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Hurry up and wait: EU debates potential models for ‘essential’ consolidated tape
As the legislative debate surrounding a future European consolidated tape for equities takes on increased urgency, market participants and interested parties are beginning to weigh in with their visions of a successful tape.
Waters Wrap: How the LSEG-MayStreet tie-up might change the buy/build debate
Anthony looks at some of the questions that came up from industry participants in the wake of the LSEG-MayStreet deal.
LSEG-MayStreet: From direct feeds revamp to reg tools, industry sources outline rationale for deal
The acquisition of the 10-year-old vendor will give the exchange group high-quality market data, low-latency direct feeds, and packet-capture capabilities, experts say.
2021 saw market data’s quiet revolution
This year, the SEC pulled the trigger on competing consolidated tapes and a new market data governance plan. In 2022, we will know if some of it can go ahead, or remain stymied by legal battles.
Fee filings cloud hopes for cheaper NMS data
Aspirant ‘competing consolidators’ were hoping for a lot more leeway than they got in an important fee filing, Jo says. By Jo Wright
US competing consolidators grapple with pricing uncertainty as SEC, exchanges battle over new Sip regime
Vendors who want to provide consolidated market data under the SEC’s new system can’t make plans until they know how they are going to be charged for market data. But the fee schedules are mired in legal action and confusion.
Not so Fast: SEC’s SIP Rule Speeds Ahead, But Faces Bumpy Road
Jo is skeptical that the SEC’s finalized market data infrastructure rule will make the public market data feeds faster.
Trading Technologies Unveils New Futures Market Data Feed
As the fight over market data fees in the futures market heats up, the Chicago-based trading platform provider is rolling out a new platform that provides a free view of market order flow for TT platform users.
SEC, Exchanges Clash Over Revised Consolidated Tape Plans
US equity exchanges have pushed back aggressively against an SEC order directing them to submit a revised plan for operating the consolidated tapes of US equities quote and trade data.
Weighing the Benefits: Hardware Vs Software
In the pursuit of new ways to eliminate latency from the market data distribution and trading processes, vendors have invested in hardware-acceleration technologies, such as FPGAs. But with commodity chips now giving specialist hardware a run for its…
Quandl Releases New E-Commerce Dataset Ahead of Holidays
Nasdaq's alt data provider hopes its new ECI dataset will offer exclusive advantages to investors, analysts, and companies themselves.
News ‘Flash’: MT Newswires, ICE Give Clients Early Look at Stories
By distributing stories prior to performing its full editing process, MT Newswires can give ICE clients several crucial minutes of exclusive advantage, compared to mechanical latency improvements that might deliver mere fractions of a second.
Exegy Adds TSE as First Direct Asia Feed
The TSE feed is the first direct feed from Asia supported by Exegy, in response to client demand.
Thomson Reuters Taps Celoxica Tech for FPGA Feed
Thomson Reuters has rolled out Elektron Direct Feed, a hardware-accelerated datafeed, using FPGA cards from UK-based data technology vendor Celoxica to deliver single-digit microsecond latency.
