Data Management
Agência Estado Preps NYSE Datafeed Tech
Brazilian news agency and data vendor Agência Estado (AE) is to revamp its market data infrastructure in order to deliver ever-increasing volumes of data to institutional and retail investors with lower latency, using feed handlers and middleware from…
Revere Adds Brazilian Company Data
San Francisco-based research and data provider Revere Data has mapped companies listed on Brazil's BM&F Bovespa exchange to its RISC (Revere International Sector Classification) taxonomy, enabling users of its products to compare like-for-like attributes…
Waxing Brazilian
As the developed markets of the West hope for a better year in 2010, some are devoting even more attention to emerging markets in the hunt for higher returns, and specifically to Brazil, which saw a number of data-related initiatives either get underway…
Pennies from Heaven
The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin once said, "A penny saved is a penny earned." Looking at the year ahead, this will definitely be the theme for 2010.
High-Frequency Trading: Getting with the Program
What exactly is high-frequency trading (HFT)? Is HFT good for the market or is it synonymous with toxic order flow? Does it fly in the face of anti-competition laws? How many different HFT strategies are there and what differentiates them? These are just…
2010 Forecast: Very Cloudy
Opinion
Firm Be Nimble
Open Platform
March of the Robo-Traders
Asia report
Crossing the Data Chasm
The main driver for outsourcing reference data management is typically cost control, but data control is also a key concern. Netik's Colin Close explains how this can be addressed
Picture This
One of the key focus areas for the new year is liquidity risk and valuation risk. But to deal with the upcoming challenges, firms are looking for more granular and better integrated data. Tine Thoresen speaks to AIG's Suresh Jayaraman about what data…
Month in Numbers
"The Commission will be seeking views on applying position limits consistently across all markets and participants, including index traders and managers of exchange-traded funds; whether such limits would enhance market integrity and efficiency; whether…
Valuation vendor market to expand through 2012
A new Aite Group report anticipates that the pricing and valuation services industry will grow to $2.9 billion by the end of 2012, reflecting pressure from regulators and investors on buy-side managers and their custodians to improve these functions…
LatAm Taps CMA for Price Display
Miami, Fla-based broker-dealer LatAm Investments is using market data and technology from Brazilian data vendor CMA to enable it to display orders from client firms in the US to clients of clearing brokers in Mexico and Brazil.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas...
'Twas the night before Christmas, and empty was Wall Street,
Algorithmic News Gathers Pace
News providers found new ways to deliver and present their content to users during 2009, notably by broadening and reducing the latency associated with machine-readable news offerings as algorithmic and high-frequency traders increasingly seek to…