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ICE Outlines Plans for Global Markets and NYSE Technology Assets
Following on from last week’s completion of the acquisition of NYSE Euronext, IntercontinentalExchange has detailed plans to integrate the Liffe derivatives business, spin out the European Euronext cash markets, and split the commercial NYSE Technologies arm, retaining some elements and selling off others. Highlights of plans – along with the acquisition of the Singapore Mercantile Exchange...
Xenomorph Extends Reach of TimeScape into Commercial Banking Sector
Xenomorph has extended the reach of its capital markets data management and analytics solution TimeScape into the institutional and commercial banking sector through an arrangement with client engagement platform provider i2i Logic. i2i Logic, a start-up company, is using the cloud version of Xenomorph’s TimeScape, which runs in the Windows Azure cloud, and Xenomorph’s recent...
SIX Financial Information Adds Bloomberg Global Identifiers to Data Feeds
SIX Financial Information has incorporated Bloomberg Global Identifiers (BBGIDs) into its Valordata Feed and plans to do the same for its Market Data Feed, a development that adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to more than 30 security identification schemes already supported by the company. BBGIDs are available immediately and at no extra cost within the Valordata...
Onix Solutions and VDIware Plan to Extend Nanotick Historical Market Data Service to Venues beyond the CME
The Nanotick high-precision historical market data service developed by Onix Solutions (OnixS) and VDIware is to be extended beyond its initial scope as a service for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) with coverage of additional venues across Europe and North and South America due to come on stream next year. The joint initiative was set...
LEI Oversight Committee Endorses Pre-LOUs, but Delays Naming of Board Directors for the LEI Foundation
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has endorsed the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Turkey’s Takasbank as pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), making the LEI codes they issue or have issued acceptable for regulatory reporting in the jurisdictions represented by the ROC. While these endorsements mark progress in development...
Interactive Data Offers Ready-to-Test Fatca Data Service
Interactive Data has added its name to the list of market data vendors with reference data offerings designed to meet the compliance requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). It is also talking to third-party software providers about working together to provide complete solutions that could be easier for customers to implement...
Welcome to Intelligent Trading Technology
Today we are re-launching Low-Latency.com as IntelligentTradingTechnology.com. We’ve discussed before why this evolution is happening … but here’s the elevator pitch on the expanded focus of this website and community: It’s about Big Data, streaming in real-time, and being processed by high performance predictive Analytics, to initiate the most profitable trades, executed with Low Latency,...
HSBC Group CDO Details the Requirements of Data Management Strategy and Practice
The chief data officer (CDO) needs to be a change agent with the aim of making data part of the business-as-usual process. Speaking at last week’s FIMA conference, Peter Serenita, group chief data officer at HSBC, described the role of the CDO and how best to develop data management strategy and practice. On the role...
ESMA Approves Trade Repositories for EMIR and Sets February Deadline for Derivatives Reporting
The reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has been set for February 12, 2014, following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) approval of four trade repositories for derivatives trading. A request by ESMA to delay the reporting deadline for exchange-traded derivatives by a year has been turned down by the European Commission....
Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Sketch Roadmap for Algo Testing Facility
The tie-up of Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Technologies to deliver an algorithm testing facility is expected to endure beyond initial plans to offer algo testing for US equities trading and take testing into other asset classes over time. It is also expected to help trading firms get ahead of any regulatory mandates that may set...