Inside Market Data/News
Exegy, Solace Boost Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based Exegy is integrating its Total Connect ticker plant appliance with hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems' Message Router, to provide a hardware-accelerated, high-throughput and low-latency platform for enterprise-wide data…
SmartTrade Bows OTC Pricing Tool
French trading systems vendor SmartTrade will this week announce a new component to its liquidity management system for dealers to distribute customized prices on over-the-counter instruments to clients.
DirectFN Targets MidEast Institutional Data
Dubai-based data provider DirectFN is targeting institutional investors and trading firms with a new desktop data display and datafeeds, in a bid to expand its client base both within and beyond the region.
Jordan & Jordan Bolsters London Staff
New York-based consultancy Jordan & Jordan is beefing up its London operations to support an unnamed, London-based bank client that has engaged J&J to perform outsourced business management for its market data billing and reporting functions, including…
YCharts Embeds Charts in StockTwits
Chicago-based fundamental data analysis provider YCharts last week began providing users of StockTwits.com-an aggregator of stock-related "tweets" from traders and investors-with access to its fundamental metrics and charts.
Interactive Data Buyout Drives IT Integration
Interactive Data plans to accelerate a project to adopt a common technology platform for supporting the storage and distribution of its data products and services, following the vendor's acquisition last week by private equity firms Silver Lake and…
Fixnetix Launches FX Data Connectivity
UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has rolled out a package of data and connectivity services for the foreign exchange markets, aimed at FX traders and market makers, as well as high-frequency trading firms trading FX as…
Thomson Reuters Readies ‘Insider' Info
Thomson Reuters will this week officially unveil its Reuters Insider multimedia platform, which will provide access to searchable video and text content from the vendor's proprietary news bureau, in addition to contributed content from more than 150…
Atrium Adds Nasdaq Stockholm PoP
Atrium Network has set up a Point of Presence (PoP) in the Stockholm-based datacenter where Nasdaq OMX offers co-located access to its Inet matching engine technology, to provide Atrium clients in London and Europe with low-latency access to the exchange…
OptionsXpress Bows Activ Hardware Ticker
Online derivatives broker OptionsXpress is rolling out Chicago-based low-latency data provider Activ Financial's MPU (Market Data Processing Unit) hardware-accelerated ticker plant to support low-latency and high-throughput processing of incoming market…
Capital IQ Steps Up Global Content, Infrastructure
Standard and Poor's Capital IQ subsidiary has integrated new data and features into the latest release of its data display desktop platform, and is upgrading its back-end infrastructure to support a growing global client base.
eSignal, Morningstar Grow Mobile Apps
Interactive Data's eSignal unit has released versions of its QuoTrek mobile data application for Apple's iPhone and iPad, while Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar has launched a BlackBerry app as both vendors seek to round…
Hedgehogs Curls Up With MoneyScience
UK-based private equity firm Thematic Capital, which owns hedge fund information and networking community portal Hedgehogs.net, has acquired a majority stake in MoneyScience, a niche information portal that aggregates content for quantitative investors…
RTS Eyes Broader Base for Russian Data
The RTS (Russian Trading System) Stock Exchange introduced a new commercial policy in April to provide discounts for retail investors subscribing to the exchange's real-time data, in a bid to broaden its customer base.
ICE Preps Low-Bandwidth TCP Datafeed
The IntercontinentalExchange has begun testing a new version of its TCP transport protocol-based Impact datafeed that delivers snapshots of market data, with prices netted at regular intervals and provided in batch updates, officials tell Inside Market…
RNA Preps Analysis Memory Cloud
Virtual network provider RNA Networks is preparing to release version 2.5 of its RNA MVX virtual memory cloud, which will increase the performance of data-intensive applications by using memory from other servers in the same datacenter.
BT Boosts Ultra, Expands Datacenters
Network and hosting provider BT is rolling out updated technology that will reduce the latency taken to upload data from marketplaces onto its low-latency Radianz Ultra Access network and to trading firms connected to the network.
Apama Unveils Single-Bank Adapters
Progress Apama is rolling out a series of data adapters for connectivity to single-dealer electronic foreign exchange trading platforms, to allow clients to create consolidated order books of FX prices from different venues, for use in display…
Kohler Quits Icap to Head CMA
Antoine Kohler, head of information services at Icap, is leaving the interdealer broker to become chief executive of London-based derivatives data vendor Credit Market Analysis.