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Trading Metrics Unveils Latency Analysis Tool
New York-based software vendor Trading Metrics will this week unveil a new product, Market Latency Metrics, for monitoring latency of market data systems and traffic.
Moody's Buys BQuotes as Rating Agencies Grow Securities Pricing
In response to growing demand from user firms for transparent pricing information, ratings agencies are expanding their securities pricing services and dedicating more resources to those services.
After Delays, Reuters Preps Chi-X Direct Feed
Reuters is adding a direct feed from pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X to its Reuters Data Feed Direct service, in response to client demand for broader direct feed coverage, officials say.
Fitch Adds Commentaries to Implied Ratings
Fitch Ratings has added weekly commentaries to its market-implied ratings on credit default swaps and equities, highlighting key information within the ratings, officials tell Inside Market Data .
MarketAxess Expands Caplin Deal for Price Distribution
MarketAxess has expanded its use of technology from UK-based trading technology vendor Caplin Systems for distribution of real-time prices on emerging market bonds from dealers via the EM Actives segment of MarketAxess' trading platform.
FTSE Launches Shariah Indexes
FTSE launched last week a series of Shariah-compliant indexes to meet growing demand for Islamic structured products from investors outside of Islamic countries in Asia.
KBC Begins Data Control Project
Brussels-based bank KBC Group is rolling out a major initiative to track and control market data usage and eliminate duplication of data services across the firm's global subsidiaries, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Ballista Preps to Launch Activ Data Arsenal
Ballista Securities, a new broker-dealer currently in the final stages of formation, will go live on a hosted ticker plant and multiple North American datafeeds from low-latency data provider Activ Financial when the firm begins operations next month.
StanChart Rolls Out MDSL in Asia
Standard Chartered Bank is deploying the MDM (Market Data Manager) and RPM (Request & Procurement Manager) systems from MDSL to provide data usage and cost management services across its offices in Asia.
FirstRain Analytics Highlight Trends in People Moves, Management Comments
Web research software vendor FirstRain will this week unveil a new qualitative analytics package that uses pattern detection technology to search, store and present news items and reports in a way that enables users to identify trends in executive…
Levi Hire to Drive SuperD Sales
Derivatives pricing vendor SuperDerivatives last week named Russel Levi, a former senior Bloomberg executive, as senior vice president of global sales and support, to head the vendor's global sales team, which he expects to grow significantly over the…
Aspen Enlists IDC for Web Hosting
Aspen Graphics has set up a new, hosted server farm within Interactive Data's point of presence in BT Global Financial Services' Nutley, New Jersey datacenter, to provide better service to clients of the vendor's Aspen on the Net (AOTN) online charting…
Activ Upgrades API Technology
Low-latency data and ticker plant vendor Activ Financial has made changes to its Application Program Interfaces (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK), which clients use to create interfaces between their applications and Activ's datafeed, to support…
BGC, Cantor Merger Drives New Data Sets
BGC Partners, the company being created by the pending merger of Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed electronic trading subsidiary with its former voice-broking spin-off, is set to release a slew of new market data products as a result of combining data from the…
Turquoise Preps Apama Analysis Platform
European multilateral trading facility Turquoise is preparing to roll out a real-time market surveillance platform from event processing and algorithmic trading software vendor Progress Apama and consultancy Detica that can also be used for general…
Markit Preps 'Second-Gen' Boat Data
UK-based data vendor Markit plans to launch new data products over the coming months based on data from pre- and post-trade data publication utility Boat, following Markit's acquisition of Boat from its consortium of nine bank owners last week for an…
Spryware Plans New York Expansion
Chicago-based low-latency data and ticker plant provider Spryware will open a sales and support office in New York at the start of February, to provide local service for the vendor's growing client base in the city.
FISD, SIIA Agree Market Data Certification Funding
Industry association FISD and parent the Software & Information Industry Association have agreed terms to fund a certification program for financial information professionals, officials tell IMD 's sibling publication Inside Reference Data