Inside Market Data/News
Nasdaq OMX Readies Nordic ITCH
Nasdaq OMX is readying a Nordic version of its ITCH market data feed, and will make significant changes to its Genium Consolidated Feed (GCF) product in preparation for the migration of Nordic equity markets onto the Inet trading platform later this year.
S&P on Bloomberg Raises User Concerns
Plans by Standard & Poor's and Bloomberg to make S&P index component weightings available as a premium subscription dataset via Bloomberg have irked some end-user firms, who are complaining about a lack of communication and price transparency.
XData Adds African Exchanges, Inks Interactive Data Deal
Dubai-based XData, a provider of data from exchanges in the Middle East and Africa, is expanding its market coverage, and has signed a deal to provide data from Middle East exchanges to Interactive Data, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Revere Grows Global Classifications
San Francisco-based Revere Data is expanding its classification schema to cover more international markets, to enable clients to identify like-for-like companies and supplier relationships in different countries to support algorithmic trading strategies.
Morgan a Casualty of LSE Job Culls
Wendy Morgan has left her role as head of real-time data at the London Stock Exchange, as part of a broader raft of redundancies resulting from a review conducted by new chief executive Xavier Rolet, who took over the role when former CEO Clara Furse…
Thomson Reuters Adds Trading to RMDS
Thomson Reuters has incorporated trading capabilities from French software vendor Smart Trade Technologies into its RMDS data distribution platform, to enable clients to leverage their existing data infrastructure investments to internalize trades and…
Survey: Piracy Costs Data Industry $8bn
The financial information and analysis industry is losing an estimated $8 billion of subscription revenue each year as a result of subscribers sharing login information and content "scraping," according to a survey conducted by Burton-Taylor…
Acquire Media Prepares to Unleash Tiger
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is testing a new feed of machine-readable tagged news to power algorithmic trading engines.
Eurex, MTS Delve Into Historical Data
German exchange group Deutsche Börse and European fixed-income trading platform EuroMTS are working to expand the range of historical data they provide to clients for developing and testing their trading or hedging strategies.
RNA Debuts Virtual Data Cache
Portland, Ore.-based memory virtualization provider RNA Networks will this week launch a new virtual memory cache to support large datasets for creating algorithmic trading models and data analysis.
Solace Touts 'Unified' Platform
Hardware messaging provider Solace Systems will this week upgrade its Content Router with new capabilities and features, which the vendor is branding as a Unified Messaging Platform.
Capital IQ Unveils Real-Time Research Alerts, Market Views
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division is adding real-time email alerting capabilities to its desktop display to alert users when new aftermarket research becomes available on the platform, and is also launching a Market Views page to enable users to more…
NYSE Taps Jordan & Jordan to Bolster Data Admin Tools
NYSE Technologies, the data technology division of NYSE Euronext, has taken over Jordan & Jordan's Vendor Reporting System data reporting tool for an undisclosed sum, and has integrated it with the exchange's DART reporting and entitlements tool to…
TS-Associates, SR Labs Enlist West Highland for Sales, Support
New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland Support Services will this week announce deals to sell and support TS-Associates' TipOff latency monitoring tool, and to provide support for SR Labs' low-latency data platforms.
BondDesk T&T Preps Bond Data Add-in
BondDesk's TIPS and TechHackers subsidiary is preparing to launch an Excel add-in that will enable users to populate spreadsheets with live data on treasury bonds from dealers contributing prices to BondDesk's trading platform.
Morgan Stanley Restructures Data Group
Morgan Stanley has reorganized its Enterprise Data group to ensure that management of the bank's real-time market data technology is more tightly aligned with its most demanding internal customer, the Equity IT group, which builds and supports most of…
Telekurs Migrates Fininfo Products to MDF
SIX Telekurs France (formerly Fininfo) is finalizing a project to switch its data applications to Telekurs' MDF consolidated datafeed, replacing a feed from Interactive Data's Real-Time Services division that currently provides the products with data,…
Theoriem Preps TimeScape for Trading
Philadelphia-based multi-asset quantitative trading firm Theoriem is preparing to go live with data management technology vendor Xenomorph's TimeScape database product, to support the firm as it moves from start-up phase into live trading, officials tell…
Aleri, Correlix Partner for Latency-as-Data Input
Complex event processing software vendor Aleri and latency monitoring provider Correlix have integrated their systems to enable clients using CEP-based trading strategies to incorporate results from Correlix's Latency Intelligence tools as an input to…