Articles by Faye Kilburn
NYSE Overhauls Non-Display Data Fees
NYSE Euronext has informed clients of changes to its non-display policy for all real-time US proprietary market data products, which includes price increases of up to 100 percent for some products, in a move to bring its fees into line with those of its…
FINRA Begins Migration of Market Surveillance Apps to Amazon Cloud, Adopts Big Data Tech
US financial industry regulator FINRA is migrating all of its market surveillance platforms into the Amazon Web Services cloud, to enable the regulator to more efficiently store and process data, in a move that could deliver an annual cost saving of 40…
NAFIS 2014: Rising Volumes Present New Analytics Challenges
As market data volumes in the US continue to grow, firms are coming under increasing pressure to modernize their data infrastructures and respond quickly and cost effectively to new requirements for data analytics, according to a panel at this week's…
NAFIS 2014: Cloud's Security Concerns Continue to Outweigh Cost Savings
Firms can deliver significant cost savings by moving their data infrastructures into the cloud, but concerns over security--as well as mistrust of services providers for whom capital markets are not their primary focus--are holding back migration,…
NAFIS 2014: HFT, Managed Services, OTC Derivatives Top Data Industry Trends, Says Aite's Weiss
Market data professionals should be prepared to take the heat for high-frequency trading (HFT), warned David Weiss, senior analyst at Research firm Aite Group, during his speech on current trends in market data at Inside Market Data and Inside Reference…
S&P Cap IQ Adds VC Experts, Santander to Research
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ has made research and analysis provider VC Experts' strategic analysis of private market investment data and regulatory filings for private market financings, as well as Latin American research from Banco…
IDC Adds Asia Bonds to Evaluation Service
Interactive Data has expanded its New York Close International Fixed Income Evaluation Services to include coverage of sovereign and corporate bonds issued in the Asia‐Pacific region, after adding NY Close European, Middle‐Eastern, and African (EMEA)…
Tabb Promotes Rowady to Head of Data Practice
Research firm Tabb Group has promoted Paul Rowady to principal and head of research for its Research Alliance Data and Analytics (DnA) IT practice, which advises financial firms on opportunities to leverage emerging data management and analysis…
Metamako Unveils 48-Port Switch for Expanded Data Distribution
Startup Australian low-latency technology provider Metamako has released a 48-port version of its MetaConnect switch, dubbed MetaConnect 48, which will enable latency-sensitive capital markets participants to fan out data to three times as many devices…
Broker OTCGH, Updata Ally for OTC Data
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has signed a deal with over-the-counter (OTC) energy and commodities broker consortium OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) to make real-time data, historical pricing curves and OTC options prices available on…
Allianz Centralizes Data on InfoMatch
Investment manager Allianz Global Investors is in the final stages of a multi-year project to centralize market data management across its operations in Europe, Asia and the US to deliver a global view of its market data spend across the organization and…
HFN Wireless Network Halves Latency Between NJ2, NY4 Datacenters
Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) has gone live with a new radio frequency (RF) wireless route between two key datacenter locations in New Jersey, halving the latency of HFN's previous fiber-only routes between the facilities.
Nasdaq, MasterCard Ally for Distribution Deal
Nasdaq OMX has signed a distribution deal with MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of multinational financial services corporation MasterCard, to redistribute MasterCard's macro-economic reports on global retail sales activity through its…
Hanweck Associates Adds European, Asian Markets to Analytics Feed, Historical Database
Options analytics provider Hanweck Associates is expanding the global coverage of its VoleraFeed real-time datafeed of implied volatilities and Greek values for options on equities, indexes and futures, as well as its hosted tick database of historical…
Hanweck Taps NYSE Euronext's Watson for Sales Role
New York-based options analytics provider Hanweck Associates has hired Thomas Watson as head of sales.
Exegy Releases Version 3.2 of Data Appliances, API
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy has released versions 3.2 of its hardware-accelerated Ticker Plant and Market Data System appliances as well as its Exegy Client API, which will deliver twice the raw data input capacity of previous…
Kilburn's Corner: The Devil's in the Detail
Every three months at Inside Market Data, we report on the quarterly financial results of the world's stock exchanges. This time round, I had the not-so-enviable task of wading through the marketing spiel in the announcements to dig out the only piece of…
Macrobond Opens New York Office, Readies New Version of Workstation
Swedish time-series data and analytics vendor Macrobond Financial has established a new sales and support office in New York to service its growing customer base of US investment banks and hedge funds, as well as existing European clients with a US…
Exchange Data Revenues Grow in Q1
The world's major stock exchanges have reported largely positive financial results for the first quarter of 2014, with both the developed and emerging markets seeing healthy increases in market data revenues.
Update: Markit IPO to Raise ‘War Chest' for Competitive Boost
UK-based data vendor Markit filed plans for a US initial public offering with US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, May 5, in a move that industry observers say will allow the vendor to raise funds to compete more aggressively…
Confluence Promotes, Hires Former SunGard Execs
Pittsburgh-based fund data management software provider Confluence has promoted Todd Moyer to executive vice president of global business development, responsible for driving the vendor's global growth efforts, and reporting to chief executive Mark Evans.
Thomson Reuters' Thomson One Goes ‘Anywhere'
Thomson Reuters has launched a new mobile-optimized web portal, dubbed Thomson One Anywhere that provides users with to access real-time market data, charting, news, and client data, as well as the ability to execute trades, via tablet devices.
Solarflare Unveils New Delhi R&D Facility
Hardware-acceleration and data network technology provider Solarflare has opened a new research and development facility in New Delhi, India that will contribute to the development of network applications that run on Solarflare's hardware platforms.
Markit Files for US IPO
Markit has filed plans for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, intended to raise $750 million.