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SunGard Readies GL Buyout
Financial technology giant SunGard last week announced plans to acquire French data and trading technology vendor GL Trade, in a deal that would value GL at just over €400 million.
CAPIS Co-Lo Boosts Data Bandwidth
Dallas-based broker Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) will next month move its market data operations to co-location facilities provided by third-party datacenter operator Data Bank, and will discontinue use of its two in-house datacenters.
Shanghai Wind Unveils Economic Database
China-focused data vendor Shanghai Wind Information has rolled out a new bilingual database of macro-economic data covering major industry sectors in China, as part of a push to attract more international data consumers.
India's NSE Migrates Network to Cut Latency
The Mumbai-based National Stock Exchange of India is migrating from a market data distribution network that uses the legacy x.25 protocol to a new network utilizing TCP/IP, to increase capacity and reduce latency.
TMX Preps Pan-Canadian Datafeed
Exchange group TMX, which was formed by the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, is beta testing a low-latency consolidated datafeed of full Level 2 data from all visible markets in Canada.
Thomson Reuters Averts IM Shutdown
Thomson Reuters last week migrated its instant messaging service to a new compliance engine from Global Relay, a Vancouver, BC-based provider of email archiving and compliance software, in time to prevent having to shut down Reuters Messaging after…
ISE Price Glitch Sparks Opra BBO Error
A technical problem with a software update at the International Securities Exchange caused problems with the best bid and offer data calculated and distributed as part of the Options Price Reporting Authority's consolidated feed of US options quote and…
Interactive Data, GGY Integrate Valuation Tools
GGY, a Toronto-based provider of pricing, valuation and modeling software for insurance companies, has integrated cash flow calculations from Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics' BondEdge product into its Axis actuarial modeling system, to speed up…
FactSet Rebrands Thomson Fundamentals
FactSet Research Systems has launched FactSet Fundamentals, a historical financial information database of income statements, balance sheets, cash flows and related underlying data from the footnotes of financial statements for more than 43,000 companies…
CMA Buy Lifts CME Data Revenues
Data revenues at Chicago Mercantile Exchange parent CME Group grew by 5 percent in the second quarter to $60 million, lifted in part by revenue from the acquisition of credit derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis, which the exchange purchased…
EPFR Develops Web Portal For Fund Flows Data
EPFR Global, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of fund flows and asset allocations data, has begun testing a new, Web-based interface with a handful of early-adopter clients, that will give users easy access to the vendor's data without the need to deploy a…
Julius Preps Credit Derivative Analysis Tool
Julius Finance, a New York-based provider of data and software for credit derivative modeling, is developing a new data product to help clients evaluate default risk in portfolios of credit default swaps, and to value collateralized debt obligations.
Xenomorph Readies Data Admin Tool
UK-based data management technology vendor Xenomorph has released a new module as part of its TimeScape database to help trading firms minimize data spend by eliminating instances where a single set of data is paid for more than once.
Olsen Opens FX Tick Database
Olsen Financial Technologies, a Swiss provider of historical foreign exchange tick data, has begun offering unlimited access to its database of FX tick data back to 1986 and equity index futures dating back to the mid-1990s for an all-you-can-eat annual…
Fixnetix Targets European MTFs
UK-based low-latency market data and connectivity provider Fixnetix will provide connectivity to all new European multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) scheduled to launch this fall, officials say.
Traders: TSE Ignored Data Outage Warnings
The Tokyo Stock Exchange was forced to suspend trading for half a day last Tuesday, July 22, after being unable to disseminate prices to participants on its derivatives market as a result of a glitch in its derivatives trading system, despite being…
Thomson Reuters to Consolidate Networks
Thomson Reuters is planning to merge its five combined data delivery networks over the next five years, to produce a single data infrastructure based on the Reuters Integrated Data Network (IDN), officials tell Inside Market Data .
LSE Shuffles Data Pack as Young Departs
The London Stock Exchange last week announced a new structure for parts of its Information Services division, including the appointment of Bruno Siracusano as head of business development.
Thomson Reuters Releases Windows Mobile Application
Thomson Reuters will this week release a new mobile data service, Reuters Wireless Delivery Service, that will allow clients of its RMDS (Reuters Market Data System) data distribution backbone to stream real-time data to mobile devices running the…
NYSE, 1010data Prep Global TAQ Database
NYSE Euronext is building a global repository of historical quote and trade data, using technology from vendor 1010data, to allow the exchange to more easily distribute historical data to clients worldwide.