Data Management
Report From Rhode Island
With its cruises, mansion tours and beachfront clambakes, you might be forgiven for thinking that the FISD's World Financial Information Conference in Newport, Rhode Island last week was just one big market data love-in. However, there was a range of…
ICE Revamps Historical Data Delivery
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange is launching a new Web site that will provide access to historical data for products traded on its ICE Futures Europe market, and will also incorporate historical data on US over-the-counter traded contracts.
SGX Targets International Firms with TNS Direct Feeds
The Singapore Exchange has gone live with a connection to Transaction Network Services' Secure Trading Extranet, to provide trading firms outside Singapore with access to direct feeds of data from SGX's securities and derivatives markets.
BlueMatrix Updates Research Tool
BlueMatrix, a New York-based software provider, last week unveiled a new version of its research report authoring application designed to improve speed and performance, which the vendor will roll out to customers in the fourth quarter of this year.
Demand Rises for Certified Prices
Diversified investment strategies, together with market structure changes, are driving a heightened need for third-party services providing certified prices for instruments such as foreign, illiquid or complex securities and derivatives, industry…
Exchanges Face MiFID Battle
European exchanges will experience increasing competitive pressures as a result of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, with latency and throughput of their technology platforms and the depth of their datasets forming key battlegrounds,…
Exchanges: Audit or Die
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Editor's Letter: Wake me up when the data bit's done
Like it or not, data management is boring. It's tedious, it's uninspiring but it's also undeniably crucial to every financial services organisation regardless of their business focus or location. This much emerged during my recent conversation with Mike…
No finish line
It is fair to say that data management issues reside at the heart of most buy-side operational challenges. Mike Atkin , managing director of the EDM Council, speaks with Victor Anderson about the Council's mission, the organisational and management tasks…
All carrot, no stick
With credit crunches still front and centre in the minds of hedge fund managers nursing their wounds - or pondering how best to pursue arbitrage opportunities amidst the wreckage - familiar but nonetheless pertinent calls for greater transparency and…
Savvis connects hedge funds to major US exchanges
Global IT networking and hosting infrastructure provider Savvis is now providing direct access to five major US exchanges through its Weehawken, NJ-based data centre.
Month in Numbers
'All regulatory concerns fundamentally say exactly the same thing - you need to follow your transactions to ensure that you're not funding Taliban Inc'
No silver bullet for sub-prime valuation challenge
The dust is yet to settle in the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage fiasco and already the analysts are hard at work suggesting techniques and technologies designed to avert such a crisis in the future. But as RiskMetrics' Christopher Finger explains in a…
Boat: No Delayed Data at Launch
Project Boat, the trade reporting utility set up by a consortium of investment banks to take advantage of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive's pre- and post-trade reporting requirements, will not initially offer data subscribers the option of…
Icap Preps Asia Reuters Rollout, Part 2
Interdealer broker Icap is planning the second phase of a Reuters market data systems rollout to its operations in Asia, officials tell IMD . The second phase will focus on back-end development for sharing data between its core data platform and…
Rhode Island Bound
Imagine a situation where key business and technical figures in the market data industry were isolated from their companies and staff, unable to reach their workplace to perform the mission-critical duties that keep the financial world turning. What…
TheMarkets Bolsters Broker Evaluation Application
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is augmenting its MeritMark broker research evaluation tool to give users more granular feedback options, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Hedge Funds Warned of Fair Value Challenges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement (SFAS) 157 has created a rougher playing field for hedge fund managers attempting to derive fair value for securities, according to panelists at a Managed Funds Association seminar in New York last…
Deloitte: Modify Data Apps for Options Symbology Changes
Preparation for conversion to revamped US options instrument identifiers in 2009 must encompass systems across user firms, including applications for market data, trading and data collection, rather than exclusively back-office systems, according to…
Börse Berlin Buy Will Fund Equiduct Feed
German regional exchange Börse Berlin is to buy a majority stake in MiFID-inspired pan-European stock market Equiduct.