Showing posts with label market data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label market data. Show all posts

Monday, 6 October 2008

CME E-quotes New Version Launched

CME Group has launched the latest version of CME E-quotes(TM), a premiere real-time streaming market data application offering quotes, charting, advanced analytics and news on CME Group traded products.

E-quotes will enable users to access prices for all CME Group listings, including interest rates, equity indexes, foreign currencies, commodities, energy, metals and alternative investments. In addition, there is also access to prices for products listed on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange and the Kansas Board of Trade, which are available for electronic trading on CME Globex(R).

"CME Group partnered with Chicago-based Computer Voice Systems Inc. to transform their data system into a platform that will provide market participants a sophisticated and intuitive tool to reliably engage the latest news, analytics and quotes," said Brian McElligott, CME Group Director of Information Products Management. "This is another example of our continued focus on providing our customers with the latest market data technology at a significant value to view and analyze our markets and to better reach more informed decisions."

The E-quote Basic, Advanced and Professional editions enable users to track the markets with customizable features including quote monitors, market depth, advanced charts, time and sales and more. E-quotes supports Simplified Chinese, Russian and Japanese languages and is expandable to add additional languages.

Features of E-quotes include:

-- Free bundled delayed quote/chart access to all CME Group exchanges

-- Bundled Dow Jones News Select news in E-quotes Advanced and Professional editions

-- Cutting edge technology and a robust, growing feature set

-- Advanced edition is packed full of top analytics and powerful quote display features plus bundled news and free agricultural weather maps

-- Professional edition is everything obtained in Advanced plus sophisticated new quote views and options analytics

-- All new Wireless edition to track the markets on the go; around the world

-- The best market combination of sophistication, usability, performance and price for accessing CME Group products

Thursday, 25 September 2008

IDC Adds Credit Rating From Global Rating

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has added credit ratings from the GlobalRating Group to its Credit Ratings - Emerging Markets service. Interactive Data’s credit ratings services offer a comprehensive and integrated resource of credit ratings from a variety of sources that can assist customers in calculating capital adequacy under Basel II

Friday, 12 September 2008

Utilisoft Chosen by Centrica

Following a major tendering process to refresh its solutions portfolio, Centrica Energy has selected market leading software from Utilisoft to manage key market data to support and enable UK electricity trading.

Utilisoft’s solutions are the key elements required to trade UK power and integrate with the enterprise scale Energy Trading & Risk Management applications. Utilisoft’s linked modules selected are:

► GateKeeper, providing automated connectivity to Elexon and National Grid systems, and to the business applications within Centrica Energy;
► ENTRECA, providing reconciliation of the market and Centrica’s position; and
► ETSETTRA, providing analysis of the settlements reports.

Approximately 50% of the participants trading UK electricity currently use Utilisoft’s combination of software modules to comply with the market rules and manage the associated data. Utilisoft integrates directly with Energy Trading & Risk Management systems, manipulating trade data received from this source to meet the rules and structures of the BETTA market. This is typical of Utilisoft’s role in the market and provides a robust mechanism for market interaction.

Constantine Vaitsas, Head of Business Solutions and Atlas Transformation Director at Centrica Energy commented on the selection of Utilisoft: “We undertook a very thorough tendering process and received a number of high quality responses from a range of different vendors. We were particularly impressed with Utilisoft’s response and in line with our strategy of selecting ‘best of breed’ partners knew they were the vendor best able to meet our requirements. In particular we were impressed with the quality of their solution, its proven track record in the marketplace and the solution’s flexibility to grow and evolve with our business requirements. We are confident that Utilisoft will deliver their solution as promised.”

John Furness, Managing Director of Utilisoft, said: “We are delighted to be selected by Centrica and we look forward to working with them on this major project. This is a key contract which will enhance our reputation in the UK electricity trading market and underlines the fact that we are the number one choice for any organisation that wishes to operate in this area.”

Thursday, 11 September 2008

Interactive Data Corporation in Turquoise Connectivity

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, today announced that its Real-Time Services business has made data from the Turquoise multilateral trading facility (MTF) available via PlusFeedSM. PlusFeed is Interactive Data’s consolidated high-quality, low latency digital datafeed that powers algorithmic and electronic trading applications.

Data from the Turquoise MTF, whose members include the largest banks and brokers active in European trading, as well as specialist trading firms and institutions, has been in production on PlusFeed since 15 August 2008 and is available to Interactive Data’s PlusFeed clients from the commencement of live trading. Since 29 August the Turquoise platform has stepped up its production capabilities and now trades in over 1,250 stocks across 13 European markets ahead of its public launch later in September.

Yann L’Huillier, chief technology officer of Turquoise, said: "We are pleased that low‐latency data provider Interactive Data is making Turquoise data available to its clients, as we see it as essential that financial institutions are able to access the data we produce as quickly as possible.”

David Hann, general manager, EMEA, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, commented: "Adding Turquoise data to PlusFeed is an important step forward for us.
Since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) was implemented on 1 November 2007, Interactive Data has seen significant increases in the volume of trades and in the number of instruments on the new data sources available via PlusFeed. And the numbers indicate that this growth is continuing.”

Interactive Data’s Managed Solutions business will also carry Turquoise data on Market Data Gateway as part of a new ECN package. Market Data Gateway is a fast and flexible open platform enabling the aggregation and normalisation of financial market data from various sources. Interactive Data’s PrimePortal and PrimeDeveloper clients will have the option of subscribing to the new ECN package, while PrimeTerminal clients will receive the data as part of their contributor data package.

Interactive Data offers a number of new OTC data services via PlusFeed as part of its MiFID product roadmap. These include full coverage of BOAT data, OTC services from the London Stock Exchange, Euronext, Wiener Börse, Deutsche Börse, PLUS Markets Levels 1 and 2 data, and Chi-X Levels 1 and 2 data.

Friday, 5 September 2008

Fidessa

Fidessa group is a supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, investment compliance, market data and global connectivity solutions for both the buy-side and sell-side globally. Available as a simple workstation or as an integrated application suite, the Fidessa and Fidessa LatentZero products are built on the clear vision of providing the richest functionality, coverage and distribution to the financial markets community.

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

GFI Group

GFI Group Inc. (http://www.gfigroup.com/) is a leading inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter derivatives products and related securities. GFI Group Inc. provides brokerage services, market data, trading platform and analytics software products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments.

Friday, 29 August 2008

Directors Dealings Information from Deutsche Börse

As of 1 September, Deutsche Börse will be extending its data service to include information on European Directors’ Dealings (EDD). Market Data & Analytics will then be the only provider to publish these information in one consolidated product. Transactions in a stock corporation’s shares conducted by its executive and supervisory boards as well as their family members will be collated, adjusted, verified and then made available in a standardized format.

“The number of reported directors’ transactions in Europe has quadrupled in the last eight years. Our EDD product is primarily a response to trader demand for independent information in a standardized format across Europe.

The real-time EDD data clients will receive via our data feed will have an information depth and quality that are unique in Europe,” Holger Wohlenberg, Managing Director of Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics explained.

Directors’ dealings information is used as a trading signal and factored into the analysis of investment behavior and trends. As such, it also serves to develop and test investment strategies. The data contained in the information product is prepared with the help of 2iQ Research, the Frankfurt-based specialist for quantitative processing and evaluation of capital market data, and can be easily integrated in traders’ and analysts’ applications and algorithms. In the past, the use of European Directors’ Dealings data from numerous sources, in the most varied of formats, and in different languages, has proven time-consuming and inefficient.

The EDD information package will be distributed to clients via the CEF® Core and CEF® DataSelect real-time data feeds. Subscribers include large information providers, investment advisors, institutional investors and trading participants with algorithm-based investment strategies.

Saturday, 29 March 2008

LiquidityHub Ceases Trading

LiquidityHub Limited, established by a group of leading banks to aggregate liquidity and market data in support of electronic trading in the fixed income markets, today announced that it will cease electronic trading operations from close of business today.

The decision has been taken due to recent market conditions which have called into question the current scalability of the LiquidityHub model. Strategic options for the future of the Company are being evaluated.