Inside Market Data/News
KB Tech Seeks Funding to Target TDI Ticker Renaissance at MiFID 2
The software vendor sees potential uses of its revamped version of the TDI messaging layer and suite of related data and trading services arising from MiFID 2.
Freedom Index Surveys Users on Expansion
The not-for-profit index provider faces a choice of how to make its indexes more valuable for users.
Exchange Q2 Results Continue Data Revenue Growth
Data revenues continued to rise, contributing to "record" quarterly results for some exchanges.
Avelacom Adds SGX PoP for Asia-Pac Low-Latency Connectivity
The point of presence will provide co-location for firms accessing SGX, as well as providing international connectivity to other markets worrldwide.
Illuminate Sinks £3M into Secure Data Mining, Sharing Tech Startup Privitar
Privitar's products allow firms to share data internally and with third parties while maintaining privacy, security and compliance.
Platts to Buy Energy Analytics Provider PIRA
The acquisition, which is expected to close before the end of September, will accelerate the development of S&P Global Platts' commodities analysis offering.
FINRA Fines BarCap $1.3M for Reporting ‘Failures'
The failures included missing or duplicate reports, and erroneous data for timestamps and execution quantities, among other data fields.
UPDATE: Canada's Aequitas Neo Rolls Out OneMarketData Cloud Analytics Service
The exchange will use the cloud-hosted version of OneMarketData's OneTick platform and tick data store to perform microstructure analysis of the Canadian exchange landscape.
Satellite Data Startup Orbital Insight Taps Former Revere, FactSet Exec O'Brien
O'Brien says he aims to bring the same momentum to Orbital Insight that he achieved as CEO and COO of Revere Data.
Ex-Alacra, Fitch Exec Samuels Moves to Bloomberg
Former Fitch MD will work on Bloomberg's new buy-side KYC platform.
Colt to Expand Korean Co-Lo Footprint
The expansion grows Colt's space in the datacenter by almost one-third, in response to demand from international high-frequency trading firms.
West Highland, Ropnoy, Kaimian Ally on ‘Evo-One’ Notification Management Venture
The three vendors are joining forces to address the inefficiencies surrounding the processing and management of vendor data changes and notifications.
Data Revenues Drive Q2 Exchange Growth
Exchange's market data businesses continued to deliver solid revenue increases, in spite of overall exchange revenues.
UPDATE: Fixnetix Adds Sales, Tech Execs
Lopez Lansdowne and Salmon continue the vendor's hiring this year to bolster its sales and technical expertise.
Colt, Koscom Agree Connectivity Partnership
Koscom will leverage Colt's network and co-location facilities to increase participation from international investors on the Korea Exchange.
Recognia Bows Bull/Bear Summary Score
The score gives online brokers a tool to help investors determine short-, medium-, and long-term bullish or bearish sentiment for stocks.
New Infinancials CEO Grauer Eyes More Synergies, Integration
Infinancials and parent Infront will continue synergy efforts around web-based platforms, new Infinancials CEO says.
Eagle Alpha Unveils Alternative Data ‘Directory,' Eyes Proprietary ‘Crawled' Data
Eagle Alpha aims to provide a marketplace of more than 1,000 alternative datasets within one year.
Cambridge Semantics Taps Data Scientist Keen for Financial Services Push
Keen has spent more than 25 years in data science and analytics technology roles.
ICE Benchmark Admin Adds Economist DeAnne Julius to Board
The economic policy veteran will strengthen ICE Benchmark Administration's board of directors.
RSJ Algo Trading Taps Activ for Managed Tick Data
The firm will use the new Activ-Big Xyt joint offering to test trading models before entering new markets and asset classes.
Excel Add-in MarketXLS ‘Adds in' Barchart Data
Spreadsheet users will be able to access Barchart's US and international equities, futures, indexes and foreign exchange data via the add-in.
Bell Direct Rings in Charting Changes with Markit Chartworks
The charting package will allow Bell Direct's clients to utilize technical analysis to support investment analysis and trading decisions.
Markit Bows Infrastructure Bond Index
The new indexes will provide a benchmark for tracking the performance of infrastructure investments, via companies in the energy, telecoms, transportation and utilities sectors.