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High Expectations
While the market has seen rapidly growing demand for independent valuations in the past year, third-party vendors have focused on expanding offerings and helping clients meet new requirements. The vendors providing these services have become vital for…
The Governance Plot
Only the combined efforts of IT and business can lead to true data governance, says Cadis Software's Stuart Plane
Risky Payments
Decreasing risk is still a top priority in the payments reference data market, but industry complexities and slow development in the standards field are still barriers to overcome. Carla Mangado explores how the adoption of a business entity identifier…
Hedge funds managing in tougher operational environment
Despite ongoing turbulence in the global financial markets, some sectors of the hedge fund industry are not only surviving but adapting to successfully achieve their investment mandates. A new Celent report does not discount the casualties among hedge…
GTA Rolls Out Pan-Asia Data Desktop
Shenzhen-based market data vendor GTA Data last week launched a new data desktop display providing real-time equity and index market data, focused on the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea markets.
TMX Melds TSX, Montreal Data Teams
TMX, the Canadian exchange group formed by the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges on May 1, has appointed a number of staff to new roles following the merger of the two exchanges' market data groups.
Nasdaq Preps New PHLX Data Products
Nasdaq OMX is planning to develop a range of new data products for release early next year that will provide options market data from newly acquired subsidiary the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, officials announced last week.
The Building BRICs of a Global Data Strategy
Sometimes as I sit writing this column late at night, I enjoy-or rather, endure-a swig or two of guarana soda from Brazil to stave off exhaustion and give me a little boost in the wee hours. And high-caffeine soda isn't the only Brazilian import that the…
Micex Considers Domestic Data Fees
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) is considering a change to its market data policy that would introduce new charges for domestic consumers of the exchange's real-time data, officials say.
Interactive Data Adds Emerging Markets
Interactive Data is broadening the coverage of its PlusFeed consolidated datafeed with data from exchanges in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, as well as data from new trading venues in developed markets.
EPFR Expands Middle East, Africa Funds Data
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has recently expanded its coverage of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to enable users to more accurately monitor flows of money into and out of the region.
Nasdaq Adds Indexes, Rethinks Replay
Nasdaq OMX is releasing a slew of new indexes that combine components of indexes from OMX and Nasdaq, and has revised the licensing terms for Market Replay, its tool for downloading and replaying market data to analyze price movements, making the product…
Carrel: Valuation's Risky Business
The ongoing credit crunch is driving firms to re-examine the quality of data behind their valuation models, and pay greater attention to valuation risk, says Philippe Carrel, global head of business development at Thomson Reuters
When Blog Mining Goes Bust
After offering a real-time platform to monitor blogs and message boards for market-moving data, software startup Monitor110 shut down in mid-July.
Turquoise Preps Soft Launch; Vendors Ready to Go
Bank consortium-backed European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) Turquoise will launch trading on a select group of UK and German stocks on Friday Aug. 15, with a number of vendors already prepared to carry market data from the venue at launch,…
TFX Eyes Remote Traders with GL, Co-Lo
The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX), the former Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange, will this week announce a partnership with French data and trading technology provider GL Trade to promote remote memberships for firms based outside Japan,…
Bonds.com Preps Structured Products
Online trading platform Bonds.com will add terms and conditions data for structured products to its BondStation trading platform when it begins listing structured products later this month, officials say.