Data providers confident that demand from Asia will double

Demand for market data services in Asia is set to expand rapidly over the next few years, believes Frank Piasecki, the president and co-founder of ACTIV Financial Systems. ACTIV is adding ten new markets in the region to its global data feed coverage this year.

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State Street Report Takes The Pulse Of Buy-Side Firms Mandated To Clear OTC Derivatives : State Street’s SwapEx Files Registration With The CFTC To Become A Multi-Asset Swap Execution Facility

Buy-side firms are unprepared for new trading mechanisms, costs and increased complexity and should partner with established providers to adapt to an evolved OTC derivatives marketplace, according to research commissioned by State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT).

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SEC Examining Trading on Nonpublic Information in Commodity Markets

WASHINGTON– Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White told Senate lawmakers Tuesday that the agency is examining whether there should be greater oversight of firms that trade on nonpublic information in commodity markets. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D.

via Pocket http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/30/sec-examining-trading-on-nonpublic-information-in-commodity-markets/ July 31, 2013 at 07:08PM

Finextra: Virtual currency industry preps self-regulatory organisation

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With virtual currencies such as bitcoin catching the eye of governments, several firms in the field have banded together in a bid to create a self-regulatory organisation covering the nascent industry.
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Data Focused Underwriting And Credit Analysis Platform ZestFinance Raises $20M From Peter Thiel And Others | TechCrunch

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ZestFinance, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday loan industry using machine learning and large-scale big data analysis, has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by Peter…
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EEX: Belgian And Dutch Power Futures To Be Launched In September

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On 2 September 2013, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) will launch trading in Belgian and Dutch futures which are settled physically with the delivery of power.
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French equities take 25% hit from FTT | news | Trading & Execution | Regulation | thetradenews.com

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Aite Group says compliance technology spending is likely to grow by 35% from 2012 to 2015

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Jordan & Jordan Chooses NASDAQ OMX FinQloud To Host Their Execution Compliance & Surveillance Service – Optimizes Surveillance Reliability, Redundancy And Scalability While Lowering Expenses

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Jordan & Jordan (J&J), which provides securities industry domain expertise in practices such as management consulting and compliance, market data, and other industry solutions, today announced that their Execution Compliance & Surveillance (ECS)…
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Range-bound volatility forcing buy-side options traders to be more precise, says TABB | Hedgeweek

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Range-bound volatility creates challenging market conditions for US options traders, forcing them into a more aggressive stance in a search for returns, says TABB Group in its seventh annual benchmark options trading study.
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