Inside Market Data/News
Firms Explore Valuation Options For FASB 157 Compliance
Pricing vendors and accounting specialists are reporting a recent spike in investment managers seeking assistance in complying with SFAS (Statement of Financial Accounting Standards) 157 from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which will come into…
HSH Nordbank Replaces Terminals, Outsources Data Tech Platform
German bank HSH Nordbank has in the last two months completed a rollout of Reuters 3000 Xtra terminals to replace obsolete Telerate screens at its trading floor in Kiel, with the assistance of Hamburg-based consultancy IT-Spezialist (ITS).
CBOE Proposes Backdated Fees, Ends Cross Rebates
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission to allow it to collect retroactive fees for market data from the CBOE and the CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) distributed between April 1 and May 31 this year.
Proquote Broadens Icap OTC Content
Proquote, the data vendor subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange, is expanding coverage of OTC-traded markets through its relationship with interdealer broker Icap, which will see the vendor begin carrying new asset classes and geographic coverage,…
New HS Indexes Track China-HK Disparities
Hang Seng Index Services will today, Monday, July 9, launch the China AH Indexes Series, a set of indexes to track the performance difference between shares of companies with both mainland Shanghai-listed A-shares and Hong Kong-listed H-shares (AH…
CMS Webview Considers Liquidation
UK-based ticker plant and market data technology vendor CMS Webview may be forced to fold later this month when shareholders vote on whether to place the vendor in voluntary liquidation, after failing to make new sales of its TDI ticker plant software.
Amex Readies Level 2 Feed, Uses FAST
The American Stock Exchange is developing a Level 2 feed of equities market depth data for launch in the second half of this year utilizing the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol to reduce the bandwidth issues associated with market depth…
Reuters Launches OTC Post-Trade Reporting Tool
Reuters is testing a new tool for reporting over-the-counter trades in European equities with a number of medium-sized broker clients, which will help firms comply with the European Commission's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive regulations,…
FISD Sets Up Data Piracy Committee
Industry association FISD has established a committee to address the worsening problem of market data piracy, which leaves data providers unable to compete in countries where piracy is rampant.
AC Capital Takes On-Demand CDO² Pricing
Dublin-based asset manager AC Capital Partners last week went live using derivatives pricing and risk analytics from UK-based vendor CDO², running on a pay-on-demand grid computing solution from Sun Microsystems’ Network.com subsidiary.
Nasdaq Makes Data Available via Web
Nasdaq last month began providing direct access to a number of its market data and analytical products via its Web site, eliminating the need for consumers of the data to develop specific feed handlers to receive the data.
Exchanges Rally Against Anti-Fee Campaign
The issue of a petition by Internet interest group NetCoalition to block the imposition of fees for certain market data products by exchanges was raised during testimony of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox before the House…
Project Boat Finalizes Data Interface
Project Boat, the nine-bank data consortium established to take advantage of the pre- and post-trade transparency requirements of the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, last week issued the final version of the application…
Interactive, Tullett Expand OTC Data
Interactive Data Corp. is rolling more data from interdealer broker Tullett Prebon onto its PlusFeed consolidated feed, covering new geographies and asset classes, expanding a longstanding deal between the vendor and Tullett Prebon Information, the…
Thomson Drops Dow Jones for Own News
Thomson Financial has ended a deal to distribute Dow Jones news as the default service within Thomson products, replacing it with its proprietary Thomson Financial News.
Acquire Media Buys NewsEdge as Thomson Continues Divestments
Acquire Media, a Roseland, NJ-based provider of news distribution and management systems, is hoping to expand its potential customer base as the result of buying the NewsEdge consolidated news service from Thomson Corp. for an undisclosed sum last week.
MicrocapTrade Re-brands, Expands
MicrocapTrade, a Montreal-based provider of data on micro and small-cap stocks, is expanding its coverage to include larger and international markets, and is changing its name to reflect the new, expanded focus.
Bloomberg Integrates Numerix Analytics
Bloomberg is rolling out multi-asset-class analytical tools for pricing structured products and over-the-counter derivatives from New York-based pricing and risk analytics provider Numerix integrated within Bloomberg Professional terminals, the vendors…
Thomson Preps Direct Feed Tests
Thomson Financial will next week begin a test phase with user firms for the low-latency element of its Thomson Data Feed, which is set to begin providing low-latency exchange data to clients in August.
Vendors Jump on Infini-Band-Wagon
Low-latency data rivals Reuters and Wombat Financial Software both unveiled new configuration options last week that utilize InfiniBand inter-application networking technologies from Voltaire to deliver reductions in data latency.
S&P Adds Global Data to Backtester Tool
Standard & Poor's has expanded the range of data available to users of its Backtester tool for selecting investment strategies using historical company financial information, by adding the ability to use the tool with S&P's Compustat Global Database.