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Intelligent Trading Summit: Managed Services for Intelligent Trading
Trading firms are looking to leverage hosted and managed services to improve business agility and reduce cost, but with these benefits come challenges. Last Week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York addressed the pros and cons of outsourcing in a panel discussion led by A-Team Group conference chair Pete Harris, who was joined...
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing Intelligent Trading Architecture
Intelligent trading architecture is emerging as technology developments support a move beyond trading systems based purely on speed and allow a focus on fast yet more intelligent solutions. The challenges and opportunities of implementing an intelligent trading architecture were discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York, where conference chair Pete...
Lombard Risk Offers Free XBRL-Checker to Support Corep Compliance
Lombard Risk Management is offering firms that must comply with the latest Common Reporting (Corep) rules a free eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) checker to help them resolve XBRL validation errors that can occur when submitting required reports to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA’s Gabriel reporting system has been in place since...
Citihub Adds Zurich to Global Office Network
Citihub Consulting has opened a Zurich office in response to local demand for its IT advisory services. The office adds to established bases in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Toronto, and is part of the firm’s commitment to support clients in key financial centres around the world. The Zurich office is headed by...
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...