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MSCI Barra Unveils Risk Reports
Index and analytics provider MSCI Barra rolled out a new reporting module as an add-on to its BarraOne risk analytics platform at the beginning of August, to provide more detailed, time-series risk reports on clients' trading data.
Millistream Begins Nordic Expansion With Interactive Data Deal
Gothenburg-based data vendor Millistream Market Data is establishing a local sales and support organization across the Nordic region and has broadened the range of data that it offers via a recent partnership with Interactive Data-though Millistream…
QuantHouse Preps Strategy Back-testing Service
Low-latency data and trading technology vendor QuantHouse is preparing to roll out a new service for high-frequency trading firms that want to back-test trading strategies without making significant investments in data technology, officials tell Inside…
Thomson Reuters Raids JPM Pricing Direct
Thomson Reuters has poached key staff from JP Morgan's Pricing Direct evaluated pricing arm in New York, in a bid to grow its own derivatives and structured finance pricing business.
QuantHouse Releases Publication Server
Low-latency data and trading technology vendor QuantHouse has launched a new product to help user firms distribute their own real-time derived data, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Wolfram Preps Professional Versions of 'Alpha' Portal
Wolfram Research, a Champaign, Ill.-based computational and analytical software vendor, is planning to introduce customized, subscription versions of its online Wolfram Alpha computational engine, tailored for use by financial firms.
Options IT Expands Feed Coverage, Speeds Managed Xetra Data
New York-based infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT is adding connectivity to more exchanges and trading venues-via low-latency feeds where available-to round out the global coverage of its Velocity managed direct feeds service.
Firms Disband BIR Research Consortium
Best Independent Research has been dissolved by the five independent research firms that made up the consortium, following the end of the Global Research Analyst Settlement in July, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Markit Expands ETF Data Products
UK-based data vendor Markit is enhancing its products that cater to firms trading exchange-traded funds, including a module to analyze ETF trading volumes and identify leading market makers for each fund, and an enhanced global feed of ETF data that…
Opra Increases Data Traffic Projections
The Options Price Reporting Authority has updated its projections for options data during 2010 and 2011 to reflect increased volumes anticipated as a result of new options exchanges and the expansion of the Securities and Exchange Commission's…
Psydex Launches AIM 'News Bot'
Atlanta-based news analytics provider Psydex will this week launch its Psyng Bot news companion for AOL Instant Messenger, to provide sell-side and buy-side traders already using AIM with real-time news and analytics to support trading decisions.
YouDevise Devises New Analytics
Trade ideas distribution software vendor YouDevise has added features to its Web-based Trade Idea Monitor platform to provide users with a range of analytics and market context derived from trade ideas submitted by brokers, regardless of the trade ideas…
RTI Adds Capabilities to Excel Plug-In
Low-latency messaging provider RTI has developed new features for its Microsoft Excel add-in, to provide better filtering and searching capabilities, and to enable users to manage data entitlements.
Thomson Reuters Expands Emerging Markets Coverage
Thomson Reuters has added more content from emerging markets in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America to its data display and datafeed products, to satisfy growing demand for emerging markets data, officials say.
LSE Preps Market Depth on DDM Plus
The London Stock Exchange Group will roll out full-depth Level 2 order book data via its DDM Plus feed of Italian market data later this year, following a decision in May to extend the life of the feed at least until the second half of 2010, officials…
Blue Taps Sprint for Mobile RIA Data
US registered investment advisors working for Edward Jones, Ameriprise Financial and SunTrust are being offered wireless access to market data from mobile data application vendor Blue Systems, which is giving the firms' RIAs a 60-day free trial of its…
Vhayu ‘Central' to Reuters Tech Strategy
Thomson Reuters is to make Vhayu's Velocity tick database available as a hosted service, as well as using it to provide a key component of its next-generation "common platform" data desktop, following its purchase of the Los Gatos, Calif.-based tick data…
Chi-X Readies 'Chi-Vision' Liquidity Aggregation Service
European multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe is preparing to launch a liquidity consolidation service that will combine its own dark and visible order-book liquidity with market maker liquidity from external liquidity providers (ELPs), officials…
StanChart Rolls Out OneTick via NYSE
Standard Chartered Bank is deploying the OneTick historical and real-time tick data processing solution from tick data management vendor OneMarketData, to support its development of foreign exchange trading strategies.
Exchanges Take Data Hit as Layoffs Cause Decline in Terminal Numbers
Despite higher overall revenues for the second quarter, exchanges are making less money from market data sales in 2009, largely as a result of fewer workstations subscribing to their data, according to a raft of recent financial results.