Data Management
Economy Weighs Heavy on Data Spend in '08
This year's troubled economic climate has forced firms to delay investments in market data in some areas, and find ways to do more with the same resources, as many firms face uncertainty following the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the…
Exchanges, Users Face Off Over Data Fees
Exchanges faced increasing push-back from their subscribers over market data fees in 2008 as new charges and price hikes met hostility from user firms battling to reduce their data budgets.
User Deployments Center on Cost Control
Budget restraints played a major role in the decision-making process behind deployment of products and services at user firms during 2008, with many looking to vendors to provide cost-saving solutions to replace in-house systems and processes.
Data Industry Increases Focus on China
Exchanges, index providers and data vendors continued to make inroads into China during 2008, as the mainland became a subject of increased focus for data providers.
Athens Exchange Weathers Riots, Strike
ATHENS-The civil unrest triggered by shooting of a 15-year-old boy and a general strike in the Greek capital put the Athens Exchange on alert; however, the events did not impede exchange operations, say exchange officials.
Exchanges Betting On New Business Models
Over the past few years the industry has seen an energetic rebirth of alternative trading systems (ATSes) that has put new pricing, performance and innovation pressures on the staid exchange community. In response, exchanges are exploring numerous new…
CME Readies RLC-FAST Feed Cutover
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is preparing to discontinue its legacy RLC data format within the next two weeks and consolidate data distribution on the bandwidth-reducing FIX FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) format that it first rolled out in…
Micex Beta Tests FIX FAST Datafeed
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) last week began testing a new datafeed based on the FIX protocol and FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) compression algorithms, officials tell Inside Market Data .
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
The appearance of Santa Claus outside the New York Stock Exchange last week alongside NYSE chief executive Duncan Niederauer for NYSE's annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony was no coincidence. Christmas certainly came early last week for NYSE, in the…
Interactive Data Adds Pure Trading to PlusFeed
Interactive Data has added real-time data from Canadian alternative trading system Pure Trading to its PlusFeed low-latency datafeed, in a move designed to continue the vendor's ongoing expansion in coverage, and to bring increased transparency to firms…
NYSE Secures SEC Go-ahead for Arca Fees
The New York Stock Exchange is to begin charging fees for its ArcaBook market depth feed from January, after receiving final approval to charge for the data from the Securities and Exchange Commission last week.
Crunch Time for Data Management
The age-old challenge of managing market data becomes even harder in an increasingly hostile and complex environment. Ron Troy, former associate director of market data at WestLB in New York, sets out the key issues, and offers some suggestions for…
LSE Reshuffles Italian Info Services
The Borsa Italiana division of the London Stock Exchange Group has reorganized the business development arm of its information services business, resulting in new responsibilities for Milan-based product management staff.
Market Crisis Pushes IT Agility
LONDON-The economic downturn is forcing firms to reassess their IT strategies in order to keep ahead of the competition in the coming year, according to industry participants.
BlueCrest Builds on CEP Data Platform
London-based hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management is expanding the range of data sources and analytics that it makes available to its traders over a market data platform created using technologies from complex event processing software vendor…
'08 Data Spend Flat, Driven by Asia, EMEA
Firms worldwide will spend $23 billion on financial data in 2008-the same as in 2007-with a drop in outlay in the Americas but an increase in EMEA and Asia, according to research released by Burton-Taylor International Consulting.
Building a Better Brazilian Exchange
Nearly nine months into the integration, officials from Brazilian exchanges Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) and Bovespa are focusing on eliminating redundancies while maintaining technology upgrades. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets…
