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How Financial Firms Can Close the Data Integration Gap
By Sourav Moitra, a director of technology at Sapient Global Markets Driven by the need for faster access to data, along with consolidated data views across multiple platforms with greater consistency and transparency, financial firms are realising they must change their data integration process to gain efficiency and solve business needs. The financial industry is...
Integration and Development Capabilities Sell Vontobel On Horizon Platform
Zurich-based Vontobel, which has CHF 187 billion in assets under management, chose Horizon Software’s Horizon Platform for Automated Trading (HPAT) for its electronic trade execution because of the platform’s ability to develop algorithms, handle reporting, meet compliance requirements and integrate in a timely and low-risk manner with the firm’s trading environment, according to Sylvain Thieullent,...
Object Trading Adapts To Singapore Exchange’s Titan Platform
Multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading has adjusted its services to conform to Titan, the newly launched trading platform of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) platform will continue to handle market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints for its clients who trade on SGX. Object Trading supports SGX’s QuestDT...
Thomson Reuters Lays Off Staff as Reorganisation Cuts 2,000 Jobs
Thomson Reuters is cutting 2,000 jobs as part of a reorganisation that kicked in this week with staff layoffs. Thomson Reuters announced the job cuts, 4% of its workforce of about 48,000 people globally, as it reported a slight dip in third quarter profit and flat revenue. The cuts will be made across 39 countries...
A-Team Webinar Addresses Rising Requirement for Accurate Shareholding Disclosure
Shareholding disclosure requirements are moving up the data management agenda at financial institutions as regulators increase their focus on systemic risk. A-Team will discuss the challenges of accurate shareholding disclosure during a webinar next Tuesday and present the results of a recent industry survey focused on how financial institutions are addressing shareholding disclosure obligations. The...
Winners of the 2016 Data Management Review Awards
This year’s DMR awards ceremony was a tremendous event with 18 award winners, an entertaining address by guest speaker Mark Foster, one of Britain’s most decorated male swimmers, and a five-star lunch in the splendour of the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. A-Team Group CEO, Angela Wilbraham, and President, Andrew Delaney, hosted the event and were joined...
The Open Source Market Data Ecosystem – Open for Business
Andrew Miller of Net Effect, a consultant on the OpenMAMA project, takes look at the state of play of open initiatives in the market data space. A white paper published by A-Team last month went into some depth on the state of market data infrastructure, pain points and benefits of adoption of open source technologies....
Quandl Offers Alternative Data Designed to Improve Trading Decisions
Quandl, a Toronto based data provider, is pushing into the provision of alternative datasets that can be used by banks and hedge funds to make better trading decisions. The company works with partners to gather alternative data and sells it at a relatively high price to a limited number of firms. The company started a...
The CAT Controversy
By Kelvin To, founder and president of Data Boiler Technologies AutoCAD has been the de facto computer-aided design (CAD) program for engineers for so long that it’s like an acronym for anything that is professionally engineered, designed and created. In capital markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted rule 613 to establish the...
LumRisk Scales with Markit EDM Managed Service
LumRisk, a Geneva based risk aggregating service provider, has gone live with the managed service version of Markit EDM. The enterprise data management solution improves LumRisk’s hedge fund and alternative risk premia (ARP) platform, allowing data analysis and risk monitoring services to be scaled up. LumRisk considered several enterprise data management solutions before selecting Markit...