Articles by Faye Kilburn
Chief Information Officer Bayer To Depart SEC
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that chief information officer, Thomas Bayer, will step down from his role leading the SEC’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) in October, after joining the agency in 2010.
SunGard MarketMap to Focus on 'Unique Content'
SunGard MarketMap, the market data arm of technology giant SunGard, is embarking on a new initiative to build out unique and proprietary content sets that leverage other areas of SunGard's business, in a bid to better differentiate itself from…
CenturyLink Bows Private Cloud Service
Network and datacenter hosting provider CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the subsidiary of internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink formerly known as Savvis, has launched a new private cloud service, dubbed CenturyLink Private Cloud, that will…
Trendrating Releases Momentum Analytics Platform Version 1.0
Switzerland-based Trendrating, a provider of price trend and momentum ratings for equities, exchange-traded funds, indexes and currencies, has launched version 1.0 of its Momentum Analytics platform, which enables asset managers to identify price trends…
Exegy Posts Canadian Data Peaks Portal
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy has launched a Canadian version of its MarketDataPeaks portal of historical peak data volumes, to provide financial firms investing in Canada with intraday market data rates to help inform…
Update: BGC Sets New Non-Display Data Policies
Editor's note: This story has been amended to reflect clarifications provided by BGC that the new policy will not introduce fees for "Public" datasets. Inside Market Data apologizes for the errors.
Consultancy Quanticks Repositions as Order Book Feed Processor
US-based market data consultancy Quanticks Capital Solutions has suspended its existing market data consulting and custom development business and repositioned itself as a provider of a technology platform for consolidating order book data from US…
Aegon AM Unifies Global Data Procurement
Aegon Asset Management, the investment management arm of Netherlands-based multinational life insurance, pensions and asset management company Aegon, is embarking on a project to centralize vendor management, market data and IT procurement across its…
Markit Signs Options to Collaboration Services
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated federation and directory elements of Markit's Collaboration Services──including the Markit Directory "phone book" of validated identity and contact data, and the Federated Chat platform──into…
NYSE Outlines XDP Feed Migration Roadmap
NYSE Global Market Data, the market data arm of the New York Stock Exchange, has notified clients that it is migrating its NYSE and NYSE MKT best bid and offer datafeeds to its proprietary Exchange Data Publisher (XDP) format, as part of an ongoing…
OTCGH Targets International Traders with Crude Oil Data Product
EOX Holdings, the data arm of over-the-counter energy and commodities interdealer broker consortium OTC Global Holdings, is expanding its market data sales team and will launch new data products covering international crude oil markets in the coming…
Jefferies Joins Markit Collaboration Services Messaging Network
Investment bank Jefferies has joined Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative developed by data vendor Markit that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.
Vendors Begin Testing GMEX Feeds, Driven by Buy-Side Demand
Data vendors have begun testing new market data feeds from derivatives exchange operator and exchange technology platform provider Global Markets Exchange Group, ahead of the launch of its trading platforms for futures, fixed income and currency markets…
OTCGH's EOX Market Data Group Hires for ‘Rainey' Day
Over-the-counter energy and commodities broker consortium OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) has hired Catherine Rainey as director of its technology and data subsidiary EOX Holdings' market data group.
Interactive Data Rolls Out FutureSource 4.0
Interactive Data has released version 4.0 of its web-based FutureSource market data and analytics platform, featuring new content sets and capabilities.
Quandl Adds Nasdaq Index Data to Free Financial Search Portal
Toronto-based online economic and financial data search engine Quandl has added Nasdaq OMX's global index family to its web-based platform for financial, economic and sociological datasets, to provide analysts, traders and economists with daily index…
Fincad Snaps up Garfield for Product Marketing Role
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad has hired Rob Garfield as global head of product marketing.
CME to Buy GFI's Fenics and Trayport Pricing, Trading Tech Businesses
CME Group has announced plans to acquire interdealer broker GFI Group's Fenics suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software and its Trayport commodities and energy trading technology.
SunGard Survey: Firms Still Face Tech Challenges to Extract Value from Data
Financial organizations are struggling to fully utilize analytical tools and data management technologies to extract value or "business intelligence" from raw data because of a lack of adoption of new techniques, a multitude of inconsistent data formats,…
Tabb: Firms Spend $25 Billion on Content, $3.1 Billion on Data Tech in 2013
Research firm Tabb Group’s Data and Analytics (DnA) group has released a new report, "Market Data Technology Innovation: Bigger Data, Simpler Solutions, Better Functionality," which estimates global spend on market data at about $25 billion in 2013,…
Exegy Touts Enterprise Migration Package to Dig Out Wombats
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy is positioning its new Enterprise Migration Package as a replacement for the Wombat Financial Software platform following the sale of Wombat to New York-based low-latency feed handler and market…
Updata Powers Energy Feed with NGX Data
UK-based technical analysis software provider Updata has added futures and index data from Canada’s Alberta-based Natural Gas Exchange (NGX) to its Professional analytics workstation to provide natural gas and commodities traders with prices for illiquid…
Nasdaq Targets Q3 for ITCH eSpeed Feed
Nasdaq OMX is set to release a new market data feed for its eSpeed fixed income platform on Sept. 30, based on its ITCH data protocol, to provide algorithmic and high-frequency trading firms with a higher-performance alternative for distributing data on…
Canadian Market Participants Skeptical of Proposed Exchange Data Fee Regulation
Proposed regulations in Canada to curb the fees that Canadian trading venues can charge for their real-time market data have received mixed reactions from market participants, who are unconvinced that the new proposals will significantly reduce the cost…