Inside Market Data/News
Aleri Bolsters Risk Analytics
Chicago-based software vendor Aleri is developing a risk analytics library to help clients address growing demand for real-time risk analysis in their trading operations.
euNetworks Expands in Germany
Low-latency network service provider euNetworks is completing the rollout of its German-wide area network, connecting all its metropolitan area networks (MANs) within the country with high-speed, high-capacity fiber technologies.
YouDevise Improves TIM Analysis
YouDevise, a provider of technology for distributing trade ideas between dealers and buy-side clients, has added new features to its Trade Idea Monitor platform to perform more detailed sentiment analysis and more flexible reporting, officials tell…
Chi-Tech Ups European Feed Coverage
Chi-Tech, the technology and data vendor known as Cicada prior to its purchase by multilateral trading facility Chi-X, is expanding the European feed coverage of its MarketPrizm algorithmic trading infrastructure, and is adapting its technology to…
First Derivatives Boosts Data Focus
Newry, Northern Ireland-based financial technology consultancy First Derivatives is stepping up its focus on developing its own software resources, by expanding its range of feed handlers and producing more real-time software applications.
GFI Launches Eastern European Data
Interdealer broker GFI will this month launch a new data product that will provide foreign exchange rates and money market data from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, officials say.
Tibco Debuts Messaging ‘Appliance'
Tibco will this week unveil its new hardware-based messaging appliance, which embeds the vendor's Rendezvous middleware product into networking hardware to reduce messaging latency and server space requirements while handling rising data throughput.
PhaseCap Rolls Out StreamBase CEP
Boston-based PhaseCapital, a new quantitative investment firm that will launch next month, has rolled out technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems for managing market and trade data within the firm's proprietary…
Reliance Boosts European Coverage
Network provider Reliance Globalcom has expanded the coverage of European trading venues available via its FinancialConnect extranet with the addition of access to multilateral trading facilities Chi-X, Nasdaq OMX Europe and BATS Europe.
Acquire Grows Web Data Tools
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is expanding the custom service it provides for incorporating information culled from Web sites and blogs based on lists of preferred Web-based information sources provided by clients.
Dow Jones Adds Ratings to Algo News
Dow Jones is enhancing its Elementized News Feed to incorporate ratings changes from Standard & Poor's in a standardized data format that allows the information to be easily integrated into algorithmic and black-box trading strategies, officials tell…
BofA Bows Sybase RAP for Risk Data
Bank of America Securities has begun a project to consolidate data from across different business lines to produce more accurate, real-time risk and pricing metrics, using Sybase's RAP (Risk Analytics Platform) Trading Edition.
Euro Consolidated Tape Debate Heats Up
As data vendors launch new products to address fragmentation of trading and data caused by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, European multilateral trading facilities continue to call for a standardized source of European equity data for…
NYSE Preps Non-CTA Trade Data Feeds
The New York Stock Exchange will this week begin a pilot test phase of two new feeds of trade data from its main NYSE and NYSE Arca markets, separate from the Consolidated Tape Association feed, to meet the latency needs of high-frequency trading firms,…
FTSE Readies Italian Indexes
FTSE Group, the index provider venture of the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange, has secured a deal to calculate and distribute Italian equity benchmark indexes on behalf of LSE-owned Borsa Italiana.
RMA Streamlines European Ops; Expands in North America
Data contract and usage policy consultancy Rights Management Associates has restructured its operations to reduce its cost base in Europe, and has hired an executive to increase support in the Americas.
HKEx Seeks Web Partners for Free Data Campaign
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will begin providing real-time, basic market data free of charge over select Web sites in Hong Kong and mainland China in the second half of 2009, to raise the profile of the exchange and its data offerings among Chinese…
Thomson Reuters Bows News Indexes
Thomson Reuters last week unveiled NewsScope Event Indices, a real-time feed of news analytics that separates news into different indexes to price movements and volatility based on deviations in the amount of news within specific categories.
EquityFeed Revamps Data App
Montreal-based data workstation provider EquityFeed has released an upgrade to its platform, designed to target new users among the active retail trader community, and to provide a series of specialized, new displays targeted separately at institutional…
Fitch Boosts Financial Fundamentals Data
Fitch Solutions, the non-ratings data and technology delivery arm of ratings agency Fitch, has increased its fundamental data coverage of both public and privately held global financial institutions, to provide more timely information to help firms…