Data Management
LSE: Baikal MTF Is Not Dead
LONDON-Despite recent press reports, exchange operator London Stock Exchange (LSE) Group is firm in its commitment to its Baikal multilateral trading facility (MTF), exchange officials tell DWT .
Nordic Banks in Summer Switch to Infront
Norwegian data vendor Infront has deployed its Online Trader market data terminal at eight Nordic financial institutions in the past few months, many of which migrated from Thomson Reuters' legacy Reuters First product, which the vendor will retire at…
BayernLB Targets Data Budget with FinOffice
Bavarian state bank BayernLB is expanding its use of the FinOffice market data inventory management system from Swiss vendor BST AG to obtain more detailed, user-level information to keep track of its market data usage and identify potential cost saving…
ITRS Gets Performance Boost with Geneos Update
UK-based data technology vendor ITRS has completely redeveloped its Geneos systems management technology to allow clients to monitor more data, calculate their own real-time analytics and visualize systems performance data via customizable display…
Reaping What You Sow
Now that August is over, we are about to enter my favorite season of the year: autumn. There is no place better in autumn than the Hudson River Valley or Western New York, no matter what those trash-talking New Englanders might say. There is something…
Quote MTF Names Launch Data Vendors
Hungarian multilateral trading facility Quote MTF, which launched last Friday, Sept. 4 with trading initially in 10 French stocks listed on NYSE Euronext, has unveiled the first group of vendors that will distribute data from the new MTF.
Interactive Data Expands Content Partnership with Stockselection
Interactive Data's Managed Solutions business has begun signing up clients for a recently expanded content set, which includes the addition of structured product prospectuses and fund news, sourced from German data vendor Stockselection.
NYSE Euronext Breathes Liffe into UTP
NYSE Euronext is planning to retire its legacy Liffe derivatives data feed by the end of 2010, after migrating subscribers to its Universal Trading Platform (UTP) feed, which will begin carrying European derivatives data in the first half of next year,…
Forkbeard Rolls Out Activ for Equity Data
UK-based options market maker Forkbeard Capital last month deployed a feed of low-latency equity market data from Chicago-based data vendor Activ Financial to support its trading operations in London.
Open Outcry: Last Gasps?
TRADING TECHNOLOGY
A New Lesson Plan
EDITOR'S LETTER
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Research Roundup
Anna Prepares Implementation Plan
To Take on Registration Authority Role for Short Names and IGI
Identity Crisis
During the summer, the identifier debate, fueled by the financial crisis, has climbed the agenda. Implementation of the alternative instrument identifier could represent a turning point in the derivatives world. But the industry has not yet reached the…
The Utility Track
As regulatory debates focus on systemic risk, market participants are finding new ways to ensure data becomes part of the legislative agenda. Initiatives in both Europe and the US are focused on building new data infrastructures to mitigate risk and…