Data Management
HKEx Enlists BT for Remote Trading
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is in discussions with network provider BT Global Financial Services to provide market data distribution and possibly trade connectivity via the vendor's RadianzNet financial services network, in anticipation of…
The Case For Scrutinizing the Scrutinizers
No doubt there were more than a few wry grins-or even cries of jubilation-in the financial markets when New York governor Eliot "Ness" Spitzer resigned last week after being caught spending a fortune on high-priced call girls. The former scourge of Wall…
Nasdaq Readies Sentiment Tool
Nasdaq OMX is beta-testing a tool for measuring market sentiment, dubbed Nasdaq Market Pathfinders, which tracks the number of "pathfinders" buying and selling volumes of a specific stock, pending Securities and Exchange Commission approval to formally…
Turquoise Selects NeoNet for "Internal" Data
Bank-backed multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise last week signed a deal with Swedish agency broker, data and technology vendor NeoNet to provide the pan-European equity market data that will drive Turquoise's trading platform.
SWX Preps Non-Display Data Fees
Exfeed, the market data subsidiary of the SWX Swiss Exchange, plans to roll out a new data licensing policy on July 1 that will introduce charges for use of the exchange's real-time data in non-display applications.
Bloomberg SID Move Raises Admin Concerns
Bloomberg clients may face increased administration when consolidating usage and invoice information for market data inventory management, following the vendor's apparent decision to stop granting new requests to customers wishing to access enterprise…
LSE Issues New Borsa Feed Specs
The merged London Stock Exchange-Borsa Italiana has announced revised specifications for Borsa Italiana's MDF/DDM+ datafeed, which will distribute Italian equity market data from the LSE's TradElect electronic trading platform once the Italian exchange…
Swimming With Sharks and Whales
The upcoming movie 21 tells the true story of a group of MIT students who set out to beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack, using sophisticated card-counting techniques to determine whether a table was "hot" and to gauge the likelihood of winning…
HKEx Lifts Suspension Rule for Announcements
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will this week eliminate the requirement for listed companies to suspend trading in shares when releasing data or announcements that might impact a company's share price, bringing HKEx more in line with other exchanges.
Reuters Lines up DACS Partners
Three trading technology vendors-BNY Convergex subsidiary Eze Castle Software, Charles River Development, and SunGard subsidiary Front Arena-are integrating their software with the OpenDACS API to Reuters' Data Access Control System to help client firms…
BlueSys Expands Emerging Markets Data
Blue Systems, a London-based vendor of trading and data display technologies, is bolstering its coverage of emerging markets price data with end-of-day prices from 55 exchanges globally, sourced from Chicago-based data vendor World'Vest Base.
BNP Private Bank Deploys Traderforce
BNP Paribas has deployed a market data platform from Paris-based data and trading technology vendor Traderforce to support its private banking operations in the US and the Middle East.
Citi Readies FX-Specific Front End
The bank's new graphical user interface (GUI) will run in parallel with Citi Treasury Interactive and includes stack pricing, decimal pricing and algorithmic execution capabilities.
FISD Surveys Exchanges on 'Internal' Data
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures Standards working group of data industry association the FISD sent a survey to 41 exchanges last Wednesday, requesting they clarify their policies for "internal" data usage by data vendors and consumer firms,…
MSCI Bows Asia Hedge Fund Index
Index provider MSCI Barra will this month launch an investable index to capture the composition of the hedge fund universe in the Asia-Pacific region, in partnership with Paris-based Natixis Alternative Investments.
Thomson One Adds IE Telecom Reports
Thomson Financial has added telecom company and industry research reports from Vancouver, BC-based IE Market Research to its Thomson One Investment Banker product, on a pay-per-view basis via its Thomson Research Select platform.
Nasdaq Launches Replay Tool
Nasdaq last week launched a data analysis tool that enables trading firms to download and replay market data to analyze price movements around market events.
Tullett Preps LatAm Data
Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, is preparing to launch a data product in the second quarter of this year that will provide information on the Latin American capital markets for both local and US firms…