Inside Market Data/News
NovaSparks Expands NovaTick Market Coverage
The new additions covering Asia-Pacific, Scandinavia and Canada bring NovaSparks' total coverage to more than 50 markets worldwide.
Seaborn Preps Ultra-Low Latency NJ-Brazil Connectivity for 2017
Seaborn has already manufactured the cable for the project, and will lay it between the US and Brazil in Q1 2017.
Bloomberg Clients Hit By Terminal ‘Slowness'
Sources say the slowness impacted their ability to trade for the two-hour affected period.
TPI Data to Fuel Risk Modeling Alliance
Tullett Prebon's derivatives, credit and rates data will be used in a series of open-source risk analytics tools.
BlackRock Integrates ICE Continuous Pricing
Integrating CEP will provide additional transparency into fixed income markets for BlackRock clients.
Datawatch Adds Support for Streaming Data, Regulations, HTML5 in Latest Panopticon Release
The new features will support faster decision making, and make it easier for users to create new analytics.
FTSE Russell Preps new ESG Indexes, Data Model
FTSE Russell has launched the new indexes in response to "growing demand" for underlying ESG parameters and for "smart sustainability" indexes.
Thomson Reuters Takes Stake in BestX to Support New TCA Partnership
BestX will use Thomson Reuters' FX data to power its analytics platform.
CJC Assembles MosaicOA Infrastructure Visualization Tool
The vendor enters the big data space with tool for visualizing IT Operations Analytics.
Chaikin Adds Charts, Alerts, News to Stock Analytics Platform
Officials say the new content and features will help investors make better trading decisions.
News Analytics Vendor Almax Taps Former Deutsche Bank, TR Exec Roth as Advisor
Roth will bring more than 20 years of experience as a consumer and provider of data to help commercialize Almax's offering.
BCCG Enlists Xinfinit for Data Platform-Terminal Combo
The two German vendors are partnering to develop a data platform and terminal package that will provide an alternative to legacy data platforms.
SocGen Taps Smartkarma to Meet MiFID 2 Unbundling Regs
The bank believes that by outsourcing the provision of research content, it can meet the unbundling requirements of MiFID 2.
TMX, Velocity Trade Ally for FX Data, Analytics
The partnership expands the range of FX Analysis tools launched by TMX in July
BvD Integrates RepRisk ESG Data
The move is in response to growing demand for ESG risk data among BvD's client base.
Nasdaq Phases Out ‘Insecure' ISE FTP Protocols
Nasdaq is recommending that ISE members upgrade to a different form of file transfer protocol to address security concerns.
OTC Markets Unveils Compliance Analytics Data Service
The updated service provides additional data points and an analytics file that contains a score for ranking companies' risk.ics
Aequitas Vows to Continue Fight for Canadian Tape After Competition Bureau Drops TMX Probe
Aequitas CEO Jos Schmitt says the exchange will lobby regulators and market participants about practices that it says damage competition and investors' trading.
Canadian Competition Bureau Drops TMX Probe
The Bureau claims Aequitas would have been unlikely to be able to create a competing product, despite TMX's restrictions.
360T Taps MDX for Banks to Post Prices from Excel
Officials say the move will make it easier for banks' clients to trade with them via the 360T platform.
Infront Opens Two Offices in South Africa
The move is in response to a growing local base for its products, which have until now been delivered via third-party vendors.
ICE, Platts Expand Natural Gas Pricing Alliance
Platts officials say incorporating data from ICE will expand the percentage of natural gas markets reflected in its prices.
Thomson Reuters Named SAIBOR Administrator, Calculator
Thomson Reuters will calculate the rate according to methodologies linked to the IOSCO principles for calculating benchmarks.
Icap Adds Another to PTRI Team
Connolly's hire follows the recent appointment of Guy Rowcliffe to head Icap's PTRI unit in Asia-Pac.