Inside Market Data/News
SR Labs Buys Wombat Platform from NYSE Tech
New York-based low-latency feed handler and market data platform vendor SR Labs has acquired the Wombat Financial Software platform and associated technologies for an undisclosed sum from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of the New York…
TPI Unveils Aggregated SDR Feed
Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, has rolled out an aggregated feed of interest rate swap data from swap data repositories, in a move to increase pre- and post-trade transparency in accordance with the Dodd…
Norexeco Exchange Taps Deutsche Börse Platform
Norwegian renewables exchange Norexeco ASA has signed a deal to roll out Deutsche Börse's M7 trading platform for its new forestry and paper industry derivative exchange, which officials say will facilitate "fully transparent" price information and fair…
CQG Adds DJ Calendar Live
Data, analytics and trading platform provider CQG last month incorporated Dow Jones Calendar Live to its Integrated Client flagship data and trading platform, to support real-time trading decisions and longer-term strategy planning based on events and…
The Roberts Group Appoints Matthews CEO; Leitner to Head Advisory Board
Market data inventory and cost management software vendor The Roberts Group has hired former Omgeo chief operating officer Steve Matthews as chief executive, responsible for expanding the company's client base and furthering its product development…
Interactive Data Adds Nasdaq Indexes to BondEdge
Interactive Data's BondEdge Solutions cross-asset portfolio management and risk analytics division has added Nasdaq OMX's Global Index Family to its BondEdge portfolio management platform to enable institutional investors and wealth and asset managers to…
Bloomberg Plugs Fitch Ratings Data into Indexes, Professional Terminal
Bloomberg has incorporated credit ratings from credit ratings and research provider Fitch Ratings into the calculation of a selection of its Global Bond Indexes, to provide a measure of the indexes' credit quality for global institutional investors and…
Who’s Who at SIFMA Tech 2014
This year a varied range of new faces from Big Data players to communications and cloud services providers will exhibit at the annual SIFMA Technology exhibition, along with some of the more familiar names in the industry. So if you’re unsure how to…
Brazil’s Anbima Preps Vendor Reference Price Feed
Brazilian self-regulatory authority Anbima, an industry association that governs member trading and investment firms, is preparing to create a datafeed of fixed income price data from Brazilian market participants that will target vendors and…
Tocom Taps KVH for CME Data Link
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) has deployed Japanese datacenter and hosting provider KVH's global Ether-WAN network to connect between KVH's TDC1proximity datacenter in Tokyo and CME Group's datacenters in Aurora, Illinois and at 350 East Cermak…
Cordatum Spins Off Recruitment Biz
Market data consultancy Cordatum Associates has spun of its recruitment business to form a new venture, dubbed FMPI Recruitment, allowing Cordatum to focus on market data-specific projects, while devoting more specialist resources to recruitment projects.
Addicticks Adds Scenario Builder to TR Emulator Tool
Dutch market data technology provider Addicticks is developing new functionality for its TRemulator tool, which simulates data from Thomson Reuters sources─namely, the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real Time (TREP-RT), the vendor's Elektron…
Options Adds Velocimetrics Latency, Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated Velocimetrics' monitoring and performance analysis technology with its Velocity low-latency market data and connectivity product.
Barchart Expands Web Services Data
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart.com has released a number of new web services APIs for commodity futures data via its Barchart OnDemand service, which leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
Empirasign Adds Informa GM News Commentary to Dealer Runs
New York-based fixed income dealer offering data provider Empirasign Strategies has incorporated two news feeds from Informa Global Markets into its online portal that provides prices and trade color parsed from emails between dealers and counterparties,…
Thomson Reuters Hopes to Strike Gold by Adding GFMS Mine Data to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added global gold mine information from precious and industrial metals markets research and analysis subsidiary GFMS Mine Economics to its Eikon desktop platform to provide metals traders and analysts with predictive indicators for…
Colt ‘Unifies' Colt, MarketPrizm Capital Markets Teams
UK-based network and hosting services provider Colt has created a new unified Colt Capital Markets team that covers sales, product operations and delivery across Europe, drawing from its own staff and from employees from MarketPrizm, the UK-based market…
Markit Plugs Real-Time Data into Valuations Service
Markit has integrated real-time trade data from its MarkitServ electronic trade processing service for over-the-counter derivatives with its Portfolio Valuations valuation service that provides independent mark-to-market valuations and risk analytics for…
Burton Taylor Forecasts Data Demand Drop in 2015
Growth in demand for market data and analysis is expected to contract─though not decrease─next year, despite a hitherto positive trend that saw global spend on market data and analysis rise 1.1 percent over 2012 to $25.88 billion at the end of 2013,…
Moscow Exchange Taps Fincad for OTC Analytics
The Moscow Exchange has rolled out Vancouver-based over-the-counter deriveatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad's F3 Platform to allow quantitative analysts and credit officers at member trading firms to perform risk analysis, compute…
CFD Platform CeFDex Adds NetDania Charts
German contracts for difference (CFDs) market maker and technology provider CeFDex has incorporated the charting package of Danish financial software provider NetDania into its trading platform, the companies said on Wednesday, announcing that three…
Genscape Grows Ship-Tracking Network
Energy supply data provider Genscape has expanded its VesselTracker shipping tracking and monitoring network with the addition of 436 new AIS (Automatic Identification System) antennas, allowing the vendor to more accurately collect information on ship…
Euronext, SunGard Ally for Volatility Data Service
European exchange group Euronext has partnered with SunGard to create a new Equity and Index Volatility Data service to provide customers with volatility data covering equity and indexes globally, including the CAC 40, DAX30, S&P 500 and FTSE 100.