fintech

hackathon 2013

Digging in to the Xignite

Financial Web Service APIs

Who are we?

Financial Web Services since about 2006
Emphasis on simplicity and ease of integration
Began with SOAP and simple HTTP GET
..still REST Level 0 / XML-RPC model
Supports SOAP, [non-SOAP] XML, JSON, CSV

What services?

Security Master
Funds and ETFS
Equities
Forex & Metals
Commodities
Fixed Income / Credit
Indices / Markets
Companies
Splice
Other stuff*

Samples / Links

API Catalog
Individual products have templatized sample code
BATS RealTime, as an example
Deeper dives in Xignite-Engineering's Github Gists

Languages w/ sample code

C#
Java
Ruby
PHP
Perl
VB.NET
No samples, but suds seems to be leader for Python
Easiest integration elsewhere is probably JSON

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Append _token parameter for auth
Auth also supported via cookie, IP
Supports JSONP via _callback param
_fields parameter allows filtering of output files
If using CSV serializer, add _flatten=true

HACKATHON ACCOUNT INFO

_token = fintechhackathon2013
Xignite website dynamically builds test URLs for you
Just append your _token, if using HTTP GET endpoint
Website credentials
Username: info@fintechhack.com
Password: fintechhackathon2013
Not really needed, but easier for discovery / research

Best Practices

Most things return 2xx or 5xx
In-API status:
Success [Great!]
RegistrationError [Retry won't help]
RequestError [Probably asking for the wrong thing]
SystemError [Retry very well may succeed]
plz with exponential backoff

Best practices (cont'd)

Still over the public web
..so use low-integerial # of retries
Circuit Breaker pattern!
SSL/TLS, if desired
Cache results for frequent requests or ref data queries

Fabulous prizes

Xignite will be awarding a $500

gift certificate to Amazon.com to the

best app/widget utilizing our APIs!

Ideas:

Data viz
Analytics
Bonds
Multiple instrument types

Questions?

mbollinger@xignite.com

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