Tag: market data

Financial data and software provider Bloomberg has bought low-latency connectivity technology vendor RTS Realtime Systems, arming itself with a new range of exchange connections and data centres.

At the SIFMA Tech 2014 conference in New York, industry executives discussed the benefits and concerns with the consolidated audit trail, with the consensus seeming to be that the additional data will provide greater oversight of markets, though implementation could be a challenge.

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s discussion paper on MiFID II, published last week, gives some initial insights into the practical implications of the upcoming regime, though there remains much uncertainty.

Global exchanges operator and technology provider Nasdaq OMX has promoted Tom Wittman to the role of global head of equities, reporting to Hans-Ole Jochumsen, president of global trading and market services.

Agency broker ITG has launched an analytics suite to enable asset managers to benchmark their trading investment performance against 20% of global institutional trading activity.

Markit has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission as the company intends to have an initial public offering on the US secondary market.

Barclays has launched an iPad app for institutional clients to access its research, data and analytics.

Technology vendor S3 has launched a new suite targeting the buy-side’s growing need to statistically break down the quality of orders by venue and broker.

London Stock Exchange Group has added Swiss stocks to its trade reporting service to provide a pan-European service that puts it head-to-head with BATS Chi-X Europe’s offering.