Data
OliveTree Taps Markit for SecLending Data
London-based analytics provider OliveTree Financial Group has integrated securities lending data from data provider Markit into its OTAS (OliveTree Trading Analysis System) analytics platform, which captures data on different asset classes and factors to…
Morningstar Expands Commodities Pricing, News; Adds Commentary, Context to Quant Ratings
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has added new content to the products of its Morningstar Commodity Data business—the former Logical Information Machines, prior to its 2009 purchase by Morningstar—which aggregates market…
Former Morgan Stanley Exec Appointed Interactive Data CEO
Stephen Daffron will replace Mason Slaine as president and chief executive of the data vendor on September 20
Moody's Service Ties Together Economic, Regulatory Data
Version 3.4 of RiskFrontier from Moody's Analytics applies economic capital changes to regulatory capital changes for Basel III compliance
Panel: Latency Monitoring More Important than Low Latency
Whereas 10 years ago, low latency was the preserve of a select few firms whose sole focus was chasing zero, the commoditization and ubiquity of low-latency technologies has made raw speed more of a necessity to keep pace with the rest of the market, and…
IMD Chicago: Firms Outsource Infrastructure to Address Data Storage, Regulation
End-user firms are increasingly turning to outsourcing to deal with the storage challenges associated with big datasets caused by rising data volumes and the ongoing raft of new regulatory initiatives requiring more intensive data collection, according…
Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
Apcon Releases Sub-10ns Timestamping Blade Switch
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon has released a new aggregator blade, dubbed the Intellaflex Timestamping and Packet Slicing Blade, which will enable financial institutions to timestamp message packets with sub…
LSE Discusses its New Role Allocating Pre-LEIs
Emma Kalliomaki, the London Stock Exchange's head of SEDOL masterfile, discusses the processes it has put in place to ensure the uniqueness and validity of the pre-legal entity identifiers it issues in its new role as a pre-Local Operating Unit
Don't Delay, Do Fatca Compliance Today
Experts on the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) spot hurdles including governments' agreements, data security and incomplete parts of the rules, but say that shouldn't delay anyone from getting prepared
IMD Chicago: Exchange Data Fees, Policies Hindering New Entrants
The high cost of exchange market data─combined with unscheduled fee increases and a proliferation of new fees for previously free-of-charge data─continues to burden consumers, and is preventing newer firms from entering the market, according to a panel…
Panel: Firms Must Master "Dark Art" of Data Analytics to Gain Competitive Advantage
The faster a trading firm can analyze datasets that are growing in both size and complexity to extract meaningful "data about the data," the greater competitive advantage they will have, said participants on a panel discussing how analytics can be…
First Derivatives Picks Pruett for US Growth
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data management technology vendor First Derivatives has appointed former SIX Financial Information executive Jonathan Pruett head of strategic business development for the Americas, responsible for expanding the vendor's…
Tradition Taps Bloomberg Price Fixings for Volatis Trading Platform
Interdealer broker Tradition is to use daily price fixing observations from Bloomberg's independent valuation services for derivatives and structured notes, to provide prices that more accurately reflect realized volatility to Volatis, the broker's newly…
Xignite Grows Market Data Cloud Cover
San Mateo-based on-demand data provider Xignite has added two new services-CloudFiles and CloudStreaming─to its Market Data Cloud service, in addition to its existing CloudAPIs for applications and developers to access the vendor's data.
IRD's Editor on Finding Value From Data
Michael Shashoua considers how the industry defines value in relation to data management
Calastone Gets $18 Million Expansion Funding
The provider of a global fund transaction network is investigating how its superannuation products in Australia can be adapted for Europe and Asia-Pacific markets
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
Mariner Trawls MSCI ESG Data for Alpha
New York-based alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group is to use ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings and portfolio analysis tools from MSCI ESG Research, to support the incorporation of ESG factors into Mariner's investment…
S&P Cap IQ Expands LatAm Offering With Mexico Office
The data and analytics vendor says its new office in Mexico City will benefit both customers in Latin America and around the world
ML Bond Index Adds Fitch Ratings
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added credit ratings content from Fitch Ratings to its ML Bond Market index, as an additional factor in the assessment of investment-grade and speculative-grade bonds.
BME Preps Real-Time Volatility Indexes
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles will begin calculating a new family of eight target volatility indexes on Sept. 24, dubbed the IBEX Volatilidad Objetivo or IBEX 35 Target Volatility, expanding the exchange's existing IBEX 35 index…