Data
Morningstar Preps Automated License Transparency
The vendor has made changes to its Morningstar Direct platform to help clients ensure they are compliant with data license policies.
Tullett Prebon Info to Distribute Digital Currency Data from Brave New Coin
The broker's data arm aims to become a hub for data on digital, as well as traditional, currencies.
LSE’s Shifting License Models Bear Fruit
Despite declining terminal counts, the LSE's move to enterprise license policies are paying dividends by protecting revenue increases.
GoldenSource, FinReg Publish Whitepaper Addressing Siloed Entity Data Management
Firms are misunderstanding how client data is used across the business, say authors, who advocate a bottom-up, incremental approach to achieve progress.
Reference Data Utilities special report
Users and potential users of third-party shared services recognize their value to data quality, regulatory compliance and all financial sectors
Benzinga Names Former William Blair, SAC Trader Laverde Director of Content
Laverde brings a trader's perspective to management of Benzinga's breaking news content.
Veteran Data Exec Jeff Parker Joins Wall Street Horizon Advisory Board
Parker brings more than 35 years as an entrepreneur in the data industry, having founded FirstCall and StreetEvents.
Nasdaq Rolls Out SIP Feed Resiliency, Latency Improvements
The moves are designed to make the SIP's infrastructure more robust and lessen the chance of any market-wide impact from technical issues.
Northern Trust Hires Head of Global Fund Services for Asia
Caroline Higgins will be based in Hong Kong.
Datactics Hires Data Sales Vet Chuck to Lead London Sales
Chuck brings Datactics 25 years of experience in data and trading-related softwrae sales.
RSRCHXchange Adds Ned Davis Research
The addition continues RSRCHxchange's ongoing content expansion.
CME Enlists TickSmith for Datamine Revamp
The vendor's tick data management platform will form the basis of a revamped CME Datamine historical data portal.
Identification Revolution
MiFIR and EMIR are hastening replacement of client codes with global identifiers
Algert Global Taps OneMarketData Best Ex for TCA
The San Francisco-based firm will use OneMarketData's OneTick Best Ex and its data history to perform TCA and review its trading performance.
Golden Copy: Farewell From The Data Desk
On leaving as editor of Inside Reference Data, Michael Shashoua reflects on the most incisive elements in five years of commentaries
Datactics Adds to London Staff
Owen Chuck and Alex Brown join Datactics team to serve growing business in London
DTCC Adds Commercial Paper Coverage to Data Offerings
Premium service provides liquidity coverage ratio information
Opening Cross: Buy, Build or Bust?
In light of two recent developments in the market data world, Max looks at the pros and cons of each side of the buy versus build debate.
BATS Readies MiFID 2-Compliant Data Policy
BATS Europe will offer two commercial policies for its data──its existing policy, and one designed to help firms affordably meet the requirements of MiFID 2.
Money.Net Preps AI News, Taps Ex-Bloomberg's Pearlstine
Pearlstine will be responsible for hiring a mix of journalists and developers to create a news service that uses artificial intelligence to capture key elements of news.
Rimes Boots Up Benchmark Data-Tracking Workstations
The two new workstations will help firms analyze benchmark indexes, as well as their usage of benchmark data to comply with vendor licenses and new regulations.
The Roberts Group Buys Priory Solutions to Boost Web Content Usage Tracking Capabilities
The deal will give The Roberts Group the ability to track usage of web-delivered content and apply that to clients' data cost management decisions.
Smartkarma Opens Hong Kong Office, Hires Research Vet Blennerhassett
The Hong Kong office will support Smartkarma's expansion in the region.
CFN Services Creates ‘UltraFast' Cloud Data, Rebrands as Apcela
The new service will provide data to the increasing number and variety of infrastructures and applications being hosted in cloud environments.