Emerging Technologies
FTEN Preps Europe Partners
New York-based market data, trading and risk technology vendor FTEN is enlisting partners to provide European data and connectivity, having already bolstered its European offering with connections to exchanges and trading venues in the region.
DoJ Probes CDS Data Business
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has begun an investigation to identify anti-competitive forces in the credit derivatives data business.
ClearSight Rethinks Cronos Latency Product
Fremont, Calif.-based network monitoring provider ClearSight Networks has suspended development of version 2.0 of its Cronos execution latency monitoring product as a result of the current economic downturn, officials say.
Statpro Targets Euro Data Market
UK-based buy-side technology and data vendor Statpro plans to expand its end-of-day and intraday pricing business in Europe and broaden its coverage of index data to support its performance attribution analytics.
AOL Pulls Plug on Relegence Business
Internet service provider AOL is closing the Relegence news analytics business that it acquired in 2006 ( IMD , Nov. 13, 2006). Commercial operations in New York and London will be closed on July 15, though AOL will continue to support the Relegence…
S&P on Bloomberg Raises User Concerns
Plans by Standard & Poor's and Bloomberg to make S&P index component weightings available as a premium subscription dataset via Bloomberg have irked some end-user firms, who are complaining about a lack of communication and price transparency.
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Survey: Piracy Costs Data Industry $8bn
The financial information and analysis industry is losing an estimated $8 billion of subscription revenue each year as a result of subscribers sharing login information and content "scraping," according to a survey conducted by Burton-Taylor…
TS-Associates, SR Labs Enlist West Highland for Sales, Support
New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland Support Services will this week announce deals to sell and support TS-Associates' TipOff latency monitoring tool, and to provide support for SR Labs' low-latency data platforms.