Data Management
Thomson Adds Chi-X Data
Thomson Financial is to distribute real-time market data from Chi-X, the MiFID-inspired European equity market operated by broker Instinet, via its key data products and feeds, as part of a strategy to bolster the data carried by the vendor resulting…
OptionsXpress Integrates Aspen Tools
Online options broker OptionsXpress is integrating components of Aspen Graphics' charting and technical analysis tools into its trading API, to increase the broker's appeal to sophisticated individual futures and options traders, officials tell Inside…
ISE: Data Rises Could Reverse
The International Securities Exchange is predicting falls in market data revenues, despite last week reporting an 8.1 percent rise in data revenues for the second quarter to $4.4 million.
Fair Game
Just in case you missed it, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. last week gained the backing of sufficient members of Dow Jones' controlling Bancroft family to support a takeover of the company—or maybe you read about it in The Wall Street Journal or on your Dow…
ICE to Double OTC Valuations Frequency
The Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) is planning to provide more frequent valuations of long-dated over-the-counter forward swaps, options and exotic derivatives via its Market Price Validation (MPV) product for benchmarking and validation of…
OMX Prepares OTC Reporting Utility
Nordic exchange group and technology provider OMX will next week begin testing a new trade reporting service to help firms take advantage of changes to over-the-counter trade reporting requirements under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive,…
SEC OKs Nasdaq Portal Despite Data Concerns
US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission last week approved the launch of Nasdaq's Portal Market Trading System for Rule-144a securities, despite concerns raised by industry association the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association…
ICE Wins Nymex Data Suit
The New York Mercantile Exchange last week expressed disappointment at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of its long-running lawsuit against the IntercontinentalExchange over use of Nymex price data.
Tocom Raises Data Distribution Frequency
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange has increased the frequency of its market data distribution in response to market forces and client demand, reducing the interval at which it delivers snapshot prices via its member terminals from three seconds to one second.
NYSE Glitch Delays OpenBook
The New York Stock Exchange's OpenBook feed of real-time NYSE limit order book data experienced disruption and delays for more than an hour last Tuesday morning, July 31, as a result of an undisclosed software issue.
Fidessa Readies US Ticker Plant Upgrade
UK-based data and trading software vendor Fidessa is preparing to upgrade its US ticker plant to include enhanced data on US exchanges and new feeds from the Toronto Stock Exchange, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Organizational Alignment: The EDM Keystone
As interest in enterprise data management increases, so too does the importance of alignment. GoldenSource's Fritz McCormick reports
Making the Most of Reference Data
Reference data management has mostly been treated as an operational issue in recent years, but investment managers are increasingly focusing on how reference data can benefit other areas of the business. Julia Schieffer reports
Is China Too Hot to Handle?
ASIA REPORT
Below the Surface
EDITOR'S LETTER
Spanish alternative industry primed for boom
Stewart Eisenhart looks at the recently published Tabb Group report, Cross-asset trading systems: Controlling the trader’s desktop, and finds the broker community under increasing pressure to provide their buy-side clients with more integrated, multi…
Spotlight on Gavin Little-Gill
Stewart Eisenhart speaks with Gavin Little-Gill about his move from the financial services analyst community where he was research director at TowerGroup to Linedata Services where he now heads up front-office product development.