Inside Market Data/News
LatAm Taps CMA for Price Display
Miami, Fla-based broker-dealer LatAm Investments is using market data and technology from Brazilian data vendor CMA to enable it to display orders from client firms in the US to clients of clearing brokers in Mexico and Brazil.
Deutsche Börse Expands Latency Reports
Deutsche Börse has begun providing members of its Xetra cash market with the same latency statistics that it rolled out to members of its Eurex derivatives market earlier this year ( IMD , Nov. 6), to show firms their latency to and from the exchange and…
InfoNgen Preps Internal Content Management 'Appliance'
Web-based content aggregator InfoNgen is rolling out an application that aggregates and filters content to which firms already have access, providing portfolio managers and analysts with a manageable stream of individually targeted information.
SystematIQ Boosts AlphaWorks Analytics
SystematIQ, the Chicago-based quantitative research group of Standard and Poor's Capital IQ Solutions division, this month rolled out a new version of its Web-based AlphaWorks market analysis and quantitative research tool, expanding the comparative…
StreamBase Bolsters Sales with New Hires
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems has made a number of hires in its sales organization to support increased growth and recent client wins.
UNX Initiatives Cut Internal Data Latency
Los Angeles-based agency broker and trading technology provider UNX has reduced its internal data latency by up to 15 percent as a result of a series of projects conducted in the fourth quarter of 2009, including a move to using multicast technology for…
Colt Readies New Fastnet Ultra Service
European network service provider Colt Telecom is preparing to launch a new service, dubbed Fastnet Ultra, which will provide trading clients with easily provisioned high-bandwidth networks to connect to their choice of European marketplaces via a single…
Euro Market Data Preps Exchange Policy Tool
UK-based consultancy Euro Market Data (EMD) is piloting a Web-based application that allows users to view and compare exchange data policies from around the world.
Exegy Adds Chi-X Canada Handler
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy has developed a feed handler to process Level 2 market data from Canadian alternative trading system Chi-X Canada to meet demand from its high-frequency trading clients for access to more Canadian…
STAC Readies Time-Series Group
The Securities Technology Analysis Center is setting up a working group to develop and implement benchmarks for time-series data technologies such as historical databases and tick capture and query engines.
Arcontech Adds Atradia's Anderson
David Anderson, founder of Atradia Consulting and editor of Inside Market Data Reference, has joined London-based market data platform and contributions technology vendor Arcontech as director of sales and marketing.
Morningstar to Expand LIM Coverage
Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar plans to share content with energy and commodities data vendor Logical Information Machines and expand LIM's presence in-and coverage of-Europe and Asia, following last week's announcement…
Nasdaq OMX to Consolidate Nordic ITCH, GCF Feeds
Nasdaq OMX will release a new version of its Nordic ITCH feed next year, adding the value-added data and analytics currently carried by the exchange's Genium Consolidated Feed (GCF) to its existing Nordic ITCH feed of unnetted market data, officials tell…
CFA Institute Calls for EC Consolidated Tape
The European Commission should seek to address concerns about the cost and quality of European market data by introducing a US-style consolidated tape when it reviews the impact of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) next year,…
Thomson Reuters Issues 2010 Price List
Thomson Reuters will increase the price of most of its products by 3 percent next year, a reduction from this year's standard price increase of 4.75 percent ( IMD , Nov. 24, 2008), reflecting tighter budgets for market data services at client firms in…
City Index Preps StreamBase Pricing System
City Index, a provider of equities, options, indexes and contracts for difference trading and financial spread betting, is rolling out a pricing engine that will enable it to expand the number of products it trades, based on technology from complex event…
New MTF Tackles Convertibles Data Quality
Vega-Chi, a new European fixed-income multilateral trading facility, is preparing to launch an electronic platform for trading convertible bonds, which could help to improve the quality of data currently available in the over-the-counter convertible…
Activ, Atrium Expand CME Connectivity
Low-latency data provider Activ Financial has begun connecting clients to a new connectivity option for accessing CME Group via Atrium Network's Exchange Ring fiber-optic network, enabling Activ to provide CME data to clients via an expanded network of…
Capital IQ Steps Up Data Integration Capabilities
Standard and Poor's Capital IQ subsidiary has updated its data display desktop platform to give users faster access to the data they need, and with proprietary company ownership data, replacing a dataset previously sourced from Thomson Reuters.