Activ Financial has added real-time market data from Instinet’s CBX Japan trading platform to its Activ Content Platform. Clients can use the low-latency Activ Content Platform to channel data to a range of enterprise-wide applications.

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Tenfore Systems and Shihua Financial Information today have established a strategic alliance to launch an international exchange data service, which will be jointly offered to Chinese investors. Through this alliance, Tenfore says it will deploy its Global Market Data Feed, which includes data from equity, derivative and treasury markets in Europe and the US, on Shihua Financial Information’s terminal services and website.

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Iguana2 has launched a new market information platform, which it has dubbed Spark, providing users with a suite of Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and NZX market information tools. According to the vendor, these tools include real-time depth, data visualisations, market playback, tick charting, market scanning, company news and data exporting functions.

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Information Services (HKEx-IS) and Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Infonet, the information business subsidiaries of the Asian exchanges, have signed an agreement for a market data collaboration programme. According to both parties, the objective of the programme is to assist investors who have interest in shares of issuers that have listed in both Hong Kong and Shanghai by raising the transparency of the securities trading in the two markets.

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Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data subsidiary of Tullett Prebon, has signed a multi year agreement with Koscom Corporation, a Korean provider of specialised IT financial services, under which TPI will supply Koscom with a range of money market and interest rate data.

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ISI Emerging Markets has entered into an agreement to acquire a copy of the Reuters EcoWin Economics Database from Thomson Reuters in order to enhance its coverage of the Asian region.

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Financial connectivity provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has been selected by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to provide trading functionality and market data information via the vendor’s fully-managed Secure Trading Extranet, which the 133-year old exchange anticipates will help reduce the number of network management issues faced by itself and its customers.

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GL Trade has added market data and direct market access (DMA) to A and B shares of the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. A shares are available to local or foreign investors with qualified overseas institutional investor (QFII) certification, whereas B shares are available to all other foreign investors.

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Global market data provider Tenfore has expanded its global coverage with the addition of level two market data for four Asia Pacific markets: New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, and stated its intention to add two more before the year end.

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Kx Systems has signed a partnership agreement with Hologram Business Intelligence, an Australian-based supplier of business performance management solutions, under which Hologram will provide sales support for Kx to the Asia Pacific region.

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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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