Actian is planning to release a bi-directional data connector between its Vectorwise analytical database and Hadoop. It allows unstructured data from Hadoop to be pulled into Vectorwise for fast analysis, and then pushed back into Hadoop, or other systems. The data connector will be available by year end.
Modern data platforms are bringing efficiencies, scalability and powerful new capabilities to institutions and their data pipelines. They are enabling the use of new automation and analytical technologies that are also helping firms to derive more value from their data and reduce costs. Use cases of specific importance to the finance sector, such as data...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened the price auction phase for shortlisted bidders for its bond market consolidated tape (CT), a single, real time feed of post trade bond data drawn from every UK trading venue and Approved Publication Arrangement (APA). The initiative is intended to make bond markets “more transparent, efficient and...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The highly specialised realm of high frequency trading without doubt is a great driver for a range of high performance technologies that are becoming essential tools for Wall Street. More so than the now somewhat pedestrian algorithmic trading and analytics/pricing applications that are usually cited as the reason that HPC is hitting the financial markets,...