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LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee Says its Size is Slowing Short-Term Progress
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System has missed the end of June deadline it set itself to provide details on the endorsement of pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) saying that the size of the Committee has slowed down the finalisation and publication of the relevant documents. The ROC’s second plenary...
NYSE Technologies’ Robson Calls for Collaboration; Pushes Shared Infrastructure to Reduce Costs
Nine months after taking the reigns at NYSE Technologies, CEO Jon Robson has begun to articulate a renewed vision for NYSE Euronext’s IT services operation with “A Call for Collaboration” to the financial markets. Of course, in Robson’s mind, that collaboration hopefully means trading firms will embrace the cloud platform, global network and open sourced middleware...
Volante Partners SwiftRef to Offer Users a Single Source of Payments Reference Data
Financial data integration specialist Volante Technologies has joined the SwiftRef partner programme, allowing its users to connect to the payments reference data utility and access datasets and query tools required to make timely and accurate payments. The companies have worked together for some years, with Volante technology offering transformation between messaging formats for over 70...
Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution
TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients...
Connectivity Providers Pile into Equinix LD4 to Offer Access to CBOE Futures Exchange
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is opening the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) to European trading markets through exchange hosting and low-latency connectivity solutions at the Equinix LD4 co-location data centre situated to the west of London. Initial market data access and connectivity set up by managed service provider GuavaTech is live at LD4 and...
StatPro Adds Regulatory Compliance Solutions to Revolution Cloud Platform
StatPro has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to the StatPro Revolution App Store. The module is designed to help asset managers meet UCITS IV regulation and is the first in series of regulatory compliance solutions being developed for the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics cloud platform. The exposure and liquidity monitoring tool is...
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Data Quality and the LEI
Progress in the development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, including the issue of 83,000 pre-LEIs by two active pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), is acting as a catalyst for change with many financial institutions investing heavily to get their entity data in order. The process should prove beneficial in terms of improved data...
Datawatch Acquires Panopticon
Visualisation specialist Panopticon Software is being acquired by Datawatch, in an all stock deal valued at $31.4 million. The deal should close by the end of September, subject to Datawatch shareholder approval. Before agreeing this deal, sources say that Panopticon was in discussions with partner SAP to be acquired by that company. Datawatch focuses on...
Knowsis Offers Social Media Sentiment Data to Support Trading Strategies
Start-up data and analytics firm Knowsis is working with an initial five clients to incorporate its social media sentiment data into their trading strategies. The company declines to name the clients, but says one will go live imminently with strategies built around signals from Knowsis data, while others are considering how to add sentiment data...
Big Data and Rising Internet Use Require Innovative Reference Data Management Solutions
Big data and internet proliferation are creating great opportunities in the financial sector, but firms must move quickly to develop innovative reference data solutions if they are to take advantage of these opportunities and remain competitive. Presenting at an ISITC Europe reference data briefing, Ken Price, vice president of sales at data management specialist Strevus...