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Q&A: Embium’s new CEO Janice Robson on Rapidly Deploying Algo Strategies
Embium is the new name for Cyborg Trading Systems, providing a cloud-delivered, broker neutral, algorithmic trading platform. As well as a new name, the company has a new CEO. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Janice Robson to find out about the past, present and future. Q: What is it about Embium that caused you to join...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The 100 Club Circa 1977
What do Colin Hall, Colin Gibson, Rupert Brown, Chris Johnson, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Tom Dalglish, Robert Hofstetter and Neville Homer have in common? They are all part of the unique mix of familiar faces and rising stars that makes our Data Management Summit the place where the enterprise and reference data community comes to share their...
NYSE Technologies Promotes Shared Infrastructure for Trading and Post-trade Processes
NYSE Technologies CEO Jon Robson is promoting the concept of shared infrastructure in financial markets with a view to driving down costs, increasing agility and delivering the transparency required by regulators. In an open note to industry and a video titled ‘A Call for Collaboration’ that are posted on NYSE Technologies’ TechTalk microsite, Robson says...
Q&A: EOTPRO’s Bill Dennis on Broadening the Market for MRN
Leveraging machine readable news and social media updates is an emerging approach that’s thus far been adopted by trading firms and hedge funds with significant technology and quant expertise. EOTPRO is now looking to broaden the usage of MRN through is web portal, and IntelligentTradingTechnology.com found out more from CEO Bill Dennis. Q: How did...
Thomson Reuters Debates the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will take its toll on data management functions with most financial firms expecting know your customer (KYC) and client onboarding processes to be hit hardest by the legislation. During a webinar hosted by Thomson Reuters, participants also pointed out that FATCA is the tip of the iceberg,...
CICI Utility Cuts 18,000 pre-Legal Entity Identifiers from its Database
The CICI utility that issues CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) for use in the interim global legal entity identifier (LEI) system will today remove 18,000 records from its database. These records are part of the tranche of 22,000 records that DTCC, which works with Swift as a pre-Local Operating Unit (pre-LOU) in the interim global...
Is Low Latency the New Disaster Recovery?
“Everyone wants low latency … the trouble is no one wants to pay for it,” were words spoken recently by a senior executive of a major financial IT vendor. It was a private meeting, so I won’t name the individual or the company, but what was said resonated with me, because it echoed my increasing...
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Pushing Forward the Global LEI System
While many capital markets participants eased off the pace and headed out for a vacation over the summer, it seems there has been no slowdown for those developing the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, with the system’s Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) taking two significant steps forward in as many weeks in August. First was...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Tonic for the FATCA-Brand GIIN
If Solvency II is considered the most onerous of the regulatory regimes about to hit our financial data community, then FATCA surely is not far behind it – and it is now officially the most imminent. Indeed, following a slight delay (from July 15), the US tax authorities this week unveiled the FATCA registration portal,...
Researchers Harness Supercomputers for Game Changing Financial Markets Analysis
Researchers from a number of U.S. universities, tapping into supercomputing power and optimising code, believe they have made a “game changing” step in the speedy analysis of financial markets, reducing operations from hours or even days, down to minutes. The researchers from the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of San...