Data consumers

CM-CIC Cuts Latency With QuantHouse

French securities broker CM-CIC Securities has deployed low-latency datafeeds from French vendor QuantHouse to support the firm's algorithmic trading and smart order-routing applications.

Erste Group Deploys CMA for Credit Pricing

Austrian investment bank Erste Group Bank has integrated pricing and analytics from CME Group subsidiary Credit Market Analysis' DataVision end-of-day pricing product to support its credit trading and structuring operations, officials say.

Nordic Banks in Summer Switch to Infront

Norwegian data vendor Infront has deployed its Online Trader market data terminal at eight Nordic financial institutions in the past few months, many of which migrated from Thomson Reuters' legacy Reuters First product, which the vendor will retire at…

BayernLB Targets Data Budget with FinOffice

Bavarian state bank BayernLB is expanding its use of the FinOffice market data inventory management system from Swiss vendor BST AG to obtain more detailed, user-level information to keep track of its market data usage and identify potential cost saving…

Open source

Betsy Anderson, Ignis Asset Management's head of centralised dealing, has, since she joined the Glasgow-based fund manager a decade ago, built up an enviable dealing operation that owes much of its development to its underlying technology and her…

Blue Taps Sprint for Mobile RIA Data

US registered investment advisors working for Edward Jones, Ameriprise Financial and SunTrust are being offered wireless access to market data from mobile data application vendor Blue Systems, which is giving the firms' RIAs a 60-day free trial of its…

StanChart Rolls Out OneTick via NYSE

Standard Chartered Bank is deploying the OneTick historical and real-time tick data processing solution from tick data management vendor OneMarketData, to support its development of foreign exchange trading strategies.

The cap-and-trade tirade

From financial reform to healthcare and war, it seems no issue will escape scrutiny and revision in the US this year. But it is energy policy, and in particular emissions management, that a number of hedge funds and other trading desks are keeping their…

Essex Radez Grows NY4 Data Footprint

Essex Radez, a Chicago-based market maker and provider of data and trading technology, has expanded its presence in Equinix's NY4 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ, with the addition of extra rack space for client co-location, connections to the firm's other…

Brewin Dolphin Flips Data to Fidessa

UK-based private client stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has deployed more than 700 positions of the Fidessa Workstation market data application to support its network of brokers and advisors, replacing legacy products from Thomson Reuters.

Alpes Broadens Apama CEP for Risk Analytics

Brazilian broker-dealer Alpes Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários, is seeking to extend its deployment of Progress Apama's complex event processing technology to develop risk management analytics that support its move into high-frequency…

Back to basics

Linedata Services has always been one of the most progressive providers of technology to the buy side in terms of the depth and maturity of its ASP offerings. Linedata's Mike Medley explains how Linedata's hosted services clients - traditionally smaller…

Morgan Stanley Restructures Data Group

Morgan Stanley has reorganized its Enterprise Data group to ensure that management of the bank's real-time market data technology is more tightly aligned with its most demanding internal customer, the Equity IT group, which builds and supports most of…

Theoriem Preps TimeScape for Trading

Philadelphia-based multi-asset quantitative trading firm Theoriem is preparing to go live with data management technology vendor Xenomorph's TimeScape database product, to support the firm as it moves from start-up phase into live trading, officials tell…

Ballista Preps Data Expansion

Ballista Securities, operator of an alternative trading system for equity block options and delta-neutral orders, plans to expand its data infrastructure to establish new and backup connectivity to exchanges and to build a new disaster recovery site.

Athena Taps SD for Gas Pricing, Risk

Derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is planning to expand its presence in Canada, after deploying its SD-CM commodities and energy pricing tool at Quebec-based gas marketing firm Athena Energy Marketing, which the…

Neonet Taps Corvil to Monitor Data Latency

Neonet, a Stockholm-based agency broker and provider of market data and trading systems, has deployed latency monitoring technology from Dublin-based software vendor Corvil to monitor data latency across its global operations, officials say.

Liquidnet Tackles Latency via Direct Feeds

Alternative trading system Liquidnet is migrating from a consolidated vendor feed of equities data to a direct exchange feed solution for incoming market data, to reduce the latency of data used to determine routing strategies and of its own mid-point…

Banks: Data Usage Reviews Key to Costs

As firms face increasing pressures to control overall costs and spend on market data, closer evaluation of data requirements versus actual usage has become a priority, according to a panel of end-user firms at last week's North American Financial…

Baikal Draws on Fidessa, QuantHouse Data

The London Stock Exchange will use market data from Fidessa and QuantHouse to support smart order routing and dark book matching on its Baikal European multilateral trading facility when it launches the market later this year, officials say

Raymond James Rolls Out Market-Q

Raymond James Financial has rolled out Interactive Data's Market-Q Web-based workstation to 4,000 US-based financial advisors in its private client group, replacing the Reuters Plus legacy wealth management platform.

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