Inside Market Data/News
UPDATE: ICE Bows BestEx Service in Europe
The exchange is expanding the geographical coverage of Interactive Data's BestEx service ahead of Europe's MiFID 2 regulation.
Money.Net Integrates Weather, Natural Disaster Data from Riskpulse
Integrating Riskpulse's weather mapping will allow Money.Net customers to predict the impact of weather and natural events on financial markets.
Former Citadel, Pico Tech Exec Baillargeon Joins KCG
Baillargeon has spent almost 20 years in trading and technology roles on the buy side and sell side.
RavenPack Integrates The Fly Earnings, Analyst News
The Fly's content will help RavenPack offer better coverage of smaller mid-cap companies.
OTAS Tech, ExtractAlpha Ally on Trading Analytics
ExtractAlpha's models help investors to optimize execution entry and exit points, and to avoid crowded trades.
NAB Scraps ‘System X,’ Enlists StatPro to Solve Performance Data Quality Issues
The bank's custodian arm is using StatPro's new Revolution Performance module to replace five former systems used for portfolio performance analytics.
Intercontinental Exchange Mulls Sale of Interactive Data Managed Solutions Biz
Having acquired Interactive Data last year, ICE plans to sell off the part of the business that it has no use for.
Startup Xinfinit Unveils Data-Agnostic ‘Container’ for Custom Desktop Apps
The platform will allow users to create custom displays using third-party or proprietary tools and content.
Solace Hiring Spree Bolsters Financial Focus
The hires include a number of industry veterans who have served at rival vendors IBM and Tibco.
Visible Alpha Taps Content Acquisition Vet Greening
Greening has many years' experience of managing contributor relations and associated processes across the data vendor community.
Benzinga Raises $3 Million to Boost Sales, Product Staff
The investment will allow the vendor to establish a bigger New York presence to respond to growing institutional demand for its products.
Millistream Carries Nasdaq Basic Data
The availability of Nasdaq Basic data continues Millistream's overall data acquisition strategy, and adds to its existing coverage of Nasdaq markets.
Money.Net Woos Strategists, Quants with Matlab Integration
Integrating Matlab opens up Money.Net to financial engineers, data scientists, analysts and academics.
StatPro Stages ‘Performance,' Spotlights Data Volume Management
The new module will help Revolution's calculation engines better manage data volumes and handle data quality issues.
Hanweck Hires CMO, Support Engineer
The new hires are designed to support ongoing growth at the vendor, in addition to other sales and account management hires made earlier this year.
Icap Provides US Treasury Pricing, FX Spot Rates to Wind Clients
Icap and Wind expand an existing deal for Wind to distribute Icap data in mainland China.
CBOE Agrees $3.2B BATS Buy to Boost ‘Non-Transactional' Data, Index Revenues
The acquisition will significantly increase the share of CBOE's revenues that do not depend directly on transactions.
Perseus Preps ‘Fastest’ CME–Tokyo Network
The vendor says exclusive improvements will yield significant latency advantages for firms trading Japanese markets.
Estimize Readies Factor Model, International Estimates, Indicators
The changes will make it easier for users to find alpha in broader sets of data.
Euronext Adds Derivatives, Indexes to Historical Service
Euronext will offer the expanded historical data free of charge for three months, before introducing fees at the start of next year.
GoldenSource Integrates Market Data Module into EDM Platform
Integrating market and reference data in GoldenSource's EDM platform will improve data management and firms' ability to meet regulatory requirements, officials say.
Moody's Analytics Enlists Qlik Visuals for RiskBench Credit Risk Data Analysis Tool
The tool will initially cover private companies in the US and Europe, before expanding to other asset classes and geographies.
Data-as-a-Service Startup Intrinio Unveils Content ‘Marketplace'
Intrinio will initially offer online subscriptions to its own datasets and third-party apps, before adding third-party content within the next month.
Thomson Reuters Sets Up NY4 PoP
The PoP will provide firms hosted in NY4 with access to content and other capabilities Elektron Managed Services.