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Kx Releases kdb+ 3.0 To Ease Management of Big Data
Kx Systems has released version 3.0 of its kdb+ database, improving performance and simplifying the storage of massive data sets, such as long histories of time series data. The optimised code in 3.0 utilises Intel “Sandy Bridge” processor Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instructions to boost performance of calculations. As for...
Verdande, Nastel Team for CBR-Based Operational Analytics
Verdande Technology and Nastel Technologies have teamed up to combine their case-based reasoning (CBR) and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, respectively, to provide financial services organisations with predictive analytics to reduce system outages and to remain compliant with regulatory reporting. CBR allows for an adaptive “human” approach to problem solving that analyses data patterns in...
Netik Transformation into CoreOne Leaves Little of the EDM Specialist at Large
Last week’s formal introduction of PrimeOne Solutions, a hosted prime brokerage service within the CoreOne Technologies group, marks the end of the first wave of CoreOne development and the final resting place of Netik, the enterprise date management company that was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008 and rebranded as CoreOne...
Friends Life Investments Start-up Implements Markit EDM Platform
Markit has made one of its first and fastest implementations of the enterprise data management (EDM) platform it acquired with Cadis Software back in June at Friends Life Investments, a start-up asset manager within Friends Life Group. Conversation between Friends Life Investments and potential technology providers started about six months ago ahead of a rigorous...
Markit Gains Rights to Distribute Euroclear Bank’s Eurobond Reference Data
Euroclear Bank is transferring all existing and future distribution and commercialisation of its Eurobond reference data to Markit, leaving the bank to focus on core business around settlement and clearing, and giving the financial information services provider rights to distribute reference data covering more than 200,000 Eurobonds. The strategic agreement covers a broader set of...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Just When You Thought It Was Safe…
The CFTC yesterday approved approved the DTCC’s application to run a multi-asset class swap data repository (SDR) in the US, with the promise of increased transparency in the OTC derivatives marketplace. The depository – slated for launch on October 12 – doubtless will make use of the CICI interim legal entity identifier, cementing that nomenclature’s...
Alacra Reference Data Service Details 200,000 Global Legal Entities
Online business information provider Alacra is aiming to help financial firms solve regulatory and compliance problems, and get ready for next year’s introduction of the global legal entity identifier (LEI), with a database of clean legal entity data attributes covering towards 200,000 global business entities. The company’s so-called Alacra Authority File (AAF) expands on publically...
Risklab Centralises Risk Data Management with Xenomorph TimeScape
Risklab, the investment and risk solutions specialist within Allianz Global Investors, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape to provide a dynamic risk data management platform that can support the risk services it operates on behalf of its institutional clients. The company considered a number of data management solutions before selecting Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management system....
Another Take On Market Data Latency Disparities
There’s been a fair amount of media coverage resulting from the recent $5 million fine levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission on NYSE Euronext, caused in the most part by the exchange’s failure to provide data to third parties as quickly as it did to its own data feeds. Now, not to make light...
Leveraging Algo Boost ASIC, Cisco Introduces Sub-200 Nanosecond Switch
Cisco Systems is today introducing its Nexus 3548 network switch, incorporating proprietary Algorithm Boost (aka Algo Boost) ASIC chip technology, which pushes port-to-port cut through latency down to 190 nanoseconds for typical financial trading applications. Moreover, latency of 50 nanoseconds is possible for straightforward one-to-many market data distribution. Cisco execs say the switch is “orderable”...