Inside Market Data/News
Markit Expands Structured Finance Data
UK-based pricing provider Markit is readying an expansion of its structured finance data portfolio with the launch of new services and additions to existing datasets, officials say.
Cargill Enlists Interactive Data For Agri Portal Content
Minneapolis-based commodities broker Cargill is developing a new data portal aimed at the agricultural commodities industry, in partnership with Interactive Data Managed Solutions division.
Credit Suisse Lightens Data Load
Credit Suisse is moving applications that consume and distribute data onto a publish-and-subscribe messaging environment as part of a drive to optimize data distribution.
Vietnam Exchange Enlists NextView for International Data Distribution
Singapore-based data vendor NextView signed an MOU with Vietnamese stock exchange the Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Center (HSTC), last Friday, May 4, to distribute the exchange's data to foreign and domestic investors via NextView's terminals and data…
Blue System Integrates Interactive Data
Blue System Inc., a London-based provider of direct market access trading, charting and analytics systems, will this month incorporate data from Interactive Data Real-Time Services into its trading systems after signing a distribution agreement with the…
QuoteMedia Looks Beyond Retail with Quotestream II
QuoteMedia, a provider of market data, news and charts primarily to retail banking and investment groups, is completing the rollout of new exchange data and capabilities to the latest version of its Quotestream product, which the vendor hopes will allow…
Fixnetix to Offer Wombat-Enabled Eurex Feed
UK-based low-latency data vendor Fixnetix is rolling out a version of Eurex's CEF Ultra feed via its iX Direct hosted feed delivery service, tailored for use in client installations of Wombat Financial Software's data platform.
Users Endorse News Algos
Although end-user firms have thus far been playing their cards close to their chests on the subject of algorithmic news feeds, this sector is attracting significant interest, according to the results of last week's Inside Market Data awards.
Xenomorph Adds Tick Data to TimeScape
UK-based data management software vendor Xenomorph has added a new tick-capture engine to its flagship TimeScape product, to provide more granular analysis of intra-day data for strategy testing and risk management, officials tell IMD .
Interactive Data Prepares MiFID Offerings
Interactive Data last week announced that it is developing a series of products to help clients comply with the European Commission's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).
CBOE, CBSX to Extend Activ Data Installation
The Chicago Board Options Exchange plans to expand an installation of Activ Financial's ticker plant technology to provide equities market depth data to the exchange's 441 options traders.
Mitsubishi Deploys Gissing Contribution Tool
The Rates Trading Group of Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) has deployed a new pricing system across its London and Tokyo offices to calculate and distribute rates for bonds, swaps and futures contracts via linked spreadsheets…
Thomson Launches Credit Tool for Multi-Asset Analysis
Thomson Financial is in the process of rolling out a new Credit Analysis module as part of its Thomson One family of products, which ties together corporate bond, credit default swap and equity data using a series of cross-asset class analytics to enable…
OMX Integrates Cicada for New Feed
Nordic exchange operator and technology provider OMX will retire its legacy Targin market data platform when it introduces the OMX Genium Market Info feed next year, which is largely built around the Composer Plus system from Cicada.
Quant House, Sybase Partner for Back-Testing Tick Data
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has partnered with database specialist Sybase to launch an on-demand, back-testing service for automated trading strategies.
Lehman Unveils New Data Controls
Lehman Brothers is expanding an ongoing market data cost control initiative to cover new areas, and is introducing a new process to make data consumers regularly re-validate the data services to which they subscribe and hence eliminate unused data…
BNY Convergex Preps Ticker Replacement
BNY Convergex is rolling out the Market Information Server ticker plant from Chicago-based vendor Spryware in response to the demands of Reg NMS, replacing a legacy ticker plant that the firm had built in-house.
Essex Radez Delivers Clarity
Market maker and trading technology provider Essex Radez will this week introduce a new tick history service for equity, futures and options quote and trade data, to allow users to query data in a non-real-time environment.
Currency Hampers Reuters Revival
US vendors found first-quarter revenues boosted by currency fluctuations last week, while UK-based Reuters was frustrated by a near-eight percent negative impact from foreign exchange, which dragged reported revenues down by just over one percent—even…