Inside Market Data/News
EPFR Expands Middle East, Africa Funds Data
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has recently expanded its coverage of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to enable users to more accurately monitor flows of money into and out of the region.
StreamBase Takes Plunge Into Dark Pools
Complex event processing technology vendor StreamBase is targeting a new client base in the form of dark pool trading venues, to help their founders address complex datafeed integration and trading strategy development needs, officials say.
Hillier-Brook Forms BHW Systems
Market data industry veteran Ian Hillier-Brook has formed a new company, dubbed BHW Systems, which will re-sell the Smart TS XL software analytics toolkit from Dallas, TX-based vendor IN-COM Data Systems to potential clients in Europe.
Imagine Integrates Markit CDS Prices, GICS Industries
New York-based trading systems provider Imagine Software is about to integrate credit default swap data from UK-based data vendor Markit to the Imagine Trading System, and is preparing to adopt the GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) taxonomy…
Nasdaq Adds Indexes, Rethinks Replay
Nasdaq OMX is releasing a slew of new indexes that combine components of indexes from OMX and Nasdaq, and has revised the licensing terms for Market Replay, its tool for downloading and replaying market data to analyze price movements, making the product…
Glocer: 3000 Xtra 'Successor' for 2009
Thomson Reuters is preparing to roll out a new trading floor desktop next year that the vendor is touting as a successor to its flagship 3000 Xtra terminal.
Monitor110 Auctions Assets Post-Closure
A mystery data vendor has bought some of the assets of Monitor110, a New York-based provider of technology for firms to monitor information on the Web in real time and correlate that information against investments, which closed down last month after…
TNS in Asia-Pacific Exchange Data Drive
Network provider Transaction Network Services is expanding its Asia-Pacific exchange coverage by adding access to market data from several exchanges in the region via its Secure Trading Extranet, officials say.
Turquoise Preps Soft Launch; Vendors Ready to Go
Bank consortium-backed European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) Turquoise will launch trading on a select group of UK and German stocks on Friday Aug. 15, with a number of vendors already prepared to carry market data from the venue at launch,…
TFX Eyes Remote Traders with GL, Co-Lo
The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), the former Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange, will this week announce a partnership with French data and trading technology provider GL Trade to promote remote memberships for firms based outside Japan,…
Marketcetera Integrates Activ Data
Open-source trading system provider Marketcetera and low-latency data vendor Activ Financial will this week announce a deal to integrate their technologies, so that Marketcetera clients can immediately deploy Marketcetera against Activ datafeeds, while…
AMQP Demonstrates Data Protocol Potential, Though Hurdles Remain
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an open-source messaging middleware, is gaining appeal as a technology for distributing market data within organizations, officials say, though it may be a few years before exchanges adopt the protocol to…
Trade Alert Adds Color to Trade IMs
New York-based Trade Alert, a provider of software that distributes equity options trade data via instant messaging, has opened its network to clients to enable them to distribute their own market color in addition to receiving automated trade…
Bonds.com Preps Structured Products
Online trading platform Bonds.com will add terms and conditions data for structured products to its BondStation trading platform when it begins listing structured products later this month, officials say.
Coral8 Enables Inter-App Data Sharing
Complex event processing software provider Coral8 has released the latest version of its Coral8 Engine, which includes enhancements for sharing data across multiple applications and making changes to its data cache without disrupting the running of other…
TMX Unveils New Canada-US Data Site
TMX, the exchange group formed by the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, has launched a new Web site, TMXmoney.com, designed to be a first port of call for investors and professionals seeking quote and company data for listings on the Toronto…
Cicada Enters Euro Low-Latency Fray
Oklahoma City-based data technology vendor Cicada is rolling out feed handlers to process data from all major European equity trading venues, and is taking space in co-location datacenters to provide a low-latency data delivery architecture for the…
Chi-X Mulls New Feeds to Cut Bandwidth
European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X is planning to roll out a choice of data delivery options in the first half of next year to address bandwidth challenges associated with growing data volumes.
SR Labs Rounds Out European Feed Coverage
New York-based low-latency data technology provider SR Labs has added support for three European exchange feeds to its SMDS market data platform for use in proximity hosting centers.
EcoWin Buy Expands ISI Coverage
ISI Emerging Markets, a division of Euromoney Institutional Investor that provides economic and business information, will almost double the country coverage of its CEIC Data time-series database product, following the acquisition of Thomson Reuters'…