Inside Market Data/News
Equinix Preps Amsterdam Hub
Datacenter and hosting facility provider Equinix plans to open a hub in Amsterdam later this year to help local financial firms expand their connectivity and hosting options. The new site follows Equinix's acquisition of Netherlands-based Virtu earlier…
FISD Weighs Demand for Data Certification
Market data industry association FISD could begin certifying data professionals with official market data qualifications by this time next year, if a research study finds enough industry demand to support such an initiative, officials tell Inside Market…
CME Group Buys CMA for OTC Data Play
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week acquired bond and credit derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis for an undisclosed sum, in a bid to diversify its data offering and drive business to the CME's other services for over the counter…
MDSL Integrates 3di Data
UK-based data management technology vendor MDSL has partnered with London-based consultancy 3d Innovations (3di) to integrate 3di's database of market data solutions into the vendor's MDM (Market Data Manager) system for data service cost analysis,…
FTSE, CSAG Launch 'Terror-Free' Indexes
Index provider FTSE will make real-time data on its latest series of indexes for so-called terror-free investments available via Reuters and Bloomberg today, Monday, March 31.
VWD Expands OTC Data with UBS Bond Prices
Frankfurt-based data provider VWD has struck a licensing deal with Swiss banking group UBS to allow the vendor to distribute the bank's bond prices via its Market Manager data terminals, beginning April 1, officials say.
OMX Readies FIX Data Recovery
The Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange will next year roll out market data recovery capabilities based on the application sequencing feature in the latest specification of the FIX protocol, in a suite of new Genium data products to be released during 2009.
DZ Bank Readies VWD Terminal Rollout
Frankfurt-based Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank (DZ Bank) is preparing a major initiative to roll out new market data terminals from local vendor VWD to service thousands of end users over the course of 2008, sources tell Inside Market Data .
Equiduct Debuts Pan-European VBBO Feed
European equity market operator Equiduct Trading will this week launch its Virtual Best Bid and Offer (VBBO) feed of data for equities listed across European markets, and will start publishing real-time VBBO data on a select number of securities via its…
Weisel Taps Pivot for Research Distribution
San Francisco-based investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners is rolling out technology from messaging and collaboration infrastructure vendor Pivot for distributing research, prices and indications of interest via instant messaging, officials say.
Icap Reorganizes Info Services
Interdealer broker Icap has reshuffled its Information Services division, giving new responsibilities to some of the broker's senior data executives.
Wall Street Source Launches Free News Portal
New York-based news aggregator and technology provider Wall Street Source will this week launch a new service via its Web site that consolidates news stories scraped from publicly-available sources on the Internet, in a bid to drive new business to the…
Nasdaq: "Mutual Recognition" Threatens Data Products
Nasdaq OMX has voiced concerns that the concept of so-called "mutual recognition" currently being examined by US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission could put US-based exchanges' data products at a competitive disadvantage against their…
ISE Streamlines Depth Messages
The International Securities Exchange has begun testing version 5.3 of its depth of market data feed, which will dramatically reduce the volume of information sent out in data messages, officials announced last Tuesday, March 18.
Xignite Expands On-Demand Data Content
Web services data vendor Xignite is increasing the breadth of content available on-demand via its online distribution platform, which developers can use to create Web mashups and applications on the fly without needing to write hard coding and interface…
Blue Systems Adds Icap OTC Content
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Blue Systems is to roll out over-the-counter market data from interdealer broker Icap next month, to broaden the vendor's content coverage beyond its original focus on exchange-traded equities and currency…
Court Ends Nymex-ICE Price Dispute
The US Supreme Court last week denied the New York Mercantile Exchange's appeal against the IntercontinentalExchange over ICE's unlicensed use of Nymex's settlement prices.
Arbitragis Picks Quant House for Arb Algos
French proprietary trading firm Arbitragis has begun using low-latency market data from local vendor Quant House to power its algorithmic arbitrage trading strategies, officials say.
FISD to Compare 'Trading' Data Fees
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures Standards working group of data industry association FISD is seeking to clarify exchanges' fee policies for market data used by traders and their assistants engaged in trading on those exchanges.
HKEx Enlists BT for Remote Trading
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is in discussions with network provider BT Global Financial Services to provide market data distribution and possibly trade connectivity via the vendor's RadianzNet financial services network, in anticipation of…