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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.
Update: OPRA Data Issue Halts Options Exchanges
The Options Price Reporting Authority was forced to cancel a software upgrade for its feed of consolidated US options quote and trade data on Monday Sept. 16, after the upgrade caused issues with calculation of the national best bid and offer price,…
IRD's Editor on Fatca's Effects on Data Operations
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua updates developments with Fatca tax regulation and how that will affect data operations
OTC Markets Grows Disclosures News Service
New York-based over-the-counter equities marketplace OTC Markets is rolling out new features as part of its OTC Disclosure & News Service to make it easier for investors to research privately-held companies whose equity is traded on the exchange's OTCQX,…
EPFR Brings on Badolato in HK
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired Elizabeth Badolato as business development manager in Hong Kong to expand the vendor's presence in Asia, reflecting the growth of its client base in the region, which was previously supported from the vendor…
Ipreo to Market FactSet Data to Corporates
Company data and investor relations service provider Ipreo has struck a deal with FactSet Research Systems to distribute the FactSet workstation and the vendor's FactSet for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet add-in to corporate clients, as part of Ipreo's…
T2S Will Increase Settlement Costs, Push CSD Consolidation, Sibos/SIX Survey Finds
A survey of attendees at Sibos 2013 in Dubai found that participants expect settlement costs to increase, thanks to the Target2-Securities (T2S) project. Bob Almanas of SIX Securities Services discusses the company's preparations for T2S
SIX FI's Kevil Goes West
SIX Financial Information has relocated sales executive Kimberly Kevil from the US East Coast to the San Francisco Bay Area to support large and important clients on the West Coast, and to lead sales in California and Mexico, and reporting to Barry…