Emerging Technologies
Thomson-Reuters Overshadows Consolidation Frenzy
After years of buying up smaller competitors to boost their own assets, Thomson and Reuters finally agreed to pool their resources this year, making 2007 the year of the largest-ever single takeover deal to hit the market data industry.
Kimsey Forecasts Flat UK Data Spend
Spending on market data in the UK is expected to stagnate in 2008, according to an annual survey of UK dealing room technology conducted by Kimsey Consulting.
Markit Makes Confirmation Buy with SwapsWire
LONDON-U.K.-based over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives processor Markit last week announced a deal to acquire SwapsWire, a post-trade services provider for the OTC derivatives market. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is expected to generate synergies with…
Opra Data Outage Prompts Tech Fixes
The Options Price Reporting Authority is rewriting software processes that contributed to a data outage last Monday, Dec. 3, following a "rare" hardware failure at The Securities Industry Automation Corp which processes Opra's feed of US options quote…
Eurex EBS Feed Cuts Latency, Jitter
German derivatives exchange Eurex is rolling out a new feed of derivatives data on Monday Dec. 3, dubbed Enhanced Broadcast Solution (EBS), which aims to reduce latency and also minimize "jitter"-variance in data latency at times of peak message traffic…
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Ipreo Buys NSight to Bolster Bigdough
Ipreo, the data and technology vendor formed last year by the combination of Hemscott, I-Deal and MarketPipe, will this week announce that it has acquired New York-based CRM software vendor NSight Enterprise Software, Inside Market Data has learned.
CEP Vendors Call for Benchmarks
Providers of complex event processing technologies are calling for independent, verifiable performance benchmarks that potential clients can use to compare and select vendors in a crowded marketplace.
FPL Warns of Non-Standard Code as FAST Use Grows
In the wake of more exchanges implementing the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol to reduce the bandwidth required for market data delivery-such as Nordic exchange group OMX, which launched a FAST-enabled datafeed last week-the standard's…