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Market Prophit Preps Full Launch, Fees
Social media sentiment analysis provider Market Prophit is preparing to emerge from its beta testing phase and begin charging fees for its service in September, chief executive Igor Gonta tells Inside Market Data.
Ballintrae Unveils BMAP Data Compliance Tool
UK-based technology and market data consultancy Ballintrae has released a new compliance tool, dubbed Ballintrae Map (BMAP), which enables banks, asset managers and other institutional investment firms to map market data flows within their organization…
Kimsey: Developing Markets Driving Data Growth
Global spending on market data is poised to grow by just under 4 percent over the next two years to around $23.6 billion, driven by growing data consumption in new markets, according to an analysis of the trading technology sector carried out by UK-based…
9W Search Integrates IBM's Watson for Natural-Language Queries
Financial search engine provider 9W Search is developing a new component of its web-based financial information search platform that will leverage IBM's Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer to allow investors to query 9W's structured and…
Fitch Hires Vendor Vet Filanowski as Global Product Head
Fitch solutions, the software and data arm of ratings agency Fitch, has hired former Bloomberg exec Brian Filanowski as managing director and global product head, responsible for the delivery and expansion of current and new analytical tools from Fitch…
CoreSite Rolls Out Perseus' Time Synch in VA Datacenter
Carrier-neutral datacenter and co-location provider CoreSite Realty Corporation has deployed connectivity and managed services provider Perseus Telecom's High-Precision Time certified timing service at its facility in Northern Virginia, to enable…
Tradier Bows No-Cost ‘Sandbox' Environment for Startup Developers
Tradier, a cloud-based brokerage platform operator and provider of a supporting data, trading and analytics application hosted environment, has unveiled a new service, dubbed Tradier Developer Sandbox, aimed at startup developers that find it hard and…
TS-Associates Enters Administration, Velocimetrics Takes Over IP, Tech Team
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has acquired an exclusive license to sell and maintain the Precision Instrumentation product range developed by UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates, which has entered…
Diliger Hires Data Vets Clark, Humby, Cartledge
Startup London-based market data procurement platform provider Diliger has hired three market data industry procurement and consulting experts to bolster its team and support an "aggressive agenda" for its data solutions sourcing business, officials say.
Eccleston Departs S&P Capital IQ
Lou Eccleston, president of S&P Capital IQ and chairman of the board of S&P Dow Jones Indices, left the companies' parent group, McGraw-Hill Financial, on Monday, July 14.
Black is the New Black for MSCI Canada
Index provider MSCI has hired Lindsay Black as vice president of its equity index business in Toronto, responsible for relationship management with local asset managers, broker-dealers and hedge funds.
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Dials Mobile Data App
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has launched a mobile application designed to provide investors with a selected and user-friendly view of trading data.
Bloomberg-Rebranded UBS Indexes Continue Availability on Rimes BDS
Managed benchmark data services provider Rimes Technologies has added Bloomberg index data from Bloomberg to the range of data sources available via its Benchmark Data Service, which provides cloud-based data collection, validation, transformation,…
Boston Consulting Group Hires McGraw-Hill Exec Teschner
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has hired former McGraw-Hill strategy executive Charles Teschner as head of capital markets for North America, to lead the consultancy's team advising financial institutions in the region.
ITG Launches FX Trading Cost Index App
Broker and research provider ITG has released a tool that provides foreign exchange traders and portfolio managers with liquidity costs for 20 currency pairs.
OTAS Bows Real-Time TCA
London-based analytics provider OTAS Technologies has rolled out a new transaction cost analysis platform that provides traders at buy-side firms with real-time analytics on trade performance in changing market conditions.
FX ECN Spotex Taps Solace for Data Messaging
Spotex, a foreign exchange trading ECN that launched in June, has confirmed it is using Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems' routing technologies to provide low-latency messaging for price and trade data between trading…
Updata Launches ‘Integrate’ Database Tool for Firms to Chart In-House Data
UK-based technical analysis software provider Updata has released a new tool, dubbed Updata Integrate, which maps data from client firms’ in-house databases to the vendor’s Professional analytics workstation, enabling users to display their own data in…
Hitachi Data Systems, Informatica Ally on Legacy Platform Retirement
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), the storage, software and services subsidiary of Japanese technology conglomerate Hitachi, is partnering with data integration software provider Informatica to provide a technology platform abstraction and retirement service…
Tick Data Bows Cloud Data Storage, Access
Historical tick-level trade and quote data provider Tick Data has introduced cloud-hosted options to allow firms without large IT and storage infrastructures to access and run analytics on the vendor's full tick history.
TPI Enlists Matriks as Turkish Data Distributor
Turkish data vendor Matriks Bilgi Dagitim Hizmetleri has signed a deal with Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, to distribute TPI's over-the-counter prices on global commodities to its client base of…
Fincad Updates F3 Valuation, Analytics Platform
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad will roll out a new version of its F3 enterprise valuation and risk analytics platform in the coming weeks, with increased support for foreign exchange derivatives,…
ITRS Names Former FTSE Exec Warren CEO
ITRS Group, a London-based provider of real-time systems monitoring and management technology, has hired Guy Warren as chief executive, replacing Kevin Covington, who will continue to serve as a senior advisor to ITRS after more than five years as CEO.
MDX Tech Taps CFSI as Canadian Agent
UK market data connectivity supplier MDX Technology has appointed Toronto-based consulting services startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc (CFSI) as its sole agent in Canada, as part of its ongoing expansion into North America.