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Citi Signs for FTSE Infrastructure Index
Citigroup is the first investment bank to license the FTSE-IDFC India Infrastructure 30 Index—one of a new series of Indian infrastructure indexes launched by index provider FTSE Group last week in partnership with India's Infrastructure Development…
Huber Wraps TQA-Datastream Integration
German research firm and investment manager Huber Portfolio has finalized the integration of Thomson Financial's Datastream historical time-series and economic database with a recent deployment of Thomson's Quantitative Analytics (TQA) product, to enable…
Essex Radez Co-Lo Cuts NY Latency
Chicago-based market maker and data technology supplier Essex Radez is to open a co-location center in the facilities of NYSE TransactTools, the New York Stock Exchange's technology arm, to reduce data latency for the firm's clients in Chicago.
Saxo Bank Plans FAST Data for Q4
Danish investment bank Saxo Bank will develop a proprietary feed handler to capture data via the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol before the end of this year, and will also decide whether to use FAST for outbound distribution of quote data…
HSH Nordbank Replaces Terminals, Outsources Data Tech Platform
German bank HSH Nordbank has in the last two months completed a rollout of Reuters 3000 Xtra terminals to replace obsolete Telerate screens at its trading floor in Kiel, with the assistance of Hamburg-based consultancy IT-Spezialist (ITS).
WestLB Outsources Data Tech to Reuters
German bank WestLB has migrated its market data infrastructure to a solution supported by Reuters, which is now hosting the bank's Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) data backbone and all datafeed connectivity at BT Radianz sites in London and Düsseldorf.
Mitsubishi Preps Tick Data for Auto Hedging
The rates trading group of Japanese securities trading firm Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International is in the process of implementing a tick capture database comprising Aleri's Streaming Platform and Sybase's Risk Analytics Platform to support the firm's…
WestLB Aims DART at Data Spend
German bank WestLB has rolled out the Data Access and Reporting Tool (DART) from Wombat Financial Software subsidiary Harco Technology in a bid to reduce its market data costs by eliminating duplication of services, bank officials tell Inside Market Data…
BayernLB Rolls Out Etrali Turrets
German bank Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) has rolled out Etrali Mach 3D terminals from Orange Business Services, officials announced today. The new turrets replace dealerboards from turret provider IPC. Officials from IPC decline to comment
RSJ Preps Chicago Feeds via BT Radianz
RSJ Invest, a Czech brokerage firm specializing in automated derivatives trading, is to expand its use of BT Radianz's Proximity Solution to provide low-latency access to direct datafeeds from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of…
Data Dilemmas of Pricing Illiquid Assets
Decisions around vendor selection when acquiring data on illiquid assets remain driven by trader needs rather than by market data managers, according to panelists at last week's North American Financial Information Summit.
Mitsubishi Deploys Gissing Contribution Tool
The Rates Trading Group of Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI) has deployed a new pricing system across its London and Tokyo offices to calculate and distribute rates for bonds, swaps and futures contracts via linked spreadsheets…
Lehman Unveils New Data Controls
Lehman Brothers is expanding an ongoing market data cost control initiative to cover new areas, and is introducing a new process to make data consumers regularly re-validate the data services to which they subscribe and hence eliminate unused data…
BNY Convergex Preps Ticker Replacement
BNY Convergex is rolling out the Market Information Server ticker plant from Chicago-based vendor Spryware in response to the demands of Reg NMS, replacing a legacy ticker plant that the firm had built in-house.
Commerzbank Taps Aleri for FX Pricing Platform
Commerzbank is gearing up to roll out a new foreign exchange pricing tool that will be used by the bank's FX staff around the world as well as being made available to clients via the bank's e-commerce portal, officials say.
Clariden Centralises FX Pricing Data
Clariden Leu, a Swiss private bank formed in January 2007 after a merger between five Credit Suisse subsidiaries, has rolled out a foreign exchange pricing solution to centralize pricing and distribution of FX rates throughout the new organization.
QIM Deploys Quant House Data, Algo Tools
US hedge fund Quantitative Investment Management (QIM) has deployed low-latency data and automated trading technologies from French vendor Quant House to support algorithmic trading in the futures markets.
BNP Taps ValueLink for OTC Derivatives
The securities services division of BNP Paribas has extended a deal with UK-based data and services provider ValueLink to include consolidation of over-the-counter derivatives data and the production of reconciliation reports.
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.
TD's Wombat Install Preps Algo Growth
TD Securities is to expand its algorithmic trading operations during 2007 after implementing technology from low-latency data software vendor Wombat Financial Software, according to officials at the vendor.
WestLB Globalizes FX, Money Market Rates
German bank WestLB has expanded an agreement with London-based Gissing Software to use the vendor's technology to distribute prices on foreign exchange and money market instruments across its offices globally in support of the bank's dealing operations.