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MARKET DATA BRIEFS
E*Trade Denmark and eBridge have teamed up to offer Power E*Trade to provide Danish customers with investing tools and technology. Services include streaming real-time Level II equities, fixed income and indices prices from Copenhagen Stock Exchange, real-time Level II equities, fixed income and indices prices from the Stockholm Stock Exchange, delayed equities and indices prices from Oslo Stock exchange and delayed equities, fixed income and indices prices from Nasdaq, NYSE and AMEX. Power E*Trade will also include Level II quotes with five market levels, advanced technical charts, portfolio management, streaming real-time news from BridgeNews and historical price data up to 20 years. In addition, eBridge will be providing global FX market data and Internet functionality for China Merchants Bank (CMB) before the end of 2001. eBridge will supply the CMB Web site with functions including advanced charting with 25-year historical data, real time FX quotes, global and regional news, watch lists, look-ups, search and rankings.
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association has released its preliminary research on billing and reporting automation in the market data industry. The document, available on the FISD Web site at www.fisd.net, is intended as a starting point for discussion on the issue. Bill Mangan, project manager for the billing and reporting initiative, will be discussing the issue with a sampling of the FISD membership to develop a billing automation project plan to be presented at the association's World Financial Information Conference this fall in London.