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Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
S&P Cap IQ Expands Asia Connectivity via HKEx Orion
S&P Capital IQ is making its QuantFeed and QuantLink low-latency datafeed and network available via Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's Orion technology platform, in a move to meet increasing demand for connectivity and high-speed data in Asia.
Rutschmann Named Infront COO
Norwegian data vendor Infront has appointed Urs Rutschmann as chief operating officer, responsible for managing all the vendor's operational activities, including strategy, sales, marketing, product development and client services.
YCharts Revamps Screener, Charting; Preps New Content, Research
Fundamental data analysis provider YCharts has enhanced its stock screener tool to allow users of its YCharts Pro Platinum professional-grade analysis platform to create custom combinations of screening criteria based on the 4,000 financial factors…
TMX Atrium Connects to IXcellerate Moscow Datacenter
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has expanded its connectivity network to Moscow with a new low-latency access to Russian datacenter provider IXcellerate's Moscow One datacenter.
Interactive Data Bows Web Data Usage Analytics Toolkit
Interactive Data is launching a new suite of web analytics tools designed to help financial and media organizations roll out tailor-made investment products and tools by tracking and analyzing how users navigate their websites, and leverage "crowd data"…
Markit's McPherson Returns to NewOak
Neil McPherson, former managing director and global head of structured finance at Markit, has rejoined New York-based risk advisory and asset management firm NewOak--where he previously served as a managing director between October 2008 and April 2009-…
1010 Says 10-4 to Fannie Loan Data
Big Data analytics and database provider 1010Data has aggregated Fannie Mae loan-level credit performance data for fixed-rate single family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae over the past 13 years into two tables as an ongoing time-series dataset that…
Borsa Istanbul Takes Nasdaq Data, Trading Platforms
Nasdaq OMX will supply Turkish exchange Borsa Istanbul with technology and advisory services─including the provision of a new market data distribution system─under the terms of a deal that will also see Nasdaq take a five percent stake in the exchange,…
SFI Adds Killeen as FTE
Jocelyn Killeen has joined Simplified Financial Information-the startup usage monitoring and data capture and replay technology provider set up by industry veteran Emilio Mercado-full-time as lead business analyst, after working with the company on a…
Nasdaq Delays New Feeds Test
Nasdaq OMX has delayed the start of testing for enhanced versions of its US equity datafeeds covering its Nasdaq Stock Market, BX and PSX marketplaces until the end of January.
NFEA Taps Moscow Exchange FX Fixing for Swap Rates
Russia's National Foreign Exchange Association has announced that from Jan. 9, it will begin using the Moscow Exchange's US dollar-ruble price fixing to calculate the NFEA FX swap rate instead of the current Central Bank of Russia rate.
Market Data Industry's Top Quotes of 2013
Our gift to you: some of the most poignant and pithy comments from our pages in 2013
2013 Review: Herd in Review: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
As we take today to celebrate and surround ourselves with friends and family, it's worth remembering the difference that the actions of other people make--in the data industry as well as in our everyday lives. So in IMD's final 2013 Year in Review…
NYSE Delays Order Imbalance Data Fees─Again
NYSE Technologies has delayed the introduction of new fees for order imbalance data from parent NYSE Euronext's New York Stock Exchange and NYSE MKT marketplaces for a second time.
2013 Review: EU Consolidated Tape Encounters Hurdles to Implemenation
Progress continued on the long uphill road toward the introduction of a pan-European consolidated tape, but suffered a setback this year after regulatory uncertainty over MiFID 2 led to the dismantling of industry-led group The COBA Project, which was…
2013 Review: Crowd-Sourced Content, Search Gain Traction
As traders and investors seek new ways to find alpha in increasingly commoditized datasets, the accuracy of data and how it is sourced—and the ease with which it can be searched—is becoming more important, prompting the creation of new services for…
OPRA Seeks New SIP Operator, Enlists Jordan & Jordan to Run RFP
The Options Price Reporting Authority has begun a tender process for a technology supplier to manage the SIP (securities information processor) that collects data from US options exchanges, calculates a best bid and offer, and distributes OPRA's…
2013 Review: Traders Weigh Importance of Fast Data vs Big Data
While still a focus for high-frequency traders with latency-sensitive strategies, the latency arms race appeared to have reached a stalemate in 2013, with low latency a necessity but ultra-low latency more of an expensive luxury, with some firms…
Bloomberg Names Risk and Compliance Exec
Bloomberg is making good on its promise to beef up compliance and data security measures-following the revelation earlier this year that its journalists were able to access some client terminal usage data-by hiring Paul Wood as the vendor's first chief…
Kaplan Swaps Telx for Equinix
Shawn Kaplan recently joined datacenter and hosting provider Equinix as sales director for the vendor's major accounts team covering financial services, a newly-created role leading a sales team focused on building strategic relationships with Equinix's…
2013 Review: For Exchanges in 2013, Life’s a Glitch
US stock and options exchanges suffered such significant outages in 2013 that regulators step ped in to bring the markets to task over the failures, many of which were linked to problems with the exchanges’ ability to disseminate market data.
SeekingAlpha Lists OTC Markets Data, Links
Financial news, analysis and transcript website Seeking Alpha has added marketplace designations for the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink markets operated by OTC Markets Group to company information on its website, to denote the listing market of each security…