Articles by Faye Kilburn
Metamako Updates MetaConnect Switch, Touts STAC Stats
Startup Australian low-latency technology provider Metamako has made a number of updates to its MetaConnect switch, to make it easier for exchanges and high-frequency trading firms to manage the switch in an enterprise environment.
Can Alternative Providers Disrupt Index Inertia?
Though there are almost a hundred mainstream index providers in the industry today, the market remains dominated by a small and elite group of providers—MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Russell Indexes and FTSE Group. With the industry clamoring for change…
Polaris Buys Majority Stake in The Roberts Group
Waltham, Mass.-based venture capital firm Polaris Partners has acquired a controlling stake in market data inventory software provider The Roberts Group (TRG) to enable the company to reduce the lead time for new services and products as well as expand…
FWI Taps MDSL for Market Data Management
Fidelity Worldwide Investment, the non-US asset management spinoff from Fidelity Management and Research, has selected market data usage and contract management software vendor MDSL's Market Data Manager (MDM) inventory management platform to improve the…
Nasdaq, Chaikin Ally for Alpha-Enhanced Indexes
Philadelphia-based investment analytics provider Chaikin Analytics has partnered with Nasdaq OMX to develop three new equal-weighted US equity indexes that are designed to outperform their respective benchmarks.
IDC Releases TREP Feed Handler Upgrade
Interactive Data has released an upgraded version of its feed handler for the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform (TREP) that includes new symbology remapping functionality to allow customers to more seamlessly bring its Consolidated Feed of equities,…
1010data Unveils v.7 of Big Data Analytics Platform
New York-based Big Data analytics and database provider 1010data will this week launch version seven of its cloud-based analytics platform, which includes advanced data visualization functionality, the ability to create in-database applications, and a…
Activ Financial Readies Lynx ATS and CX2 Feed Handlers
Market data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial is building out new feed handlers for Lynx ATS, Omega ATS's new Canadian alternative trading system, and CX2, Chi-X Canada's second ATS, to provide domestic and US customers with complete coverage of…
Updata Integrates Historical Data from GFD
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has integrated San Juan Capistrano Calif.-based data provider Global Financial Data's database of historical financial and economic data into its Professional analytics suite to enable users to visualize…
ICE Splits NYSE Liffe, Euronext Feeds
NYSE Euronext has introduced a new commercial model for real-time data from its Liffe derivatives market that will see London-listed derivatives unbundled from continental European derivatives, as a result of ongoing plans to spin off Euronext's European…
Kilburn's Corner: Abandonment Issues
This week, Inside Market Data's editor, Max Bowie, is taking a well-deserved vacation, and, quite frankly, it's left me with abandonment issues. While he's been gone, I have been responsible for all editorial decisions, fielded all the calls and decided…
Waters: Excel Here to Stay...For Now
Advancements in cloud-based technologies, data warehousing, storing, reporting, and data analysis are all helping asset management firms lessen their dependencies on Microsoft Excel but spreadsheets will continue to be widely used at asset management…
Deutsche Börse Launches Eurex Full Order Book Feed
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services, the IT arm of Deutsche Börse, has launched a new information product dubbed Eurex Order by Order that provides the entire order book of benchmark futures from its Eurex derivatives exchange.
Consolidated Audit Trail Given New Momentum
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has introduced a new set of deadlines and steps toward implementation of a consolidated audit trail (CAT)¬-which is designed to capture trades, quotes, cancellations and other information across US-listed…
Dow Jones Rolls Out Customer-Driven Factivia Upgrade
Newswire Dow Jones has made a number of changes to streamline the search functionality and newsletter capabilities of its Factiva business information and research tool, based on customer feedback over the past year.
Latency: The lower you go, the harder it gets -- webcast
Inside Market Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on March 25, 2014 to discuss how financial trading firms are employing new technologies and closely monitoring their data architectures to accelerate latency reduction.
CenturyLink Plans 180,000 Square Foot Expansion
Network and datacenter hosting provider CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the subsidiary of internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink formerly known as Savvis, has announced plans to add 180,000 square feet of datacenter space in response to…
Rimes Adds Nasdaq Global Index Family to Data Service
Benchmark and economic data provider Rimes Technologies is now publishing Nasdaq OMX's global index family on its Benchmark Data Service, to provide joint asset manager and custodian clients with access to Nasdaq's alternative benchmarks for tracking…
Perseus Launches Hybrid Transatlantic NJ-Frankfurt Route
New York-based fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom has established a new hybrid transatlantic route between Secaucus, NJ and Frankfurt─which combines fiber and wireless hops─to meet demand from US and German-based market makers and…
Updata Drills IIR Energy for Analytic Tools
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has partnered with Houston, Texas-based supply-side energy market data provider IIR Energy to develop a new set of analytical tools for energy traders and analysts that leverage IIR Energy data covering…
KVH Lowers Latency on CME-Asia Routes
Tokyo-based datacenter and hosting provider KVH has upgraded its network between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in Aurora, Illinois and the Japan (JPX) and Singapore (SGX) stock exchanges in Asia, to provide low latency access for Chicago- and…
Nanospeed Adds FPGA Eurex Data Support
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed has added support for the T7 trading architecture utilized by Deutsche Börse’s Eurex derivatives market to its FPGA-accelerated Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for futures and options markets,…
Equinix Mulls NY5 Microwave Growth After BATS Migration, Eyes Asia-Pac Metro Microwaves
Datacenter provider Equinix is considering expanding its capacity for radio frequency data transmission at its NY5 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ, after US stock and options exchange operator BATS Global Markets announced plans last month to migrate its BATS…
FactSet Wraps Revere Schema Integration
FactSet Research Systems has completed the integration of data from San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data, after acquiring the vendor six months ago for an undisclosed sum, and is now conducting research to…