Inside Market Data/News
Icap Taps WHSS for Garban Feed Migration
Interdealer broker Icap has enlisted New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland Support Services to assist clients migrating to Icap's new IP-based datafeed from its legacy Garban feed, which the broker plans to retire…
Redline Preps InRush Ticker Expansion
Woburn, Mass.-based ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions is preparing to expand the capabilities of its hardware-accelerated InRush ticker plant with support for more exchange feeds, higher-bandwidth connectivity and more functionality around…
Algo Tech Readies Low-Latency Feeds
The new venture of Hirander Misra, former chief operating officer of pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X, plans to launch ultra-low-latency market data services by this summer, as part of a suite of services including smart order-routing and…
CQG Grows Data Integration with MathWorks, KaiTrade Links
Denver, Colo.-based data, charting and trading software provider CQG is expanding the capabilities of its Integrated Client platform via new partnerships with Natick, Mass.-based mathematical and modeling software vendor The MathWorks and trading…
XtremeData Preps Data Distribution Hardware
Database analytics appliance vendor XtremeData is developing a PCI Express (PCIe) card with FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) accelerators and network interface card ports to support low-latency data distribution between a user's ticker plant and…
Working Group Prompts Backdown on Bloomberg Fund Admin Fees
Bloomberg has backed down on plans to introduce new fees for fund administrator clients that use the vendor's data to calculate fund net asset values (NAVs) to their clients, according to members of a working group created by data consumers in response…
Fidessa Expands Bonds, Derivatives, Historical Data
London-based market data and trading technology vendor Fidessa is embarking on a project to expand its connectivity and broaden its asset class coverage with real-time and historical data on fixed income and derivative markets, officials say.
Stoxx Preps Global Index Expansion, Post-DJ
European index and data provider Stoxx plans to broaden its indexes and data offering with a focus on new international markets this year, following the vendor's split from its joint venture with Dow Jones Indexes last November.
Solace Enlists TS-A for Latency Monitoring
Hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems has partnered with data consultancy and latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates to offer mutual clients end-to-end latency monitoring of applications utilizing Solace's messaging fabric.
Reuters Deal Drives CJC Asia Push
UK-based data consultancy CJC is planning to open offices in Hong Kong and Singapore and hire staff in the Asia-Pacific region, to provide support for Thomson Reuters' hosted service offering and to support CJC's own push into the region.
Thomson Reuters Unveils Index Explosion
Thomson Reuters will this week roll out 7,500 new sector-level indexes, bringing the total number of indexes supported by the vendor and distributed through its data products to more than 8,000, officials say.
FTSE, SSE Settle Index Data Dispute
Index provider FTSE and the Shanghai Stock Exchange last week announced they have reached a settlement agreement over unauthorized use of SSE's data by the FTSE Xinhua Index (a joint venture between FTSE and Xinhua Finance) in the creation of futures…
Fidessa Preps Toronto Datacenters to Meet Canada Demand
London-based market data and trading technology vendor Fidessa is in the early stages of setting up two datacenters in Toronto to meet demand for market data from its Canadian clients, and to provide a local connectivity hub for sourcing and distributing…
Exegy Taps 29West for Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy has integrated its ticker plant with Chicago-based 29West's LBM (Latency Busters Messaging) messaging middleware to create a combined low-latency data platform that can distribute data to…
Brokers Add TRACE Agency Data
Online bond trading platforms and brokers last week rolled out market data on US agency bonds sourced from regulator FINRA's TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) feed, which, since last Monday, March 1, requires broker-dealers to report primary…
MTS Preps Non-Display Data Policy
Bond trading platform EuroMTS is introducing a new license and fees for use of its market data in non-display applications, such as for calculating derived values or for algorithmic trading.
Thomson Vets Launch Algo News Venture
Selerity, a start-up run by Thomson Reuters' former director of quantitative news and other former Thomson executives, will this week unveil version 1.0 of the Selerity Platform, a suite of tools and data for identifying, capturing and analyzing real…
Equinix Enlists West Highland for Co-Lo Support
Datacenter and co-location operator Equinix is to offer clients hosted within its facilities around the world a new option for remote support of their systems, provided by New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland…
GFI Readies Global Bond Data Service
London-based interdealer broker GFI plans to launch a global bond data product this spring, in response to client demand for more transparent fixed-income data, especially around pricing of illiquid bonds, officials say.