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BT Readies 'Shared' Ultra-Proximity Data
BT Global Financial Services is preparing to launch a new addition to its Radianz suite of network and hosting services, dubbed Radianz Ultra Shared, that combines elements of the vendor's existing low-latency exchange connectivity and proximity hosting…
Thomson Reuters Preps Newswire Layoffs
Thomson Reuters' newswire division last week initiated a voluntary redundancy scheme as part of plans to shed around 70 London-based editorial staff, eliciting criticism from the journalists' union over the vendor's "failure to provide the full business…
Blocks Opens Platform to Client Data
Durham, NC-based stock market analysis software vendor Worden Brothers plans to open up its Blocks visualization tool later this year, to enable clients to incorporate their own proprietary or internal datasets into Blocks' analytics, officials tell…
Augustus Adds CMA Data to Risk System
Augustus Asset Managers has integrated end-of-day credit default swap data from credit and derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis into its Derivation risk management system, officials say.
BATS Launches BBO-Only Feed
Kansas City, Mo-based ECN BATS Trading will roll out a new datafeed today, Monday, June 16, to provide top-of-book data for firms that do not need access to the ECN's full market depth, officials say.
Equinix Bolsters Slough Datacenter Community
Hosting service provider Equinix is building up a community of banks, market operators and service providers in its newly renovated Slough datacenter, which it acquired in 2007, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Logicscope Hires Barber as CEO
UK-based data technology vendor Logicscope has appointed John Barber as chief executive, replacing founder and former CEO Nick Dyne , who becomes head of business development. In his new role, Barber will oversee around 25 staff in the vendor's London…
Taiwan Stock Exchange Plans FAST Data
The Taiwan Stock Exchange is planning to adopt the bandwidth-reducing FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol next year, in a move designed to help serve global trading participants via an international standard, officials say.
Reliance Preps Global Expansion
Ethernet provider Reliance Globalcom, a division of Indian telecoms vendor Reliance Communications, is preparing to roll out a range of new services and looking toward expanding globally, officials say.
StreamBase Relaunches NewsScope App
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems will later this summer release an update to its StreamBase Reuters Edition development framework for building applications using Reuters data, featuring a new adaptor that enables applications…
CodeStreet Claims Client Savings
Trading firms can make substantial savings on the costs of testing trading strategies against historical market data by using the Market Data Works suite of products from New York-based software provider CodeStreet, for creating repeatable market data…
Sources: Reuters Plus Set for Retirement
Thomson Reuters is expected to discontinue the Reuters Plus data workstation for financial advisers and wealth managers, as part of the vendor's post-merger product rationalization strategy, sources tell Inside Market Data .
Bloomberg, Microsoft Build Mobile Data App
Bloomberg has developed a mobile-enabled software application that enables subscribers to its Bloomberg Professional terminals to access a sub-set of the terminal's data via any wireless application running Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system.
Banks Stall on Exchanges' App Data Fees
New exchange policies that charge banks for using market data in non-display applications and creating derived data from real-time exchange feeds are being met with resistance by some banks, some of whom are stalling the process of signing new contracts,…
Terra Nova Adds TSX via Hosted SpryWare
Chicago-based broker and clearer Terra Nova Financial is preparing to roll out data from the Toronto Stock Exchange to institutional and active trader clients of the firm's electronic trading workstation from its Tradient Technologies subsidiary, using…
MUSI Preps Contributions Data Upgrade
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International is planning a global pricing system for rates and exotic derivative products contributed by dealers, made possible by the latest version of Gissing Software's ConteX price contribution system, which the firm will…
FirstRain Adds to Blog Reports
Search technology provider and content aggregator FirstRain will this week launch two new sets of email reports, the FirstRain Blog Monitor and FirstRain Capital Markets Monitor, that consolidate information from the Web with blog metrics and company…
Fixnetix Offers Access to Hosted Skyler CEP Engine
UK-based direct exchange feed technology provider Fixnetix is offering hosted access to complex event processing technologies from Concord, CA-based vendor Skyler Technology, under the terms of a new partnership between the two vendors, officials tell…
Vhayu 'Squeezes' Data Storage
Tick processing and CEP software vendor Vhayu has rolled out a new component to its Vhayu Velocity solution that utilizes hardware technologies to reduce storage requirements, officials tell Inside Market Data .
BGI Deploys OMD OneTick
Barclays Global Investors has rolled out the OneTick solution for processing historical and real-time tick data from tick data management vendor OneMarketData, vendor officials tell Inside Market Data .
Liquidnet Polices Members with CEP
Equity dark pool and agency brokerage Liquidnet has been able to detect and address activity that violates its membership protocols and "can be a sign of a trader misusing the system," as a result of deploying a complex event processing engine from CEP…
Dickey Brings Data to Fruition
Steve Dickey, former vice president of market data products and information at the Chicago Board of Trade, who left the exchange following its merger with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has landed a new role at Chicago-based IT consultancy Fruition…