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Data Management Summit: Managing Entity Data with the Global LEI
The global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system is growing in terms of the number of operational pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) within the system and the number of LEIs they have issued, but it remains incomplete and continues to pose data management problems without a Central Operating Unit (COU). The status of the global LEI system...
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Cost Drive Adoption of Data Utilities
The potential of reference data utilities to cut data management costs and improve data quality was a hot topic at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York. Most speakers and delegates agreed that data utilities will become part of the capital markets landscape, but exactly how they will operate and how the...
Intelligent Trading Summit: Tibco Keynote Outlines Need to Trade Faster and Smarter
With many trading firms approaching the physical limits of low-latency technology, the time has come to look at improving other areas of the trading process to more effectively and intelligently operate in the electronic marketplace. Speaking at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit (formerly the Low Latency Summit) in New York, Alessandro Petroni, senior...
Data Management Summit: A Keynote on Data Utilities
Data management utilities could cut the cost of data, ease the burden of in-house data management and provide a solution that will deliver data not only to meet the requirements of today’s regulations, but also those of emerging regulations. Presenting a keynote speech at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit – which for the...
Infront Targets ‘Over-Dimensioned’ Premium Desktops with Modern, Competitively Priced Market Data Terminal
Infront, the leading provider of real-time market data, news and analytics, has released a major upgrade to its market data terminal offering. The upgrade makes the performance, coverage and ease of use associated with modern premium market data terminals available at highly competitive rates, with pricing based on usage rather than over-dimensioned packages. The new...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s Time to Buy and Build
As we put the last-minute touches on our agenda for next week’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York – register here if you haven’t already – we continue to canvass the marketplace on what makes a trading platform intelligent. Part of the story, we are finding, is in approach to design. And the message we...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Time to Mark to Markit?
We may have been waiting, watching for some time, and that time has now come: Markit has registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. No date, no share price. But still a momentous occasion for our marketplace, and a significant milestone for a company that opened its doors in...
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) comes into effect on 1 July 2014 and presents, perhaps, the most challenging data management issues that financial institutions will face this year. The volume of data is one problem, the complexity of requirements is another, and the whole is not helped by recent changes to FATCA rules...
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Risk and Reward in An Open Source World
I just read the latest from Michael Lewis, and while I can’t say I’m fully in agreement with regard to his “rigged market” position, I did find Flash Boys to be a pretty good basic description of high frequency trading and the technologies that underpin it. It was not, however, the main HFT focus that...
Xenomorph Refines TimeScape Functionality with Data Validation Dashboard
Xenomorph continues to refine its TimeScape data management and analytics platform with a data validation dashboard designed to give users the benefits of better workflow control and exceptions handling, higher quality data and a data management solution based on familiar Microsoft technologies. The company has developed the TimeScape Data Validation Dashboard with two banking clients...