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Inside The Matrix: How Broadway Technology Links Systems Together

Trading complex financial products on behalf of a large enterprise is an elaborate challenge that requires distributed systems working together. Broadway Technology, a provider of middleware serving electronic trading and automated decision-making needs, offers TOC, a platform addressing that problem. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Joshua Walsky, the company’s chief technology officer, about how TOC works, and...

Informatica Builds Out Data Governance Through Diaku Acquisition

Informatica is building out its data governance capability following the late February acquisition of UK data governance software and consulting company Diaku. The company has introduced Informatica Axon, a solution based on Diaku’s flagship Axon data governance technology and integrated the software with its Intelligent Data Platform. The integration adds data governance to data quality,...

DTCC DataPro Readies Fundamental Review of the Trading Book Solution

DTCC DataPro is planning to add Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), expanded risk and extended exchange-traded funds (ETFs) solutions to its portfolio of data products through 2017. We caught up with Ron Jordan, managing director of Data Services at DTCC, soon after the rebranding of DTCC Data Products to DTCC DataPro to find...

Enyx Accelerates Trading Transmissions With Radio Waves

For major established trading communication routes that have relied on fiber optic cable, such as New York to Chicago, London to Frankfurt, or local back office transmissions as from New York to secondary sites in New Jersey, Enyx, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) provider, has introduced nxLink Share Version 2. This new version of...

CJC Moves On Outbound Market Data

Financial technology management solutions company CJC’s new IT Regulatory Services division is offering auditing and inventory of firms’ outbound data, concentrating on publication of market data rather than consumption, as a way to improve efficiency and reduce costs, according to Sheena Clark, director of regulatory services, CJC. “This is predominantly a data governance and risk...

The Next Frontier in Data Management Responses to Regulation

Not a conference on technology for capital markets goes by without many mentions of regulation, so here at A-Team Group we have put together a distinguished panel of speakers that will review the regulatory landscape and suggest how firms can develop data strategies that are compatible with a volatile environment at this week’s Data Management...

The CDO Imperative: Harnessing Data and Creating Value

Harnessing data and creating value is a burning issue in capital markets, and one that will be centre stage at next week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. Moderating a panel of chief data officers (CDOs) and data management directors, A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney will question how CDOs are embedding data into...

Broadridge Integration of Message Automation Takes on MiFID II

Broadridge Financial Solutions acquisition of Message Automation allows the company to better serve trade and transaction reporting regulatory demands under MiFID II, according to David Campbell, a capital markets strategist at Broadridge. While Broadridge had already integrated Message Automation services under their existing relationship, the acquisition is making it possible to integrate more of both...

Why Agile Data Management is Crucial to Business Transformation

Business transformation has become a must-do for many asset managers in a market characterised by competition, regulation and digital communication, but how can asset managers achieve this, what results are they looking for, and what are the long-term benefits of business transformation based on strong data management and governance foundations? These questions and more were...

Data Management: The CDO evolution

By: Paul Gibson, business consultant, and Nam Tran, data management specialist, Sapient Global Markets At a recent event, HSBC Group chief data officer (CDO) Peter Serenita set an interesting tone with opening remarks discussing how far the industry’s data management capabilities have come and how much further they have to go. The benchmark for this...