Data Management
Energy Firm GasTerra Squeezes Data Spend
Dutch energy trading firm GasTerra has initiated a project to review its market data consumption and spend in order to help ensure compliance with usage policies, rationalize costs and better prepare for future contract negotiations.
NYSE Readies New Data Fee Structure
NYSE Euronext is planning to introduce a new billing scheme for market data, designed to make access to its data products more affordable for firms subscribing to the exchange's datafeed products, and clearly differentiate between end-user firms and…
There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
... But is there such a thing as free market data? For retail investors, yes, as a result of recent initiatives to bring real-time data to the masses by exchanges including Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, which both recently launched freely…
Proquote Adds Martin Data for Treasury App
The London Stock Exchange's data terminal vendor Proquote has launched a new product targeted at the UK treasury market, dubbed Proquote Treasury, which incorporates specialist content sourced via a recently formed relationship with UK-based Martin…
TheMarkets Expands Direct Broker Feeds
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com has begun an initiative to expand the number of independent research providers and brokers providing direct feeds of research data to its portal, as an alternative to third-party research…
What Commuters Can Learn From Market Data
Regular IMD readers will know how I like to use analogies to illustrate issues relating to market data. So, with many of our US colleagues heading off for long weekends away to celebrate the July 4 holiday, I'd like to share some musings that occurred to…
Eurex to Quadruple Quote Capacity
German derivatives exchange Eurex is upgrading its data distribution system to handle a three-fold increase in quote volumes between now and the end of 2009, from around 450 million quotes per day today to between 1.5 and 1.6 billion quotes per day once…
Editor's letter - Please tell me when it's all over
Switching on the TV in the evening has become more than a little scary. Last night on CNBC a Wall Street analyst succinctly illustrated the escalating energy predicament facing the West:
GoldenSource unveils EDM version 8
GoldenSource has launched version 8 of the GoldenSource EDM (enterprise data management) platform. Enhancements include a set of pre-configured connections to content providers, and three data quality improvements providing:
Don't sell your alpha, capture it
Selling plays a fundamental role in every fund management operation, although, as Michael Ervolini explains, analysing how fund managers actually arrive at their sell decisions reveals that this process is anything but conscious and disciplined
Reuters Plus to Get the Axe?
Data Systems
Calyon Debuts IRD Channel
Derivatives
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