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S&P Adds Pension Funding Data
Standard & Poor's has added data on the performance of public companies' pension funds and benefits to the information available via its Compustat database and Xpressfeed delivery mechanism, in response to new accounting standards.
ATD Revamps Data for Options Drive
South Carolina-based algorithmic equities market maker Automated Trading Desk is phasing in a replacement market data infrastructure to support a push into the options trading market in the next few months, officials say.
FXMarketSpace Outlines Data Options
FXMarketSpace, the centrally cleared foreign exchange trading venue launched by Reuters and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last week, is offering clients a choice of delivery options for data generated by the platform.
Joyce to Implement Product Management Focus at Relegence
Larry Joyce, former executive director of North American product development at Dow Jones, is setting up a dedicated product management function at his new employer, news aggregation and search technology vendor Relegence.
Boat Enlists Colt, BT for Data Hosting
European trade reporting utility Project Boat has chosen BT Radianz and Colt Telecom to provide connectivity and infrastructure services to host the technology from Swedish software vendor Cinnober that will collect and distribute trade data from Boat's…
Activ Unveils Hardware Ticker Plant
Activ Financial will this week reveal plans to launch a hardware-accelerated ticker plant using new technology from chip manufacturer AMD that Activ says will produce significant improvements in latency and throughput compared with the vendor's existing…
LSE, Savvis Partner for Data Access
The London Stock Exchange has partnered with network provider Savvis to expand global access to its data, with a particular focus on North America.
Doubts Raised Over GFI, Icap Index Data
A multi-broker credit index tranche fixing service launched last week by interdealer brokers GFI and Icap appears to have run into trouble, with uncertainty over the data distribution and licensing arrangements for the new fixings, which are based on the…