Articles by Faye Kilburn
CME Eyes Summer Data Protocol Switch
CME Group is preparing to launch a new version of its market data platform later this year, MDP 3.0, which will feature a binary market data protocol designed to reduce the bandwidth required to deliver CME market data.
TPI, Nasdaq Ally for eSpeed Treasury Data, Sales Deal
Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, and Nasdaq OMX have struck a partnership for TPI to integrate benchmark US Treasury bond data from Nasdaq’s eSpeed electronic trading platform into its products and…
FISD Overcomes Non-Display Best Practices Stalemate
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures (BIPPS) Working Group of industry association FISD has reached an agreement on best practices around non-display data usage policies, following 18 months of stalemate on the issue resulting from conflicts between…
Lucena Taps Smallwood for Southeast US BizDev Role
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has hired Todd Smallwood as vice president of business development for the Southeast US region, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and reporting to Lucena chief executive Erez Katz.
NYSE Liffe Taps SuperDerivatives Volatility Data for Settlement Pricing
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software provider SuperDerivatives has begun providing IntercontinentalExchange's London-based NYSE Liffe derivatives market with volatility data to enhance daily settlement price calculations for flexible…
Fidessa Sets Up SGX Data, Trading Co-Lo
Trading technology and market data provider Fidessa will establish a point of presence at the Singapore Exchange's datacenter to provide the vendor's clients in Southeast Asia with sub-millisecond access to the SGX matching engine and market data.
HSE Rolls Out Trayport GlobalVision For Energy Market Overview, Trading
Slovenian wholesale electricity trading firm Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has rolled out Trayport’s GlobalVision Trading Gateway to enable its traders to view over-the-counter energy prices and trade on twenty European markets, power exchanges and…
S&P CapIQ Adds Credit Risk Models to Capital IQ Desktop; XpressFeed Next
Data, research and analytics provider S&P Capital IQ will this week add new credit analysis functionality to its Capital IQ desktop, to support financial institutions’ credit risk monitoring activities.
FTSE Urges EOD Index Data Compliance
London Stock Exchange-owned index provider FTSE has asked customers of its end-of-day index data to review their usage to ensure they are properly licensed, as part of continued efforts to promote transparency and compliance across its products and…
Bloomberg Enlists Lucena for Custom Development Projects
Atlanta, Ga.-based analytics provider Lucena Research is acting as a development partner for Bloomberg, after launching a set of quantitative, machine-learning-based analytical tools based on its cloud-enabled QuantDesk decision support platform for…
UTP Votes to Adopt Nasdaq SIP Recommendations
The UTP Operating Committee, the industry body that oversees the administration of the consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Nasdaq-listed stocks─known as Tape C or the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan─has approved recommendations put…
ITRS Readies Market Data Integrity Monitor
UK-based real-time systems and latency monitoring vendor ITRS has added a new analytic framework to its Geneos monitoring platform, which will enable firms to monitor the quality, accuracy and completeness of real-time data feeding their derived data…
Bloomberg Moves to Curb IM Connectivity
Bloomberg is removing the Federated Chat component of its Bloomberg Instant Messaging service, which allows clients to use its Bloomberg Professional terminal to directly message users of third-party communication platforms such as AOL Instant Messenger…
Burton-Taylor: Risk, Regulations Drive Data Spend
Annual spend on financial market risk-related data peaked at $2.52 billion in 2013, equating to roughly 10 percent the $25.77 billion spent each year on market data worldwide, and is growing by 5.74 percent year-on-year as a result of increased…
Tabb Report: Illiquid Bond Pricing is "World's Most Complex Sudoku Puzzle"
The data industry must work harder to improve pricing of illiquid fixed income asset classes by harnessing contextual data to understand instruments, particularly as demand continues to rise for intraday and real-time pricing, according to a report…
Money.net Nabs ex-Bloomberg Commodities Head as CEO
New York-based low-cost financial data display provider Money.net has hired Morgan Downey as chief executive, responsible for all lines of business and functional groups within the company.
Eurex Bows Mobile iOS and Android App
Deutsche Börse has launched a new app for its Eurex derivatives exchange, dubbed Eurex Mobile App, which provides investors with prices, news announcements, Twitter feeds and other information for more than 1,500 futures and options via Apple iOS and…
Bloomberg Embeds OneMarketData for Trade Analytics
Bloomberg has integrated tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData’s OneTick CEP engine into its EMSX execution management system, an integrated component of the vendor’s Bloomberg Professional terminal, to provide users…
Quartet FS Readies Historical Analysis, Sentinel Update
In-memory analytics technology provider Quartet FS is preparing to launch a new version of its ActivePivot data aggregation and analytics engine that will enable users to carry out historical data analysis following breaches in performance indicators…
Freedom Index Co Bows Aussie, Africa Indexes
Startup not-for-profit index provider the Freedom Index Company-which launched last year to offer free and independent indexes to the asset management community-is planning to add Australian indexes to its family of free-of-charge products, and is now…
Morningstar UK Integrates Alliance News
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar's UK subsidiary has begun distributing streaming equities news from UK-based newswire startup Alliance News via two of its investment research platforms, to enable users to view real-time…
TMX Atrium Mulls Asia FX Expansion, Eyes Canada, SEFs
TMX Atrium, the network provider subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, is considering expanding its current foreign exchange market coverage beyond Europe and the US to Asia, to meet growing demand from customers for FX market data and connectivity…
SuperDerivatives Lays out DGX 2014 Roadmap
Over-the-counter pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is building out content and functionality on its DGX market data terminal, following the completion of the first-phase rollout of "must-have" data and functionality components…
Markit Taps Conigliaro for Trading Services
Tom Conigliaro has joined Markit as managing director based in New York responsible for leading the vendor's trading services business, including its new Trader Dashboard, which integrates data and analytics to provide investment decision support for the…