Organization & strategy
TS-Associates, SR Labs Enlist West Highland for Sales, Support
New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland Support Services will this week announce deals to sell and support TS-Associates' TipOff latency monitoring tool, and to provide support for SR Labs' low-latency data platforms.
Telekurs Migrates Fininfo Products to MDF
SIX Telekurs France (formerly Fininfo) is finalizing a project to switch its data applications to Telekurs' MDF consolidated datafeed, replacing a feed from Interactive Data's Real-Time Services division that currently provides the products with data,…
Activ Hires Industry Vets Hall, Williams
Activ Financial has expanded its New York sales and support functions with the hire of two long-time data industry executives, Scott Hall and Steve Williams.
Index License User Group Seeks Traction
An informal user group for index licensing professionals set up as a knowledge-sharing forum by Steve Ellenberg, global index licensing coordinator at Credit Suisse, is gaining interest from other market participants as Ellenberg seeks to formalize the…
Reuters Adds Commodities News Sentiment
Thomson Reuters has expanded its NewsScope Sentiment Engine, which ascribes sentiment "scores" to news stories to reflect how positive or negative they are for use in algorithmic trading engines, with the addition of scores for real-time commodity and…
Bloomberg Snaps Up Industry Veterans Brain, Jacobi
Bloomberg has bolstered its data sales and acquisition functions with the recent hires of two senior data executives from end-user firms, Simon Brain and Rich Jacobi.
Hedgehogs.net Seeks Data For Web Portal App Store
Hedgehogs.net, a recently launched Web portal that combines a social networking platform for investment professionals to communicate with peers with aggregated Web content, is in negotiations with data vendors to provide access to data for third-party…
BIDS Trading Rolls Out SuperFeed for Market Data
BIDS Trading, an alternative trading system for anonymous block equity trading, has deployed the SuperFeed managed ticker plant from NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies data and technology division (formerly Wombat Financial Services), to support its…
Lenahan Exit Prompts Skyler Shuffle
Order book aggregation and trading technology vendor Skyler Technologies has reassigned the duties of its executive management team, following the recent departure of vice president of sales and marketing Michael Lenahan, officials say.
XTF Forms Data Utility with ETF Sponsors
New York-based Marco Polo XTF, the exchange-traded fund rating business of Marco Polo Network, is setting up a data utility that will provide normalized data on ETFs to ETF sponsors, intermediaries and data vendors.
Hann to Lead Activ Push in Europe
Activ Financial is setting up a commercial office in London to help drive sales of the vendor's services in Europe, which will be led by David Hann, who recently joined the vendor as managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa from…
Interactive Eyes Asia Partners
Interactive Data is expanding its data redistribution partnerships in Asia Pacific in a bid to target new markets and increase its presence in the region, officials say.
Aleri, Coral8 Merge to Grow CEP Appeal
Complex event processing software vendors Aleri and Coral8 last week agreed a merger that will combine their product lines to provide a more rounded service and support organization with a broader client base, officials tell Inside Market Data .