Inside Market Data/News
Convertibles MTF Vega-Chi Prepares for Launch
London-based convertible bond multilateral trading facility Vega-Chi will officially open for trading and begin disseminating live market data this Wednesday, Feb. 17, following the release of a "pre-go-live" version of its trading application last week.
Hanweck Readies European Version of VoleraFeed
Options analytics provider Hanweck Associates is adding coverage of European markets to its VoleraFeed solution, which provides real-time implied volatilities for options on equities, indexes and futures, to meet demand from clients seeking to use…
StreamBase Opens Developer Community
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems will this week unveil an open-source developer community portal, dubbed StreamBase Component Exchange (SBX), which allows developers to share non-proprietary code developed for use with the…
Skyler Shifts Development Ops to London
Concord, Calif.-based tick database and data technology provider Skyler Technology is shifting its base of operations to London, including all of its software development and support functions, in a bid to reap cost benefits and to be closer to a major…
Morningstar Reorganizes Real-Time Support
Chicago-based vendor Morningstar has reorganized the support operations of its Real-Time division-formed following its acquisition of Tenfore Systems in 2008-to provide centralized support for the vendor's global data acquisition and distribution…
CME Eyes Index Products with Dow Buy
CME Group plans to create new indexes and financial products based on its exchange-traded and over-the-counter data assets, and will leverage CME's data distribution network to expand the index products' reach, following its $607.5 million purchase of 90…
Atrium, Chi-X Prep Canada Exchange Ring
Alternative trading system Chi-X Canada and network service provider Atrium Network are finalizing a low-latency one-Gigabit network that will offer connectivity to the five main displayed liquidity venues for trading Canadian equities.
Vendors Roll Out LSE UK Bond Market Data
Market data terminal providers serving the retail stockbroking and advisory market in the UK and Ireland have begun displaying real-time fixed-income data from the Retail Bond Market launched by the London Stock Exchange last week, officials tell Inside…
Nasdaq Migrates Feeds to Nordic Inet
Nasdaq OMX's Nordic markets will go live on the exchange's Inet trading platform this Monday, Feb. 8, to provide a high-frequency marketplace for stocks listed on the Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Iceland stock exchanges, which includes configuring…
Telekurs to Bundle Mobile iD
SIX Telekurs will include free access to its mobile data application for most user packages in version 8.3 of its Telekurs iD desktop data display, which is scheduled for release in the coming months ( IMD , Nov. 23, 2009).
29West Readies Easy-Change JMS API, Migration Team
Chicago-based messaging middleware provider 29West is building a new consulting arm, dubbed the API Migration Services Group, to make it easier for clients with existing data infrastructures to migrate applications and services from their current…
Sybase Buys Aleri to Broaden CEP Play, Target New Markets
Sybase last week confirmed its takeover of technology and staff from complex event processing vendor Aleri, to bolster its own offering and enable the IT giant to expand its CEP business into new markets beyond financial markets.
Fator Taps Apama for Algo Trading
Brazilian bank and brokerage Banco Fator Corretora has rolled out technology from Progress Apama to support development of algorithmic trading strategies by the firm and its clients for trading on Brazilian exchange group BM&F Bovespa, officials tell…
LSE Publishes Millennium Feed Specs
The London Stock Exchange has published feed specifications and a testing schedule to prepare clients for a new set of market data feeds-the result of its planned migration to a new matching engine and data platform from IT subsidiary MillenniumIT in…
IASG White-Labels CarryQuote Data Platform
Chicago-based managed futures brokerage Institutional Advisory Service Group has begun reselling a white-labeled version of Zug, Switzerland-based desktop and mobile data vendor CarryQuote's financial information application, to provide its professional…
Exegy, Options IT Partner for Hosted Ticker Plant
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy is making its ticker plant available via infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT's Options Pipe direct feed and infrastructure management suite, creating a fully hosted ticker plant…
BGC Taps Xignite for On-Demand Data
Interdealer broker BGC Partners will this week roll out an on-demand data service for its market data, using white-labeled technology from Web services data provider Xignite.
GA's Markit Stake Fuels Rumors of Bid for Interactive Data
Private equity firm General Atlantic acquired a 7.5 percent stake in UK-based data vendor Markit last week for $250 million, prompting some sources to suggest that the vendor could be considering a bid for Interactive Data Corporation, which earlier this…
Interactive Data Conflates NYSE Feed
Interactive Data has begun offering a reduced-bandwidth version of the New York Stock Exchange's Level 1 equity data feed via its PlusFeed consolidated feed service, to help clients save on the costs required to source and process the data.
CESR Chairman Wymeersch Calls for EU Consolidated Tape
The Committee of European Securities Regulators has joined calls for a pan-European "consolidated tape" of trade data that would consolidate executed prices from exchanges and multilateral trading facilities for stocks traded on multiple venues, to…