Data
Cutbacks and Opportunities: The Market Data Job Market
In spite—or because—of the rising cost and complexity of data, cost-cutting and streamlining initiatives continue at financial institutions. Kirsten Hyde looks at how these efforts are affecting the headcount and structure of market data departments, and…
Model Behavior: Banks Must Get Data Right for IFRS 9
New regulations and accounting standards are the main drivers of changes to how banks worldwide must operate, maintain their books, and manage their data, with IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standard) 9 one of the most significant. As Wei-Shen…
Scaling the Governance Mountain
The perfect data governance strategy is a unicorn, data executives say; yet from setting policies and data quality evaluation to metadata generation, all large financial firms need one. As many firms augment strategy in this area to become more data…
Bloomberg's Varun Pawar on Winning at the 2017 IMD/IRD Awards
The vendor won the Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider award for its BVAL service.
SmartStream's Joe Turso on Continued Successes for its Reference Data Utility
The vendor's RDU was responsible for the vendor's two wins in this year's awards.
SIX Finanical Information's Phil Lynch on Winning Three Categories at the 2017 IMD/IRD Awards
SIX won three awards, including Best Overall Data Provider.
Big XYT Gives Pan-EU View of Liquidity Data from ‘Cockpit’
The service enables clients to monitor market share and specific liquidity indicators across European trading venues.
Big xyt Launches Cloud Platform Spin-off Liquidity Cockpit
Platform provides interactive analytics for both dark and lit markets and tracks large-in-scale trading activity.
Euronext, Morningstar launch European Blue-Chip Indexes
Partnership aimed at delivering series of derivatives products based on Morningstar benchmarks bears fruit
NEX Data Expands Forex Benchmark Offering
Vendor launches EBS FX Benchmarks – a series of 30-minute FX snapshots across 15 currency pairs
Thomson Reuters Deepens Redi-Eikon Integration
Buy-side users get access to Eikon’s pre-trade content and functionality through the Redi EMS.
Trading Tech Vendor Horizon Taps Ultumus for ETF Data
Paris-based algorithmic trading platform provider Horizon Software has incorporated data on global exchange-traded funds from specialist data vendor Ultumus into its platform.
Thomson Reuters Expands Tick History Service
Officials say the enhancements to Tick History will support the creation of algorithmic trading strategies and compliance with MiFID II.
TP Icap Picks Bloomberg Platform for MiFID II Compliance
Interdealer broker selects Entity Exchange to support execution services
Morningstar Takes Stake in Fund Rating Partner Sustainalytics
The ownership stake will support the continued joint development of sustainable investment products and related tools.
Shank Boards Apcela
Shank's operations background in other industries will see him take responsibility for overseeing day-to-day operations at Apcela.
Buy Side Questions Value of MiFID II Cost Transparency Data
“It is a competitive marketplace and, in my experience, professional traders are quite capable of trading at a market price that is fairly independent of a specific dealer’s cost structure.”
FCA Worried by Lack of Readiness for MiFID II Reporting
UK watchdog accepts “scale of the challenge” but urges firms to “crack on” with putting data reporting apparatus in place
Illuminate Takes $1.6 Million Stake in TickSmith
Investment will fuel the tick data management platform's expansion into New York and London.
SIX Launches Regulatory Data Hub
New platform aims to simplify exchange of regulatory data and associated documents.
Wall Street Horizon Beefs Up Enchilada with Europe and Asia Index Data
WSH has expanded its coverage of international companies with the addition of European and Asian large caps to its Enchilada platform.
Jordan & Jordan Promotes Raskin to Lead Market Data Expansion
The appointment is part of plans for “continued strategic growth" of the division, officials say.
Kx Integrates ChartIQ into Data Visualization Tool
Kx Systems adds HTML5-based charting technology to Dashboards for Kx
JANA Picks Curium for Data Oversight
JANA, an Australian investment consultancy, has selected Curium Data Systems' data management platform to increase the control and monitoring of its operations and investment data.