Tag: market data

Standard & Poor’s (S&P), a financial market information provider, and ICAP, an interdealer broker, have teamed up to offer ICAP’s global market data to Standard & Poor’s clients.

Thomson Financial, a provider of financial information and technology solutions, has launched Thomson ONE Japan, a suite of data and analytical applications tailored to the Japanese market.

Thomson Financial, a provider of financial information and technology solutions, has announced that Daiwa Securities SMBC will implement Thomson ONE Investment Banking, a business solution for investment bankers.

CounterpartyLink has announced a three-year agreement to provide legal entity data to Northern Rock in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Network Controls International (NCI) announced yesterday that it has selected BT Radianz to offer access to a hosted version of direct deal notification (DDN), a software solution which provides banks with electronic trade notification and straight-through-processing of deals transacted by brokers.

Quant House yesterday announced it has joined Trading Technologies International's (TT) connected partner programme with its trading strategies development framework, QuantFACTORY. Quant House is a provider of end-to-end solutions including low latency market data technologies, trading strategies development framework, execution engine and proximity hosting services for programme trading firms.

Financial market data provider Interactive Data Corporation has agreed to acquire the assets of the market data division of Xcitek, as well as the market data assets of its affiliate Xcitax, for $25.3 million in cash. The transaction is expected to be completed within the next several weeks, contingent upon customary closing conditions.

BOAT, a consortium of nine investment banks launched to create a central platform for pre- and post-trade market data, has selected BT Radianz and COLT as client connectivity and infrastructure hosting partners.

ACTIV Financial, a low-latency market data solutions provider, has introduced ActivFeed MPU (Market Data Processing Unit), a hardware-accelerated solution for low-latency exchange feed processing. ActivFeed MPU provides a scalable ticker plant solution that ACTIV Financial says will reduce systemic latency and deliver significant total cost of ownership (TCO) benefits to financial institutions processing direct exchange feeds.

Charles River Development, a provider of financial software and services to the global investment management community, yesterday announced that Eagle Investment Systems has become a member of its Partner Integration Certification Program. The certification is based largely upon the development of standardised interfaces between the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) and Eagle PACE and Eagle STAR. The interface provides a bi-directional flow of reference and accounting data and enables the buy-side to simplify and reduce the total cost of post-trade operations for equity, fixed income and exchange-traded swaps. Through the collaborative certification program, the two organisations will continue to maintain and enhance the interfaces with such features as real-time, message-based updates.