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Exchanges Prepare for Penny Options Pilot Expansion
US options exchanges are bracing for an expansion of the pilot phase of quoting options in penny increments in September, though they do not expect to be overwhelmed by a deluge of new options data.
Vendors Continue Growth Path; Thomson-Reuters on Track for Regulatory Approval
Reuters, Thomson and Interactive Data each reported positive results for the second quarter of 2007 last week, and predicted a continuation of benign operating conditions for the market data industry. Revenue and profit growth was a theme across the…
Bloomberg Shuffles 'Specialist' Sales
Bloomberg has reorganized the structure of its sales operations in a move designed to reduce management and reinforce its core terminal sales area as the main channel for customer sales activity, sources tell Inside Market Data .
Indian Buyer to Boost Yipes Market Coverage
San Francisco-based Ethernet provider Yipes Enterprise Services plans to roll out its services to 36 new countries and to double its coverage of the US market as a result of its $300 million acquisition by Indian telecommunications service provider…
Amex Rejects SIFMA Fee Objection
The American Stock Exchange has hit back at calls from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to delay approval for a proposed datafeed of Amex last sale prices.
FASB Rule May Outlaw Block Discount Valuations
Uncertainty over the future of applying "blockage discounts" when valuing thinly traded securities needs to be resolved urgently if firms are to meet the deadline for compliance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement (SFAS) 157,…
Euro Vendor Mergers Grab Market Share
The race to snap up market share beneath the proposed combination of Thomson and Reuters via consolidation has begun, with two mergers between French and Swiss data vendors unveiled within the space of five days—Telekurs Financial's purchase of French…
Penny Mitigation Strategies Slow Opra Volume Growth
The Options Price Reporting Authority last week announced its revised bandwidth projections for next year, revealing for the first time a decrease in the expected total number of messages per day, and a slight delay to the increases in bandwidth required…
CMS Webview Considers Liquidation
UK-based ticker plant and market data technology vendor CMS Webview may be forced to fold later this month when shareholders vote on whether to place the vendor in voluntary liquidation, after failing to make new sales of its TDI ticker plant software.
FISD Sets Up Data Piracy Committee
Industry association FISD has established a committee to address the worsening problem of market data piracy, which leaves data providers unable to compete in countries where piracy is rampant.
Exchanges Rally Against Anti-Fee Campaign
The issue of a petition by Internet interest group NetCoalition to block the imposition of fees for certain market data products by exchanges was raised during testimony of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox before the House…