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The Current and Future Landscape of Real-Time Enterprise Market Data Distribution
Distributing real-time market data across the enterprise is a complex proposition, with many moving parts. Banks and other financial institutions spend vast sums to ensure that the correct market data, the lifeblood of their trading activities, is sourced, normalised, controlled and distributed out to end users and applications in the timeliest manner, with minimal downtime....
StoneX Chooses Chronicle FIX Solution for Equities Trading
StoneX Financial – formerly known as INTL FCStone – has selected Chronicle Software, the low-latency microservices and technology solutions provider, to enhance its equities trading performance. In a competitive process to replace its incumbent trading technology, the firm cited speed, flexibility and reliability as the key factors behind the decision to select Chronicle. StoneX provides...
Inaugural ESG Data Summit to Take Deep Dive into Sustainability Goals and Challenges
The pressure for financial companies to get their ESG data capabilities in order is mounting from clients and regulators as private capital takes centre stage in the fight against climate change and social division. These issues and many more will be discussed by leading data vendors and managers as well as financial institutions when they...
FinTech Enabler Xignite Enters the ESG Space with Arabesque Data
Xignite, whose data APIs have helped fuel the fintech revolution, has entered the ESG space. A surge of inquiries during the coronavirus pandemic and growing regulatory oversight has convinced the company to offer ESG data scores and metrics to its customers. The San Mateo, California-based provider of data distribution and management solutions for financial services...
DSB Opens Annual Consultation on OTC ISIN and CFI Service Provision
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened its annual consultation on OTC ISIN and CFI service provision for 2023. The consultation paper is published on the DSB website with responses open until 5 pm UTC, Monday 30 May 2022. A final report will be published on Thursday 30 June 2022. The consultation focuses on topics...
Machine-Executable Regulations Promise Improved Data Quality and Efficiency in Reporting
Ensuring data quality for regulatory reporting is an ongoing headache for many financial institutions, but solutions that could ease the pain are emerging. We talk to Sassan Danesh, a member of the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) management team, about approaches to regulatory data quality issues using machine-executable validation rules ahead of his keynote at next...
Data Governance Interview with Kim Woodward – Data Management Summit’s Out of Industry Keynote Speaker
Kim Woodward, senior director, head of information operations at AstraZeneca, is a collaborative data governance leader specialising in the strategic design, delivery and implementation of global data management and governance practices in the finance and pharma sectors. She has been involved in the design of enterprise data policies, maturity models and data governance operating frameworks...
MCO Closes Acquisition of Schwab Compliance Technologies for Conduct Risk
Dublin-based conduct risk and compliance technology specialist MCO (MyComplianceOffice) has completed its acquisition of Schwab Compliance Technologies (SCT). The purchase – for an undisclosed sum – adds the ability to monitor employees’ trading activities to MCO’s product line and brings its client base to more than 1,300 firms globally. SCT – which started life as Compliance11 Inc....
Market Data in the Virtual Reality World
By Yousaf Hafeez, Head of Business Development for Financial Solutions at BT If you think that market data volumes are high today, you’ve seen nothing yet! With virtual reality (VR) tools for trading edging closer to becoming practically usable on trading floors, any larger scale uptake of such applications will mean an exponential rise in data...
DataBP Partner and Deutsche Boerse to Digitise Market Data Licensing
Data licensing and subscription management platform DataBP has partnered with Deutsche Boerse Group (DBAG) to introduce a digital data licensing and management platform that aims to streamline business operations and optimise the customer experience for the exchange group’s Market Data + Services (MD+S) business. DBAG provides its global client base with market data and services...