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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.
Telx Expands NY Co-Lo Space
Datacenter provider Telx has added 69,000 square feet of co-location space within its NYC1 facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York via a partnership with DataGryd Data Centers-a wholesale datacenter provider with existing space in the building-to…
Volta London Datacenter Opens its Doors
Datacenter operator Volta Data Centres will today officially open its new facility on Great Sutton Street in London, following a year-long project to refurbish the former Reuters building.
TMX Atrium Builds Ultra-Low Latency Moscow-Frankfurt Link
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has added ultra-low latency access to Moscow M1, a third-party, multi-tenanted hosting facility in Russia, from Equinix’s FR2 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter in Frankfurt…
National Futures Association Chairman Hehymer on the Future of Technology at IMD Chicago 2013
Chris Hehymer, chairman of the board of the National Futures Association comments on his afternoon keynote speech and subsequent panel discussion at Inside Market Data Chicago
Milesius Capital Resources' Acosta Speaks on Infrastructure at IMD Chicago 2013
Andrew Acosta, chief data scientist at Milesius Capital Research shares his thoughts after moderating a panel on re-architecting data infrastructures to adapt to growing volumes and regulatory change at the Inside Market Data Chicago conference.
BNP Taps TraderMade for FX Technical Analysis, Commentary
BNP Paribas is to roll out technical analysis to its foreign exchange strategy team and to provide commentary services within its Global Markets and Cortex FX trading platforms from London-based technical currency charting provider TraderMade.
Sapient Launches Lightweight Data Maturity Assessment
The services vendor says its sentiment-based assessment offers 80% of the value of an evidence-based assessment with 20% of the effort of commonly used evidence-based assessments
Dolan to Lead Fidelity ActionsXchange
Will Dolan, who has held a few senior roles within Fidelity Investments since 2004, has been named head of Fidelity ActionsXchange
Russia's NSD Chooses GoldenSource for Corp Actions Repository
Russia's central securities depository has chosen GoldenSource's enterprise data management system to power a repository it is creating for corporate actions data
S&P CapIQ Bows ETF Classification System
S&P capital IQ is introducing a new classification structure for exchange-traded funds, dubbed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) Style Classifications, which will provide details of over 40 ETF characteristics, including asset class, market segment, geographic…
Oppenheimer Rolls Out IDC Market-Q
New York-based investment boutique Oppenheimer &. Co is deploying Interactive Data's Market-Q real-time market data desktop, as well as its Market-Q Mobile service, which provides access to data and tools from tablet devices.
Startup Data Boiler Assembles Team, Begins Big Data Consultations
North Weymouth, Mass.-based Big Data analytics startup Data Boiler Technologies has established its initial executive team, and is now approaching capital markets firms to dictate which areas the vendor should prioritize when finalizing its product…
Warsaw Stock Exchange Bows New Indexes
The Warsaw Stock Exchange began publishing two new indexes today, Sept. 23─the WIG30 index, the value of which is based on trade prices, and the WIG30TR, a total return index based on trade prices and dividend income─each containing the 30 largest and…
Fixnetix Expands Data, Risk Connectivity
Managed market data, trading connectivity and risk technology vendor Fixnetix has added low-latency connectivity to three new marketplaces, becoming an extranet connectivity provider for pan-European equities multilateral trading facility Aquis Exchange,…
Thomson Reuters Adds Asian Markets to Elektron Real Time
Thomson Reuters has rolled out its Elektron Real Time consolidated feed to new market centers in Asia, including Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, providing full-tick depth of market data from 400 global exchanges and over-the-counter venues, and…
Re-Defining Managed Services
The advancement of real-time as a criteria for reference data is driving changes in the use of managed services in the space
Cost, Latency, Regulation: IMD's Editor on Hot Topics at IMD Events
Inside Market Data editor Max Bowie reflects on the themes from recent conferences, and predicts that the impact of regulation will be high on the agenda at next week's European Financial Information Summit and other upcoming IMD conferences.