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Editor’s letter - The perfect storm
Things are pretty hectic at the moment. A barrel of oil is now officially 30% more expensive than it was six months ago, and although fuel prices haven't rocketed quite at the same rate, I'm enough of a realist to understand that energy firms are not…
Moths to a flame
$125, $130, $135... the rise in oil prices shows few signs of abating, and yet the current liquidity and volatility in the energy markets - specifically oil and natural gas - are attractive to any fund or investor wanting to make money. But in the wake…
Kempen Deploys CMA for CDS Pricing
Kempen Capital Management, the buy-side subsidiary of Dutch merchant bank Kempen & Co., is sourcing credit derivatives pricing data from UK-based vendor Credit Market Analysis to support daily valuations for its credit derivative funds, officials tell…
FINRA Pursues TRACE Data Expansion
The Financial Industry Regulation Authority is pressing ahead with plans to expand the data disseminated via its TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) corporate bond trade reporting facility, despite some concerns that increased data transparency…
Opening Doors
We hear a lot about trading firms trying to obtain data from emerging markets because they believe they can achieve higher returns from higher-risk, less established markets. But one problem with this is that few markets still regard themselves as …
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…