Data Management
MDSL Shuffles Execs
UK-based market data cost management software vendor MDSL has realigned its senior staff to take over the duties of David Toomey-Wilson, president of its US operations, who left MDSL last week.
YouDevise Improves TIM Analysis
YouDevise, a provider of technology for distributing trade ideas between dealers and buy-side clients, has added new features to its Trade Idea Monitor platform to perform more detailed sentiment analysis and more flexible reporting, officials tell…
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RESEARCH ROUNDUP
The More Things Change...
STREAMING QUOTES
Future Holds Many Uncertainties
OPEN PLATFORM
Accessing the Russian Markets
SPECIAL REPORT
On Messaging
Waters Survey
Solving Data Congestion
CITY#GRID ROUNDTABLE
Is KYP the New KYC?
The ever-increasing focus on risk and compliance has resulted in a growing need to combine KYP and KYC processes, linking client and instrument data. Tine Thoresen reports
Valuations remain top priority for the buy side
Financial research firm Standard & Poor's (S&P) has unveiled a new service to help investors accurately value structured assets and complex securities.
Thomson Reuters expands news analytics
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a machine-readable news offering allowing clients to incorporate news into their trading and risk management strategies. The product, NewsScope Event Indices (NEI), is targeted at hedge funds and investment banks pursuing…
New battle lines
If there's one thing I've learned about stock exchanges, it's that they love numbers. Usually record-breaking numbers. No matter how negative or doom-laden a set of financial results may be, exchanges nearly always manage to spin them so that somewhere,…
There will be risk
Energy and commodities markets provided no safe haven for buy-side firms last year. Abysmal performances combined with higher margins and mounting investor redemptions could be chalked up to the fact that 2008 punished the financial industry…
Month in Numbers
"That's happened pre- and post-Amaranth, and it's been big hedge fund shops posting losses as well as small ones. Have they learned from Amaranth? Of course not"
GFI Launches Eastern European Data
Interdealer broker GFI will this month launch a new data product that will provide foreign exchange rates and money market data from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, officials say.
PhaseCap Rolls Out StreamBase CEP
Boston-based PhaseCapital, a new quantitative investment firm that will launch next month, has rolled out technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems for managing market and trade data within the firm's proprietary…