Inside Market Data/News
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
Morningstar iPad App Ups Content, Capabilities
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar recently updated its Morningstar for iPad research, market monitoring and portfolio management app with new content and capabilities.
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,…
IDC Expands Real-Time Bond Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has expanded its continuous fixed income evaluated pricing service to provide users with real-time evaluated prices for US Treasury, agency and corporate bonds, TBA mortgage-backed securities, and mortgage-backed securities pass-through…
Mergent Adds Barchart Commodity Yearbook to Historical Document Archive
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart's Commodity Research Bureau division has made the 75-year archive of its CRB Commodity Yearbook available via company data provider Mergent's Mergent Archives, an online database of more than 180,000 indexed corporate…
Thomson Reuters Wins Taipei IBOR Benchmark Calculation Role
The Taipei Foreign Exchange Market Development Foundation has named Thomson Reuters the calculation agent for its CNT TAIBOR offshore renminbi benchmark, the Taipei Interbank Offered Rate.
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Datacenter
CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the former Savvis hosting and network business subsidiary acquired by internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink, has opened a new datacenter in Markham, Toronto.
Nasdaq PHLX Adds Data Specs to Options Feeds
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) is updating the specifications for three options data products, to include additional data in existing order exposure alerts and a solicitation mechanism.
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Data Audit Recoveries Boost Moscow Exchange H1 Revenues
The Moscow Exchange has reported a 42 percent year-on-year increase in first half information services revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, to RR (Russian rubles) 241.7 million ($6.7 million), from RR170.7 million ($4.7 million) in 2013.
CQG Preps Mobile Charting, Cross-Asset Data
Data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is enhancing its CQG M mobile data and trading application with charting tools and data on multiple asset classes in response to customer feedback, as part of an effort by the vendor to make the mobile…
EPFR Jumps for Joyce
Cambridge, Mass.-based fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired data industry vet Larry Joyce as sales director, based in New York, and focusing on sales to asset managers, mutual funds and hedge funds in the New York tri-state area.
LSE Announces £938M Rights Issue to Fund Russell Acquisition
The London Stock Exchange has announced that it intends to raise £938 million ($1.561 billion) in a rights issue (an issue of rights to buy additional securities in a company made to the company's existing security holders) to fund part of the $2.7…
The Roberts Group Releases Invoice Payment Approval Module
New York-based data inventory and cost management software provider The Roberts Group has released a new module of its FITS (Financial Information Tracking System) market data inventory management platform, dubbed FITS Invoice Approval Workflow (IAW),…
Crowdnetic 'Braggs' About New European Sales Hire
New York-headquartered private equity and crowdsourcing market data startup Crowdnetic has hired Adam Braggs to head up European sales of its equity and debt crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending global market data.
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Doubles Quotation Rates
Chinese stock exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has announced that it has increased quotation rates from the Shenzhen market from 114,000 quotes per second up to 228,000 per second.
Nasdaq OMX Introduces New IP Addresses for New York Area
Nasdaq OMX has introduced new IP addresses for the New York Metro Area datacenter for its PHLX depth of darket, PHLX orders, and top of PHLX Options (TOPO) datafeeds.
Eris Exchange Swap Futures Rolls Out Perseus' Networks
U.S. futures exchange Eris Exchange Swap Futures has rolled out New York-based fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom’s High Precision Time and market-to-market networks, providing clients with fast connectivity to its Eris SwapBook…
Leila Fourie Appointed to JSE Board
Leila Fourie, director of post-trade and information services at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, was this week appointed to the bourse’s board as an executive director.
Broadridge Bags Thomson Reuters' Perry
Christopher Perry, former global managing director of the risk segment in Thomson Reuters' financial and risk division, is to join financial technology and investor communications service provider Broadridge Financial Solutions next month as president of…