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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…
Pivot Preps $3M Expansion
Trade messaging and collaboration infrastructure technology provider Pivot has raised $3 million in new funding, to enable the vendor to expand its sales force and to fund development of new modules for its Pivot 360° platform, officials say.
Traderforce Builds US Team, Mulls Direct Feeds
French data vendor Traderforce plans to bolster its US presence by setting up a sales and support office in New York alongside a local datacenter, and is also looking at sourcing direct datafeeds to support latency-sensitive clients in the region.
Opra Delays FAST Switchover
The Options Price Reporting Authority has delayed the date for clients to complete their migration to the bandwidth-reducing FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol, to give subscribers additional time for testing with the new format.
Quant House Grows US Feeds, Ops
French low-latency data provider Quant House is planning to add to the range of US markets accessible via its feed handlers and QuantFeed low-latency feed, and to bolster its US presence with a Chicago office, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Nasdaq Readies Sentiment Tool
Nasdaq OMX is beta-testing a tool for measuring market sentiment, dubbed Nasdaq Market Pathfinders, which tracks the number of "pathfinders" buying and selling volumes of a specific stock, pending Securities and Exchange Commission approval to formally…
Turquoise Selects NeoNet for "Internal" Data
Bank-backed multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise last week signed a deal with Swedish agency broker, data and technology vendor NeoNet to provide the pan-European equity market data that will drive Turquoise's trading platform.
Edgar Online Adds Ratios, Plans White-Label Tools
Filings and company data provider Edgar Online has increased the number of ratios, for assessing companies' risk and identifying trends from figures in financial statements, within its I-Metrix product suite for viewing and filtering financial statement…
Sybase Integrates CEP Vendor Tools
Database vendor Sybase is preparing to launch a new technology platform targeted at addressing different data speed and throughput requirements of trading desks for different data types, such as streaming data, historic data and trade messages, within…
SWX Preps Non-Display Data Fees
Exfeed, the market data subsidiary of the SWX Swiss Exchange, plans to roll out a new data licensing policy on July 1 that will introduce charges for use of the exchange's real-time data in non-display applications.
Bloomberg SID Move Raises Admin Concerns
Bloomberg clients may face increased administration when consolidating usage and invoice information for market data inventory management, following the vendor's apparent decision to stop granting new requests to customers wishing to access enterprise…
LSE Issues New Borsa Feed Specs
The merged London Stock Exchange-Borsa Italiana has announced revised specifications for Borsa Italiana's MDF/DDM+ datafeed, which will distribute Italian equity market data from the LSE's TradElect electronic trading platform once the Italian exchange…
Coral8 Release Boosts Query, Pattern-Tracking Capabilities
Complex event processing engine provider Coral8 has released version 5.2 of its Coral8 Engine, which includes enhancements for narrowing the range of queries and creating audit trails.
Skyler to Integrate European Data
Skyler Technologies, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based data software vendor, will this week announce plans to integrate data from European and Asian markets into its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution to enable firms to locate liquidity and the best price for…
Smith Signs On to Lead Data Explorers Expansion
Donal Smith, former senior executive at Thomson Financial and newly appointed chief executive of London-based securities lending data provider Data Explorers, plans to expand the vendor's business in response to increased demand for securities lending…
HKEx Lifts Suspension Rule for Announcements
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will this week eliminate the requirement for listed companies to suspend trading in shares when releasing data or announcements that might impact a company's share price, bringing HKEx more in line with other exchanges.
CodeStreet Adds Latency Monitor Tools
NEW YORK-based data software vendor CodeStreet will this week unveil a solution for monitoring and charting latency within Market Data Metrics, a component of the vendor's Market Data Works product suite.
Berry Bows Out from Barclays Capital
Prominent market data industry professional David Berry has left his position as head of market data business management at Barclays Capital after only 18 months in the role, and as a result has suspended his participation in French market data consumer…
Reuters Lines up DACS Partners
Three trading technology vendors-BNY Convergex subsidiary Eze Castle Software, Charles River Development, and SunGard subsidiary Front Arena-are integrating their software with the OpenDACS API to Reuters' Data Access Control System to help client firms…
BlueSys Expands Emerging Markets Data
Blue Systems, a London-based vendor of trading and data display technologies, is bolstering its coverage of emerging markets price data with end-of-day prices from 55 exchanges globally, sourced from Chicago-based data vendor World'Vest Base.