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KTS to Exit Data Vendor Business
UK-based data and technology vendor Knowledge Technology Solutions is negotiating a sale of its MarketTerminal data display terminal subscriber base in order to focus operations on selling its underlying data platform technologies and related services,…
South Africa's Nedbank Rolls Out Coral8
Johannesburg-based investment bank Nedbank Capital, a division of Nedbank Ltd., last month deployed software vendor Coral 8's complex event processing engine, to support the bank's migration to new trading systems.
BOX Targets Wider Audience For Market Depth Feed
The Boston Options Exchange (BOX) is planning an initiative to make its market depth data more easily accessible and easy to analyze by members within trading systems and data display applications, officials say.
Code Red Gives Red Alerts a Facelift
Boston-based software vendor Code Red is beta testing a "soft release" of version 3.3 of its Red Alerts research management software with a group of hedge fund clients, which officials say represents a "significant upgrade" to the system's user interface.
TPI Upgrades Tech in Quality Drive
Tullett Prebon Information is testing an upgrade to its data architecture designed to identify and remove anomalous data items from its feed, as part of an ongoing market data quality control effort, officials say.
Colt: Latency Spend Escapes Credit Crunch
Banks will continue to invest in technology to reduce latency within data delivery and trading architectures, despite tighter budgets as the result of the ongoing credit crunch, according to a survey conducted recently by Colt Telecom.
TradeWeb Readies FASB- Compliant Trade Data
Electronic fixed-income market Tradeweb will next month begin disseminating transaction prices to subscribers of its Tradeweb Composite Marks service to help firms comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement No. 157.
Deutsche Börse Beefs Up CEF for Scoach Data
Deutsche Börse has made changes to its underlying CEF feed architecture to support distribution of data from its Scoach structured products market, which recently migrated from the exchange's Xontro floor trading system to its Xetra trading platform,…
Amerex Plans Data Expansion with e-Trading Migration
Amerex, the energy broking subsidiary of interdealer broker GFI, is considering ways to package the quote and trade data that will be generated by an expansion of contracts traded on GFI's EnergyMatch electronic commodities trading platform, officials…
NextView Rolls Out Vietnam Data
Singapore-based data vendor NextView will begin distributing Level 1 tick data and three levels of market depth data from the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) to local and international traders at the end of May, as part of an agreement signed between…
Thomson Reuters Seeks DLA Mergers
Thomson Reuters has begun contacting exchanges to consolidate the data license agreements (DLAs) previously held by Thomson Financial and Reuters into a single contract with each exchange for the merged vendor.
NYSE Euronext Preps New Feeds
NYSE Euronext is preparing to launch a common feed architecture for data from all its European markets, using technology from recently acquired subsidiary Wombat Financial Software, and is readying a new, low-latency feed of US data, officials tell…
Sybase Unveils Market Data Platform
Database and technology vendor Sybase will this week launch its RAP (Real-time Analytics Platform) Trading Edition platform, which combines management of market data at three levels-low-latency data for automated trading applications, real-time data for…
Chi-X Readies Data for Smart Order Routing
European multilateral trading facility Chi-X is preparing to roll out a smart order-routing service that uses market data consolidated from multiple exchanges and trading venues as the basis for trading decisions, to help customers comply with the best…
Infront Develops Derivatives Module
Norwegian data and trading technology vendor Infront has developed a new derivatives data display module for its Web-based Online Trader data display and trading application, officials say.
SR Labs Preps Feed Expansion
SR Labs, a New York-based provider of technology for processing direct feeds for algorithmic trading applications at exchange co-location facilities, is in the midst of a second round of feed handler development to broaden the range of venues that the…
Panel: Lack of Data Hampers Valuations
A lack of timely and consistent data is compounding the difficulty of valuing illiquid structured credit instruments during the ongoing credit crisis, according to an industry panel hosted by Thomson Reuters in London last week.
Gissing to Power Wombat Excel Add-in
Gissing Software, the price contributions software vendor acquired by Reuters at the start of this year ( IMD , Jan. 4), has entered into an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) licensing agreement with NYSE subsidiary Wombat Financial Software.
IBM Buys InfoDyne in Latency Play
Technology giant IBM last week snapped up Chicago-based feed handler and ticker plant vendor InfoDyne, in a bid to accelerate its low-latency data platform, WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets.
Quick Rolls Out New Icap Data
Japanese financial information vendor Quick, the country's dominant domestic provider, is adding a suite of new currency datasets and services from interdealer broker Icap into its products, officials tell Inside Market Data .