Articles by Faye Kilburn
Northern Trust's Guenther On the Challenges of Risk Management at Inside Market Data Chicago 2013
Joerg Guenther, head of information technology at Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services discusses his presentation at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago conference, on the challenges faced by his organization as it embarked on a project to centralize…
Myra Trading's Yanilmaz Discusses the Growing Cost of Market Data at IMD Chicago 2013
Mehmet Yanilmaz, partner at Chicago-based proprietary algorithmic trading firm Myra Trading, reflects on market data costs after moderating a panel on the topic at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago event.
TMX Atrium Builds Ultra-Low Latency Moscow-Frankfurt Link
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, has added ultra-low latency access to Moscow M1, a third-party, multi-tenanted hosting facility in Russia, from Equinix’s FR2 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter in Frankfurt…
Volta London Datacenter Opens its Doors
Datacenter operator Volta Data Centres will today officially open its new facility on Great Sutton Street in London, following a year-long project to refurbish the former Reuters building.
National Futures Association Chairman Hehymer on the Future of Technology at IMD Chicago 2013
Chris Hehymer, chairman of the board of the National Futures Association comments on his afternoon keynote speech and subsequent panel discussion at Inside Market Data Chicago
Milesius Capital Resources' Acosta Speaks on Infrastructure at IMD Chicago 2013
Andrew Acosta, chief data scientist at Milesius Capital Research shares his thoughts after moderating a panel on re-architecting data infrastructures to adapt to growing volumes and regulatory change at the Inside Market Data Chicago conference.
S&P CapIQ Bows ETF Classification System
S&P capital IQ is introducing a new classification structure for exchange-traded funds, dubbed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) Style Classifications, which will provide details of over 40 ETF characteristics, including asset class, market segment, geographic…
Oppenheimer Rolls Out IDC Market-Q
New York-based investment boutique Oppenheimer &. Co is deploying Interactive Data's Market-Q real-time market data desktop, as well as its Market-Q Mobile service, which provides access to data and tools from tablet devices.
ETFGuide Targets Institutional Investors with ETF Research
San Diego, Calif.-based investment research provider ETFGuide is planning to begin distributing its research on exchange-traded funds via trading and brokerage platforms to reach a broader audience of institutional investors and financial advisors beyond…
Alexandria Builds Relevancy Indicators into Sentiment Scores
Los Angeles, Calif.-based sentiment analysis provider Alexandria Investment Research and Technology is adding relevancy indicators to its sentiment scores to provide quantitative investors with greater context around its analysis, in response to client…
S&P CapIQ Taps Arista to Speed Data
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions (formerly French low-latency data vendor QuantHouse, which S&P acquired last year) is leveraging switch technology vendor Arista Networks' EOS (Extensible Operating System) to improve the performance of its QuantLink…
Morningstar Expands Commodities Pricing, News; Adds Commentary, Context to Quant Ratings
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has added new content to the products of its Morningstar Commodity Data business—the former Logical Information Machines, prior to its 2009 purchase by Morningstar—which aggregates market…
Interactive Data Names Daffron New CEO
Interactive Data has appointed Stephen C. Daffron president and chief executive effective Sept. 20, replacing Mason Slaine, who has held the position for three years.
Panel: Latency Monitoring More Important than Low Latency
Whereas 10 years ago, low latency was the preserve of a select few firms whose sole focus was chasing zero, the commoditization and ubiquity of low-latency technologies has made raw speed more of a necessity to keep pace with the rest of the market, and…
IMD Chicago: Firms Outsource Infrastructure to Address Data Storage, Regulation
End-user firms are increasingly turning to outsourcing to deal with the storage challenges associated with big datasets caused by rising data volumes and the ongoing raft of new regulatory initiatives requiring more intensive data collection, according…
Apcon Releases Sub-10ns Timestamping Blade Switch
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon has released a new aggregator blade, dubbed the Intellaflex Timestamping and Packet Slicing Blade, which will enable financial institutions to timestamp message packets with sub…
IMD Chicago: Exchange Data Fees, Policies Hindering New Entrants
The high cost of exchange market data─combined with unscheduled fee increases and a proliferation of new fees for previously free-of-charge data─continues to burden consumers, and is preventing newer firms from entering the market, according to a panel…
Panel: Firms Must Master "Dark Art" of Data Analytics to Gain Competitive Advantage
The faster a trading firm can analyze datasets that are growing in both size and complexity to extract meaningful "data about the data," the greater competitive advantage they will have, said participants on a panel discussing how analytics can be…
Burton-Taylor: Mixed EMEA Data Spend Growth as Bloomberg Closes Gap on Thomson Reuters
Total spend on market data in EMEA reached $9.84 billion (€7.48 billion) in 2012, approximately 38.6 percent of global spend, with the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia accounting for two-thirds of demand, according to a new report on EMEA…
Tullett Prebon Information Issues China Bond Pricing Service
Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, will this week launch a new Chinese bond pricing service to provide global and domestic traders with prices for instruments traded on Shanghai’s over-the-counter bond…
Markit’s Gould and Hunt Relocate to Asia-Pac
Markit president and co-founder Kevin Gould has relocated to Singapore to spearhead Markit's expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, the vendor announced today.
NYSE Euronext Hikes EU Cash Feed Prices, Introduces New Delayed Data Fee
NYSE Euronext is increasing the price of its European cash market data feeds and indexes, and also plans to introduce new license fees for redistribution of delayed versions of the products, to bring its policy into line with industry standards, Inside…
Markit Adds FT News to Hub
Markit has added news and analysis from UK daily finance publication the Financial Times to its Markit Hub market data platform, which aggregates research, strategy and news content from leading global banks, independent data providers and news agencies.
Hillman to Consult After Leaving LSE
Jarod Hillman, former head of real-time data at the London Stock Exchange Group, who left his position over the summer, is setting up an independent data consultancy to provide market participants among trading venues, redistributors, and consumer firms…