Inside Market Data/News
Ionic Completes KTS Migration
UK-based data vendor Ionic Information has completed the migration of former clients of Knowledge Technology Solutions' MarketTerminal product onto Ionic's Alpha terminal data display.
IBM Adds Handlers, Preps Acceleration
IBM has released a series of new feed handlers and is readying others to expand its feed coverage of European and Asian markets.
Quod Eyes Trade Data for Buy-Side App
Trading software vendor Quod Financial is testing a new smart order routing system for buy-side firms that will integrate post-trade data from exchanges and other trading venues, including dark pools of liquidity.
Pricing Vendor CSV Creates Auction Portal
CSV, a provider of valuations for complex securities and derivatives, has set up a new company, eInstitutional.com, that will run online auctions for traders looking to buy or sell complex and illiquid over-the-counter assets.
Credit Suisse Grows Asia TCA Data
Credit Suisse will begin providing its clients in Asia with more detailed post-trade execution analytics in January, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Morningstar Buys Tenfore for Real-Time Play
Chicago-based investment research provider Morningstar plans to integrate its content with that of Tenfore Systems, after buying the UK-based data vendor for £13.5 million in cash last week.
SEC Mandates XBRL for Filings Data
The Securities and Exchange Commission last week ruled to mandate the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) as an interactive data format for financial filings from all publicly traded US companies, to make it easier for financial analysts…
Aleri Bolsters MLA With Level 1 Data
Chicago-based complex event processing vendor Aleri has added capabilities to its Market Liquidity Analysis engine for creating a consolidated best bid and offer for instruments listed on multiple exchanges and trading venues in Europe, using Level 1…
Groups Urge Buy Side to Reduce Reliance on Rating Agencies
Three industry bodies published guidelines last week, advising asset managers to reduce their reliance on rating agencies when investing in structured credit products.
Iress Expands Asia-Pacific Web Workstation
Iress Market Technology, a Melbourne-based provider of data, order management and wealth management software, plans to add several Asian markets onto WebIress, its online equity information and trading system, in a bid to expand its presence in the…
Apama Preps New Data Adapters
Complex event processing software vendor Progress Apama is building a range of adapters to capture data from currency and derivatives markets, officials say.
CMA Adds Risk Analytics to QuoteVision
UK-based credit derivatives data provider Credit Market Analysis has updated its QuoteVision credit pricing and risk platform with a range of new risk analytics.
CME Readies RLC-FAST Feed Cutover
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is preparing to discontinue its legacy RLC data format within the next two weeks and consolidate data distribution on the bandwidth-reducing FIX FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) format that it first rolled out in…
Trading Metrics Restructures in Survival Bid
New York-based latency monitoring software vendor Trading Metrics is cutting back operations and restructuring, after failing to raise more funding or reach agreement on a sale to safeguard the business, which hit trouble when the economic crisis forced…
Micex Beta Tests FIX FAST Datafeed
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) last week began testing a new datafeed based on the FIX protocol and FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) compression algorithms, officials tell Inside Market Data .
West Highland, ITRS Unveil Joint Support Offering
New York-based market data support and remote system management services provider West Highland Support Services has partnered with ITRS, a London-based systems monitoring software vendor, to create a joint consolidated offering that integrates ITRS'…
Markit Unveils Share Analytics Tool
UK-based data vendor Markit has launched a market share analysis tool, dubbed Markit MSA (Market Share Analysis), which collates data contributed from 11 major banks and displays the volume of trades executed by each bank across different European…
Interactive Data Adds Pure Trading to PlusFeed
Interactive Data has added real-time data from Canadian alternative trading system Pure Trading to its PlusFeed low-latency datafeed, in a move designed to continue the vendor's ongoing expansion in coverage, and to bring increased transparency to firms…
NYSE Secures SEC Go-ahead for Arca Fees
The New York Stock Exchange is to begin charging fees for its ArcaBook market depth feed from January, after receiving final approval to charge for the data from the Securities and Exchange Commission last week.