Inside Market Data/News
LSE’s Shifting License Models Bear Fruit
Despite declining terminal counts, the LSE's move to enterprise license policies are paying dividends by protecting revenue increases.
Benzinga Names Former William Blair, SAC Trader Laverde Director of Content
Laverde brings a trader's perspective to management of Benzinga's breaking news content.
Veteran Data Exec Jeff Parker Joins Wall Street Horizon Advisory Board
Parker brings more than 35 years as an entrepreneur in the data industry, having founded FirstCall and StreetEvents.
Nasdaq Rolls Out SIP Feed Resiliency, Latency Improvements
The moves are designed to make the SIP's infrastructure more robust and lessen the chance of any market-wide impact from technical issues.
Datactics Hires Data Sales Vet Chuck to Lead London Sales
Chuck brings Datactics 25 years of experience in data and trading-related softwrae sales.
RSRCHXchange Adds Ned Davis Research
The addition continues RSRCHxchange's ongoing content expansion.
CME Enlists TickSmith for Datamine Revamp
The vendor's tick data management platform will form the basis of a revamped CME Datamine historical data portal.
Algert Global Taps OneMarketData Best Ex for TCA
The San Francisco-based firm will use OneMarketData's OneTick Best Ex and its data history to perform TCA and review its trading performance.
BATS Readies MiFID 2-Compliant Data Policy
BATS Europe will offer two commercial policies for its data──its existing policy, and one designed to help firms affordably meet the requirements of MiFID 2.
Money.Net Preps AI News, Taps Ex-Bloomberg's Pearlstine
Pearlstine will be responsible for hiring a mix of journalists and developers to create a news service that uses artificial intelligence to capture key elements of news.
Rimes Boots Up Benchmark Data-Tracking Workstations
The two new workstations will help firms analyze benchmark indexes, as well as their usage of benchmark data to comply with vendor licenses and new regulations.
The Roberts Group Buys Priory Solutions to Boost Web Content Usage Tracking Capabilities
The deal will give The Roberts Group the ability to track usage of web-delivered content and apply that to clients' data cost management decisions.
Smartkarma Opens Hong Kong Office, Hires Research Vet Blennerhassett
The Hong Kong office will support Smartkarma's expansion in the region.
CFN Services Creates ‘UltraFast' Cloud Data, Rebrands as Apcela
The new service will provide data to the increasing number and variety of infrastructures and applications being hosted in cloud environments.
Morningstar to Buy Private Equity, M&A Data Vendor PitchBook
Morningstar will add its own research capabilities to PitchBook's data and tools, enabling it to target a new audience among private equity investors.
MIAX Polishes ‘Pearl' Market With Expanded OneMarketData Deal
MIAX Options' holding company has used OneMarketData to support its main market for five years already.
Colt Hires Faccibene, Promotes Hutchinson to Drive US Expansion
The move accompanies the vendor's addition of connectivity to new end-points in the region on its PrizmNet network.
Thomson Reuters Preps High-Frequency FX Feed
The vendor's announcement follows the recent launches of similar high-performance currency data feeds by EBS Brokertec and Currenex.
FSMLabs Releases Time-Synch Compliance Tool, TimeKeeper Update
The new module will enable FSMLabs clients to meet the time-synchronization requirements of their internal business needs and new regulations.
Barchart Names CME's Petersen Head of Strategy
Petersen has held strategy and corporate development roles at CME Group and IMC Financial Markets.
xCelor Unveils ‘Next-Gen' Low-Latency Switch
The switch gives users new choices around filtering symbols and per-port portocol and format assignment.
CJC, TRG Ally For Managed Data Admin Services
The vendors will combine CJC's managed market data services and TRG's market data inventory software to offer a managed market data administration solution for the buy side.
NovaSparks Cuts Book-Building Latency FPGA Ticker Plant
NovaSparks has taken 300 nanoseconds out of its feed-handling process by rewriting its book-building component.
Colt Adds Data, Trading Venues to PrizmNet
The network provider is expanding its connectivity to equities and FX markets in the US and Canada