Inside Market Data/News
Wall Street Horizon Ups Buy-Side Focus, Hires Research Director
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon is increasing its focus on the buy side after a recent academic study found that the vendor's earnings date revisions data could be used to predict stock movement, and has…
Genscape Brings Power Supply Monitoring Data to UK Market
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has expanded its coverage to monitor power flow and generation monitoring in the UK.
Eagle Alpha Swoops on Ex-Twitter Architect
Social media data provider Eagle Alpha recently hired former Twitter architect Evan Weaver as technical advisor to add "significant value to [the vendor's] technical architecture roadmap," officials say.
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.
South Africa's Prudential IM Deploys StatPro Analytics
Cape Town, South Africa-based Prudential Investment Managers has begun rolling out products from UK-based data and portfolio analytics vendor StatPro to support cloud access to sophisticated portfolio analytics.
Global Switch Taps Custom Connect for Connectivity, Managed Services
Alliance will reduce costs for Global Switch clients while expanding their global reach
Moody's Acquires Pricing, Analytics Vendor Lewtan Tech
Moody's Corporation, the parent company of credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics, has acquired Waltham, Mass. -based structured finance analytical tools and market data provider Lewtan Technologies for an undisclosed sum.
OpenGamma Taps Vets Beeston, Conde for Board
Banking, fintech veterans will help company respond to rapid growth in demand, officials say.
McObject’s eXtremeDB Financial V6 Adds SQL, Python, Data Compression
Enhancements will make McObject's high-performance database more accessible to developers and reduce storage requirements.
FIX Market Data Protocol Spec Nears Completion
FIX Trading Community outlines progress on development of a new, standardized protocol for market data transmission.
Marex Spectron Grows Commodities Data
Commodities and financial broker Marex Spectron has expanded its market data offering with the addition of new content sets for fuels and metals.
Zacks Builds Operating Metrics Estimates Dataset
The vendor will add estimates of key company operating metrics to its datasets.
Zacks Estimates Becomes First Premium Dataset on Quandl Financial Search Engine
Toronto-based economic and financial search engine Quandl has added North American earnings estimates data from Chicago-based Zacks Investment Research as the first instance of fee-liable data on its web-based platform for financial, economic and…
Barchart Adds US, Canadian Equity Options Prices
Chicago-based market data provider Barchart has added US and Canadian equity options price data to its cloud-based Barchart OnDemand service, allowing clients to request current, end-of-day and historical option pricing using Barchart's OnDemand APIs.
Canadian Advisory Firm CFSI Signs MDA, Quartet to Vendor Partner Ecosystem
Canadian business development advisory firm Collaborative Financial Services Inc. (CFSI) has signed deals to represent two Toronto-based companies──startup market structure and transaction cost analysis provider Market Data Authority and managed IT…
De Telegraaf Taps VWD for Financial Data
Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf has rolled out stock and financial data from the Dutch subsidiary of German market data vendor VWD Group, building on an existing deal to carry the vendor's data on its website with a new package that officials say…
Reg-Room Readies Add Intraday Alerts for Regulatory Tracking System
New York-based technology startup Reg-Room is adding intraday alerts to its Reg-Track global regulatory tracking system to enable financial firms to receive timely updates on new and proposed rules and regulations that are tailored to their specific…
Millistream Adds GXG Markets Data
Swedish data provider Millistream has signed an agreement to distribute real-time, delayed and end-of-day price data from Danish pan-European exchange GXG Markets, to improve its offering and to give clients access to a broader range of market…
Victory Taps Rodriguez for BizDev
Chicago-based market data and trading infrastructure, connectivity and co-location provider Victory Networks has hired former Livevol president Dax Rodriguez as head of business development, responsible for expanding business relationships, contributing…
Tech Vet Barringer Joins SecurityScorecard to Tighten Data Security for Capital Markets
Paul Barringer has joined information security provider SecurityScorecard as strategic sales director, responsible for sales to corporate clients as well as to financial services firms, and for exploring new channels and use cases to sell the vendor's…
Enso Gets More Cash from Icap to Fund Expansion
Interdealer broker Icap has made a second undisclosed investment in market intelligence and analytics provider Enso, which provides portfolio analytics on counterparty credit risk, collateral management, and portfolio financing and treasury functions to…
Teradata, Datawatch Ally for Data Visualization
Big data storage and analysis provider Teradata is making analytics from data visualization software vendor Datawatch available to its clients, allowing them to visualize data sources held in Teradata data warehouses, such as documents, PDFs and log…
TMX Atrium to Distribute NPLTime
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has signed a distribution agreement with the UK's national measurement institute, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), to distribute NPLTime, a certified precise time signal…
Infinigon Bows API Access to Twitter Analytics
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics that monitors Twitter for price-impacting information and provides the resulting data to trading firms, has released an API for firms to programmatically access its analytics.