Data Management
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.
Wiener Börse to Collect and Publish MiFID OTC Data
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse has launched a new trade publication service to help its members comply with the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.
Nasdaq Preps Options Data Products
Nasdaq has released the specifications for two forthcoming proprietary options data products that will accompany the launch of its Nasdaq Options Market, in addition to making its options data available via the Options Price Reporting Authority's…
Morningstar Eyes Institutional Users with Activ Options Data
Chicago-based research provider Morningstar is considering ways to leverage the options data and research it began providing to retail investors via its Web site last week as the basis for tradable products targeted at institutional investors.
ISE Depth Feed Advances
The International Securities Exchange is getting closer to rolling out a feed that will provide market depth data and utilize the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol to compress bandwidth requirements.
Analyst: U.S. Market Consolidation Inevitable
BOSTON—In the next two years, the U.S. equities market, which currently consists of 35 potential venues, is poised for a major consolidation, according to a recently published white paper from industry research firm Aite Group.
TheMarkets, InfoNgen Prep Search Tool
Bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is incorporating Instant Information's InfoNgen filtering tool to allow clients to perform customized searches of broker research and Internet content, officials tell Inside Market Data .
BayernLB Upgrades VWD Terminals
Germany's Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) is upgrading around 400 traders and staff in its private and retail banking departments to new data terminals from Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD, replacing the vendor's Realtime Concept 3 terminals, which it…
So Passes the Old Order
A part of history ended last week as the Boston Stock Exchange, the third oldest exchange in the U.S. behind the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), closed its doors for equities trading after being in business for…
106 Shopping Days 'Til Christmas
The arrival of the latest Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue in my mailbox last week reminds me that Christmas is barely three-and-a-half months away, and that there must be someone who wants an animatronic singing Elvis, a DVD projector in the shape of R2D2,…
Tenfore Continues Asian Expansion
UK-based data vendor Tenfore will this month go live with a number of new feeds from exchanges in Asia, and also plans to open an office in Hong Kong at the beginning of next year to provide local sales and support.
Thai Bourse, FTSE to Develop New Index Series
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is working with index provider FTSE to develop a new series of equity indexes for the Thai stock market that will make it easier to launch new exchange-traded products and will bring SET's indexes closer to…
Boston Stock Exchange Shutters BeX
BOSTON—In existence for less than two years, the electronic Boston Equities Exchange (BeX) is closing, officials from BeX operator the Boston Stock Exchange (BSE) announced last week.
Middle East Broker Integrates Aspen
Indemaj, a Jordanian broker trading on the local Amman Stock Exchange, is working with Colorado-based charting and analytics vendor Aspen Graphics to deploy the vendor's charting software, utilizing new market data from Middle East exchanges.
New ICE Feed Makes Early Impact
The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) will this month roll out ahead of schedule a new consolidated market data feed that includes data from both its US and European markets.
The Heat is On
If you managed to get away during the summer—whether you needed a parasol in Panama or a brolly in Blighty—we hope IMD 's readers had a good break. Because with market data issues showing no sign of any summer lull, you're going to need it.