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Omaha, Neb.-based data vendor DTN is to provide its clients with access to market data from Cantor Market Data, the data arm of broker Cantor Fitzgerald, under an agreement between the two announced last week. The agreement allows DTN to distribute Cantor's US Treasury and interest rate swap data, as well as its Cantor Eye indicative pricing product via the vendor's DTN ProphetX commodities data product. Bernie Weinstein, senior managing director of Cantor Market Data, tells IMD that the deal is designed to broaden the broker's distribution channels to reach new customers.

Quantitative agency broker Miletus Trading last week launched a commission management program in addition to its existing soft-dollar and commission recapture programs, as an option for buy-side firms to pay for and manage their research services. Under the program, clients build research credit by trading with Miletus, and can instruct the firm to pay bills, or can manage payments themselves via a Web portal.

London-based market data software vendor Arcontech last week released the StarNet Enterprise Status Navigator, part of the vendor's CityVision suite of real-time contributions software. Navigator provides both a firm's internal and outsourced IT teams with visibility into a StarNet implementation's status, usage, and real-time content, as well as systems governing distribution of data to other institutions under MiFID.

Paris-based Quant House, a vendor of low-latency datafeeds for quant traders, is expanding the distribution of its data services, including its QuantFeed product, by using network provider BT Radianz's infrastructure, opening its services to a potential 10,000 institutional client locations of BT Radianz's network worldwide. The network provides access to direct exchange feeds and vendor data services, while Quant House provides sub-millisecond connectivity, including feed handlers and a single API.