Inside Market Data/News
Moody's Analytics Provides Analysis, Economic Forecasts on Fed's 2014 CCAR Scenarios
Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of ratings agency Moody's, has analyzed the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) scenarios for 2014 to produce economic scenarios for more than 50 countries and well as reports…
CameronTec, Object Trading Ally for Expansion of Catalys DMA Platform
FIX messaging engine supplier CameronTec has embedded trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading's direct market access platform into its FIX-based Catalys Market Access offering, expanding the coverage to more than 60 equity,…
Tradesignal Bows Version 7 of Data Platform
German data display and analytics vendor Tradesignal has released version 7.0 of its Enterprise Edition data and analytics workstation, which includes a new user interface to enable more efficient access to Tradesignal's functions.
DataContent's Harris Talks China at WFIC Part 2
Following a panel discussion on business inside China at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon, Keiren Harris, Hong Kong-based director of market data consultancy DataContent speaks to IMD about the types of data in demand in China, and…
PTS Partners Taps OneMarketData's OneTick
Global quantitative fund PTS Partners has deployed New York-based tick database and complex event processing engine provider OneMarketData's OneTick tick database and complex event processing system to support its quantitative investment strategies.
Markit Taps former UBS CIO Trogni for Solutions
Michele Trogni, former group chief information officer at UBS, has joined data provider Markit in New York as managing director and global head of the vendor's solutions business (which is co-headed by Daniel Simpson, who joined Markit as a result of its…
SIX Financial Information Adds APA Austrian News to iD Terminal
Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has added real-time news from Austrian news provider APA-Finance to its Telekurs iD desktop data, news and analysis terminal, as a free add-on for Austrian subscribers to its Wealth and Asset Management…
Activ Unveils Version 2.0 of Data Platform
Low-latency market data provider Activ Financial will this week launch an optimized version of its market data distribution platform, dubbed Activ Content Platform (ACP) 2.0, with enhanced features including a new API and next-generation FPGA (field…
Markit Adds TCA Analytics to Eze OMS
Buy-side order management system vendor Eze Software is making transaction cost analysis capabilities from UK-based data vendor Markit available to clients of its Eze OMS, to allow users to vice pre-trade forecasts-covering the market impact nad…
Quincy Data Sets Up Weehawken PoP
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data has established a point of presence in Savvis’ NJ2 datacenter in Weehawken, New Jersey to provide firms co-located in the facility with ultra-low-latency futures data via…
National Bank Financial Deploys NovaSparks FPGAs
Canadian investment bank National Bank Financial, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, has rolled out French data technology provider NovaSparks' FPGA Matrix feed handler framework─which delivers deterministic "wire-to-memory" and order book…
Xignite Taps Nasdaq FinQloud to ‘Accelerate’ Data Cloud Adoption
San Mateo, Calif.-based on-demand data provider Xignite has migrated its entire web services data infrastructure to Nasdaq OMX’s FinQloud hybrid financial services-dedicated cloud computing environment, to accelerate cloud acceptance and adoption among…
Redline Preps Asian Feeds, HK Presence
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions is adding support for datafeeds from Asian exchanges, and has established an office in Hong Kong to provide technical support to clients in the region.
Thomson Reuters to Retire 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has notified customers that it plans to withdraw support for its Reuters 3000 Xtra legacy market data desktop terminal after Dec. 31, 2013, and has begun the process of decommissioning the platform’s corresponding services and local…
BATS Enlists Interactive Data for Low-Cost Data Terminals
US exchange operator BATS Global Markets has launched two new desktop data and analytics workstations, developed in conjunction with Interactive Data and based on the vendor's own terminal products, utilizing BATS' free-of-charge equities data.
Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange Startup Readies Data, Research Ahead of Launch
The Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange (APX), a new Sydney, Australia-based exchange that will list equities in Chinese and Australian companies, will begin rolling out a suite of data services with an emphasis on news and fundamental research, when it launches…
Nanospeed Readies FPGAs for Asia, Europe
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed, which this week launched its Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for US equities and options markets, is now developing support for a number of additional Asian and European markets in response to…
ISE Blames OPRA for NBBO Data Exclusion
A technical issue at the Options Price Reporting Authority resulted in the International Securities Exchange's main market and secondary options exchange Gemini not being included in the OPRA national best bid and offer (NBBO) feed for part of the…
Thomson Reuters to Slash 3,000 Jobs
Thomson Reuters has announced that it will cut around 3,000 jobs from its Financial and Risk unit, despite reporting positive net sales for the division in its third quarter results this week.
ISE Shuffles Data Execs, Soule Exits
The International Securities Exchange has reorganized the team of executives responsible for the exchange's market data, resulting in an expanded role for business development officer Jeanine Hightower and the departure of former head of market data Jeff…
Nanotick Launches Historical On-Demand CME Data Service
Nanotick, a joint venture between direct market access software provider Onix Solutions and proximity hosting and market data provider VDIware, has launched an on-demand service that provides historical market data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange …
HKEx Data Goes Live on NYSE SuperFeed
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is making consolidated market data from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's new Orion Market Data platform-which utilizes underlying technology from NYSE Technologies-via NYSE Technologies'…
'Human Error' Blamed for Nasdaq Index Outage
Human error forced Nasdaq OMX to halt trading for a number of derivatives contracts linked to its Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) earlier today, Tuesday Oct. 29, after the exchange's Global Index Data Service (GIDS 2.0) failed to disseminate values for about 45…
BT Nabs MarketPrizm CEO Randery
Network and telecoms provider BT has appointed Tanuja Randery president of strategy and marketing at BT Global Services, responsible for driving the growth of the division.