Data Management
You Can't Always Get What You Want
... But you can get pretty close. And indexes are one way that investors can gain access to markets or sectors that they may not usually have exposure to. Some have questioned the meaningfulness of indexes as an indicator of the markets as the Dow Jones…
AdmitOne Preps Piracy Monitor for Financial Data
Seattle-based online security and identity analytics provider AdmitOne Security has established a beta test group of financial news and market data providers for its software, to expand use of the vendor's offering into the financial markets.
Telekurs Boosts Emerging Markets
Swiss data vendor SIX Telekurs is adding real-time data from a number of emerging markets onto its MDF market data feed in response to client demand.
Neonet Taps Corvil to Monitor Data Latency
Neonet, a Stockholm-based agency broker and provider of market data and trading systems, has deployed latency monitoring technology from Dublin-based software vendor Corvil to monitor data latency across its global operations, officials say.
BATS, Fixnetix Partner for Co-Lo Services
Multilateral trading facility BATS Europe is offering clients a second choice of co-location service provider for accessing low-latency data from its European order book, via a new partnership with UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor…
Smart Order Routing Becomes Key for FX Traders
LONDON-In less-liquid markets, smart order routing has become key not only for equity traders, but also for those trading in the foreign exchange (FX) space, according to speakers at a liquidity sourcing panel held during the DWT 2009 conference.
Liquidnet Tackles Latency via Direct Feeds
Alternative trading system Liquidnet is migrating from a consolidated vendor feed of equities data to a direct exchange feed solution for incoming market data, to reduce the latency of data used to determine routing strategies and of its own mid-point…
IMD Reference: Bloomberg Takes Lead Share
Bloomberg edged ahead of the merged Thomson Reuters during 2008, with a 33 percent share of the real-time market data industry compared to just under 32 percent for Thomson Reuters, according to this year's Inside Market Data Reference report.
RTS Adds Ukrainian Data, Eyes Exchange Data Partners
The Moscow-based RTS Stock Exchange began distributing real-time market data from the Ukrainian Exchange last Wednesday, May 20, officials tell Inside Market Data.
Banks: Data Usage Reviews Key to Costs
As firms face increasing pressures to control overall costs and spend on market data, closer evaluation of data requirements versus actual usage has become a priority, according to a panel of end-user firms at last week's North American Financial…
Content Demand Rises as Downturn Changes Trading
User firms are demanding more content from data providers-both in terms of scope and granularity-and better data quality, as they strive to improve their decision-making capabilities, according to one panel discussion last week.
Exchanges Must Standardize, Ease Hidden Burdens
As cost pressures continue to rise, exchanges should do more to adopt standards that make it easier for end-user firms to connect to and consume their data, if not move towards making commoditized data more freely available, said members of an exchange…
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…