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Quant House, Sybase Partner for Back-Testing Tick Data
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has partnered with database specialist Sybase to launch an on-demand, back-testing service for automated trading strategies.
Lehman Unveils New Data Controls
Lehman Brothers is expanding an ongoing market data cost control initiative to cover new areas, and is introducing a new process to make data consumers regularly re-validate the data services to which they subscribe and hence eliminate unused data…
BNY Convergex Preps Ticker Replacement
BNY Convergex is rolling out the Market Information Server ticker plant from Chicago-based vendor Spryware in response to the demands of Reg NMS, replacing a legacy ticker plant that the firm had built in-house.
Essex Radez Delivers Clarity
Market maker and trading technology provider Essex Radez will this week introduce a new tick history service for equity, futures and options quote and trade data, to allow users to query data in a non-real-time environment.
Currency Hampers Reuters Revival
US vendors found first-quarter revenues boosted by currency fluctuations last week, while UK-based Reuters was frustrated by a near-eight percent negative impact from foreign exchange, which dragged reported revenues down by just over one percent—even…
Deutsche Börse Unshackles Xetra Feed
Deutsche Börse has removed throttling restraints from its CEF datafeeds that distribute data from its Xetra cash market, so that data is distributed in un-netted and un-pulsed format, providing subscribers with faster and more comprehensive data.
Sybase, Quant House to Deliver Trading Strategies
PARIS—Enterprise infrastructure and mobile software provider Sybase and program trading solutions provider Quant House announced an alliance last week to deliver a solution for algorithmic trading strategies for backtesting and regression testing for…
SEB to Offer Cross-Asset Algos
PARIS—Stockholm-headquartered Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) will offer multi-asset class algorithmic trading starting in the third quarter of this year using platforms from transaction management solutions provider Ullink and application…
Panel: Mifid Offerings Clog Market
LONDON—New market facilities and services that are popping up in the face of the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) are becoming giant question marks for the financial community, industry watchers say.
FPL: FIX 5.0 Is Gaining Ground
PARIS—The latest release of the FIX protocol, version 5.0, is becoming a common language among financial firms, say officials from the FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL), who spoke last week at the TradeTech conference in Paris.
Wombat Targets Algo Trading
LONDON—Market data feed handler Wombat Financial Software plans to release an algorithmic trading platform within a matter of weeks, DWT has learned.
ISE Launches FX Options Data
The International Securities Exchange last week began distributing data on currency options products that it began trading last Wednesday, officials say.
Exchanges Grow Q1 Data Revenues
Despite increased scrutiny from pressure groups of late, exchanges' revenues from market data services continue to rise, according to the latest round of financial statements from exchanges.
Commerzbank Taps Aleri for FX Pricing Platform
Commerzbank is gearing up to roll out a new foreign exchange pricing tool that will be used by the bank's FX staff around the world as well as being made available to clients via the bank's e-commerce portal, officials say.
Dow Jones Launches News Analytics for Algo Trading
Dow Jones Newswires last week launched Dow Jones News Analytics, a product that gives firms utilizing algorithmic trading strategies the ability to incorporate the impact of news into their trading models.
Asia Vendors Sign Data Deals
Tokyo-based trading software provider MetaBit Systems has signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore-based data vendor NextView Pte to offer combined data and trading solutions to clients in the region.
After New Fees, Plus Markets Preps API
UK equity market operator Plus Markets Group is preparing the rollout of a new application programming interface (API) for market data connectivity as part of a recent technology overhaul, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tibco Bolsters CEP Offering for Trading
Enterprise software developer Tibco Software will this week release version 2.0 of its BusinessEvents complex event processing application, featuring enhancements tailored for the real-time data and trading spaces, officials say.