Open source
Euronext Preps Fee-Free European Indexes
Euronext will not charge firms to license the indexes, providing that they are using the indexes to create new investment products.
OpenFin Releases Pre-Production Version 6 of HTML5 Container
Version 6 of OpenFin's open-source HTML5 container offers additional security features to make the platform acceptable to financial markets firms.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 12: Open Source, Reg AT, Panama Papers
Dan and Anthony chat about their April features.
Open to Open Source
The benefits of using open-source software are too great to ignore for financial firms.
Open Platform: Open Systems, Open Source, Open APIs… Open Opportunities?
Andrew Miller, managing director of consultancy Net Effect, outlines the opportunities offered by—and barriers to adopting—truly open systems.
Dan DeFrancesco: License to Build
Licensing is the key to open source continuing to prosper.
An Open-Source Audit: Where Financial Firms Are Turning to Open Source
Financial firms discuss areas where they are either using open source or hoping to in the near future.
An Open-Source Audit: Where Financial Firms Are Turning to Open Source
Financial firms discuss areas where they are either using open source or hoping to in the near future.
R.I.P. Vendors: Can Open Source Fundamentally Change the Way Third Parties Operate?
The rise of financial firms' adoption of open source could force vendors to make an adjustment.
Open Platform: Praying for Change: Don't Blame Data Fees; Blame the Policies
DataContent's Rafah Hanna explains why market data fees may be a necessary evil, but not an "immoral" one, and suggests how firms can halt the growth of fees.
Open Platform: Ghosts of Trading Floors Past──Disruption in the Dealing Room
Consultant and industry veteran Tom Perigoe harks back to the role of infrastructure integrators in creating dealing rooms of olde.
FIX Trading Community Opens Technical Standards Process to Developers
Standards body launches open technical standards process resource to facilitate software development.
Open Platform: The Very Long Engagement of Market Data and Big Data
The industry is finally recognizing the big use cases for Big Data
OpenMAMA Sets Out Six-Point Development Plan
The development efforts aim to boost uptake of the open-source OpenMAMA messaging layer.
BlackRock's Godrich: OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Centers Increasingly on the Rise
The money manager's chief technologist sang the praises of open-source technologies at BST North America.
SR Labs Readies New Hosted Data Solution, Touts OpenMAMA
The new solution will address compliance and data management, leveraging OpenMAMA messaging to aid migrations.
Tick42 Builds TREP-OpenMAMA Bridge
Bridge will support data capture and publishing between platforms, as well as user migrations.
Symphony Composes Open-Source Foundation
The bank-backed messaging vendor aims to use open-source to better its code and gain the trust of its users.
Open Platform: Two’s Not a Crowd: Market Data’s Dirty Secret
Will Bloomberg's recent outage make financial firms more willing to consider alternative offerings?
Open Platform: The ‘Hidden Tax’ of Index Data
As index use has grown, so have the ways in which entrenched index providers are extracting revenues from licensing their indexes and underlying data. But with cost still a key concern, with the popularity of exchange-traded funds growing, and with…
Open Platform: Weathering the Perfect Storm of Cost, Complexity and Regulation
As the importance of data rises, so does the attention paid by regulators to how it is managed, increasing the data management burden on buy-side firms and prompting them to consider new models, such as managed services, says Steve Cheng, global head of…
Open Platform: Big Data, Little Urgency
Bombarded by hype about Big Data, financial firms feel pressured to adopt Big Data solutions. But, depending on their needs, firms should think twice before throwing out existing data warehouses, says Jonas Olsson, founder and chief executive of Swedish…
Object Trading Adds OpenMAMA Interface to FrontRunner
Trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading is adding support for NYSE Technologies' OpenMAMA messaging layer framework-the open-source version of its Middleware Agnostic Messaging API-to its Frontrunner direct market access suite, to…
KUDOS* to the Humble Spreadsheet (*KUDOS = Known and Unknown Dependency of Spreadsheets)
Firms don’t often think of spreadsheets as big contributors to their data budget. But they’d be mistaken. And not only can these be drains on data resources; they can also present tricky problems when updating them to ensure they are properly consuming…