Data
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…
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
CQG Adds FastMarkets Metals Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG has added London-based FastMarkets' Premium Metals News to the metals market data and trading capabilities already available in CQG's platform.
Tradition Taps Corvil for Monitoring
Interdealer broker Tradition has rolled out Dublin-based latency and performance monitoring technology provider Corvil's CorvilNet monitoring platform to provide real-time visibility into data and execution latency and operational performance statistics…
Pricing Vet Kelsey Moves to Mortgage CRM Vendor
Former Reuters exec Michele Kelsey has joined Vantage Integrated Production, a provider of CRM, workflow and data management tools for mortgage lenders, as regional vice president of sales for the Midwest US, based in New York.
Rimes Appoints New French Head
Renaud Larzilliere has been appointed director general for the French operations of the managed data services vendor, after four years at the company
TriOptima Turns on DTCC Data Link
TriOptima─a provider of post-trade infrastructure, processing and risk management solutions for over-the-counter derivatives, owned by interdealer broker Icap─has gone live with a link to capture market data on OTC derivatives trades reported to the…