Inside Market Data/News
NSX Rebates Target ECN Flow
The Chicago-based National Stock Exchange has restructured its market data and liquidity rebates in a push to attract higher order volumes from ECNs and alternative trading systems.
SFTI Eyes Asia Exchange Connectivity
NYSE TransactTools, the technology subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, is rolling out its industry-mandated SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure) network for data and trade communication to Asia, to provide exchange connectivity and order routing…
FISD, Asia Firms Ready Data User Group
Market data officials at a number of trading firms and FISD members in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia are pooling their expertise to set up a market data user group organization focused on the Asia-Pacific markets, with the assistance of industry…
Stockgroup Takes Broker Clients Mobile
Vancouver-based financial data provider Stockgroup is developing a wireless real-time market data solution for brokerage firms to roll out to clients, which the vendor plans to release in January, officials say.
Platts Adds OTC ICE Data
Energy and commodities information provider Platts, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill, has added OTC pricing data from Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange to its forward curve data products. The ICE data covers North American natural gas and electricity…
Boat Data Suffers Choppy Launch
Reuters suffered problems displaying data from trade reporting utility Boat at its launch last week because of anomalies in the way that many contributing banks provided their pre-trade quotes, while Bloomberg is still ironing out contractual issues for…
Reuters to Name Execs; Rowlands to Leave
Devin Wenig, CEO-elect of the Reuters business line within the proposed merged Thomson-Reuters, will name the vendor’s new executive management team Monday, Nov. 5, IMD has learned.
Markit Prepares New Desktop Features
UK-based data vendor Markit has added a portfolio upload tool to version 1.1 of its Markit Desktop data product, and plans to add additional content sets, enhanced graphics and the option of a Web-based interface in future releases.
BvD Grows Sinorating China Data, Revamps Interface
Belgium-based fundamental data provider Bureau van Dijk (BvD) is integrating company data from more than 300,000 Chinese corporations into its international data products following a deal with Sinorating, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned credit…
StanChart Deploys Traderforce in Asia
Standard Chartered Bank has rolled out more than 30 market data display terminals from French data vendor Traderforce to its new private banking division in Singapore, officials tell Inside Market Data.
SGX Readies OMX Derivatives Feed Test
The Singapore Exchange will begin testing a new data platform for its derivatives feed in December, based on the Genium data platform from Swedish exchange operator and technology provider OMX, and plans to fully implement the platform in January,…
CQG Adds Icap Asia Data
Denver, Colo.-based data and analytics provider CQG is to expand the range of contributed data it carries from interdealer broker Icap, under the terms of a deal between the two for multi-asset-class data from Asian markets, Inside Market Data has…
Thomson, BQuotes Partner for CDS Data
Thomson Financial’s analysis and commentary subsidiary Thomson IFR Markets has begun providing real-time credit default swap commentary, analysis and forecasts to BestQuotes and BestData—the real-time price discovery and intra-day price services from…
Vhayu Melds Real-time, Historical Data
California-based tick processing software vendor Vhayu will this week announce version 2.0 of its Velocity Order Book Analyzer, which combines real-time and historical market data analysis and storage capabilities for building and recreating current or…
Reuters Readies MiFID Tools
Reuters will this week launch two new services that provide data and analysis of trade information to aid client compliance with the best-execution components of the European Commission’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Activ Expands Asia-Pacific Direct Feeds
Low-latency data and technology vendor Activ Financial is increasing its line-up of data from Asia-Pacific exchanges, in response to demand for low-latency data from trading firms in the region.
Turquoise Data to Mirror Boat
Project Turquoise, the European multilateral trading facility (MTF) formed by a consortium of banks is likely to base its data distribution architecture on that employed by trade reporting utility Boat, according to Cinnober, the vendor named last week…
Demand Rises for Hosted Tick Utilities
Demand is increasing from financial institutions for vendors to develop hosted tick-by-tick storage services as an alternative to firms having to host and manage huge databases of tick data internally, according to industry participants.
Connotate, Serena, Xignite Prep Mashup Portals
Three vendors of technologies for creating “mashups”—applications created by combining different Web services—aimed at financial services firms are rolling out new portals for pulling together data services and building tools on the fly without needing…
Traderforce Bolsters Asian Presence
Paris-based data and trading technology vendor Traderforce is building up its Asian presence and making investments in new infrastructure, offices and additional staff to support growing demand for its products in the region.
Quant House Plans Asia Network
French low-latency data vendor Quant House is planning to expand its proprietary fiber-optic network into Asia next year, to support datafeed collection from more exchange data sources in the region.
GL Preps for LSE ‘Performance Channels’ as ASP Demand Spikes
French data and trading technology vendor GL Trade will sign up to connect to Performance Channels, the new 100-megabit low-latency data service being launched next year by the London Stock Exchange.