Market Data & Data Analytics
Morningstar Preps Web Services Expansion; Adds Alerts, History, Depth, News
Broadened content options in Web Services delivery mechanism will provide an alternative to datafeeds for supplying web-based applications with data.
Tick Data Bought Out by Management, VC
Former Penson data business is sold to management team and ex-Pension execs by Desjardins brokerage subsidiary.
Goldman Sachs Eyes Internal Messaging Services
After the discovery that Bloomberg's reporting staff were monitoring information from terminals—including JPMorgan's $6 billion “London Whale” trading debacle last year—Goldman Sachs is reportedly considering reduced reliance on the ubiquitous market…
Max Bowie: A ‘Search Party’ to Find Missing Alpha in Financial Data
Although bleeding-edge technologies have focused on developing lightning-fast algorithms that cut humans out of the trading process, Max believes natural-language processing, and the often-overlooked fundamentals of search engine technologies, will play…
InfoReach Rolls Out Real-Time TCA Analysis
Tool will give buy-side firms and brokers access to a "second opinion" on the expected market impact of trades, officials say.