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TNS Enhances European Backbone to Support Increased Market Data Volumes
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has upgraded its European backbone, increasing capacity to manage growing market data volumes from numerous exchanges throughout Europe. The network has been reengineered to ensure maximum uptime, resilience, data delivery, and to offer the lowest commercially available latency between significant European financial centres, such as London, Frankfurt, and Bergamo. Both primary…
KX Releases PyKX Python Interface to kdb+ for Developer Community, Accelerates Data Science Workflows
KX, provider of the kdb+ time-series database, Data Timehouse, and KDB.AI vector database, has released a new version of PyKX, its Python first interface to kdb+, with a development-only licence. The release expands the reach of KX technology to the more than 10 million strong Python developer community. By giving Python developers the ability to…
Navigating the Future of Cloud-Based Market Data Delivery Solutions
Market data infrastructure’s transition to the cloud has gathered significant pace recently, driven by the growing recognition of benefits such as enhanced accessibility, flexible distribution, superior scalability, increased efficiency, and the potential for considerable cost reductions in both sourcing and managing data. As use cases for market data in the cloud grow, notably in areas…
Redefining Interoperability: Behind the Glue42 and Finsemble Merger
Introduction The competitive landscape in the field of desktop interoperability has long been dominated by three key players: Glue42, Finsemble, and OpenFin. The recently announced merger of Glue42 and Finsemble to form a new company, interop.io, heralds the beginning of a new chapter in the fast evolving interoperability and desktop integration space. The rationale behind…
Are Capital Markets Firms Really Benefitting From Cloud?
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In our earlier blogs (here and here), we discussed the factors driving increased adoption of cloud technology by capital markets firms seeking to benefit from potential efficiencies. But what do their real-world experiences look like? And are firms realizing the benefits promised by cloud vendors? It may be difficult…
Glue42 and Finsemble Merge to Form Interop Powerhouse interop.io
Finsemble and Glue42, two firms specialising in desktop interoperability and automated workflows, have announced their merger to form a new entity, named interop.io, which positions itself as a key player in the interoperability sphere within capital markets and beyond. This merger combines the acclaimed technologies of both firms, to offer what will be a comprehensive…
Pico Launches Corvil Cloud Analytics Solution for Crypto Trading on AWS
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics provider for financial markets, has announced the availability of its Corvil Cloud Analytics solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically tailored for crypto markets. This crypto-focused launch follows the beta launch of Corvil Cloud Analytics in December 2022, and the general availability launch on AWS in May…
Recorded Webinar: Market Data in the Cloud: Fuelling the next generation of data delivery solutions
Moving market data and infrastructure to the cloud has accelerated in recent years as financial firms have acknowledged the benefits of data accessibility, scalability, efficiency and the possibility of reducing sometimes sky-high costs of sourcing and managing the data. Market data in the cloud also offers a low-cost development environment and is finding use case…
How to Make the Most of Market Data
The challenges of sourcing, managing and monitoring market data are well rehearsed, but solutions are emerging as financial institutions zero in on their requirements, and data vendors respond. Short term, cost, coverage, accuracy, user rights and compliance are key concerns. Longer term, new approaches to market data such as pay-as-you-go pricing, packaged data and software…
Principal Financial Group Selects QUODD’s Universe+ for Tailored Market Data Access
QUODD, a market data on demand provider for the global financial services sector, has announced that Principal Financial Group has become part of its growing client base for the Universe+ platform. Universe+ is an API-driven, cloud-based solution offering comprehensive security pricing, reference data, and analytics across all asset classes, including mutual fund, equities, and fixed…