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DDN Touts STAC Benchmark Performance
Storage vendor DataDirect Networks is pointing to new record benchmark results for financial analytics for its SFA12K-40 platform. The benchmark in question in the STAC-M3 suite, covering a number of operations on a time series of data. DDN says its hybrid spinning disk and flash memory platform outperformed “traditional storage” by a factor of eight,...
Thomson Reuters Outlines Plans to Lighten the Burden of Symbology
Thomson Reuters has set out its store on symbology saying it does not support the promotion of new identifiers as a means of improving data management, but is keen to support industry standards and has plans to offer services such as symbology cross-referencing to ease the burden on data managers. The company documents the development...
Fenergo Enhances Client & Counterparty Data Management Solution to Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Fenergo, a provider of customer lifecycle management software, has extended the model of its Client & Counterparty Data Management solution to capture and manage additional reference data that is essential for compliance with regulations such as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), Dodd-Frank, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments...
Towards Intelligent Trading: Anova Rolls Microwave to DC News Hub
Anova Technologies is taking control of a microwave wireless network connecting Equinix’s key economic news distribution hub in Washington, DC to Nasdaq OMX’s data centre in Carteret, NJ. In so doing, it’s directly connecting news sources at lowest latency into the trading markets, allowing firms to trade from signals themselves, and not from responding to...
StatPro Partners Interactive Data in Push to Extend Evaluations Data
StatPro has taken a leap forward in evaluated pricing data following a partnership with Interactive Data that integrates the data providers’ evaluation data on 2.8 million fixed income securities into StatPro’s Revolution cloud-based portfolio analytics solution. StatPro will continue to offer evaluated pricing for about 0.5 million global equity securities, bringing its coverage to 3.2...
Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems...
MapR Sets New MinuteSort Record; Grabs $30 Million
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies recently announced that it had set a new world MinuteSort record using Google’s cloud-based compute offering. Following up on that, the company just raised a further $30 million in investment. The MinuteSort record saw MapR’s Hadoop offering sorting 15 billion 100-byte records (or 1.5 TB) in 60 seconds, using the Google...
Data Management Summit – Solving the Onshore or Offshore Conundrum
Christopher Bannocks, global head of reference data at Barclays Bank, detailed the pros and cons of offshoring and onshoring data management at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, concluding that value creation rather than cost arbitrage has become the decider on where work should be placed. He also fired a shot across the bows...
Data Management Summit – Emerging Technologies Deliver Business Benefits
Big data, cloud computing, the semantic web, big meta data, logical data models and in-memory analytics featured in a debate about emerging technologies for enterprise architecture at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. Colin Gibson, head of data architecture, markets and international banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland set the scene describing data...
Data Management Summit – The First Wave of the LEI System
Peter Warms, head of product development for global data and symbology at Bloomberg Data Solutions tackled issues around legal entity identifiers (LEIs) at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. He acknowledged the aim of a global LEI system to improve risk management and counterparty reporting, detailed industry challenges posed by the system and noted...