Data Management
Acquire Grows Web Data Tools
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is expanding the custom service it provides for incorporating information culled from Web sites and blogs based on lists of preferred Web-based information sources provided by clients.
Dow Jones Adds Ratings to Algo News
Dow Jones is enhancing its Elementized News Feed to incorporate ratings changes from Standard & Poor's in a standardized data format that allows the information to be easily integrated into algorithmic and black-box trading strategies, officials tell…
Panel: Budgets Steer '09 Strategies
Cost issues will be the primary drivers in 2009 for firms to seek greater value from data vendors and decide potential changes to their market data infrastructures, including switching data providers or tapping new technologies, panelists said at a…
Start with the Gateway
The benefit of offering cross-asset trading is obvious to any broker-dealer: It simplifies the trading life of institutional clients by giving them a single point of contact with their brokers. However, delivering this capability, especially…
Trading Technologies Releases X_Trader 7.6
LONDON—Derivatives trading system provider Trading Technologies International (TT) plans to release version 7.6 of its trading platform X_Trader this week.
BofA Bows Sybase RAP for Risk Data
Bank of America Securities has begun a project to consolidate data from across different business lines to produce more accurate, real-time risk and pricing metrics, using Sybase's RAP (Risk Analytics Platform) Trading Edition.
NYSE Preps Non-CTA Trade Data Feeds
The New York Stock Exchange will this week begin a pilot test phase of two new feeds of trade data from its main NYSE and NYSE Arca markets, separate from the Consolidated Tape Association feed, to meet the latency needs of high-frequency trading firms,…
Get on Your Bike and Buy a House... or Two
They say an Englishman's home is his castle. They also say that home is where the heart is. But over the past year, we've seen an awful lot of hearts broken and castles under seige-all for that symbol of success and security, a home of one's own.
FTSE Readies Italian Indexes
FTSE Group, the index provider venture of the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange, has secured a deal to calculate and distribute Italian equity benchmark indexes on behalf of LSE-owned Borsa Italiana.
HKEx Seeks Web Partners for Free Data Campaign
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will begin providing real-time, basic market data free of charge over select Web sites in Hong Kong and mainland China in the second half of 2009, to raise the profile of the exchange and its data offerings among Chinese…
Fitch Boosts Financial Fundamentals Data
Fitch Solutions, the non-ratings data and technology delivery arm of ratings agency Fitch, has increased its fundamental data coverage of both public and privately held global financial institutions, to provide more timely information to help firms…
Integrity Preps New Client Portal
New York-based alternative research provider Integrity Research will later this month unveil a new client portal for accessing information on specialist research providers directly from its database.
Euronext Preps UTP Feed for Europe
NYSE Euronext last week rolled out a pre-production version of its new UTP datafeed, which will over the course of 2009 replace its current Euronext Multicast Feed (EMF) as the primary delivery mechanism for data from the exchange's European cash markets.
Will the Changes of 2008 Drive Innovation in 2009?
Welcome to 2009, which will be the Chinese year of the ox. Last year, of course, will be remembered as the year of the MTF.
Audit Integrity Puts Ratings in Excel
Los Angeles-based corporate integrity ratings provider Audit Integrity last week released a soft launch of RiskLink, an Excel add-on that lets users view the vendor's data directly in spreadsheets, and incorporate the ratings into investment analyses.
Knight Enlists Quant House in Europe
Knight Capital has begun using low-latency data and connectivity to European markets from French data and trading technology vendor Quant House, to support its London operations, officials tell Inside Market Data .
ISE, Xasax Partner for Member Data
The International Securities Exchange is preparing to offer low-latency access to data from other equity and options exchanges for members that co-locate trading servers within its datacenter, by allowing connectivity provider Xasax to set up access to…
Guest Editorial, The Case for a European Consolidated Tape in 2009
As we enter the New Year, Hirander Misra, chief operating officer of Chi-X Europe, looks ahead to the potential for a consolidated tape of data for the European markets
Celent: Asian Exchanges Lag on Data
Although demand for market data in Asia continues to grow, especially with increased electronification of trading in equity and index options, exchanges in the region will focus less on generating revenues from data sales in 2009 than exchanges in Europe…