Emerging Technologies
ISE Price Glitch Sparks Opra BBO Error
A technical problem with a software update at the International Securities Exchange caused problems with the best bid and offer data calculated and distributed as part of the Options Price Reporting Authority's consolidated feed of US options quote and…
Charity Begins On the Trading Floor
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Counterparty Time
Counterparty data projects are appearing across the industry. Market veteran David Goldberg talks to Carla Mangado about this newly emerging career path
FactSet Rebrands Thomson Fundamentals
FactSet Research Systems has launched FactSet Fundamentals, a historical financial information database of income statements, balance sheets, cash flows and related underlying data from the footnotes of financial statements for more than 43,000 companies…
Thomson Reuters to Consolidate Networks
Thomson Reuters is planning to merge its five combined data delivery networks over the next five years, to produce a single data infrastructure based on the Reuters Integrated Data Network (IDN), officials tell Inside Market Data .
Associations Challenge SEC's Arca Data Fee Approval
Industry groups have expressed opposition to a proposal last month by the Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the introduction of market data fees by NYSE Arca, rejecting the SEC's argument that the fees are reasonable because the exchange…
Thomson Reuters Unveils Product Plans
Thomson Reuters will standardize on two desktop platforms-Thomson One and a new Thomson Reuters platform-but will no longer pursue new sales for its Thomson datafeeds and Thomson Financial News, and will migrate existing clients to services from the…
FISD Certification Plans Gain Industry Support
Data industry professionals have backed plans by industry association FISD to introduce a certification program for market and reference data job functions and skills, though some respondents have raised questions about the proposed certification…
Opra Predicts Slower Traffic Growth
The Options Price Reporting Authority has revised its traffic projections for January 2009 downwards, reflecting the success of quote mitigation strategies implemented by the US options exchanges to counteract the anticipated data volume increases…
Bloomberg Reorgs; Fenwick Gets New Gig
Bloomberg officials last week unveiled a new operating structure that divides the vendor into three business areas, and confirmed the creation of a new business, Bloomberg Ventures, to be headed by current Bloomberg CEO Lex Fenwick.
GFI Data Revamp Drives 'Off-Desktop' Sales
Interdealer broker GFI has reorganized its market data business by introducing a new commercial model for accessing its content, and by implementing a formal product release schedule so that new datasets will now be incorporated at regular quarterly…