes Hold on Buy Side
The investment book of record, or IBOR, is becoming an attractive option for buy-side firms that want a more accurate view of their portfolio positions at the start of the trading day. Nicholas Hamilton explores the options available for firms looking to…
Thomson Reuters Expands TRPS Evaluations with CDO Pricing
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new collateralized debt obligation pricing service, providing end-of-day valuations based on asset-level analysis by the vendor's evaluators for CDOs on asset-backed securities, commercial real estate, and trust preferred…
TMX Lights 10Gb Amsterdam-Frankfurt Network
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has increased the bandwidth of its network between Amsterdam and Frankfurt to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) to meet demand from proprietary trading firms in the Netherlands for higher…
Northern Trust's Guenther On the Challenges of Risk Management at Inside Market Data Chicago 2013
Joerg Guenther, head of information technology at Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services discusses his presentation at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago conference, on the challenges faced by his organization as it embarked on a project to centralize…
Industry Vet Scouse Founds Data Cost, Content, Compliance Consultancy
Trevor Scouse, a 35-year veteran of the financial services and market data industries, has set up a consultancy, TJS Data, to advise data consumers and distributors on cost and compliance issues surrounding market data acquisition and management.
EFIS Live: Tarrill Baker Keynote
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live from the keynote address at the European Financial Information Summit in London on September 26, delivered by Tarrill Baker of HSBC.
Myra Trading's Yanilmaz Discusses the Growing Cost of Market Data at IMD Chicago 2013
Mehmet Yanilmaz, partner at Chicago-based proprietary algorithmic trading firm Myra Trading, reflects on market data costs after moderating a panel on the topic at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago event.