Exchange Data
UTP to Decide SIP Processor in Oct., After Renewing Nasdaq as SIP Administrator
The UTP Operating Committee, the industry body that oversees the operation of the US consolidated feed of quote and trade data on Tape C Nasdaq-listed stocks, will appoint a new tape processor next month, after selecting Nasdaq OMX as administrator of…
BRED Taps SunGard for Euronext Data, Trading Access
Paris-based BRED Banque Populaire, the cooperative commercial bank of French banking group Groupe BPCE, has rolled out SunGard's outsourced Valdi Market Access platform to connect to market data and trade on Euronext's equities market.
Exceed, Nasdaq Ally for Structured Investment Indexes, Data Distribution
New York-based boutique financial services firm Exceed Investments is launching a new family of indexes, dubbed the Nasdaq Exceed Structured Indexes, in partnership with Nasdaq OMX. The new indexes are designed to deliver the predictability of structured…
EFIS 2014: Hanna Urges Exchange Contract Standardization
To simplify and standardize the growing number and complexity of exchange data contracts and policies, exchanges should form an independent industry group to standardize contract terms and language, and how exchanges enforce their contract terms, Rafah…
TMX Bows Short Sale Data Report
TMX Datalinx, the market data division of Canadian exchange group TMX, has begun publishing a daily Short Sale Summary that provides a consolidated summary of short selling activity for each security in the S&P/TSX Composite Index trading on the Toronto…
Euronext Ups ’15 Data, Non-Display Fees
European exchange group Euronext has notified customers of changes to its market data licensing agreement, dubbed the Euronext Market Data Dissemination Agreement, including new fees for use and redistribution of real-time and delayed data from its…
TeraExchange Launches USD-Bitcoin Price Index
Registered swap execution facility TeraExchange has created a new spot bitcoin price index, dubbed the Tera Bitcoin Price Index, as part of the launch of a new regulated platform for bitcoin derivatives trading to meet demand from global merchants,…
Bangladesh Broker LankaBangla Taps DirectFN for Data-Trading Platform
Dhaka, Bangladesh-based broker LankaBangla Securities has enlisted Dubai-based data provider DirectFN to integrate datafeeds from Bangladesh's Chittagong and Dhaka stock exchanges into a trading platform to enhance the firm's online trading capabilities,…
ICE's SuperDerivatives Buy Welcomed, Though Integration Details Still Unclear
Less than a calendar quarter after selling one data technology business──NYSE Technologies' Wombat platform──to SR Labs (IMD, June 18, 2014), Intercontinental Exchange acquired another in the form of derivatives pricing and risk management vendor…
CME Lifts LSE's Stuart for Sales
CME Group has hired former London Stock Exchange exec Ross Stuart as senior director of information products management.
Shenzhen Exchange Taps Kx for Trade Analytics
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange's Laboratory for Financial Innovation-which produces market performance reports on metrics relating to the exchange's operations-is to roll out Palo Alto, Calif.-based tick database provider Kx Systems' database and time…
Opening Cross: Teenage Takeover!
I can still recall my first days at then-Risk Waters Group in 2000 as a greenhorn researcher working on Risk magazine and FX Week, trying to quickly learn new industries and lingo, while at the same time trying to hide my inexperience. One of my earliest…
ICE to Buy SuperDerivatives for $350 Million
Intercontinental Exchange has announced plans to acquire derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives for $350 million in cash to "accelerate the expansion of ICE's comprehensive multi-asset class clearing strategy."
Anova Unveils Sub-185us CME Wireless Net
Chicago-based low-latency connectivity provider Anova Technologies has rolled out a new network connection that offers data latency of sub-185 microseconds between CME Group's co-location datacenter in Aurora, Illinois and the Digital Realty Trust…
Quincy Adds Eurex Futures Data to QED Microwave Data Service
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency market data vendor Quincy Data has added futures data from Deutsche Borse's Eurex derivatives exchange to its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service, a normalized feed of market data sourced from exchanges worldwide and…
EEX Switches on Power Transparency Data Site
Leipzig, Germany-based European Energy Exchange has rolled out a new website, eex-transparency.com, to provide users with access to fundamental data and information on wholesale energy trading, in response to new requirements derived from the Regulation…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
Nasdaq PHLX Adds Data Specs to Options Feeds
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) is updating the specifications for three options data products, to include additional data in existing order exposure alerts and a solicitation mechanism.
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Data Audit Recoveries Boost Moscow Exchange H1 Revenues
The Moscow Exchange has reported a 42 percent year-on-year increase in first half information services revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, to RR (Russian rubles) 241.7 million ($6.7 million), from RR170.7 million ($4.7 million) in 2013.
LSE Announces £938M Rights Issue to Fund Russell Acquisition
The London Stock Exchange has announced that it intends to raise £938 million ($1.561 billion) in a rights issue (an issue of rights to buy additional securities in a company made to the company's existing security holders) to fund part of the $2.7…
JSE Reports Data Revenue Rise
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has reported first-half data revenues of 95.4 million South African rand, a 16 percent increase over the same period last year, on overall group operating revenue of R869 million, itself a 9 percent increase over the…
HKEx Bows ASP Partner Program
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has set up a program to allow application service providers to establish direct links to HKEx's trading and data systems to provide managed connectivity services to clients, which exchange officials say can lower…