Inside Market Data/News
Morningstar UK Integrates Alliance News
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar's UK subsidiary has begun distributing streaming equities news from UK-based newswire startup Alliance News via two of its investment research platforms, to enable users to view real-time…
Morningstar Australia Ticker Plant to Cut Latency by 100ms
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has set up a ticker plant in its Sydney, Australia datacenter to provide lower-latency content via its datafeeds to local trading firms.
Options Hosting Clients Get Microwave CME Data via Quincy
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options is making low-latency microwave connectivity vendor Quincy Data's QED (Quincy Extreme Data) service available to its clients hosted at Options' server cage in Equinix's NY4 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ.
Data Demand Drives Second Nasdaq India Office
Nasdaq OMX has opened a new development office in Bangalore, with the goal of boosting its global technology offerings and to meet growing demand in India for data products, exchange solutions and new listing opportunities.
WSNS Adds Another IXnet Vet, Brad Lutz
Wall Street Network Solutions has named Bradford Lutz chief administrative officer, to support the company's next phase of growth and global expansion, officials say.
FSMLabs Bows Cloud Time-Sync App
Precision time synchronization solution provider FSMLabs has released TimeKeeper Cloud, a version of its TimeKeeper appliance running on Amazon Web Services that ensures consistent timing between distributed trading applications for effective trading and…
IXcellerate Taps Cladingbowl as Tech Adviser
Russian datacenter provider IXcellerate has appointed Peter Cladingbowl senior technology adviser, responsible for assisting the company's operations team in developing its Moscow One datacenter campus and in the selection process for the Moscow Two…
RapidMiner ‘Mines' Menzies' Experience to Grow Sales, Partners
Cambridge, Mass.-based predictive analytics provider RapidMiner has hired financial technology sales veteran Andy Menzies as chief revenue officer, responsible for the vendor's sales, business development and customer support functions.
Bureau van Dijk Expands Catalyst Risk Data Offering
Dutch company information provider Bureau van Dijk is launching two new products─Credit Catalyst and Procurement Catalyst─that assess reputational and financial risk by blending internal and external company intelligence in one platform.
TMX Atrium Mulls Asia FX Expansion, Eyes Canada, SEFs
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, is considering expanding its current foreign exchange market coverage beyond Europe and the US to Asia, to meet growing demand from customers for FX market data and connectivity…
Infinancials Develops Broker Tool to ID Stocks with Similar Fundamentals
French fundamental data and analytics provider Infinancials has developed a new web application, called Equity Trade Advisor, that online brokers can integrate with their online trading platforms to provide active traders with investment ideas based on…
CBOE Eyes 12-Month Latency Cuts
The Chicago Board Options Exchange is in the middle of an ongoing project to reduce data and transaction latency across its trading systems to less than 100 microseconds, building on existing latency reductions achieved as a result of moving its primary…
Startup Fund Linkul Value Taps YCharts
Startup asset manager Linkul Value Management has signed up to use Chicago-based YCharts’ online fundamental data analysis platform for historical analysis and running reports to create pitch books to attract investors.
SuperDerivatives Lays out DGX 2014 Roadmap
Over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is building out content and functionality on its DGX market data terminal, following the completion of the first-phase rollout of "must-have" data and functionality components…
S&P CapIQ Expands Asia Market Connectivity
S&P Capital IQ plans to extend its low-latency network to new liquidity centers in the Asia-Pacific region over the coming months, including Korea, India and Thailand, in an effort to meet growing customer demand for real-time exchange data.
Eley Pivots to GoldenSource
John Eley, former chief executive of energy and commodities instant messaging, trading and liquidity aggregation software Pivot Inc., which was acquired by CME Group in July 2012 (IMD, July 31, 2012; Aug. 5, 2012), has joined enterprise data management…
Fannie Mae Catches Khatri
Market data industry veteran Arun Khatri has joined mortgage underwriter Fannie Mae in Herndon, VA as technology sourcing specialist, managing data services required by the agency's trading floor and to support its mortgage origination activities.
Equinix Readies Sixth London Datacenter
Datacenter provider Equinix plans to build a new datacenter, dubbed LD6, at its Slough datacenter campus outside central London, to meet demand for rackspace from financial services customers.
Poseidon Aims to Make Waves with China/Japan Reports, Mulls Quant Research
Hong Kong-based research provider Poseidon Research plans to release two off-the-shelf reports covering political risk in China and Japan in the coming weeks, and is also considering adding quantitative analysis to its existing qualitative content set to…
Morningstar Puts CMBS Ratings on Bloomberg Terminals
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar's credit ratings arm has begun providing commercial mortgage-backed securities ratings via Bloomberg's Professional terminal, to meet growing investor demand for broader distribution of its…
Savvis to Maintain Financial Focus, Post-Name Change
Officials at network and hosting provider Savvis say the vendor remains committed to its capital markets cloud and co-location customers, after retiring the Savvis brand and changing its name to CenturyLink Technology Solutions (CTS) in a bid to…
xCelor Debuts Single-Digit Nanosecond Data Switches
Chicago-based low-latency switching and data technology vendor xCelor has begun rolling out its family of xPort Layer 1 network switches, which replicate data from feeds without performing other processing tasks, to minimize port-to-port latency to…
Kensho Unveils Warren, a Natural-Language Query ‘Virtual Research Assistant'
Cloud-based analytics provider Kensho has enlisted asset managers and research teams to test Warren, a "virtual market research assistant" developed for the financial markets that understands and responds to queries asked using natural language.
SMA Launches Social Media Analytics for Active Traders
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals based on social media sentiment, has released three new products aimed at active traders, in addition to its existing SmartStation workstation product for institutional…