Inside Market Data/News
Exchanges' Dark Volume Tools in Works
NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq are building mechanisms for distributing daily trading volume data from alternative trading system dark pools operated by trading firms, following last month's Securities and Exchange Commission approval of their proposals to…
VSS Bows Capacity Monitoring Taps
Burlingame, CA-based network monitoring provider VSS Monitoring is rolling out a new service dubbed Capacity Assurance, which monitors network bandwidth utilization at sub-millisecond levels, and enables firms to ensure they have sufficient capacity to…
Nomura Eyes Data Tech Latency Gains
The London-based algorithmic trading group of Japanese banking group Nomura is examining technology strategies for reducing market data and trading application latency, after successfully reducing order processing latency by up to 35 percent as a result…
Xtrakter Preps Volume Data Expansion
European fixed-income trade matching and data utility Xtrakter is preparing to expand the rollout of its XVol service, which provides monthly trading volumes for European fixed-income securities, to enable users to assess liquidity levels for specific…
FactSet Integrates Dow Jones IB Content
FactSet Research Systems is gearing up to unveil a new version of its market data display platform that integrates Dow Jones' Investment Banker news and content, to give mutual clients more in-depth data and allow them to access the Investment Banker…
Omega Eyes Expansion with Atrium Link
Canadian alternative trading system Omega ATS is connecting to an "Exchange Ring" network of multiple Canadian trading venues provided by Atrium Network, to expand the ATS's potential client base of trading participants by making it easier for firms to…
SD Expands Exotic Options Pricing
Options pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives plans to add pricing capabilities for correlation swaps and additional deposit structures to its SD-FX currency derivatives pricing platform, to capitalize on increased appetite for…
DTN Upgrades ProphetX Display
Commodities and energy data provider Telvent DTN has released version 3.7 of its ProphetX data display workstation, featuring a range of new content and displays designed to make the system more configurable to individual users' needs.
Cervalis Taps HFN for Network Access
Co-location and hosting services vendor Cervalis is using Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network to provide connectivity to its new Passaic County, NJ facility, giving clients hosted there low-latency access to US exchanges via HFN's X…
Barchart Preps WebStation Revamp
Chicago-based data provider Barchart will this summer release a new version of its WebStation data workstation, which has been rewritten to bring it up-to-date with the latest Java technologies and enable it to process more data at faster speeds.
S&P Readies Risk-to-Price Credit Score
Standard & Poor's Valuation and Risk Strategies division is preparing to roll out a new Risk-to-Price (R2P) scoring mechanism, which quantifies how well investors are compensated for their willingness to take on risk, to provide a more predictive and…
Thomson Reuters Bolsters CreditViews Service
Thomson Reuters has added new data and analytics to the CreditViews credit data offering within its flagship 3000 Xtra data terminal, including credit derivatives liquidity scores from Fitch Solutions, credit-related corporate actions data from London…
Interactive Data Unit Adds New Content
Interactive Data's Managed Solutions division, which provides data displays and content delivery services for Web-based applications and financial portals, has rolled out a range of new content, including a multi-year tick history database and Dow Jones'…
LSE: Standalone Trade Data Key to EU Tape
The London Stock Exchange is to begin a consultation period with member firms to assess demand for a real-time feed of time-and-sales data via new subscription products, separate from its existing datafeeds, to help market participants create a…
CQG Grows Emerging Markets Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, charting and trading software provider CQG is expanding its coverage of market data from emerging markets exchanges in response to increasing demand from clients.
29West Buy Boosts Informatica Data Plans
Calif.-based data integration software provider Informatica will integrate the messaging framework of middleware provider 29West-which it bought last week for an undisclosed sum-with its existing platforms to deliver "zero-latency" exchange of data…
Greenline Bundles FIX Monitoring, Latency Tools
Greenline Financial Technologies will this week unveil a revamped version of the latency monitoring software it acquired last year from defunct software house Trading Metrics ( IMD , Jan. 4), with the new name of Latency Monitor.
Chi-X Enlists Thomson Reuters for Euro Data
Pan-European equity multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe has implemented low-latency, direct exchange datafeeds sourced from Thomson Reuters-along with access to the vendor's consolidated pricing and reference data-to benchmark the quality of…
Alacra Eyes Macro Algorithmic Data
Online business information provider Alacra is developing a database of macroeconomic data and commentary covering currencies and commodities for use by traders as an input into automated trading strategies in the equity markets.
Data Volumes Buck Trading Decline in US, Europe
Derivatives market data volumes in the US and Europe have continued to hit new peaks, despite a decline in derivatives trading in the US and Europe during 2009-although higher derivatives trading in Asia-Pacific resulted in flat trading volume growth…
'Avenues' Calls For Centralized Data Utility to Combat MiFID Abuse
A UK-based group of specialist consultants dubbed the Alliance of Independent Advisors to Financial Markets-or Avenues-has called for the creation of a centralized utility to create a pan-European "consolidated tape" of market data from European…