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Opinion: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR: New ESMA Consultation
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Indications from ESMA are that it still intends to issue technical standards for reference data under MiFID II/MiFIR this month, so work being done now to examine the existing draft standards should pay off by enabling...
Tata Consultancy Services Details a Strategic Approach to BCBS 239 Compliance
As the January 2016 deadline for compliance with BCBS 239 approaches, banks are making substantial data management changes in order to meet the regulation’s requirement for on-demand enterprise-wide risk data aggregation and reporting. The task is not easy and includes data management challenges posed by data silos, legacy systems and poor data governance practices, but...
Velocimetrics Releases First Major TipOff Upgrade Since TSA Licensing Deal
In its first major release since licensing TS Associates’ TipOff latency measurement system a year ago, London-based infrastructure monitoring specialist Velocimetrics has unveiled a new range of high performance TipOff appliances, one of which offers more than six times the storage capacity of previous appliances. The new appliance range will also underpin future releases of...
New Zealand’s Chelmer Adds Azul JVM to CSS Trading Platform
By Zoe Schiff Azul Systems’ resale agreement with Chelmer will allow the Auckland, New Zealand-based trading systems supplier to offer Azul’s Zing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to add consistency and scalability to clients’ low-latency infrastructures. The deal also expands Azul’s presence in Asia / Pacific. The relationship stemmed from Chelmer’s desire to address performance issues...
Redline Adds Bloomberg B-PIPE to InRush Ticker Plant
High-performance data platform provider Redline Trading Solutions has added Bloomberg’s consolidated B-PIPE market data feed to the list of feeds available via its InRush accelerated ticker plant. Redline says the addition of B-PIPE was driven by requests from customers and by its strategy to expand globally. As a result of becoming a registered participant of...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Plato Gets Its Socrates
Kevin Covington’s appointment to the board of Delta Capita this week underscores a perhaps more wide-ranging development: the emergence of the Plato Partnership, which named Delta Capita as its strategic consultant earlier this year. As you’re doubtless aware, Plato Partnership is an industry-led consortium that aims – in its own words – to offer “new...
FIX Reference Data Subgroup Update: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data has traditionally been treated as a ‘back-office’ function – almost as though only data that is fast-changing has relevance to a firm’s trading operations. But for more and more firms today, reference data has...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Vindication at Last!
Our longstanding interest (obsession, some might argue) with the viability of the utility or shared-services model for reference data management was surely vindicated yesterday when the newswires outed the, erm, hush-hush SPReD project. A contender for the mantle of the Street’s worst-kept secret, SPReD (for Securities Product Reference Data) comprises three major institutions (Goldman Sachs,...
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: Back and Bigger Than Ever
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team towers as we put the finishing touches to the agenda for our Data Management Summit conference in London on October 1. And of course, right behind it is our planned summit in New York on November 3, of which more later in a future edition of this missive. We...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Long and Winding Road to (CSC’s) Heart
Hats off to Hugh Hughes and the team at Fixnetix, who’ve sold the company to CSC (Computer Sciences Corp.), in a deal that gives the small but influential provider of managed services for trading the muscle it has craved for so long. It’s been a long journey with many twists and turns. Fixnetix has been...