Data Management
Month in Numbers
'But with structured products, I think they come across the same problems that we do, and their fall back is to use our pricing which comes from our brokers. I think most hedge funds have that same issue' James Caird Asset Management's Olivia Erby…
Sophis study highlights risk concerns
Research conducted by Sophis, the Paris-based provider of cross-asset, front-to-back risk and portfolio management technology, has revealed that 63% of asset managers believe that risk management requirements have changed as a result of recent market…
Excelling in a toxic playground
Scott Dowle, chief technology officer of London-based hedge fund Credaris, talks to Victor Anderson about his firm's remarkable performance in the volatile credit markets during 2008, his preference for home-grown technology, and the need for keeping it…
Odyssey unveils latest version of InvestmentManager
Odyssey Financial Technologies, the Luxembourg-based provider of private wealth and asset management technology and services founded in 1995, has released the latest version of its InvestmentManager platform. InvestmentManager v6 features include:
China in Your Hand
In the past week, I've eaten authentic Chinese bean curd and roast pigeon (served complete with beak!), donned a protective apron at a specialist tempura bar, been forcibly squeezed into a train on the Tokyo underground system, met a lot of data industry…
Chi-X Mulls More Data Sources for Dark Pool
European multilateral trading facility Chi-X is preparing to expand the number of vendor partners that it uses to source incoming data in preparation for the launch of its new dark liquidity matching service, Chi-Delta, in the second quarter of 2009,…
MDSL Launches Outsourced Data Management, Cost Control Service
Market data usage monitoring and contract reconciliation software provider MDSL has begun providing an outsourced version of its services that combines the vendor's software and in-house cost and contract management expertise.
Baikal Draws on Fidessa, QuantHouse Data
The London Stock Exchange will use market data from Fidessa and QuantHouse to support smart order routing and dark book matching on its Baikal European multilateral trading facility when it launches the market later this year, officials say
Research Compares Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters News
A comparative study of news services from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters shows that Bloomberg generally produces a higher volume of news items, while Thomson Reuters generally focuses more on analysis, according to research released this week by Burton…
Nasdaq OMX Adds Nord Pool Data to Genium
Nasdaq OMX is preparing to add market data from the Nord Pool European power and carbon emissions exchange onto its Genium Consolidated Feed (GCF), and will also allow subscribers to access the data via a common redistribution agreement that covers all…
Exchanges Hit by ‘Triple Glitching' Week
Transatlantic exchange groups Nasdaq OMX and NYSE Euronext suffered a total of three glitches last week that caused interruptions to the distribution of their market data.
Tick Data Eyes Asia Data Growth
Nexa Technologies' Tick Data division is planning to expand its coverage of historical equities tick data from the Asia-Pacific region within the next six months, subject to exchanges being able to provide access to historical databases of tick data.
Moody's Aligns CDS Data with ISDA
Moody's CreditQuotes division is updating its credit default swap spread data and valuations to correlate them with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's "Big Bang" CDS protocol for standardizing trading and valuation of single-name North…
China for Dummies
Keiren Harris, founder of Open-Asia.info, a portal for financial markets-related information across the Asia-Pacific region, lists his top 10 rules for those seeking to break into the Chinese market for data.
Raymond James Rolls Out Market-Q
Raymond James Financial has rolled out Interactive Data's Market-Q Web-based workstation to 4,000 US-based financial advisors in its private client group, replacing the Reuters Plus legacy wealth management platform.
CS, Banks Complete Turquoise Latency POC
Credit Suisse and pan-European multilateral trading facility Turquoise, which both use latency monitoring appliances from Dublin-based Corvil, have completed a proof-of-concept project to connect the bank's and MTF's latency monitoring technologies, to…
Seeding the Clouds
The eventual adoption of cloud computing is pretty much a no-brainer according to most financial technologists. Even adopting cloud offerings from third-party vendors is definitely in the cards. However, adopting a third-party cloud specifically designed…
Fidessa Opens Up Fragmentation Index Data
UK-based trading technology and market data vendor Fidessa is preparing to provide its clients with access to a historical database of European market data, which can be used to analyze changes in liquidity between exchanges and multilateral trading…
Kabrik Enlists EquityFeed for Trade Suite
New York Stock Exchange floor broker Kabrik Trading is creating a new suite of data, execution and research tools for its own brokers and institutional buy-side clients using the new EquityPipe data workstation from Montreal-based vendor EquityFeed.
FTSE Mulls Tick-by-Tick Index Data
Index provider FTSE is holding discussions with clients to determine whether there is sufficient demand for the vendor to launch a real-time feed of index data, which would deliver streaming index values on a tick-by-tick basis.
Ionic Deploys DJ News to Replace AFX Feed
UK-based data vendor Ionic Information will roll out content from Dow Jones Newswires as its main financial news provider in June after incumbent supplier Thomson Reuters gave notice that it will terminate the vendor's distribution contract, Ionic…
Latency Issues Continue to Drive Spend, Innovation
While the credit crunch has put the brakes on global economies, the financial markets show no signs of slowing down. Though firms are cutting back data spend wherever possible, latency remains an area where they simply can't afford not to keep spending,…