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FTSE Deploys Caplin-Kalahari Data Platform
Index provider FTSE has deployed a data backbone from Caplin Systems and calculation engine from Kalahari to help support the production of its bond and gilt index data, officials say.
FTSE Deploys Caplin-Kalahari Data Platform
Index provider FTSE has deployed a data backbone from Caplin Systems and calculation engine from Kalahari to help support the production of its bond and gilt index data, officials say.
Tenfore Grows Far East Feeds
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems is preparing to roll out data from a number of new Asian sources onto its consolidated datafeed, to expand its coverage of the region, officials say.
HVB, Unicredit Consolidate Data Functions
The market data groups of Italian bank Unicredit, Bank Austria and Germany’s Hypovereinsbank (HVB) are being consolidated into HVB’s head office in Munich, following the merger of the Unicredit and HVB groups in 2005.
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.
LiquidityHub Launches Pricing Platform
LiquidityHub, an electronic platform formed by a consortium of 16 banks for facilitating price discovery for fixed-income instruments, will go live with its first phase of operations today, Monday Oct. 22, providing market data on euro-denominated…
Deutsche Börse Preps FAST Eurex Feed
Deutsche Börse will launch a new low-latency datafeed for vendors and non-member trading firms on Dec. 3 that will also provide increased market depth data, following the launch of a new trading API being rolled out by the exchange's Eurex derivatives…
LIM Debuts XMIM Options Tester
Chicago-based derivatives data vendor Logical Information Machines will this week release XMIM Options Tester, a tool for back-testing the performance of equity and futures options strategies using historical end-of-day bid-and-ask price data to create…
Boat Floats Free Trial, Delayed Data
Trade reporting facility Boat (formerly known as Project Boat), is offering a two-month free trial of its real-time quote-and-trade datafeed between its launch on Nov. 1 until the end of this year, and has decided to also provide a delayed feed of data.
Panel: Reg NMS Impact Exaggerated
Market forces are responsible for soaring increases in market data traffic, rather than the conventional wisdom that Reg NMS is driving data growth, according to an industry panel organized by Interactive Data in New York last week
EquityFeed Preps Screening Tools
Montreal-based micro-cap data vendor EquityFeed is planning to add an industry sector data analysis tool and an earnings calendar to its products as part of a software upgrade scheduled for Nov. 1, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CodeStreet Plans Open-Source Scenario Library
New York-based financial software provider CodeStreet plans to develop an open-source library to make it easier for business users to develop and test applications by running market data scenarios using its Market Data Works testing suite, which the…
DJN Adds to Algo News Feed
Dow Jones Newswires has added company-related news items to its Elementized News Feed, which provides a feed of news items with XML tags that can be processed by investment models and algorithmic trading applications.
Fixnetix Offers Pan-Euro Low Latency
UK-based low-latency feed vendor Fixnetix is rolling out a low-latency data service using proximity hosting data centers and the highest available bandwidth connections for access to the three major European markets-the London Stock Exchange, Euronext…
OptionMetrics Adds Europe Data
New York-based options data vendor OptionMetrics has added expanded exchange coverage and enhanced proprietary models for calculating dividends to its product for European historical equity and index option prices, and implied volatility data.
FTSE Readies Delayed Data Fee Hike
Index provider FTSE is set to double the charge for receiving delayed data on its indexes. Sources say FTSE introduced a monthly per-user charge for its delayed data of 25 pence earlier this year, and that this fee will rise to 50 pence next year.
ISE Adds Order Info to Depth Feed
The International Securities Exchange has enhanced its recently launched market depth datafeed with new fields indicating the quantity of customer orders for each price level.
CQG Bolsters TradeFlow Tools
Denver, Colo.-based data and analytics vendor CQG is in the process of migrating clients to the latest release of its charting software, which includes new studies for using other traders' activity to identify and predict price trends.
TSX Rolls Out Multi-Dealer Index
The Toronto Stock Exchange has switched its PC Bond fixed-income index from being based on prices contributed from a single dealer-Scotia Capital, from whom TSX bought the index and fixed-income analytics software business last year-to prices contributed…
Fortis Americas Takes Spryware Co-Lo
Fortis Clearing Americas last month completed the rollout of a hosted ticker plant and datafeed under a multi-year deal with Chicago-based vendor Spryware, designed to reduce the technology footprint required to support the firm's data system.