Social media
Update: Market Prophit Eyes Expanded ‘Social' Indexes
First index could pave the way for a range of industry, segment or style indexes based on social media data.
Market Prophit Enlists S&P DJI, Bloomberg for Social Media Sentiment Index
The index will comprise the 25 companies mentioned most on social media chatter.
Opening Cross: In the Interest of Full Disclosure
Disclosure of market-moving information, and the industry that surrounds it, is changing rapidly.
SMA Unveils Social Data Dashboard, Integrates Seeking Alpha News
Dashboard will expand SMA's user base beyond quantitative feed clients.
'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
Interactive Data Taps Sowa Labs for Social Media Analytics Feed
Interactive Data has rolled out a social media analytics feed from Stuttgart-based data analytics and consulting services provider Sowa Labs, to allow its clients to better assess financial markets and individual stocks.
Eagle Alpha Raises $1.2M to Fund Development, Hires
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has raised $1.2 million in its second round of funding this year, which it will invest in product development and use to recruit more engineers.
Hazlitt: The View of Enterprise Social Media Needs to Evolve
At this year's Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in Manhattan, Simon Hazlitt looked at how his firm has turned to enterprise social media solution tibbr to revolutionize its internal communications, even if the platform, itself, is not about…
S&P Cap IQ, Kuberre Launch Event Fusion Real-Time Alerting
S&P Capital IQ, the data arm of McGraw Hill Financial, and Andover, Mass.-based financial technology provider Kuberre Systems will launch a new cloud-based platform, dubbed Event Fusion, today, Sept. 30, which provides real-time alerts on news and…
OMD Builds Social Media Data ‘Sandbox’
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData has launched a new web-based social media analysis platform that combines market data, reference data and social media sentiment scores with analytics and visualization tools, to…
Dagens Industri Taps Finwire for Swedish News, ‘Social' Content
Swedish daily financial news site and newspaper Dagens Industri has signed an agreement with Swedish news provider Finwire to distribute the vendor's small-cap Swedish company news and curated content from social media streams about global events,…
SMA Eyes Front-Office Traders, PMs with Social Indicators Excel Add-in
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals derived from analysis of social media sentiment, is rolling out a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet add-in to make its proprietary S-Factor sentiment scores more accessible by…
Eagle Alpha Bows Social Data ‘Influencer' Lists for Quant Traders
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has released Quant Offering, a stream of posts from targeted subject lists of around 10,000 individuals on Twitter that the vendor has deemed market-moving influencers, which it says will boost the…
Investment Banking Platforms Set to Become More Social
As regulations continue to reshape the global financial marketplace, single-dealer platforms are being forced to rethink how they operate. Influenced by ever-increasing consumer use of technology and social media, and determined to put their clients in…
Twitter Buys Tweet Data Distributor Gnip to Grow Social Data Biz
Social media microblogging site Twitter has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based social media aggregator Gnip for an undisclosed sum.
The Customer is Always Vaguely Identifiable
Further pushes into KYC and the expanding use of social tech lead this week’s coverage.
SMA Increases Coverage, Frequency of Sentiment Scores
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals based on social media sentiment, is expanding its asset class coverage and increasing the frequency of its intraday sentiment scores, to meet demand for data from traders…
Markit Taps SMA for Social Media Sentiment Indicators
Markit has integrated social media sentiment indicators from Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois.-based provider of social media-based analytics and trading indicators, into its Markit Research Signals suite of more than 400 investment…
SuperDerivatives Lays out DGX 2014 Roadmap
Over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is building out content and functionality on its DGX market data terminal, following the completion of the first-phase rollout of "must-have" data and functionality components…
Saxo Bank Launches Social Trading Floor
Copenhagen-based Saxo Bank has launched the beta version of its new social media-style trading floor.
SMA Launches Social Media Analytics for Active Traders
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals based on social media sentiment, has released three new products aimed at active traders, in addition to its existing SmartStation workstation product for institutional…
Thomson Reuters' Brittan: Analytics Will Be Key to Unlocking Value in 2014
Philip Brittan, chief technology officer and global head of platform for Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk division, discusses the importance of analytics in delivering competitive edge from commoditized content.
2013 Review: Social Media, ‘Hash Crash’ Are 2013’s #trendingtopics
Just as 2010 was the year of the Flash Clash, 2013 will be remembered as teh year of the “Hash Crash,” when the debate over whether social media influences stock prices was settled by hackers.
MarketPsych Unveils New Predictive Analytic Tools
Behavioral finance research and analysis provider MarketPsych has developed a new suite of tools that will enable investment banks, wealth managers, hedge funds and traders to understand market trends and extract value from its sentiment data.