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Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Datacenter
CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the former Savvis hosting and network business subsidiary acquired by internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink, has opened a new datacenter in Markham, Toronto.
Israeli Bourse Mulls Trading Week Change
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is considering a change in its trading week that will see it line up with standard practice at other exchanges.
Nasdaq PHLX Adds Data Specs to Options Feeds
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) is updating the specifications for three options data products, to include additional data in existing order exposure alerts and a solicitation mechanism.
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Liquid Triples Datacenter Rack Space
The buy-side trading and risk management system provider says it has achieved three and a half times previous capacity at its Equinix datacenters in support of client growth.
Data Audit Recoveries Boost Moscow Exchange H1 Revenues
The Moscow Exchange has reported a 42 percent year-on-year increase in first half information services revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, to RR (Russian rubles) 241.7 million ($6.7 million), from RR170.7 million ($4.7 million) in 2013.
BondHawk Launches Fixed-Income Platform
BondHawk Systems has announced the release of its BondHawk Trader platform, focusing on fixed-income trading on both the buy and sell sides.
NRI Releases Private Cloud Solution for Asset Managers
Nomura Research Institute has announced the release of Arena Private Cloud Service, known as Arena Private, which it says will be the first service of its kind for asset managers in Japan and will build off the provider's existing T-Monolix platform-as-a…
Bursa Malaysia Debuts Asean Post-Trade Services
Bursa Malaysia has introduced Asean Post-Trade Services to facilitate the clearing and settlement of outbound trades executed on the Asean Trading Link.
CQG Preps Mobile Charting, Cross-Asset Data
Data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is enhancing its CQG M mobile data and trading application with charting tools and data on multiple asset classes in response to customer feedback, as part of an effort by the vendor to make the mobile…
ICBC Taps IBM's Active-Active for DR
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will employ IBM's mainframe computing solution Active-Active to provide "near-continuous" availability and disaster recovery (DR) in an effort to enhance its business continuity processes.
Former CFTC Commissioner Chilton to Advise HFT Lobbying Firm
Bart Chilton, one of the commission's most vocal opponents of high-frequency trading (HFT) during his time with the regulator, will now serve as an advisor to Modern Markets Initiative (MMI), a group which advocates on behalf of and is backed by a…
EPFR Jumps for Joyce
Cambridge, Mass.-based fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired data industry vet Larry Joyce as sales director, based in New York, and focusing on sales to asset managers, mutual funds and hedge funds in the New York tri-state area.
Chinese LEI Registrar Launches
LEI China, established by the China Financial Standardization Technical Committee certified by the LEI ROC authority last year, has started operating
LSE Announces £938M Rights Issue to Fund Russell Acquisition
The London Stock Exchange has announced that it intends to raise £938 million ($1.561 billion) in a rights issue (an issue of rights to buy additional securities in a company made to the company's existing security holders) to fund part of the $2.7…
Haifa Mulls Second Israeli Bourse
Israel's third-largest city is planning to open a second stock exchange in the nation, placing it in direct competition with Tel Aviv, media reports claim.
The Roberts Group Releases Invoice Payment Approval Module
New York-based data inventory and cost management software provider The Roberts Group has released a new module of its FITS (Financial Information Tracking System) market data inventory management platform, dubbed FITS Invoice Approval Workflow (IAW),…
Liquid Takes the Covers off New Cloud Offering
Liquid Holdings unveiled its new cloud-based offering, LiquidFIRM, short for Financial Intermediary Risk Management.
Crowdnetic 'Braggs' About New European Sales Hire
New York-headquartered private equity and crowdsourcing market data startup Crowdnetic has hired Adam Braggs to head up European sales of its equity and debt crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending global market data.
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Doubles Quotation Rates
Chinese stock exchange, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange has announced that it has increased quotation rates from the Shenzhen market from 114,000 quotes per second up to 228,000 per second.
Data Requirements May Place Strains on Bank Infrastructure for Corep Compliance
Legacy systems and continued use of Excel are making it difficult for firms to upgrade taxonomy in keeping with deadlines set by the European Banking Authority for its reporting guidelines