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Barclays Live Now Available on the iPad
Barclays has launched the Barclays Live app for iPad devices, which provides institutional clients with access to the firm’s research, data and analytics in a personalized manner.
Direct Edge Expands Attributed Quote Program
BATS Global Markets' Direct Edge Exchange is expanding its attributed trading program to allow participating firms to show their order flow as being comprised of retail orders, rather than revealing their identity.
Waters Rankings 2014 Open for Entries
The Waters Rankings 2014, WatersTechnology’s only reader-determined awards, are now open for entries. As usual, entry to the 12th annual Waters Rankings is free and firms may enter as many categories as they wish, on the condition that they provide…
Data Vet Richards Starts New Advisory Firm
Data industry veteran Dale Richards has founded Island 20 Ventures, a Toronto-based advisory firm specializing in financial markets technology, including information products, Big Data, analytics and data management.
Nasdaq Bows Managed Reporting, New Fees for BONO, ITTO Options Data
Nasdaq OMX has introduced a new distribution option and accompanying fees for data from its Nasdaq Options Market's Best of Nasdaq Options (BONO) and ITCH to Trade Options (ITTO) feeds that allows distributor firms to redistribute the data to consumer…
NBAD to Become First Market Maker in United Arab Emirates
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has been issued the first license from the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) to commence market-making activity in the United Arab Emirates.
Ex-First Derivatives' Richards Starts Advisory Firm
Dale Richards, previously a data management executive and strategist at First Derivatives, has founded Island 20 Ventures, based in Toronto
ICBC Financial Services Uses XSP to Adopt ISO 20022
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services is now using the XSPrisa software from SunGard's XSP business to process corporate actions in ISO 20022, rather than using the DTCC's CCF files
xCelor Adds FPGA Filtering, ‘Muxing’ to Single-Digit Nanosecond Switch
Chicago-based low-latency switch and data technology provider xCelor has released a new version of its XPM switch series, XPM², that allows users to run their own applications on the switch itself, and adds features for filtering incoming multicast…
Nasdaq Increases UTP Tape SIP Capacity
Nasdaq OMX, operator of the Securities Information Processor (SIP) for the consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Nasdaq-listed stocks—known as Tape C, or the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan—has announced that it will increase the bandwidth…
Bayes Analytic Preps Price Prediction Engine
Bainbridge Island WA-based startup Bayes Analytic is preparing to launch a new stock analysis and trading recommendation engine that leverages advanced trading algorithms and machine learning to predict future price movements based on past trading…
Estimize Hires Product, Design Heads
Estimize, a New York-based provider of crowd-sourced earnings estimates and mergers and acquisitions predictions, recently hired Josh Dulberger as head of product and analytics, and Cynthia Koo as head of design, to support the creation of its new…
BNP Paribas Securities Services Tackles Big Data Issue with NeoLink
BNP Paribas Securities Services’ CEO Patrick Colle says big data offers both opportunities and challenges.
Quartet FS Taps ‘Many-Core' Processors to Boost for ActivePivot V5
In-memory analytics technology provider Quartet FS is planning to roll out version 5 of its ActivePivot data aggregation and analytics platform in June, which features improved microprocessor technology that will make the platform 10 times faster,…
Twitter Acquires Firehose Provider Gnip
Social media network Twitter has announced its acquisition of Gnip, a data provider that is one of the few to have access to the so-called "firehose" of the micro-blogging service's information.
Seeking Alpha Mulls Breaking Out Research Platform into Separate Subscriptions
Financial news, analysis and transcript website Seeking Alpha is considering spinning off components of its investment research platform into standalone products in order to reach a broader audience of hedge funds, investment advisors and retail traders.
GW&K Taps Fidessa Sentinel For Compliance
The $20 billion Boston-based investment manager will use the vendor's Sentinel Compliance Service to reduce operating costs across its taxable fixed income, municipal fixed income, institutional, advisory, and private client businesses.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: The Winners
Waters magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Sell-Side Technology Awards. The Awards were held on Tuesday evening, April 15, at the Marriott Marquis in New York.
Deutsche Börse, Thai Exchange Ink MoU
Deutsche Börse and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will see the two venue operators enhance securities and derivative market links between Germany and Thailand.
Clearstream Approaches Taiwan Direct Settlement
International central securities depository (ICSD) Clearstream has announced that it has moved a step further towards enabling direct settlement in Taiwan, by opening an account with the country's CSD.
Cordatum Appointed Sales Agent for Financial Machineries' Trade Data Analytics
Cordatum Associates, a London-based consultancy providing advisory services around market data sales and procurement to content providers has signed a global sales agreement to act as sales agent for Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics…
What Data Will Be on the Cloud in Three Years? No Idea
Asked what type of data they might put onto a public cloud in two or three years that they aren’t putting on the cloud now, the members of an infrastructure modernization panel at the North American Trading Architecture Summit in New York couldn’t come…
ISI Emerging Markets Rebrands as EMIS
Emerging markets data provider ISI Emerging Markets has changed its name to EMIS in a bid to simplify its branding and reflect its data product brands.
Options Cuts NJ Network Latency
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has reduced the latency on its network route between the vendor's datacenter facility in Carteret, NJ and CenturyLink Technology Solutions' (formerly Savvis) NJ2 datacenter in Weehawken,…