Emerging Technologies
Raising the Ref Data Flag
Reference data is increasingly gaining the attention of professionals far from the back office. BNP Paribas' Andre Kelekis speaks to Carla Mangado about the ever-increasing need to raise awareness of reference data, the importance of collaboration, and…
Priory Taps Muzinic for Financial Play
London-based Priory Solutions, a provider of software for monitoring electronic information content usage by legal firms, is bringing its Research Monitor products to the financial services industry, to monitor usage of non-real-time research and…
Acquire Eyes Relegence Users with Cohen
In the wake of AOL closing its Relegence news aggregator business, Roseland, NJ-based news provider Acquire Media has begun a hiring campaign to bolster its team and potentially offer a migration path to former Relegence customers.
FTEN Gets Flying Start in Europe
LONDON-New York-based direct market access (DMA) and trading technology provider FTEN has bolstered its European product offering as it looks to grow its local presence following the appointment of Valerie Bannert-Thurner from Skyler Technology to head…
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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