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Roberts Group to Bolster Reporting Engine
The Roberts Group is planning to introduce new functions for tracking and analyzing data usage next year, using technologies incorporated into its FITS (Financial Information Tracking System) data cost and inventory management system earlier this year.
George Weiss Installs Aleri CEP Engine
Hartford, Conn.-based multi-strategy investment manager George Weiss Associates is deploying complex event processing technology to perform calculations on real-time market data in the face of rising data volumes, officials tell Inside Market Data .
FTSE, Dow Prep ICB Adds
The Industry Classification Benchmark, the company and security classification system developed by FTSE and Dow Jones Indexes, is making changes to the sector levels by which it defines companies, to reflect demand for greater granularity on companies in…
Eurex EBS Feed Cuts Latency, Jitter
German derivatives exchange Eurex is rolling out a new feed of derivatives data on Monday Dec. 3, dubbed Enhanced Broadcast Solution (EBS), which aims to reduce latency and also minimize "jitter"-variance in data latency at times of peak message traffic…
Turquoise Preps Data Plans, Mulls FAST
Bank-backed European multilateral trading facility Turquoise has begun the process of determining the best means for distributing quote and trade data from its trading platform, which is scheduled to go live next year.
S&P Upgrades Backtester
Standard & Poor's Compustat division last week rolled out version 1.5 of its Backtester quantitative analysis tool for back-testing trading and investment strategies by simulating portfolio strategies and investment conditions at specific points in time.
Tibco Cuts RV Latency
Tibco Software has slashed the latency of its Rendezvous messaging layer in response to rising message rates and increases in the number of applications that consume real-time data.
Gissing Preps ConteX 4.0 Beta Tests
UK-based data technology vendor Gissing Software has begun beta testing the latest release of its ConteX price contribution system, and is in the final stages of completing interfaces between ConteX and other systems in place at end-user firms.
TTN Debuts Web NewsStation
Trade The News, a New York-based provider of real-time news to end users including traders at hedge funds, prop desks and day traders, last month began beta testing a Web-based version of its NewsStation news and commentary display product with clients,…
Tokyo Raises Message Capacity
The Tokyo Stock Exchange increased the capacity of its market data system by 10 percent last Monday, Nov. 26, from 30,000 to 33,000 messages per minute, ahead of a more comprehensive systems overhaul set to take place in the next two years.
Aleri Unveils Liquidity Consolidation, Analysis Tool
Chicago-based event processing software vendor Aleri will this week announce it has built a new liquidity aggregation and analysis tool designed to help users deal with the demands of trading in a fragmented marketplace by consolidating and analyzing…
CBOE to Limit Member Quoting
The Chicago Board Options Exchange will this week introduce a system to ensure compliance with the exchange's rules governing the appointments of market makers by preventing members from quoting excessively in CBOE-listed option classes.
SGX Takes Over JADE Data
The Singapore Exchange has taken over distribution of market data from the Joint Asian Derivatives Exchange (JADE), a joint commodity futures market venture set up with the Chicago Board of Trade in September last year, after buying out the 50 percent…
Blue Systems Readies Low-Cost Data
Blue Systems, a London-based provider of trading software and services, will launch a new suite of low-cost market data display software before the end of this year, targeted at non-institutional data consumers.
UniCredit to Roll Out InfoMatch to HVB
Germany's HVB Group will next year begin using the InfoMatch inventory management software from Dutch vendor Screen Consultants to monitor and manage market data vendor usage and contracts, Inside Market Data has learned, extending the scope of an…
Ipreo Buys NSight to Bolster Bigdough
Ipreo, the data and technology vendor formed last year by the combination of Hemscott, I-Deal and MarketPipe, will this week announce that it has acquired New York-based CRM software vendor NSight Enterprise Software, Inside Market Data has learned.
FX Platform to Meld Citi, Saxo Rates
Denmark's Saxo Bank is to incorporate currency prices from Citigroup into a foreign exchange trading platform being hosted on behalf of the bank by Saxo, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CLSA Preps Low-Latency Data Platform
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, a Hong Kong-based broker and investment firm, is rolling out a new market data infrastructure to reduce data latency, as part of a project to implement a next-generation trading system for handling increased message volumes…
29West Adds Network Monitoring Features
Low-latency messaging middleware provider 29West will this week unveil a new software component for monitoring the performance of computers and applications consuming or contributing data to the vendor's messaging systems.
Confluence Automates SFAS Validation
Pittsburgh-based fund data management software vendor Confluence has added the ability for investment managers to automatically validate disclosure schedules against their general ledgers using its Unity Holdings application, which automates collection…
Hedge Funds Sign for IDC Hosting
Interactive Data's Real-Time Services division has signed up three hedge fund clients for its DirectPlus hosted direct feeds service, and is in the final stages of agreeing a deal with a fourth, officials tell Inside Market Data .