Interactive Data’s eSignal division has signed an official reseller arrangement with Japanese commodities specialist and news provider Oval Next Corporation, under which it will sell eSignal’s FutureSource Workstation, LiveCharts, Market-Q and QuoTrek products to Japanese customers.

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Tick Data, the market data division of Nexa Technologies and subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, unveiled the addition of Japanese tick equity data to its offering of historical intraday market data at this year’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference in New York.

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Tullett Prebon Information and Shanghai Wind Information, China’s integrated service provider of financial data and software, have signed a multi-year agreement for the supply of interest rate, fixed income and money and FX data to the Chinese market.

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Xinhua Finance, a leading Chinese financial information provider and software provider Blue Systemsare partnering to deliver real-time financial market news to financial market professionals’ mobile devices in Hong Kong and mainland China, using Blue Systems’ market data software, blue mobile.

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Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad suspended trading for more than an hour on the morning of March 25 for all products except FCPO and FPKO, as market data dissemination failed following a weekend of testing and maintenance.

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Reuters says it has taken a minority stake in ChinaWeb, one of the largest online financial information providers in China. Financial terms of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed. ChinaWeb had gross assets of £2.6 million as at February 4 2008.

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Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) has launched an upgrade to its market data system SGX DerivativesQuote, powered by OMX’s next generation distribution system for market data, Genium Market Info.

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Burton-Taylor International Consulting has released data showing the global spend for financial information and analysis topped US$23 billion in 2007, with roughly half coming from the Americas and almost 30 per cent occurring in the fixed income/foreign exchange sales and trading segment. Asia led all regions in terms of growth, with nearly eight per cent – versus worldwide growth of 4.9 per cent. China was the fastest growing country at 12.9 per cent, followed by India at 11.5 per cent.

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has completed its planned upgrade of the capacity and technology of AMS/3, the Third Generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System, and will introduce the upgraded system for securities market use on Monday January 28 following successful completion of market rehearsals.

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MSCI Barra, provider of investment decision support tools, will launch a new tradable index for Asia – the MSCI Asia APEX 50 Index – and a new family of benchmark indices covering 19 Frontier Market countries including Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
The MSCI Asia APEX 50 Index is being launched in response to investor demand for a tradable index based on the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index, MSCI Barra says. As the individual country markets across Asia have become more accessible, the demand for index linked products based on the region has increased, it adds.

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Tullett Prebon Information, the data vending arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, has signed a redistribution agreement with Indonesian market data provider Limas Centric Indonesia. Under the arrangement, Tullett Prebon Information will become Limas’ primary source for global and emerging market spot and forward FX data. Tullett Prebon Information will deliver its data to Limas’ StockWatch and StockWatch Retail products as well as to e-bursa.com, Limas’ financial web portal, via Tullett Prebon Information’s proprietary Surf data feed.

TSX Group has moved to expand its PC-Bond fixed income business into the Australian market. PC-Bond has partnered with Bond Index Systems in Melbourne to incorporate Australian fixed income data, including Australia’s first multi-dealer fixed income index, in the PC-Bond analytics platform, which will be distributed by Bond Index Systems in Australia.

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In an effort to encourage providers of real-time data to offer news and commentary on its markets, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has introduced a new editorial package with financial incentives for those vendors offering real-time data from its securities and derivatives markets to offer market news and analysis as well. The package is available to all vendors with inhouse teams that provide news, analysis or commentary, to complement the vendors’ real-time HKEx market data services.

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NextView, the Singapore-based provider of real-time market data solutions, investment decision support software, investor education and financial events in Asia-Pacific, has partnered with Ho Chi Minh Securities Trading Centre (HoSTC) to become its international distributor of Vietnam stock market data services. The partners will also explore the launch of joint real-time equities services for Vietnamese investors and the securities brokerage community.

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