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AlgoFast Plans to Build Up Partner Program and Push Down Latency
AlgoFast’s first partnership with another independent software vendor, trade routing, market data and technical analysis specialist CQG, takes the company a step closer to its ultimate goal of providing its algorithmic event trading software to the online retail market. The partnership allows CQG to supply AlgoFast’s software with its global market data and trade execution...
BT Extends Radianz Base with Move into Interxion’s London Data Centre
BT’s decision to deploy a range of BT Radianz services at Interxion’s Brick Lane, City of London data centre marks the company’s second move into a carrier neutral collocation data centre in London following a deal to run services out of Equinix data centres, including a London location, in April last year. The company says...
Numerix Licenses Source Code of Portfolio Risk Product to Paladyne
Derivatives pricing and risk analytics provider Numerix has deviated from its normal partnership practice to license source code, development rights and unlimited distribution rights for its Portfolio risk product to Paladyne Systems, the investment management solutions firm within sell-side specialist Broadridge Financial Solutions. As part of the deal, Paladyne has also taken on the Toronto-...
FATCA – Ask for Directions or Read the Map?
By Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft. The approach to handling transaction data for FATCA reporting should build on both ‘male’ and ‘female’ strengths in the organisation. Looking at transactions, we see that FATCA requires the reporting of a) individuals’ account balances (and in due course, income and proceeds) and b) withholding tax. This is detailed...
Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation
By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Close Shave
Anyone who was lucky enough to squeeze into the opening keynote presentation at our Data Management Summit in March (standing room only) would have heard me winging it a little as I awaited our speaker – Wipro’s Paolo Mittiga – who’d been delayed by various transportational snafus. When I took the stage to offer our...
Markit Builds on Risk Expertise to Extend Functionality of Portfolio Valuations Service
Markit has added in-house risk expertise and newly developed scenario analysis to its portfolio valuations service with a view to offering users improved risk management and increased transparency around valuations. The same market data and pricing models are used to drive both risk and valuations, allowing the service to provide value at risk (VaR) and...
Wolters Kluwer Proposes Solutions for the Challenges of Risk Data
Risk data needs to be identified, aggregated and centralised to deliver improved risk management. But the process entails significant challenges as risk data is growing exponentially, operational risk data related to people, processes and systems must be managed, and financial risk data remains inconsistent across institutions. That’s the message from Ioannis Akkizidis, global product manager...
MacKay Shields Implements Markit EDM to Support Data Management
MacKay Shields, a US-based investment firm owned by New York Life Investment Management and with over $70 billion in assets under management, has selected Markit EDM’s data management solution to manage the collection and distribution of data across its investment management systems. Markit won the deal in a competitive selection process and is working with...
S&P Capital IQ Supports Credit Risk Assessment with Additional Platform Tools
S&P Capital IQ will go live with a suite of credit risk assessment tools on its online research, data and news platform on Monday, April 29. The credit risk tools are designed to help assess rated and unrated public and private companies and support activities including peer analytics, portfolio reviews and counterparty credit assessments. They...