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Kove Proposes Memory-Disk Storage for Intra-Minute Risk Analysis
Kove, a provider of high-performance storage systems, is pitching the possibility of intra-minute risk analysis based on its memory-disk storage technology that includes highly deterministic input/output to allow data to be moved extremely quickly and central processing units (CPUs) supporting applications to run at 99% capacity. To test the performance of its storage in a...
Stop Press: Palmieri Parts Company with Bloomberg
Roseann Palmieri, poached two years ago from Thomson Reuters to launch Bloomberg’s enterprise data management business and a prime-mover in the latter’s acquisition of PolarLake, has left the firm. In a statement, Bloomberg confirmed her departure, saying “Roseann Palmieri has left Bloomberg. She joined the company to build the EDM business, and she accomplished that...
Perseus Rolls Certified Time Service for Regulatory Compliance, Algo Trading
Perseus Telecom has rolled out a certified time service to allow trading firms to accurately timestamp market data and transactions for regulatory and algorithmic trading purposes. The service taps technology from Certichron, which Perseus is now selling and maintaining at a number of market data centres, with more to come. Certified time is a proprietary and...
Mediobanca Implements Xenomorph’s TimeScape as a Data Management Solution for Risk
Italian investment bank Mediobanca has selected Xenomorph’s TimeScape to support its risk management processes with automated data validation and improved data quality. As well as delivering the improved data to its back and middle offices, the bank plans delivery to the front office where the data will be used to test new ideas for trading...
Mizuho International Builds on Relationship with Wolters Kluwer for Basel III Reporting
Mizuho International, the London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group, is building on an existing regulatory data management relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services to meet the needs of Basel III reporting. The bank has licensed Wolters Kluwer’s Basel III compliant common reporting (CoRep), financial reporting (FinRep) and liquidity coverage ratio modules...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Back to the (Valuations) Grind
Back from a quick break in Bordeaux – well, Perigord – to the Spring term of 2013, and back to the thorny issue of valuations, the subject of our forthcoming special report and webinar combination next Tuesday April 9. (If you haven’t registered yet you can do so here). Back in November 2011, I posted...
GoldenSource Extends Enterprise Data Management Solution to Include LEI
GoldenSource has enabled its enterprise data management (EDM) software to support legal entity identifiers (LEIs), but notes that early users are seeking point solutions to address tax requirements including the LEI rather than addressing the LEI as a means of gaining a consistent and accurate view of clients and counterparties that can improve onboarding and...
CFTC Data Crisis Provides Lessons for Developers of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global legal entity (LEI) initiative has yet to comment publicly on the data crisis at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) involving the use of pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers, or CICIs, in swaps reporting. But it must be observing the situation – and absorbing valuable lessons learned...
TBricks Taps QuantLINK and QuantFEED for Hosted Trading Service
Trading system TBricks has rolled out a managed, hosted variant of its automated trading software, and has partnered with S&P Capital IQ to provide market connectivity and data. TBricks OnDemand has been rolled out in Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Chicago. TBricks provides tools to allow manual and low-latency automated trading in the global markets, including options...
Thomson Reuters Details Growth of Due Diligence around Evaluated Pricing Providers
Thomson Reuters experienced a four-fold increase in due diligence meetings examining its role as an evaluated pricing provider in 2012, signalling growing pressure on financial firms to check the viability of their content providers and underlining extended expectations of transparency. Jayme Fagas, head of evaluated pricing, enterprise content, at Thomson Reuters and a speaker at...