Inside Market Data/News
Telekurs Boosts Emerging Markets
Swiss data vendor SIX Telekurs is adding real-time data from a number of emerging markets onto its MDF market data feed in response to client demand.
Corvil Unveils Expanded Latency Tools
In addition to an enhanced XML feed, version 5.1 of CorvilNet features a range of new capabilities, including Multicast gap detection, and support for monitoring specific message types, roundtrip order latency, and new hardware.
Neonet Taps Corvil to Monitor Data Latency
Neonet, a Stockholm-based agency broker and provider of market data and trading systems, has deployed latency monitoring technology from Dublin-based software vendor Corvil to monitor data latency across its global operations, officials say.
Index License User Group Seeks Traction
An informal user group for index licensing professionals set up as a knowledge-sharing forum by Steve Ellenberg, global index licensing coordinator at Credit Suisse, is gaining interest from other market participants as Ellenberg seeks to formalize the…
BATS, Fixnetix Partner for Co-Lo Services
Multilateral trading facility BATS Europe is offering clients a second choice of co-location service provider for accessing low-latency data from its European order book, via a new partnership with UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor…
MetaBit Cuts Latency with Solace
Japanese FIX order-routing provider MetaBit has integrated hardware messaging vendor Solace Systems' 3260 Content Routers into its XiliX direct market access platform and Market Liquidity Hub, to reduce the latency of exchange data it distributes to…
Liquidnet Tackles Latency via Direct Feeds
Alternative trading system Liquidnet is migrating from a consolidated vendor feed of equities data to a direct exchange feed solution for incoming market data, to reduce the latency of data used to determine routing strategies and of its own mid-point…
Reuters Adds Commodities News Sentiment
Thomson Reuters has expanded its NewsScope Sentiment Engine, which ascribes sentiment "scores" to news stories to reflect how positive or negative they are for use in algorithmic trading engines, with the addition of scores for real-time commodity and…
Bloomberg Snaps Up Industry Veterans Brain, Jacobi
Bloomberg has bolstered its data sales and acquisition functions with the recent hires of two senior data executives from end-user firms, Simon Brain and Rich Jacobi.
Hedgehogs.net Seeks Data For Web Portal App Store
Hedgehogs.net, a recently launched Web portal that combines a social networking platform for investment professionals to communicate with peers with aggregated Web content, is in negotiations with data vendors to provide access to data for third-party…
RTS Adds Ukrainian Data, Eyes Exchange Data Partners
The Moscow-based RTS Stock Exchange began distributing real-time market data from the Ukrainian Exchange last Wednesday, May 20, officials tell Inside Market Data.
Celoxica Preps 29West LBM Acceleration Card
UK-based hardware acceleration technology vendor Celoxica has begun beta testing an accelerator card that will reduce latency for customers using 29West's Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) over UDP (User Datagram Protocol) Multicast links, officials tell…
RMS Vendors Integrate FirstRain Content
Web research and search technology provider FirstRain is making its company research, competitor ecosystem analysis and management turnover reports available as an XML datafeed or embedded widgets within the platforms of research management platform…
BIDS Trading Rolls Out SuperFeed for Market Data
BIDS Trading, an alternative trading system for anonymous block equity trading, has deployed the SuperFeed managed ticker plant from NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies data and technology division (formerly Wombat Financial Services), to support its…
29West Develops Fast-Track Queuing
Low-latency messaging middleware vendor 29West is preparing to release a new message queuing function as part of its Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise (UME) data distribution platform, to manage data transfer between applications.
Citi Splits Market Data into Content, IT
Citigroup has reorganized its market data department, dividing staff between broader functions covering expense management and IT, and resulting in the departure of the bank's global head of market data.
NYSE Euronext to Beef Up Data Technologies
NYSE Euronext is making changes to the technologies that support its market data business in a drive to improve access to data from its own markets and from other exchanges and multilateral trading facilities via its NYSE Technologies data technology…
Audit Integrity Releases European Ratings
Audit Integrity, a Los Angeles-based provider of corporate integrity ratings, began a "soft rollout" to existing clients of ratings for companies in Western Europe earlier this month, as the first step in a broader international service release.