Nasdaq OMX
Market Surveillance special report
December 2013 - sponsored by: Apama, Nasdaq OMX, Nice Actimize
Eric Noll Bolts Nasdaq for ConvergEx
Nasdaq OMX announced today that Eric Noll is leaving the exchange operator to become president and CEO-in-waiting of ConvergEx Group.
Opening Cross: The Power of Predictive Analytics to Simplify Content Complexity
Prediction need no longer be viewed as a dark art, as the ability to more accurately predict price activity becomes a reality.
Merger MegaDeals Lead Exchanges to Mull Tech/Data Integrations
The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) this week announced the successful completion of its $11 billion stock and cash acquisition of NYSE Euronext. But challenges still lie ahead for the two exchanges, which now face the prospect of a much greater…
CNSX, Pure Prep Unified Data-Trading System
Canadian exchange operator CNSX Markets is close to completing a project to consolidate the market data systems of its two main markets—the Canadian National Stock Exchange (CNSX) and the Pure Trading alternative trading system—onto a single platform, in…
Pantor Hires Andersson for Sales, Marketing
Swedish software company Pantor Engineering, which helped develop the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) standard for trade communication, has hired Per Andersson as head of sales and marketing.
New Kurdistan Exchange Gets Help from Nasdaq
The Erbil Stock Exchange (ESX), located in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, will be powered by Nasdaq OMX’s X-stream trading technology. X-stream will provide ESX with a solution to trade equities and debt instruments, and position ESX to…
Nasdaq Goes to SPA for MFQS Makeover
Nasdaq OMX's Mutual Fund Quotation Service (MFQS), a pricing system that collects and disseminates daily price, dividends and capital distributions data for mutual funds, money market funds, unit investment trusts and annuities, is now pricing structured…
AlgoSpan Lands in Lunda Datacenter
Ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and market data connectivity provider AlgoSpan has set up a point of presence in Nasdaq OMX's datacenter in Lunda, just outside Stockholm.
Will Consolidation or Fragmentation Follow NYSE–ICE, Bats–Direct Edge?
NYSE Euronext–IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Bats–Direct Edge have cleared most regulatory hurdles—NYSE–ICE is days away from being cemented, according to reports, and Bats–Direct Edge just received approval from the US Justice Department. So the…
TT Connects to Nasdaq OMX eSpeed Platform
Trading Technologies International (TT) has announced it will connect to the Nasdaq OMX eSpeed platform in the first quarter of 2014.
Quincy Data Sets Up Weehawken PoP
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data has established a point of presence in Savvis’ NJ2 datacenter in Weehawken, New Jersey to provide firms co-located in the facility with ultra-low-latency futures data via…
Xignite Taps Nasdaq FinQloud to ‘Accelerate’ Data Cloud Adoption
San Mateo, Calif.-based on-demand data provider Xignite has migrated its entire web services data infrastructure to Nasdaq OMX’s FinQloud hybrid financial services-dedicated cloud computing environment, to accelerate cloud acceptance and adoption among…
Opening Cross: Things That Go Bump in the Night
The combination of Halloween and Mercury in retrograde is creating some haunting technical glitches and cost challenges for the data industry.
'Human Error' Blamed for Nasdaq Index Outage
Human error forced Nasdaq OMX to halt trading for a number of derivatives contracts linked to its Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) earlier today, Tuesday Oct. 29, after the exchange's Global Index Data Service (GIDS 2.0) failed to disseminate values for about 45…
Nasdaq Hikes Basic, GIDS, Level 2 Fees
Nasdaq OMX has notified clients of a wave of fee increases impacting its Nasdaq Basic feed of real-time best-bid-and-offer and last-sale data for US equities, its Global Index data service and its Level 2 data feeds, to mitigate the costs associated with…
Exchanges, Banks Tap Corvil Monitoring
NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX and Credit Suisse are deploying a new real-time risk and compliance monitoring service from Dublin-based latency monitoring software provider Corvil that will provide continuous compliance monitoring of companies’ electronic…
Honoré Founds MarketsTech ‘Disruptive' Advisory Firm
Adam Honoré, former research director at Aite Group and managing director at Nasdaq OMX, has set up MarketsTech LLC, a consultancy that will advise emerging companies on strategies for bringing disruptive products to the capital markets.
Nasdaq Debuts iPad App for Document Management
Nasdaq OMX has launched a WorkSpace application, enabling business and document management process, for iPad.
Saudi Stock Exchange Upgrades Platform with Nasdaq OMX
The Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul) has agreed to upgrade its current trading platform with Nasdaq OMX in order to cater to growth in the region.
Fixnetix Expands Data, Risk Connectivity
Managed market data, trading connectivity and risk technology vendor Fixnetix has added low-latency connectivity to three new marketplaces, becoming an extranet connectivity provider for pan-European equities multilateral trading facility Aquis Exchange,…
Update: OPRA Data Issue Halts Options Exchanges
The Options Price Reporting Authority was forced to cancel a software upgrade for its feed of consolidated US options quote and trade data on Monday Sept. 16, after the upgrade caused issues with calculation of the national best bid and offer price,…