Data Management
MDSL Preps Trading Cost Management Tools
UK-based MDSL is rolling out a new service aimed at helping financial firms manage their Fix trading connectivity spend, similar to how they manage market data spend using the vendor's market data management (MDM) platform.
Nasdaq Quits SIP Over Lack of Tape Progress
Nasdaq OMX plans to cease operating the Securities Information Processor (SIP) that collects data on Nasdaq-listed stocks, calculates a best bid and offer, and distributes the consolidated feed of quote and trade data─known as Tape C or the Unlisted…
Mirus Futures' Gets Access to Contiuum Data and Execution
Continuum, an arm of Denver-based CQG, has announced a partnership with online futures broker Mirus Futures whereby Continuum’s hosted infrastructure, including its market data delivery systems and distributed exchange gateways are made available to…
Markit Hub Adds Roubini Economic Data
Markit has added economic research and analysis from Roubini Global Economics (RGE) to its Markit Hub research platform, which aggregates research, analysis and news from banks, data vendors and news providers.
Swift Chooses SmartStream for Calendar Data
Swift has chosen to work with SmartStream partly because the software and managed services vendor is itself a user of calendar data
Roubini Global Economics' Research Added to Markit Hub
Headed by economist Nouriel Roubini, the global consultancy known as RGE will now contribute to Markit's aggregated news, analysis, and research hub for institutional investors.
D&B, FirstRain Ally for Integrated Company Data
Information providers Dun & Bradstreet and FirstRain announced a partnership that will see the integration of FirstRain's company, industry and customer research and social analytics with D&B's structured company data.
Trefis Taps S&P Capital IQ for Interactive Research
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ Equity Research, the independent research arm of S&P Capital IQ, has partnered with data visualization technology vendor Trefis to allow Trefis users to access research models for roughly 600 companies and 1,500…
ZKB Taps Corvil for Data Quality, Latency Monitoring
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) is rolling out Dublin-based latency management technology vendor Corvil's Operational Performance Monitoring platform to monitor market data quality, FX order flow as well as quote-to-order and gateway latency.
IDC Adds BCG FX, IRS Rates to OTC Data
Interactive Data will this week make pricing data for foreign exchange and interest rate contracts from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over-the-counter sources worldwide, as…
GPs Pursuing Data-Driven Business Intelligence, Study Finds
A recent study of private equity general partners (GPs) uncovered consistently greater expectations around data management in the space. But progress in meeting those expectations appears to be more uneven.
S&P Cap IQ Adds SGX Data to Low-Latency Feed
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions (formerly French low-latency data vendor QuantHouse, which S&P acquired in 2012) has added the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to its QuantFeed consolidated datafeed and QuantLink fiber-optic network.
Financial Machineries Buys Data Contributions Ahead of Aggregated Repository Data Launch
Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics provider Financial Machineries is preparing to launch a feed of cleansed, aggregated data from trade data repositories, dubbed GTR Analytics, and has acquired London-based contributed data consultancy…
Dow Jones Sues RANsquawk for $5 Million
Dow Jones has filed a lawsuit against London-based news aggregator and audio "squawk" provider RANsquawk, accusing the vendor of systematically stealing Dow Jones' news headlines and stories without a license to distribute its news, and seeking at least …
WSE Bows Short, Leveraged Index Data
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has begun distributing data on two new indexes based on the exchange’s WIG30 blue-chip benchmark.
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
Complexity or Simplicity - The Data Quality Question
Those seeking to increase data quality, cope with new identifier standards or meet the mandates laid out by Europe's new market infrastructure regulation, are looking at how to reduce the complexity of the methods designed to meet simple goals
Spread Connects NYSE Mahwah Datacenter to Chicago
Ridgeland, MS-based low-latency fiber network operator Spread Networks has set up a point of presence for its wavelength data network between New York and Chicago at NYSE Euronext's datacenter at Mahwah, NJ, creating roundtrip latency of around 14…
Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
S&P Capital IQ Extends Trading and Data Services Through Hong Kong Exchange
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions has reinforced its Asia offering by extending its QuantFEED and QuantLINK solutions through Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEx) Orion program. The new service provides participants with faster access to both…
Rutschmann Named Infront COO
Norwegian data vendor Infront has appointed Urs Rutschmann as chief operating officer, responsible for managing all the vendor's operational activities, including strategy, sales, marketing, product development and client services.
Metadata Gains Role in Semantic Modeling
Semantic data modeling efforts, which have gained traction in the financial services industry, are increasingly being driven by metadata, said an IT processing services company executive