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Celoxica Adds Hardware-Based Ticker Plant for OPRA Data
Hardware accelerator specialist Celoxica has launched the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for the OPRA options pricing feed. CTP for OPRA aims to minimise users’ data centre footprint while processing the OPRA data set’s high message volumes at ultra-low latency. OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, provides market data from 12 US options exchanges. Already considered...
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: A Salesman to the Core
Anyone who’s ever met Rob Flatley will attest to the fact that he was born to sell CoreOne Technologies, and probably to Markit. And so it transpires that Markit has bought yet again in the enterprise data space, this time parting company with $200 million for CoreOne and its One-suffixed affiliates in the Symphony Group,...
Alize Trading Builds Algo Trading Business on Horizon Platform
By: Zoe Schiff Alize Trading, a Paris-based algorithmic prop house, has gone life with Horizon Platform with a view to developing its algorithmic trading business. The flexibility of Horizon’s algorithmic trading software allows smaller prop trading firms to engage in trades with a few exchanges and gradually increase their scale of operation as they grow....
Talking Intelligent Trading with Sarah Underwood: The Scapegoat of the Libor Scandal
The conviction of former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes on eight counts of conspiring to rig the Libor benchmark and the handing down of a 14-year jail sentence hit the headlines big time. The judge said Hayes was the centre of the conspiracy, the Serious Fraud Office acting as prosecutor said he was motivated...
Opinion: Avoiding the Troubles of Target Obsession Disorder
By Dennis Slattery, CEO, EDMworks A lot of effort has recently gone into researching the impact of target setting in the public sector. Does it deliver a benefit or not? The topic is relevant to financial services as many of us are engaged in designing metrics for measuring and improving data quality. Unsurprisingly, evidence from...
Vendor Profile: Advent Software
Established in 1983, Advent Software is one of the old guard of investment management solution providers, but it has kept pace with the market and is expected to develop further following its acquisition by SS&C Technologies, which completed in July 2015. Together, the companies are creating a strategic plan for growth including extended cloud-based services,...
Anova Goes Live with Low-Latency Laser Link Between Secaucus and Carteret Data Centres
By Zoe Schiff Anova Technologies has gone live with a hybrid laser market data link between the Secaucus and Carteret, New Jersey data centres that house the Nasdaq and Bats/ Direct Edge matching engines. The company is offering Nasdaq TotalView-ITCH and BX, Bats BZY and BZX, and Direct Edge EdgeA and EdgeX market data feeds...
Opinion: ECB AnaCredit Project Will Subject Reference Data to a New Level of Scrutiny
By David Attenborough, Business Development Manager EMEA, AxiomSL The European Central Bank (ECB) is increasing its focus on credit risk. As part of the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project, it plans to create a centralised register of granular data about the credit granted by financial institutions in Europe to the non-financial sector. The regulator is...
Data Management Companies Feature Highly in Institutional Investor’s 2015 Tech 50
Congratulations to our data management colleagues who have made it into Institutional Investor’s 2015 Tech 50 ranking. Among them are Lance Uggla, CEO at Markit; David Craig, president of financial and risk at Thomson Reuters; Brian Conlon, CEO at First Derivatives; Steven O’Hanlon, president and CEO at Numerix; and Brian Sentance, CEO at Xenomorph Software....
Metamako Combines Technologies to Deliver Development Platform for Network Edge Applications
Metamako has combined layer 1+ switching technology, field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware and an Intel x86 server to deliver MetaApp, an adaptable application platform that supports network edge development and is expected to find favour in ultra-low latency environments such as high frequency trading. MetaApp adds functionality to the company’s MetaConnect and MetaMux deterministic,...