About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

Browse by brand

RegTech Insight
TradingTech Insight
Data Management Insight

Browse by content type

A-Team Insight Blogs

Direct Edge Taps Xignite for Historical Data Cloud

14 February 2012
Subscribe to our newsletter

Stock exchange Direct Edge has launched EdgeBook Cloud, an on-demand service providing depth-of-book historical trade and quote data from its EDGA and EDGX markets. The data is delivered via Xignite’s cloud-based infrastructure, and is targeted at market analysis, back-testing, and compliance applications.

There are three delivery options:

“Our goal is to make EdgeBook Cloud the most comprehensive and intuitive market data product

* EdgeBook Flex Download – Custom queries that deliver large data downloads on demand.

* EdgeBook Replay – Daily quote and trade data presented in precise chronological order, containing the exact messages as they were originally disseminated.

* EdgeBook Snapshot – Historical trade and quote data via an API.

Xignite’s delivery mechanism leverages Amazon’s cloud service to distribute large datasets via Web Services to its customers.  It also counts CME Group and Nasdaq OMX among its exchange customers.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches for unifying data, real time data and automated processing

Date: 17 March 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Financial institutions are evolving their data platform modernisation programmes, moving beyond data-for-cloud capabilities and increasingly towards artificial intelligence-readiness. This has shifted the data management focus in the direction of data unification, real-time delivery and automated governance. The drivers of...

Find out more

17 March 2026
TradingTech Insight
BLOG

Europe’s Fixed Income Revolution: How NLPs and Automation are Redefining the Bond Market

For years, the electronification of European fixed-income markets was a slow-burning fuse, lit primarily by the transparency mandates of MiFID II. However, the landscape is now shifting dramatically. No longer just a regulatory compliance exercise, the structural change in Europe’s government bond and credit markets is gaining genuine momentum, driven by the arrival of aggressive...

Read More

04 December 2025
TradingTech Insight
EVENT

RegTech Summit New York

Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.

20 November 2026
RegTech Insight
GUIDE

Entity Data Management

Entity data management has historically been a rather overlooked area of the reference data landscape, but with the increase focus on managing risk, the industry is finally taking notice. It is now generally agreed to be critical to every financial institution; although the rewards for investment in entity data management appear to be rather small,...

23 June 2008
Data Management Insight