Inside Market Data/News
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.
Capital IQ Expands Functionality, Datasets
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division last month rolled out additional functionality and datasets in its Capital IQ desktop platform, to broaden its appeal and make it more of an enterprise-wide data offering.
Marketcetera Adds Support for Level 2 Feeds
Open-source trading platform vendor Marketcetera will this week release version 1.5 of its trading software, with the addition of support for Level 2 datafeeds and clients' in-house feeds.
Xignite Adds SeekingAlpha Transcripts
Web services data provider Xignite has made earnings call transcripts from SeekingAlpha.com available free of charge via its Web services platform, in a bid to provide more value-added content to clients and to help SeekingAlpha-which is a client of the…
Lenahan Exit Prompts Skyler Shuffle
Order book aggregation and trading technology vendor Skyler Technologies has reassigned the duties of its executive management team, following the recent departure of vice president of sales and marketing Michael Lenahan, officials say.
XTF Forms Data Utility with ETF Sponsors
New York-based Marco Polo XTF, the exchange-traded fund rating business of Marco Polo Network, is setting up a data utility that will provide normalized data on ETFs to ETF sponsors, intermediaries and data vendors.
Fixnetix Readies US Low-Latency Play
UK-based low-latency data vendor Fixnetix is setting up hubs and arranging connectivity to datacenters serving the financial trading community in the New York and Chicago, to provide European clients with access to exchanges in North America, and US…
Correlix Speeds New London Office to Meet Europe Demand
New York-based latency monitoring technology vendor Correlix is preparing to open an office in London to support a growing number of clients it has recently signed in Europe, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Capital IQ Expands Key Developments Feed After SystematIQ Study
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division has increased the number of categories in its Key Developments feed of news and corporate events, and will continue to refine the tagging process used by the feed, following a study conducted by recently launched…
IBM Updates Low-Latency Messaging
IBM has released version 2.2 of its MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM) layer. New features include a message store and shared memory capability to improve the product's reliability, speed and usability.
Pivot Adds Equities to Instant Markets
Messaging and collaboration software vendor Pivot is expanding its Instant Markets application, which creates a quote montage from prices in instant messages, to support block trading of US equities.
Bloomberg, Microsoft Forge Closer Partnership with New Excel Add-in
Bloomberg last week announced an updated version of its plug-in for Microsoft Excel, built in partnership with Microsoft's development team, and a closer partnership with the software giant that involves closer cooperation on client sales and marketing…
Sybase Builds Analytics into RAP
Sybase will this week release a version of its RAP Trading Edition data and analysis platform that includes new, embedded real-time analytic capabilities and the ability for users to write or implement their own within RAP, streamlining the process of…
Dow Jones, Equinix Prep Euro News Co-Lo
Dow Jones is planning to launch a European co-location service for clients seeking low-latency access to its Elementized News Feed of tagged news stories for algorithmic trading, by extending a partnership with hosting service provider Equinix, officials…
Nasdaq Unveils TOPO, Glimpse of TotalView
Nasdaq OMX is launching a new direct feed of Level 1 options data from its Nasdaq OMX PHLX Market (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) to provide customers with a lower-latency alternative to acquiring the data via the Options Price Reporting…
BST Launches Savings Analysis Tool
Swiss market data software vendor BST has developed a new module of its FinOffice suite of administration tools, to help clients analyze changes in market data expenditure and pinpoint specific drivers behind spending trends.
Fidessa Preps Analytics Platform
UK-based market data and trading technology vendor Fidessa is launching an analytics platform that will allow traders to perform complex real-time calculations based on multiple data sources and publish the derived values to a range of consuming…
HKEx Continues Free Data Project
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has reaffirmed plans to provide free real-time data to investors via one or more partners that operate investor Web portals, despite recently reported criticism from five companies in Mainland China who expressed…
Reuters Grows Market Share Analytics
Thomson Reuters has increased the amount of trade data from over-the-counter markets and dark pool matching services available via its Equity Market Share Reporter (EMSR) product, which is designed to help firms locate shifts in liquidity between trading…
Bloomberg Offers Client Data Spend Reviews
Bloomberg has begun offering consultations to client firms, to review their data usage and identify ways to reduce overall spend by eliminating duplicative products and under-utilized licenses for real-time data, industry sources say.