Data Management
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…
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…