Inside Market Data/News
Nordic Banks in Summer Switch to Infront
Norwegian data vendor Infront has deployed its Online Trader market data terminal at eight Nordic financial institutions in the past few months, many of which migrated from Thomson Reuters' legacy Reuters First product, which the vendor will retire at…
BayernLB Targets Data Budget with FinOffice
Bavarian state bank BayernLB is expanding its use of the FinOffice market data inventory management system from Swiss vendor BST AG to obtain more detailed, user-level information to keep track of its market data usage and identify potential cost saving…
CSI, RTI Combine Handlers, Middleware
Open-source data technology vendor Collaborative Software Initiative has created an adapter between its feed handlers and messaging provider RTI's Data Distribution Service middleware, to create an open, plug-and-play data architecture that allows users…
ITRS Gets Performance Boost with Geneos Update
UK-based data technology vendor ITRS has completely redeveloped its Geneos systems management technology to allow clients to monitor more data, calculate their own real-time analytics and visualize systems performance data via customizable display…
Recognia Broadens Analysis Tools
Recognia, an Ottawa-based provider of predictive charting software for active traders, is expanding its range of technical analysis products to include analysis of more granular time increments and help automate users' trading decisions.
Quote MTF Names Launch Data Vendors
Hungarian multilateral trading facility Quote MTF, which launched last Friday, Sept. 4 with trading initially in 10 French stocks listed on NYSE Euronext, has unveiled the first group of vendors that will distribute data from the new MTF.
Interactive Data Expands Content Partnership with Stockselection
Interactive Data's Managed Solutions business has begun signing up clients for a recently expanded content set, which includes the addition of structured product prospectuses and fund news, sourced from German data vendor Stockselection.
NYSE Euronext Breathes Liffe into UTP
NYSE Euronext is planning to retire its legacy Liffe derivatives data feed by the end of 2010, after migrating subscribers to its Universal Trading Platform (UTP) feed, which will begin carrying European derivatives data in the first half of next year,…
New Tervela CEO Eyes Expansion
Hardware messaging provider Tervela has named Eric Schnadig as its new chief executive, replacing founder Barry Thompson, who had served as interim CEO since the departure of predecessor Bob Cramer earlier this year ( IMD , Feb. 2).
Xasax Hits Funding Crisis, Seeks Buyer
Naples, Fla.-based proximity hosting, software and managed direct feeds provider Xasax is in the process of reorganizing its business after running into funding problems.
Actant Gives EU Clients Feed Choice
Swiss trading software vendor Actant recently replaced the feed it used to integrate market data from the London Stock Exchange into its trading systems, to allow its European derivatives trading and market making clients to source data from a choice of…
Thomson Reuters Buys Moody's Evaluations Arm
Moody's is preparing to close its evaluated pricing service, after agreeing a deal to sell the municipal bond pricing portion of the business to Thomson Reuters, which is in the process of expanding its own evaluations unit, Inside Market Data has…
Forkbeard Rolls Out Activ for Equity Data
UK-based options market maker Forkbeard Capital last month deployed a feed of low-latency equity market data from Chicago-based data vendor Activ Financial to support its trading operations in London.
Stockhouse Shutters EU Mobile Business
Canadian market data provider Stockhouse is transitioning European clients of its pager and smartphone mobile data products to other providers, following the vendor's decision to close its business in the region last month, officials say.
Infobolsa, CarryQuote Ally for Mobile Data
Spanish data provider Infobolsa, a joint venture between Deutsche Börse and Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), is using Swiss mobile data provider CarryQuote to provide its institutional clients with real-time, on-demand quote data…
Activ Boosts Content Management, Sales
Low-latency data vendor Activ Financial is building a content management team to support its growing number of exchange data sources, and has expanded its sales team in response to growth in the high-frequency trading space.
Fixnetix, RTS Eye Further Data Deals
UK-based data vendor Fixnetix and trading technology provider RTS are exploring further opportunities to jointly leverage their data and technology assets, following last week's launch of a hosted Direct Market Access service integrating low-latency…
Caplin Steps Up Quality Focus
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Caplin Systems has recently bolstered its software quality assurance (QA) function, which officials say has become of increasing strategic importance as a result of changes to the vendor's product focus and…
Deutsche Börse Hit by Index Glitch
German exchange group Deutsche Börse experienced an 18-minute outage for some of its benchmark DAX indexes last week, as a result of technical problems with its index data distribution systems.
GFI, Quick Expand Japanese Data Deal
Interdealer broker GFI is increasing its penetration of the Japanese market with an extended currency data redistribution deal with local information vendor Quick Corporation, officials tell sibling publication FX Week .