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Firms Increase Focus on Latency, Capacity

More than three-quarters of end-user firms monitor latency and capacity issues on a real-time basis with dedicated staff, although only 7 percent can claim that their internal data infrastructure operates sub-millisecond, with 33 percent running at…

Vendors: Turmoil Prompts Quality Focus

Data providers must focus on the quality and breadth of the data they offer if they are to increase the value of their services during tough market conditions, said a panel of vendors at last week's European Financial Information Summit.

Bellegarde: Data Never More Important

The European data industry must adapt to new technologies and market forces in the face of an economic crisis if established providers are to remain competitive, according to NYSE Euronext group executive vice president and head of European execution…

User Firms Tighten Data Spend

Continued economic uncertainty is forcing user firms to step up their data administration efforts in order to cut per-user market data spend, according to a panel of institutions at last week's European Financial Information Summit.

Credit, Risk Top Demand for 'Hot' Data

Accurate data for performing valuations, structuring complex securities and risk management-particularly in the credit markets-is a hot topic, and is being demanded in ever-increasing volumes by end-user firms, according to a panel at last week's…

Taming the Dark Pools

With the low barrier of entry to developing and deploying new dark pools of liquidity, the industry has experienced a dramatic growth in non-displayed liquidity venues in the past year. However, with that growth many industry participants say it's time…

Timing Is Everything

In early January the editors and publisher of DWT and Buy-Side Technology sat down to determine how best to serve our readers and we came up with an idea to launch a new conference covering the subjective and elusive topic of "best execution."

A New Dawn for Corporate Actions Processing

The US corporate actions market is seeing a growing number of complex notifications, resulting in an increased interest in taking data from multiple sources and in-depth tax information. Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry professionals to…

Storm clouds gather at Sibos

Following the most dramatic weekend in the financial markets in recent history, last month's Sibos conference in Vienna gave delegates the opportunity to discuss the impact that the ongoing credit crisis might have on their businesses. But as Joel Clark…

New York puts on a brave face at Best Ex 2008

With the current turmoil and uncertainty permeating most facets of the US economy, one would be forgiven for assuming that buy- and sell-side practitioners would have been too fixated on their Bloomberg terminals to attend a one-day conference. But as…

As Rome burns

Stewart Eisenhart was in San Francisco midway through last month to attend this year's TradeTechWest conference. He reports that, while the current financial crisis in the US offered attendees and panellists the perfect opportunity to cry off, the no…

Activ Preps Brazilian Low-Latency Play

Low-latency data vendor Activ Financial is setting up a datacenter in Brazil that will house a locally deployed ticker plant for collecting market data from Brazilian exchange group BM&F Bovespa to distribute to local trading firms, and North American…

Wiener Börse Boosts East Europe Data

Austrian exchange Wiener Börse is preparing to add more market data from emerging Eastern European exchanges to its Alliance Data Highway (ADH) datafeed, including data from two stock exchanges in Bosnia and Herzegovina, increased market depth, and local…

Vienna: Gateway to Eastern Europe?

Interest in data from Eastern European exchanges is growing fast. But with any emerging market, there are challenges to obtaining data, which can range from contractual issues to connectivity. Austrian exchange Wiener Börse is easing some of that burden…

CME Readies BM&F Data Rollout

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is preparing to roll out data from Brazilian exchange BM&F in the next few days to trading firms in North America via its market data feed, officials tell Inside Market Data , though the exchange has not yet confirmed a…

Emerging Markets Go Mainstream

As emerging markets attract ever-increasing interest from Western investors, Inside Market Data quizzes a panel of companies operating in and sourcing data from emerging markets around the globe on the challenges and opportunities facing firms looking to…

ITG Launches Dark Algos in Europe

Agency brokerage and crossing-network provider Investment Technology Group (ITG) has announced the addition of ITG Dark Algorithm to the ITG Algorithms suite of trading tools in Europe. ITG Dark Algorithm provides access to multiple dark venues,…

The Future of Liquidity Management

It's safe to assume that everyone would agree that liquidity management systems (LMSes) are still in their infancy as various voices within the industry are still trying to define what the term truly means. At one end of the spectrum, many vendors are…

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