Data Management
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.
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…
AIFMD: How Independent Are Your Valuations?
In his last column before leaving Inside Reference Data for pastures new, Nicholas Hamilton considers the challenges of complying with the European Union's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, which had a compliance deadline this week
Money.net Adds ETF, Mutual Funds Data, Bows Mobile Apps
New York-based low-cost market data display vendor Money.net has added new content to its datasets and has rolled out native mobile apps to accompany its data desktop and web-based terminals, and is planning significant analytics enhancements for future…
SimCorp Unveils New Dashboards
SimCorp has launched Asset Services Dashboards and Alerts, which provide users with a real-time overview of asset-servicing metrics, while alerting them of areas that need attention, such as acting on exceptions.
Morningstar Adds 20 Markets to Consolidated Feeds
The real-time division of data and investment research provider Morningstar has added data from more than 20 new marketplaces to its consolidated feeds, in response to client demand, particularly from online brokerages and wealth managers in North…
Thomson Reuters Adds BGC OTC Data
Thomson Reuters is making real-time over-the-counter data from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Eikon desktop, its Elektron Real Time feeds infrastructure, and its Tick History and DataScope Select products, to increase OTC data…
O'Brien Departs BATS; CEO Ratterman Adds President Duties
BATS Global Markets has announced the immediate departure of president William O'Brien, who joined the company in January following its merger with Direct Edge, where he was chief executive.
HKEx Shuffles Senior Info Execs
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has named Roger Lee head of its new Market Operations group, which comprises cash and derivatives trading and market data.
EDI Adds African Central Bank Data to AFED Database
UK-based data provider Exchange Data International has added African Central Bank economic data to its African Financial and Economic Data (AFED) online database of macroeconomic data, which the vendor launched in May.
Citic Taps Fincad F3 for New Equity Derivatives Unit
Chinese investment bank Citic Securities has rolled out Canadian OTC derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad's F3 analytics platform to support the bank's growing equity derivatives business in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
CITIC Selects Fincad for Analytics
Pricing and risk provider Fincad has announced that CITIC Securities, one of China's largest investment banks, has selected its F3 analytics platform to support its Asian equity derivatives operation.
S&P DJI to Manage Mexican Exchange Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed all the indexes produced by Mexican stock exchange Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), and will assume responsibility for marketing and commercially licensing the indexes, while working with BMV on the development of new…
Autilla Outlines Data Plans Ahead of MiFID 2
London-based precious metals market Autilla, which announced last week that it has migrated to a new electronic trading platform from Swedish exchange trading and market technology provider Cinnober, is leveraging the platform to create a repository of…
Ballintrae Unveils BMAP Data Compliance Tool
UK-based technology and market data consultancy Ballintrae has released a new compliance tool, dubbed Ballintrae Map (BMAP), which enables banks, asset managers and other institutional investment firms to map market data flows within their organization…
Kimsey: Developing Markets Driving Data Growth
Global spending on market data is poised to grow by just under 4 percent over the next two years to around $23.6 billion, driven by growing data consumption in new markets, according to an analysis of the trading technology sector carried out by UK-based…
Cloud Choices
Security, accuracy, risk and cost are all factors to consider when deciding to use cloud computing resources for data functions, and how to use these resources.
Fitch Hires Vendor Vet Filanowski as Global Product Head
Fitch solutions, the software and data arm of ratings agency Fitch, has hired former Bloomberg exec Brian Filanowski as managing director and global product head, responsible for the delivery and expansion of current and new analytical tools from Fitch…
Black is the New Black for MSCI Canada
Index provider MSCI has hired Lindsay Black as vice president of its equity index business in Toronto, responsible for relationship management with local asset managers, broker-dealers and hedge funds.
Nomura AM Chooses NRI for Data Warehousing, Client Reporting, Back Office
Nomura Asset Management has decided to use Nomura Research Institute's technology to help manage Japanese investment advisory reporting requirements
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Dials Mobile Data App
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has launched a mobile application designed to provide investors with a selected and user-friendly view of trading data.
Cloud Computing Remains Tough Sell For Data, Study Finds
A survey of 21 firms conducted by Aite Group found that security and privacy concerns are barriers to more widespread adoption of cloud computing resources for data operations