Data Management
RMS Vendors Integrate FirstRain Content
Web research and search technology provider FirstRain is making its company research, competitor ecosystem analysis and management turnover reports available as an XML datafeed or embedded widgets within the platforms of research management platform…
Lessons from London
Two things I learned while attending the DWT 2009 conference in London last week: You can always leave it to the members of British Parliament to draw public anger away from investment bank bonuses in favor of a good old political corruption scandal over…
Citi Splits Market Data into Content, IT
Citigroup has reorganized its market data department, dividing staff between broader functions covering expense management and IT, and resulting in the departure of the bank's global head of market data.
Aite, Tower: Firms Must Consider Costs of Data Storage, Outsourcing
As market data volumes continue to rise and hit new peaks, firms must begin planning for future storage and capacity requirements, and to closely consider outsourced vendor solutions to keep costs under control, according to research reports released…
NYSE Euronext to Beef Up Data Technologies
NYSE Euronext is making changes to the technologies that support its market data business in a drive to improve access to data from its own markets and from other exchanges and multilateral trading facilities via its NYSE Technologies data technology…
Audit Integrity Releases European Ratings
Audit Integrity, a Los Angeles-based provider of corporate integrity ratings, began a "soft rollout" to existing clients of ratings for companies in Western Europe earlier this month, as the first step in a broader international service release.
Marketcetera Adds Support for Level 2 Feeds
Open-source trading platform vendor Marketcetera will this week release version 1.5 of its trading software, with the addition of support for Level 2 datafeeds and clients' in-house feeds.
Xignite Adds SeekingAlpha Transcripts
Web services data provider Xignite has made earnings call transcripts from SeekingAlpha.com available free of charge via its Web services platform, in a bid to provide more value-added content to clients and to help SeekingAlpha-which is a client of the…
Can I Get That to Go?
As I write this week's column, I'm packing for a weekend break in Boston, and wondering which restaurants I should splurge on: Should I stick to Beantown pub grub, or seek out something more civilized? We all know that fast food has advantages: it's…
Capital IQ Expands Key Developments Feed After SystematIQ Study
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division has increased the number of categories in its Key Developments feed of news and corporate events, and will continue to refine the tagging process used by the feed, following a study conducted by recently launched…
Dow Jones, Equinix Prep Euro News Co-Lo
Dow Jones is planning to launch a European co-location service for clients seeking low-latency access to its Elementized News Feed of tagged news stories for algorithmic trading, by extending a partnership with hosting service provider Equinix, officials…
Nasdaq Unveils TOPO, Glimpse of TotalView
Nasdaq OMX is launching a new direct feed of Level 1 options data from its Nasdaq OMX PHLX Market (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) to provide customers with a lower-latency alternative to acquiring the data via the Options Price Reporting…
BST Launches Savings Analysis Tool
Swiss market data software vendor BST has developed a new module of its FinOffice suite of administration tools, to help clients analyze changes in market data expenditure and pinpoint specific drivers behind spending trends.
Data Strategies of Dragons, Tigers and Lions
For those readers who like stories about the financial data industry in Asia-Pacific, good news: We've got more for you from the region this week, following the conclusion of our Asia Roadshow with industry association FISD. (And by the way, spare a…
Asia Geography Poses Data Challenges
The geographically dispersed nature of Asian markets poses unique challenges to building market data and trading infrastructures in the region, as increased automated trading prompts a growing focus on latency and throughput, said panelists in Singapore…
China's Data Market Faces Growing Pains
The Chinese data industry is expected to grow substantially in coming years, creating opportunities for Western and local vendors alike, according to panelists at an event in Shanghai, one in a series of Asia-Pacific events organized by Inside Market…
HKEx Continues Free Data Project
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has reaffirmed plans to provide free real-time data to investors via one or more partners that operate investor Web portals, despite recently reported criticism from five companies in Mainland China who expressed…