Barclays Global Investors (BGI) Selects OneTick

New York, N.Y., June 9, 2008- OneMarketData, the leader in historical, real-time, and streaming tick data processing in capital markets, announced today that Barclays Global Investors (BGI) selected its OneTickTM platform for BGI's firm-wide tick data management and analytics needs.

OneTick's single-point solution is a powerful tick data management and research platform designed to handle all tick data needs of a financial institution. OneTick captures, compresses, archives, and provides uniform access to global historical data, up to and including the latest tick, with no limitations on data volumes, peak rates, or length of stored history. It collects every tick for all asset class types, including equities, options, futures, FX, fixed income and OPRA, plus full order book data. OneTick's user-extensible analytics process millions of ticks per second per CPU and work uniformly on historical, latest collected, and streaming data. OneTick eliminates the need to duplicate code; the same query operates on historical and real-time streaming data. Therefore, OneTick can be used for both back-testing and real-time signal generation.

"OneMarketData is proud to have been selected by BGI, one of the world's largest, most innovative and successful asset managers. BGI's choice underscores the financial industry's growing demand for complete technology-based solutions with a low total cost of ownership, a short learning curve, and fast time to production," said Leonid Frants, CEO of OneMarketData. "OneTick answers those needs, while reducing customization and integration requirements and keeping administrative overhead to a minimum."

OneTick is the only high-performance tick data solution designed and built by experts with firsthand knowledge of statistical arbitrage, algorithmic trading, program trading, transaction cost analysis, and surveillance and compliance needs. All key business concepts are addressed:

  • Corrections/cancellations
  • Ability to see the data as of any point in the past
  • Building the full order book
  • Consolidating multiple order books
  • Portfolio-level analytics
  • Corporate action adjustments
  • Symbol mapping and symbol continuity
  • Futures rolls
  • Exchange calendars

OneTick has built-in standard business logic and powerful adapters to all key sources of historical and real-time data. Users no longer need to spend months creating their own business logic or dealing with vendor-specific data issues.

About OneMarketData

OneMarketData is a leading provider of enterprise tick data solutions for financial institutions worldwide. OneTickTM, its flagship product, is a comprehensive business solution designed to fully address the market's need for intraday data collection, archiving, retrieval, and analytics across a wide spectrum of users from various departments. The OneTick Platform includes high-performance OneTick Archive and In-Memory Databases, OneTick Event Processing Engine, OneTick Analytics, and a wide array of Adapters to standard sources of historical and real-time tick data. Conceived to specifically address the requirements of the financial sector, OneTick's architecture and extensive built-in domain expertise offers low integration and operation costs, and fast deployment. More information about OneMarketData is available at www.onetick.com.