Data Management
Economic Woes Drive Sourcing Decisions
While Nordic data managers may have escaped some of the strictest data cost pressures facing other firms, as a result of the region's lower exposure to the US sub-prime meltdown, the ongoing global financial crisis is still forcing banks to take strict…
CMA Splits Out Sovereign CDS Data
CME Group subsidiary Credit Market Analysis has developed DataVision Sovereign, a standalone product of data on credit default swap contracts on sovereign issuers, to meet increased client demand for this data.
Content Quality Remains Key Concern
The quality of data continues to be a major concern for market data users, who are looking for more industry standardization to help define clearer quality benchmarks, as well as simpler and more accommodating licensing policies in light of restrained…
Switching Into High Gear
As liquidity continues to fragment and algorithmic trading grows, crossing networks that once experienced relatively low messaging volumes now boast performance on par with the major exchanges. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with C. Thomas Richardson,…
Nasdaq Launches ‘Basic' Level 1 Data
Nasdaq OMX will this week launch Nasdaq Basic, a new data product comprising the exchange's top-of-book and last sale data, to provide customers with a lower-cost alternative to Nasdaq Level 1 data provided as part of the Consolidated Tape Association's…
SocGen Aims DART at Bloomberg Spend
Société Générale has expanded a contract with NYSE Technologies to use a service based around the Data Access Reporting Tool (DART) usage monitoring system to cover its Bloomberg terminals and help manage data spend by providing monthly reports on data…
Index Oasis Integrates Xignite Index Data
Index Oasis, a Chicago-based start-up provider of software for index and investment analysis, has rolled out index data in its client platform using a new Web service from on-demand data provider Xignite.
Exchange "Dinosaurs" Bite Back
Anyone who thought in recent years that exchanges might soon become a thing of the past in the face of start-up, bank-backed trading venues should check out the various exchange initiatives detailed in this week's Inside Market Data . Far from going the…
Breakingviews to Widen Distribution
Financial commentary and news analysis provider Breakingviews.com plans to broaden the distribution of its content, including expanding its coverage and commercial relationships in Asia, in a bid to establish itself as a global content provider.
NYSE Standardizes Unit of Count
NYSE Euronext has changed the unit of count by which vendors count and charge for market data from the exchange, to recognize "subscribers"-to include individual traders or applications-rather than "devices."
Roberts Group Boosts FITS Automation
Market data inventory and management service provider The Roberts Group has released a new version of its Financial Information Tracking System, which incorporates additional features to help users speed up and automate processes.
NSX Eyes Direct Feeds in Latency Drive
The National Stock Exchange is setting up direct connections to other US equity exchanges to cut data latency by capturing quote and trade data from direct feeds rather than from the Securities Information Processors that support the consolidated…
SIX Signs Vendors for Low-Latency Feed
The SIX Swiss Exchange is conducting conformance testing with a number of data vendors to carry data from its recently launched, low-latency Market Data Interface feed.
LSE Readies FAST Feed for Borsa Data
The London Stock Exchange is to launch a new feed of Italian market data from subsidiary Borsa Italiana that will utilize the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming) Protocol for data compression, as part of version 5.0 of its TradElect trading engine, which…
Fixnetix Bows Arca Europe
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix last week launched low-latency data and order-routing connectivity to NYSE Euronext's new multilateral trading facility NYSE Arca Europe.
Harris Compiles Asia Financial Directory
Keiren Harris, chief executive of Hong Kong-based data consultancy Information Concepts, has launched Open-Asia.info, a Web-based resource of financial industry organizations in the Asia Pacific region, including trading firms and investment managers,…
What's in Store for Algorithmic Trading?
In the midst of the current wild market swings, many on Wall Street wouldn't be surprised to see institutional investors start favoring the return to high-touch executions over routing institutional orders through algorithmic trading platforms. However,…
CME Doubles Futures Market Depth
CME Group will over the coming month increase the amount of market depth data available for its exchange-traded futures products from five to 10 levels of depth, in response to demand from customers.
Turquoise to Pick Second Data Vendor
Bank consortium-owned multilateral trading facility Turquoise is close to selecting a second data vendor to support functions of its trading platform that rely on market data from other exchanges and rival MTFs, officials tell Inside Market Data .
NYSE Arca Europe Readies Launch; Preps London Move
NYSE Euronext will begin disseminating real-time quote and trade data on European securities free of charge from this Monday, March 9, when the exchange group launches its pan-European multilateral trading facility, NYSE Arca Europe.