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Russia’s National Settlement Depository Selects GoldenSource for Corporate Actions Solution
GoldenSource has secured a contract with Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD), which will use the vendor’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform for the distribution of automated corporate actions data across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The contract was signed last week and the parties expect to have initial elements of the system up and...
Eagle Taps In-Memory VoltDB For Performance Measurement
BNY Mellon unit Eagle Investment Systems has selected and will resell in-memory database technology from VoltDB. Eagle will leverage the VoltDB database to underpin real-time analytics and decision support functionality initially for its performance measurement offering. VoltDB is an ACID-compliant relational database offering a SQL interface and Java stored procedures, designed to support high velocity...
Experts Debate the Data Management Issues of Fatca
Financial institutions in the scope of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) need to start work on compliance immediately, if they have not already done so, as deadlines are looming, the data management task is onerous and penalties for non-compliance are severe. This call for action was made in an A-Team Group webinar...
BittWare’s TeraBox Bulks Up FPGA Processing for Trading Scale and Analytics
FPGA specialist BittWare has introduced TeraBox, an appliance that delivers up to 16 FPGAs, and targeted at high scale trading and analytics applications. TeraBox supports up to eight BittWare S5-PCIe-DS cards, each of which hosts two Altera Stratix V FPGAs, 64 gigabytes of RAM and 16 10gE network ports. Thus, each 5U appliance can scale...
DST Global Solutions Upgrades Anova to Improve Compliance Process
DST Global Solutions has included additional dashboards and upgraded reporting functionality in release 3.0 of its Anova post-trade data management solution. The aim of the release is to improve the ability of users to aggregate and access investment data quickly and accurately for regulatory compliance purposes. The release also allows key compliance metrics to be...
Q&A: BSO Network Solutions’ Fraser Bell on New Frontiers for Low-Latency Connectivity
Moving into emerging markets around the globe is very much in the minds of major trading firms, and as a result, lowering the latency of access is of increasing importance. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with BSO Network Solutions managing director Fraser Bell to find out what the drivers are, and how his company is responding. Q:...
Fiserv Fatca Solution Augments Existing Financial Crime Risk Management Platform
Fiserv has added a compliance solution for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) to its Financial Crime Risk Management platform and named one of its development partners, Manulife Insurance, a global provider of life insurance and wealth management, as its first user. Called Fatca Manager, the Fiserv solution leans on the detection, workflow and...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Ready for Primetime
Oh, the sacrifices we make for our audiences…. My family – mostly my daughter – will testify that I have put on a few pounds over the summer. I put this down to the fact that I’ve spent the past few months scouring the world – well, the City – for talent and ideas for...
Markit Teams with Genpact to Deliver Shared Service for Client On Boarding
Markit has teamed up with business process specialist Genpact to develop a shared service dedicated to the management of client on-boarding and other know-your-customer (KYC) requirements. To ensure the service meets the on boarding needs of large financial institutions, the companies will be joined by HSBC and Morgan Stanley in an initial six-month design and...
Thomson Reuters Extends Entity Risk Solution with Countries of Risks Data
Thomson Reuters has extended its Entity Risk data solution with a Countries of Risks strand that uses an algorithm developed by StarMine, the company’s entity and fundamentals data, and GDP data from the International Monetary Fund to measure the exposure of a firm to multiple countries. The data service is available immediately as part of...