Inside Market Data/News
NYSE Euronext Preps Euro SFTI, Superfeed
NYSE Euronext is expanding its SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure) network in Europe, with the goal of offering the same functionality provided by its US equivalent, which connects all key market operators via a high-bandwidth backbone…
BATS Europe Enlists Fixnetix for Data
Multilateral trading facility BATS Europe has selected UK-based low-latency data provider Fixnetix to provide pan-European equities market data from European exchanges and other MTFs to support its plans for trading in the region.
Tibco Adds to CEP Engine
Tibco will this week unveil version 3.0 of its BusinessEvents complex event processing engine, which adds new features designed to make the product more accessible to non-technical business users, and to provide consistent access to data for users…
Thomson Reuters Preps DACS Improvements
Thomson Reuters is preparing to roll out a revamped version of its DACS (Data Access Control System) entitlement management software by the end of September, featuring a Web interface, improved reporting and control functions, and vendor integration.
NYSE Arca Fee Debate Continues
Three more letters were sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission last week, adding more fuel to the ongoing debate about fees being introduced by NYSE Euronext for real-time data from its NYSE Arca trading platform.
Xasax Expands Exegy Install
Naples, Fla-based data, software and proximity hosting provider Xasax is in the process of implementing a series of hardware-accelerated ticker plants from St Louis, MO-based Exegy, as part of a rollout of new hosting datacenters onto the vendor's…
FISD Details 'Fee-Free' Data, Preps Standards
Industry association FISD has posted the results of a survey of exchanges' policies around fees for data use in non-trading applications on its Web site, and is preparing a best practices document to promote an industry-wide standard around charging for…
S&P Compustat Opens Up Xpressfeed, Assists Integration
Standard & Poor's Compustat division has created a data-loading platform for firms to integrate data from the vendor's Xpressfeed fundamental and market data service into their proprietary analytics platforms, and has set up a specialist team to provide…
Vendors Brace for Merrill-Lehman Fallout
Data vendors are implementing cost control procedures to mitigate the impact of the sales of Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers to Bank of America and Barclays, respectively, last week.
STAC Readies Data Benchmarking Tools
The Securities Technology Analysis Center is set to unveil a suite of tools for benchmarking market data technology installations that will utilize a set of procedures expected to be approved last week by end-user members of STAC's Benchmark Council.
Telvent Buys DTN for Agri Data Drive
Spanish energy technology service provider Telvent last week bought Omaha, Nebraska-based DTN-which provides data on the agricultural, refined fuels and weather markets-for $445 million in cash, to expand into the US agricultural and commodities data…
eSignal Sites Add Real-Time BATS Data
Interactive Data's eSignal division has added real-time equity data to its Quote.com, RagingBull and FutureSource.com Web sites, using a feed of free market data from Kansas City, MO-based ECN BATS Trading, officials tell Inside Market Data .
TMX Plans Expansion of Insider Trade Data Service
TMX, the exchange group created from the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, is planning to make its Inside Trade Marker service available as part of its real-time datafeeds, officials say.
Solace Taps Former Tibco Staffers for New Offices
Hardware-based networking provider Solace Systems recently completed a hiring spree of former Tibco staff to fill a round of new offices in Atlanta, Palo Alto and Tokyo that the vendor announced last week.
Xeno Adds Online TimeScape Training
UK-based data technology vendor Xenomorph is introducing a new online training function to help its clients make better use of its flagship TimeScape data management and analytics system, officials tell Inside Market Data . The move will help clients to…
Fitch Preps CDS Pricing Enhancements
Fitch Solutions, the technology and content arm of ratings agency Fitch, is pitching its Risk Performance Platform at a range of new uses for pricing credit instruments, after conducting an internal study to validate its pricing model.
LSE Outage Prompts Calls for European Consolidated Tape of Exchange Data
Some market participants and observers are calling for the creation of a US-style consolidated tape of exchange data for trading venues in Europe, following a trading outage at the London Stock Exchange that also hit trading volumes on other markets…
Acquire Media Combines Newswire Apps
Roseland, NJ-based Acquire Media is rolling out a revamped version of its newswire product that combines its own NewsTrade feed and the NewsEdge Live news service acquired last year from Thomson Corporation ( IMD , July 2, 2007), bundled together under…
SIX Telekurs Launches CEO Hunt
SIX Telekurs, the market data vendor subsidiary of newly rebranded SIX (Swiss Infrastructure and Exchange) Group, is seeking a new chief executive, after announcing last week that current CEO Marc Carletti plans to leave the vendor after just over 18…
Proquote Creates Pan-Europe Book Display
The London Stock Exchange's data vendor subsidiary Proquote will this week release an update to its Proquote International market data terminal that contains datafeeds from other European trading venues to create a pan-European consolidated order book,…