Data Management
Wiener Börse Adds Bosnian Data
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse is incorporating new data from the Sarajevo and Banja Luka stock exchanges in the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina onto its feed distribution architecture, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Liquidity Management No Longer an Option
After the onset of the credit liquidity crunch beginning in August 2007, the importance of being able to locate and exploit liquidity has never been greater to the buy- and sell-side communities, according to industry representatives who spoke during the…
Nasdaq OMX Outlines EU MTF Plans
Nasdaq OMX is set to reveal the vendor selected to provide low-latency data to support smart order-routing on its Pan European MTF, and will next month launch a hosting facility for customers to minimize latency by locating their trading systems adjacent…
Lack of Data Hampers SAFE-DJ Index
An initiative by the South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE) to launch an index of stocks listed across its 13 member exchanges in collaboration with Dow Jones is being slowed by a lack of quality data and limited data distribution channels from some…
Micex Readies FIX FAST Datafeed
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (Micex) is developing a new datafeed that utilizes the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) and FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocols, which it aims to roll out in the third quarter of this year, officials…
Wachovia Rolls Out TheMarkets' MeritMark Platform
Wachovia Securities recently rolled out TheMarkets.com's MeritMark Web-based broker vote platform to its clients, to automate the collection and distribution of buy-side feedback on sell-side research personnel and services to the broker-dealer, vendor…
Exploiting the New Realities
It is interesting what pops into your inbox when you edit a publication called Dealing with Technology . Last week, I received a press release from a Danish firm that had put a genetic switch into tobacco to turn the plant red in the presence of chemical…
NYSE Bows Order Imbalance Feed
NYSE Euronext will on July 1 launch NYSE Order Imbalances, a datafeed of order imbalance data provided prior to market open and close, and will make the service available at no additional charge to clients of its OpenBook Ultra and OpenBook Aggregated…
CMA, Julius Finance Ally for Credit Pricing
Credit data provider Credit Market Analysis, which was recently acquired by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, is expanding its coverage of credit derivative index pricing with the addition of interpolated prices from New York-based credit modelling…
South Africa's Nedbank Rolls Out Coral8
Johannesburg-based investment bank Nedbank Capital, a division of Nedbank Ltd., last month deployed software vendor Coral 8's complex event processing engine, to support the bank's migration to new trading systems.
For Better or Worse... Consolidation's a Bitch
Anyone who's moved in with roommates knows the pros and cons of consolidating multiple lives with all their associated "baggage" into a single living space. There are economies to be saved, but also inconveniences to be borne. And rarely does the process…
BOX Targets Wider Audience For Market Depth Feed
The Boston Options Exchange (BOX) is planning an initiative to make its market depth data more easily accessible and easy to analyze by members within trading systems and data display applications, officials say.
Code Red Gives Red Alerts a Facelift
Boston-based software vendor Code Red is beta testing a "soft release" of version 3.3 of its Red Alerts research management software with a group of hedge fund clients, which officials say represents a "significant upgrade" to the system's user interface.
Deutsche Börse Beefs Up CEF for Scoach Data
Deutsche Börse has made changes to its underlying CEF feed architecture to support distribution of data from its Scoach structured products market, which recently migrated from the exchange's Xontro floor trading system to its Xetra trading platform,…
Panel: Bad Data Exacerbated Sub-Prime Debacle
Inaccurate underlying data and limited historical data for US residential and commercial property is partly to blame for multi-billion-dollar losses at global investment banks with exposure to the US residential mortgage sector, according to an industry…
Amerex Plans Data Expansion with e-Trading Migration
Amerex, the energy broking subsidiary of interdealer broker GFI, is considering ways to package the quote and trade data that will be generated by an expansion of contracts traded on GFI's EnergyMatch electronic commodities trading platform, officials…
NYSE Euronext Preps New Feeds
NYSE Euronext is preparing to launch a common feed architecture for data from all its European markets, using technology from recently acquired subsidiary Wombat Financial Software, and is readying a new, low-latency feed of US data, officials tell…
IMD Reference: Bloomberg Leads But Impact of Downturn Yet to Fully Bite
The merger of Thomson and Reuters puts the combined entity neck and neck with Bloomberg in terms of market share and pure data revenue growth, according to figures from the latest edition of Inside Market Data Reference .
Costs, Cuts Dominate User Projects
The fallout from the credit crisis is prompting an increased focus on cost controls at banks and investment managers, according to a panel of end-user firms at last week's North American Financial Information Summit.
Consumers Seek More Granularity
Information and news providers are increasing the granularity of their information in response to end-user demand for more diverse and independent sources of data to provide ever-slimmer trading advantages, and to compare information and identify…
Options Trading Goes Ballistic
As asset managers and hedge funds continue to grow their appetite for listed equities options, a number of new firms are springing up to handle the special needs associated with institutional orders. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with Ballista's CEO Rob…