Emerging Technologies
Calypso Opens Dubai Office
Technology vendor Calypso has announced that it will open a new presence in Dubai, responding to enhanced client growth in the Emirati city-state.
Pico, SpryWare Ally on Latency Offerings
Chicago-based ticker plant and feed handler provider SpryWare has struck a deal with New York-based agency broker and infrastructure provider Pico Trading to offer Pico’s clients access to the vendor’s feed handlers, and in return gain access to Pico’s…
Deep in the Heart of Chicago
Anthony previews some of the stories he'll be writing following his visit to Chicago.
Tradeweb Takes Control of BondDesk
Tradeweb Markets has agreed to acquire bond trading platform provider BondDesk to extend its business interests into the fixed-income industry.
Interactive Data Names Daffron New CEO
Interactive Data has appointed Stephen C. Daffron president and chief executive effective Sept. 20, replacing Mason Slaine, who has held the position for three years.
Former Morgan Stanley Exec Appointed Interactive Data CEO
Stephen Daffron will replace Mason Slaine as president and chief executive of the data vendor on September 20
DST Hires New Exec for North America
Boston-based DST Global Solutions has named Robert Leaper head of business development for North America, to expand its client base in the region.
Panel: Latency Monitoring More Important than Low Latency
Whereas 10 years ago, low latency was the preserve of a select few firms whose sole focus was chasing zero, the commoditization and ubiquity of low-latency technologies has made raw speed more of a necessity to keep pace with the rest of the market, and…
IMD Chicago: Firms Outsource Infrastructure to Address Data Storage, Regulation
End-user firms are increasingly turning to outsourcing to deal with the storage challenges associated with big datasets caused by rising data volumes and the ongoing raft of new regulatory initiatives requiring more intensive data collection, according…
Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
SimCorp Study Notes Legacy Systems' Stubbornness, R&D Disparities
The research note from Ingo Walter, an NYU Stern Professor, surveyed 500 buy sides - finding that around a quarter of the world's top investment managers are still operating on legacy systems, despite their inherent challenges.
IMD Chicago: Exchange Data Fees, Policies Hindering New Entrants
The high cost of exchange market data─combined with unscheduled fee increases and a proliferation of new fees for previously free-of-charge data─continues to burden consumers, and is preventing newer firms from entering the market, according to a panel…
Panel: Firms Must Master "Dark Art" of Data Analytics to Gain Competitive Advantage
The faster a trading firm can analyze datasets that are growing in both size and complexity to extract meaningful "data about the data," the greater competitive advantage they will have, said participants on a panel discussing how analytics can be…
First Derivatives Picks Pruett for US Growth
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data management technology vendor First Derivatives has appointed former SIX Financial Information executive Jonathan Pruett head of strategic business development for the Americas, responsible for expanding the vendor's…
Tradition Taps Bloomberg Price Fixings for Volatis Trading Platform
Interdealer broker Tradition is to use daily price fixing observations from Bloomberg's independent valuation services for derivatives and structured notes, to provide prices that more accurately reflect realized volatility to Volatis, the broker's newly…
Hao Sun on the Need for Change of Place, Time, Thought and Future
Hao Sun, COO of proprietary trading from Ketchum Trading, who delivered the keynote address at this year's Inside Market Data Chicago event, says that firms must change their perceptions of place, time, thought, and future to gain long-term alpha in…
Top Sales Role at Misys for Brienzi
Misys, the Paris-headquartered provider of capital markets technology and services, has appointed Frank Brienzi as its new president and chief sales officer.
Financial Industry Faces Up to Cybersecurity Challenges
While the internet has revolutionized nearly every aspect of the financial markets, it carries with it an implicit level of risk that has only recently started to be properly examined by institutional trading firms. But when it comes to cybersecurity,…
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
ML Bond Index Adds Fitch Ratings
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added credit ratings content from Fitch Ratings to its ML Bond Market index, as an additional factor in the assessment of investment-grade and speculative-grade bonds.
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
CQG Adds FastMarkets Metals Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG has added London-based FastMarkets' Premium Metals News to the metals market data and trading capabilities already available in CQG's platform.