Data Management
Disproving Prejudices against Open Source
Misconceptions and prejudices against open source software, which can be used for ETL and data integration purposes, are unsupported and contradict everything open source stands for, says Talend's Bertrand Diard
Waiting for the Switchover
If there is one market that is ready to explode, it is the U.S. equity options market. Once the Options Clearing Corp.'s (OCC's) Options Symbology Initiative (OSI) hopefully concludes on Feb. 12, the industry should see some major innovations take place…
Fincad Adds Emerging Markets Data
Software provider Fincad has added interest rate curve data for Asian and South African currencies to its range of derivatives valuation and risk management products, and plans to add more Latin American and Asian data in future, to meet client demand…
Quantifi releases Version 9.3
London-based Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management products to the global credit markets, has released Version 9.3 of its pricing, hedging and risk analysis platform. Quantifi says V9.3 provides more robust risk reporting, streamlined…
Thomson Reuters launches TSE Arrowhead platform
Thomson Reuters has announced the live launch of a market-data delivery service for the Tokyo Stock Exchange's (TSE) new Arrowhead Platform. According to the vendor, delivery options offered by Thomson Reuters Data Feed Direct include both TSE Arrowhead…
SunGard's Ambit receives Swift interface qualification
SunGard's Ambit Messaging Hub has passed the Swift interface qualification for FIN interfaces. The Ambit Messaging Hub, which provides a single platform on which customers can consolidate all financial messaging activity (regardless of format) has been…
Internet Securities Enlists Scout to Track Rogue Access
Emerging markets news and information provider Internet Securities, a division of Euromoney Institutional Investor, is rolling out technology from Scout Analytics, a Seattle-based provider of subscription usage analytics, to identify unauthorized sharing…
Goral Taps OneTick for Trading Expansion
Baltimore, MD-based statistical asset manager Goral Trading is rolling out OneMarketData's OneTick tick database to support its move into equities and futures trading.
CQG Adds Nordic Derivatives Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, charting and trading software provider CQG has expanded its coverage of the Nordic market with the addition of derivatives market data from the Nasdaq OMX Nordic exchanges, in response to demand from customers.
Vive la Résistance!
Firms look set to dig in and resist change in 2010, to prevent expensive migrations and additions in the current economic environment, according to a survey of market data trends at buy-side and sell-side firms conducted by software vendor StreamBase…
Reuters: Buy Side Demands Cheaper, Better Data
Buy-side market data consumers are calling on European exchanges and trade reporting facilities to provide real-time trade data as a standalone subscription product, to allow the creation of a consolidated tape of time-and-sales data accessible at a more…
Acquire Expands Low-Latency News
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media has launched two products to give clients more control over how fast they receive the vendor's news and the level of metadata applied to each story.
Citi Aims DART at Data Spend, Compliance
Citigroup has begun a pilot project to begin migrating some of its market data administration and exchange data reporting functions to the managed DART (Data Administration and Reporting Technologies) provided by NYSE Technologies and market data…
Thomson Reuters Preps Global Algo News
Thomson Reuters is broadening the coverage of economic news available via its NewsScope machine-readable news feed, and is redesigning the technology architecture used to distribute the feed by adding Points of Presence (PoPs) in Chicago and London to…
China Data Needs Grow as Market Matures
Annual spend on market data by financial services firms in China is expected to grow rapidly over the next 10 years, reflecting the maturation of the Chinese financial industry and broader user requirements, which is creating opportunities for vendors…
Chi-X Canada Moves into S&D Datacenter
Canadian alternative trading system Chi-X Canada is moving its data and trading infrastructure into hosting service provider Switch and Data's Toronto Financial EcoCenter, to accommodate growing data and trading volumes and to gain additional co-location…