Data Management
Rimes Adds Data Sets to Reference Data Service, Plans to Include LEI
The managed data services vendor has added new data sets to its Rimes Reference Data Service and Rimes Benchmark Data Service, and plans to also include legal entity identifier data in the next two months
ParFX Goes Live With Equinix London Data Center
Global foreign exchange platform ParFX announced it has selected Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data center campus based in Slough, UK, to provide easy access to the global Spot FX market.
Omgeo Sees 47% Increase in Japanese Trade Volumes
The vendor of post-trade services has acquired 18 new clients in Japan over the past year as demand to automate the processing of equity and fixed-income transactions increases
Burning Issues: For Exchanges, it's Diversify or Die
Editor Max Bowie takes a well-earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss how exchanges are diversifying their offerings in light of falling market data revenues.
As SEC Grows Analytics, Form PF Data Quality Should Sharpen
An update from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), published in late July, gives a sense of funds' first pass at the reporting requirement, but more importantly, lays out just what authorities will do with that information. And their plans…
MarketPrizm Builds HKEx Co-Lo Hub
The Colt-owned trading and data infrastructure provider has begun providing data and infrastructure to trading firms hosted in the HKEx’s new co-location facility , as well as access to data from other major exchanges.
Open Platform: ‘As-a-Service' Should Come ‘As Standard' for Market Data
As firms wrestle with the opposing forces of reducing spend while increasing the performance of market data service to the enterprise, the reluctance to adopt an aggressive strategy to tackle the volatile market may be costing you more than you can…
Fidelity Sells Asset Control To Marlin
Marlin Equity Partners has acquired the data provider, paving the way for strategic planning to continue at Asset Control
Tech Mahindra Launches Data Platform
The data services provider acquired technology from UBS and has in turn signed on the bank as the first user of the new service.
Managing Data For Efficiency and Cost
Fidelity ActionsXchange’s Deborah Culhane describes the benefits of a data-centric approach to regulatory compliance, and advises on how to evaluate the sustainability of outsourcing for data services
Nasdaq Preps US Feed Changes
Exchange group Nasdaq OMX is launching new feeds for its equities, futures, BX and PSX markets, in a effort to replace legacy technology with higher performance alternatives.
On the Record: Mercado Keeps it ‘Simple'
Emilio Mercado has spent the bulk of his career working for market data vendors. Now, he's working for himself, running his own vendor, Simplified Financial Information, and aiming to simplify how firms manage market data usage and infrastructure, when…
First, React: Systems Performance Should Be Visually Evident, Not Contractual
Data tells the tale of what markets are doing, what's aberrant, and why rarely, if sometimes spectacularly, things go wrong. Systems performance tools provide those signals, just as exchange venues provide tick data. Firms are beginning to figure out how…
