Inside Market Data/News
Interactive Data Deploys Vantage Pricing Platform in Asia
Interactive Data has begun rolling out the latest version of its web-based Vantage fixed income price discovery and evaluated pricing application to clients in the Asia-Pacific region, after adding content during 2013 in response to feedback on client…
Nous Bows Crowd-Sourced Investor Sentiment Data
Startup trading application and data provider Nous will next week unveil a feed of crowd-sourced data aimed at banks and hedge funds that delivers a view of investor sentiment based on the trading decisions of investors using the vendor's mobile app…
Satherlund Hangs her Hat on Hatstand
Martina Satherlund has joined IT consultancy Hatstand as principal market data consultant, serving as a project manager for client engagements, covering market and reference data projects including cost optimization, exchange and vendor audits, desktop…
FIX Eyes ESMA Talks, User Participation in MMT
Trading standards body FIX Trading Community plans to boost sell-side participation in developing the Market Model Typology trade reporting tag standard, and to broaden the coverage of the standard to new areas, after absorbing the effort under its…
Solarflare Preps ‘Lockdown' Data Protection Tool for Trading Servers
Hardware-acceleration and data network technology provider Solarflare will later this year introduce a server security product designed to protect servers used to support trading platforms from malicious intrusions designed to access or steal data, to…
MarketAxess Bows European BASI Liquidity Measure
New York-based fixed income marketplace operator MarketAxess launched a new indicator on Thursday, Feb. 6 called the European Bid-Ask Spread Index (BASI), which tracks liquidity in the European corporate bond market by comparing the prices of actively…
CenturyLink Tech Solutions Changes Bandwidth Buying Process to Cut Connectivity Costs for Clients
Network and datacenter hosting provider CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the subsidiary of internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink formerly known as Savvis, is rolling out a revised commercial model that offers clients more flexible options…
Tabb Report: Illiquid Bond Pricing is "World's Most Complex Sudoku Puzzle"
The data industry must work harder to improve pricing of illiquid fixed income asset classes by harnessing contextual data to understand instruments, particularly as demand continues to rise for intraday and real-time pricing, according to a report…
Money.net Nabs ex-Bloomberg Commodities Head as CEO
New York-based low-cost financial data display provider Money.net has hired Morgan Downey as chief executive, responsible for all lines of business and functional groups within the company.
Eurex Bows Mobile iOS and Android App
Deutsche Börse has launched a new app for its Eurex derivatives exchange, dubbed Eurex Mobile App, which provides investors with prices, news announcements, Twitter feeds and other information for more than 1,500 futures and options via Apple iOS and…
Nasdaq Opens Test Centers Ahead of March Datafeeds Migration
Nasdaq OMX has made test environments available in its Carteret, NJ and Ashburn, VA datacenters for clients to test live data in new versions of its market data feeds that the exchange will roll out next month.
Barchart Adds iPhone Data-Trading App
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart has released a mobile version of its Barchart Trader desktop application for Apple iPhone devices, to accompany the terminal and Android versions unveiled last year (IMD, Sept. 6, 2013; Nov. 6, 2013).
FIX ‘Adopts’ MMT Post-Trade Data Standards
Standards body FIX Trading Community-the organization formerly known as FIX Protocol Ltd, which governs the development of the FIX Protocol-has adopted the Market Model Typology post-trade reporting initiative as a FIX standard, adding support for MMT in…
Bloomberg Embeds OneMarketData for Trade Analytics
Bloomberg has integrated tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData’s OneTick CEP engine into its EMSX execution management system, an integrated component of the vendor’s Bloomberg Professional terminal, to provide users…
Thomson Reuters Focuses on Search in Latest Eikon
Thomson Reuters will this week roll out the fourth iteration of its Eikon next-generation data desktop, with new features designed to make it easier for users to access the platform’s content and analytics, and to more tightly integrate the product into…
VWD Expands Bonds, Ratings Content to Meet Fixed Income, Risk Demand
Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD has released version 3.4 of its Market Manager desktop application in an effort to tap into increased demand from savings banks, treasury departments and insurance companies for flexible bond calculations and for more…
Quartet FS Readies Historical Analysis, Sentinel Update
In-memory analytics technology provider Quartet FS is preparing to launch a new version of its ActivePivot data aggregation and analytics engine that will enable users to carry out historical data analysis following breaches in performance indicators…
Telx Eyes New York Hosting Space Expansion
Datacenter and hosting provider Telx is expanding its available datacenter space in New York City and the NY metro area, to meet demand for hosting space in the city, with plans to grow its datacenters at 32, Avenue of the Americas and 60 Hudson Street…
New Warsaw Stock Exchange Indexes Up Focus on Small, Mid-Cap Stocks
The Warsaw Stock Exchange will start publishing two new price indexes─the WIG50 and WIG250─in March, replacing existing smaller, more selective index families, in a move to boost its coverage of small and medium-sized companies listed on its Main Market.
Freedom Index Co Bows Aussie, Africa Indexes
Startup not-for-profit index provider the Freedom Index Company-which launched last year to offer free and independent indexes to the asset management community-is planning to add Australian indexes to its family of free-of-charge products, and is now…
Canadian Doctors' Fund Taps QuoteMedia Data Terminals
MD Physician Services, an asset manager and investment advisory subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association that serves Canadian doctors and their families has signed a three-year deal with Phoenix, Ariz.- and Canada-based data provider QuoteMedia to…
Wiener Börse Inks Data Deal to Distribute Kazakh Exchange Prices
Wiener Börse, the Vienna Stock Exchange, has signed an agreement with the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) to allow data vendors to obtain price data from the Kazakhstan market via the Austrian exchange's Alliance Data Highway datafeed.
Altibase Taps Red Hat for Cloud Database
Fort Lee, NJ-based in-memory database provider Altibase has switched the operating system for its Amazon Web Services deployment of its Altibase HDB Cloud database platform from running on SUSE Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which officials say will…
DWPBank Extends SIX Data Deal
Frankfurt-based Deutsche WertpapierService Bank (DWPBank) has signed a five-year extension to an existing deal for SIX Financial Information to supply the bank with market data and evaluated prices.