Inside Market Data/News
CQG Readies Mobile Data Service, Picks BlackBerrys
Denver, Colo.-based data, charting and trading software provider CQG is preparing to launch a mobile data service integrated with its desktop terminal, in response to client demand from sell-side and buy-side customers for a service that could provide…
Switch and Data Recruits GeoReach Partners
Hosting service provider Switch and Data is enlisting network providers who have established low-latency fiber paths between its North Bergen, NJ facility and regional equity markets in a new partner program, dubbed GeoReach, to provide clients with…
Deutsche Börse Buys NTKN
As Inside Market Data went to press last Friday, Nov. 20, Deutsche Börse closed a deal to acquire Need to Know News, a Washington, DC-based provider of machine-readable economic releases and multi-asset news and analysis.
SIX Telekurs Prepares to Issue New iD
SIX Telekurs is upgrading its Telekurs iD data display product to incorporate content and functionality currently available in the Market Rider data display from SIX Telekurs France (formerly known as Fininfo prior to its acquisition by Telekurs in 2007)…
TheMarkets Opens Up to Clients
Bank consortium-owned research platform TheMarkets.com has opened its application programming interface (API) to clients, allowing them to pull the vendor's content and search capabilities, as well as its tagging technology, into their own custom-built…
CMC Deploys StreamBase for Pricing
UK-based derivatives market maker CMC Markets is developing a pricing system based on technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase, which will be used to price all of the derivatives that it trades.
SuperDerivatives Enhances Data API
Derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has enhanced the application programming interface (API) for its portfolio valuation service, dubbed SD-Revaluation, to enable clients to incorporate different data sources into…
TradeVec Preps Analytics Platform
Gibraltar-based trading and data technology vendor TradeVec is preparing to launch an analytics platform, which will allow clients to create their own real-time analytics and trading indicators, as well as to develop and back-test trading strategies…
SSE Infonet Readies XBRL Fund Data
SSE Infonet, the market data vendor subsidiary of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, will next year begin distributing data on Chinese open-ended funds in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) format, to enable investors to more easily consume and…
UBS Streamlines Market Data Team
UBS has axed or reassigned roles for a number of long-serving market data executives as part of a broader move to streamline its market data sourcing, administration and technical operations, sources say.
Exchange Glitches Fuel Data Debate
Two European exchange glitches last week intensified the debate over whether market participants should use consolidated feeds of European equity data, including data from multilateral trading facilities, as opposed to relying on data from primary…
Thomson Reuters Boosts FX Commentary
Thomson Reuters has hired six foreign exchange industry veterans to bolster its market commentary and analysis, as well as to support a new service, dubbed Dealing Room, which aims to provide FX traders with a steady stream of news and trade ideas.
StreamBase Boosts Canada Coverage
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems has developed an adapter to provide connectivity to market data feeds from Pure Trading, a Toronto-based alternative trading system operated by CNSX Markets, expanding the vendor's coverage of…
Icap FIXes on Thomson Reuters
Interdealer broker Icap has launched a new service, Icap FIX, which will deliver end-of-day and intra-day snapshot prices for a range of OTC-traded instruments via Thomson Reuters' Datascope data products and 3000 Xtra desktop data display.
Options IT Connects to OMX Feeds
New York-based infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT recently expanded its exchange coverage by adding Nasdaq OMX's Copenhagen, Iceland, Stockholm and Helsinki stock exchange feeds to its Velocity managed direct feeds service, to expand the…
Polygon Begins EquityPipe Campaign
New York-based research provider Polygon Research has begun marketing a front-end workstation to its clients via its broker-dealer business Kabrik Trading, after testing the product on its equity broker desk over the summer.
Townsend Preps Ticker Plant Refresh in Volume Battle
Chicago-based data and trading technology vendor Townsend Analytics is rolling out a new component within its market data infrastructure to enable the vendor to deal with ever-growing market data rates, as part of a long-term plan to re-architect its…
Fixnetix Expands Corvil Deal for Client Latency Visibility
Low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has licensed the CorvilClear peer-to-peer latency monitoring software from Dublin-based vendor Corvil to provide its clients with better visibility into the latency of market data delivery and order…
LSE Enlists QuantHouse as Co-Lo Data Partner
The London Stock Exchange will this week begin providing firms that co-locate their trading technology at the exchange's datacenter with access to direct feeds of market data from external exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, sourced via a…
Eurex Introduces Latency League Tables
European derivatives exchange Eurex has begun providing latency statistics to its member trading firms, to give them more transparency into data distribution latency from the exchange, and to offer a better insight into how each firm is performing…