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Data Vendors Ally Against Xinhua News
Major international financial information vendors might not renew contracts with China's state-run Xinhua News Agency to allow them to operate in China, following a complaint filed last week by European and US authorities demanding that China loosens…
FISD Surveys Exchanges on 'Internal' Data
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures Standards working group of data industry association the FISD sent a survey to 41 exchanges last Wednesday, requesting they clarify their policies for "internal" data usage by data vendors and consumer firms,…
Reuters Bows Latency Tool
Reuters will this week launch Reuters Latency Monitor (RLM), based on technology from New York-based data technology vendor Trading Metrics, to help clients determine the speed of market data delivery over Reuters' RMDS data distribution platform to data…
China Brokers Step Up FX Price Blackout
Distribution of market data on foreign exchange forwards and swaps in the Chinese interbank market has all but ceased as a result of broker anxiety over an opaque FX regulatory environment.
BT Preps Low-Latency 'Ultra' Europe
Network and hosting provider BT Global Financial Services is poised to launch a low-latency service for access to market data and order routing for European markets, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Reuters Unveils Credit Alerts, Bundled Valuations
Reuters last week unveiled two new data products-a system for generating alerts on credit-related events, and a new bundled valuation service-while at the same time launching an initiative to elicit feedback from industry participants on the best…
MSCI Bows Asia Hedge Fund Index
Index provider MSCI Barra will this month launch an investable index to capture the composition of the hedge fund universe in the Asia-Pacific region, in partnership with Paris-based Natixis Alternative Investments.
Thomson One Adds IE Telecom Reports
Thomson Financial has added telecom company and industry research reports from Vancouver, BC-based IE Market Research to its Thomson One Investment Banker product, on a pay-per-view basis via its Thomson Research Select platform.
Nasdaq Launches Replay Tool
Nasdaq last week launched a data analysis tool that enables trading firms to download and replay market data to analyze price movements around market events.
Tervela Claims Breakthrough Tests
Low-latency, hardware messaging provider Tervela is claiming that tests conducted with hardware manufacturer AMD produced record-breaking throughput and latency figures in an environment designed to simulate a live production scenario.
Tullett Preps LatAm Data
Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, is preparing to launch a data product in the second quarter of this year that will provide information on the Latin American capital markets for both local and US firms…
Winterflood Expands DMA with Fixnetix Data
UK-based market maker Winterflood Securities is to implement low-latency data connectivity from Fixnetix to exchanges in continental Europe to support the firm's trading operations.
Reuters Deal Ignites OMX Vendor Drive
Nordic exchange group and technology provider OMX is expanding the reach of its Genium FIX low-latency datafeed with a new initiative intended to target the feed at data vendors that distribute direct exchange feeds, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tradition Revamps Contributions, Feeds Tech
Interdealer broker Tradition is deploying technology from UK-based data technology vendor Arcontech to support its contribution of over-the-counter prices to Bloomberg, and is extending the vendor's CityVision StarNet data distribution platform as its…
BATS Expands Savvis Data Connectivity
Kansas City, Mo.-based ECN BATS Trading is expanding its relationship with network and hosting provider Savvis to provide broader connectivity options to clients, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CME Preps Data Recovery Tool
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will later this year introduce a new service allowing clients to request retransmission of specific subsets of market data using the FIX Protocol, to populate applications with missing data in the event of an outage or a…
Data Error Halts NGM Trading
Swedish exchange the Nordic Growth Market was forced to suspend trading last week after data was not properly updated within its trading system, officials say.
Arcontech API Speeds Processing
UK-based data technology vendor Arcontech has released a new Application Program Interface (API) that will allow users to develop latency-sensitive applications using the Microsoft .Net programming language that draw real-time data from the vendor's…
NYSE Euronext Buys IVRS for Valuations
NYSE Euronext last week unveiled a portfolio valuations service, dubbed Prime Source, following its acquisition last week of the Independent Valuation and Risk Services (IVRS) business from UK-based software vendor Lombard Risk Management for £700,000.
Regulators Force TF-Reuters Divestments
Regulators in the US, Europe and Canada last week gave their blessing to Thomson Corp.'s takeover of Reuters, subject to the vendors selling "copies" of certain datasets by April 19 "to preserve competition."