Inside Market Data/News
Infront Buys Direkt For News, Estimates
Norwegian market data vendor Infront last week acquired Swedish financial news agency Direkt from the business information group Bisnode, to help ensure the continued independence of the newswire provider.
DJ Realigns EMG Services, Cuts Staff
Dow Jones' Enterprise Media Group, which comprises the vendor's Financial Information Services private equity newsletters, Content Technology Solutions (including newswires and Factiva), Indexes and Business Intelligence divisions, has laid off staff and…
Thomson Reuters Ups Prices, Freezes Some
Thomson Reuters will increase the prices for most of its financial products by 4.75 percent next year, according to a 2009 price list obtained by Inside Market Data .
Savvis Adds Connectivity Options
Network and hosting services provider Savvis has expanded the options available for trading firms to connect to data from exchanges and other trading venues in recent weeks, in response to client demand for access to more data, and data from new venues,…
Shanghai Wind Gathers Force Outside China
China-focused financial data vendor Shanghai Wind Information is continuing its international expansion with the opening of new offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Taiwan next year, and plans to double its overall staff numbers in 2009, officials say.
LSE Migrates Italian Data to Infolect
The London Stock Exchange last week migrated Borsa Italiana's Italian equity trading onto the LSE's TradElect trading platform, allowing clients to receive Italian equity market data via the exchange's Infolect data distribution platform.
Nasdaq Tests Boston Version of TotalView
Nasdaq OMX will this week begin client testing of a new datafeed based on its TotalView-ITCH product for its Nasdaq OMX BX market-formerly the Boston Stock Exchange-which is scheduled to go into live production when the revamped market begins trading on…
Icap Buys Into Prism Valuation
Interdealer broker Icap announced last week that it has taken an equity stake in Prism Valuation, an independent provider of valuations for complex assets and structured securities.
Tenfore Rounds Out Asia Coverage
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems has added data from the Korea Exchange and the Taiwan Stock Exchange to its TDX consolidated datafeed, to expand its coverage in Asia Pacific.
Swiss Exchange Weighs Feeds as SWX Europe Bows Out
The SIX Swiss Exchange is likely to consolidate its own Swiss market datafeed with that of its SWX Europe (formerly Virt-x) subsidiary, after deciding last week to close SWX Europe by mid-2009 and migrate trading of blue-chip Swiss stocks back to its…
TNS Expands MTF Access, Low-Latency Services
Network service provider Transaction Network Services is expanding the number of European multilateral trading facilities to which it provides connectivity, and plans to offer new technologies already established in the US market to help European clients…
Credit Suisse Taps Fixnetix For AES Data
Credit Suisse is to utilize services including market data and hosting from UK-based data and trading connectivity vendor Fixnetix to support the bank's Advanced Execution Services (AES) business, under the terms of a deal signed last week, officials…
CME in Retreat on Historical Data Fees
CME Group has delayed a controversial set of fees for redistribution of historical exchange data, following complaints from end-users.
Thomson Reuters Speeds Estimates for Algos
Thomson Reuters has launched a new, RSS-based feed of revisions to broker earnings estimates, dubbed Reuters Estimates Delta, designed to allow quantitative traders to take advantage of the time between a revision being issued on a company and resulting…
BT Casts Ultra Net in Chicago
BT Global Financial Services is preparing to roll out an iteration of its Radianz Ultra Access network for the Chicago market that will provide ultra-low-latency connectivity between trading firms and exchange venues in the Chicago area, officials tell…
Nedbank Cap Taps Aleri for Liquidity Data Analysis
South African investment bank Nedbank Capital is planning to implement Chicago-based complex event processing software vendor Aleri's Liquidity Management System next year, to consolidate data on cash flows and liquidity positions within the bank.
StatPro Integrates GFI FX Data
London-based analytics and data provider StatPro has signed a deal with interdealer broker GFI Group to use the broker's foreign exchange options data as an input to its pricing and risk management products, officials say.
FISD Weighs on Exchange Fees for 'Internal' Data Use
Industry association FISD's Business Issues Policy and Practices Standards (BIPPS) working group has issued a best-practice recommendation addressing fees charged for use of market data outside of core, trading-related purposes.
NextView Preps Japanese Terminals, Scanner Tool
Singapore-based data vendor NextView plans to launch a new data terminal product in the first quarter of next year, aimed at commodities traders in Japan, officials tell Inside Market Data .