Options Price Reporting Authority
The IMD Wrap: Déjà vu as exchange data industry weighs its options
Max highlights some of WatersTechnology’s recent reporting on data costs and capacity issues facing the options industry, and asks, haven’t we seen this before somewhere?
After contentious Opra upgrades, vendors brace for a faster future
Upgrades to the datafeed widely used to gauge the current market price for options contracts went into effect in February after three separate delays, which market participants say were caused by persistent bandwidth issues at some important recipients.
This Week: ICE, DTCC, Northern Trust, Microsoft, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Opra outages cause consternation in options markets
UBS warned clients they were looking at “bad data” on options screens
This Week: Quodd/Gryphon; Citi; Danske Bank; Exegy and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Nasdaq gears up for 1st migration in a long journey to AWS
While Nasdaq is set to begin migrating its MRX exchange to AWS’s cloud infrastructure next month, the full migration program could take 10 to 15 years to complete.
Murky road ahead for consolidated tape plan administrator in the US
The business unit of the new equities data plan could revolutionize pricing and accessibility in the public feeds of NMS data, say hopefuls to the role, but litigation and lack of clarity obscure the path forward.
Weighing the Benefits: Hardware Vs Software
In the pursuit of new ways to eliminate latency from the market data distribution and trading processes, vendors have invested in hardware-acceleration technologies, such as FPGAs. But with commodity chips now giving specialist hardware a run for its…
OPRA to Issue RFP for New SIP Providers
The authority is seeking proposals from new potential providers, but says the move is not necessarily designed to displace current SIP operator SIAC.
Getting ‘Carded’: Current and Future Uses for FPGAs in Finance
With their origins in industries such as defense, aerospace, and medicine, FPGAs have been used by certain aspects of financial markets for about a decade to gain speed. Wei-Shen Wong examines the current uses for this specialized hardware in finance,…
Hanweck Integrates Historical Data, Analytics
By integrating its products, Hanweck will be able to offer a wider breadth of real-time and historical data to Volera clients.
Hall of Fame: CBOE's Tom Knorring, ‘The Mathematician’
Tom Knorring, vice president of business development, CBOE
Update: OPRA Message Change Prompts Bandwidth Increases
The expanded header message increases OPRA message sizes by 30 percent overall, participants say.
Celoxica FPGA Ticker Tackles OPRA Feed Volume, Server Footprint
The new FPGA-based service significantly reduces the server footprint required to manage OPRA data.
Thomson Reuters Adds OPRA Support to FPGA Feed, Begins Europe Rollout
The service will provide improved latency and reduced hardware footprint for OPRA data subscribers.
2014 Review: In US, Consolidated Tape Saga Comes Full Circle
While Europe has yet to establish a consolidated tape, the US market spent 2014 pushing through changes to make its own tapes more resilient to market outages following a series of glitches last year. However, the path towards change was not smooth.
After RFP, OPRA Renews SIAC SIP Deal
The Options Price Reporting Authority has concluded its tender process to find a technology supplier to manage its Securities Information Processor (SIP), and is expected to re-sign with incumbent provider SIAC (the Securities Industry Automation Corp.,…
Dickey to Direct OPRA
Market data industry veteran Steve Dickey has been appointed director of the Options Price Reporting Authority, which manages the OPRA consolidated feed of US exchange-traded options quote and trade data.
S&P Real-Time Debuts FPGA OPRA Feed
The Real-Time Solutions division of S&P Capital IQ (formerly QuantHouse, prior to its acquisition by S&P in 2012) has unveiled QuantFeed FPGA for OPRA, a hardware-accelerated version of its consolidated datafeed that delivers additional processing power…
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
OPRA Seeks New SIP Operator, Enlists Jordan & Jordan to Run RFP
The Options Price Reporting Authority has begun a tender process for a technology supplier to manage the SIP (securities information processor) that collects data from US options exchanges, calculates a best bid and offer, and distributes OPRA's…