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Q&A: September’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
Here are the latest questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community e-mail bag, together with some brief answers. There’s an update on Knight Capital, Cisco’s new switch (and other switch offerings), Nasdaq OMX’s new FPGA data feed, and also the bigger picture on market data rates. Q: What’s the latest on Knight Capital and the rogue algo...
The Rise of Cloud Computing Within the Financial Trading Sector
Mainstream cloud adoption across the financial vertical initially started with buy- and sell-side trading firms needing an accessible platform scalable enough to store their immense volumes of market data and run risk analyses or other algorithms. The cloud was chosen as the logical solution, satisfying the security, compliance and low latency requirements associated with such...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – Back in N.Y.C.
On a conference call the other day chatting about – what else? – LEI, a friend remarked on how ridiculously busy he was. Jetting about the place, flying in to here and there, meeting with clients, risking life and limb for the good of the company. “It’s that time of the year,” he said. “Budget...
Actian Approaches One Year; Delivers Vectorwise Appliance With Lenovo
Just ahead of the first anniversary of its corporate makeover, Actian has introduced its Vectorwise Data Mart Appliance, in partnership with Lenovo. Initial models – based on Lenovo’s ThinkServer RD360 server – come in 100 gigabyte and one terabyte flavours. Formerly known as Ingres, Actian continues to develop and sell the open source transactional database...
Market Participants Focus on the Cost, Adoption and Long-Term Success of the LEI
Issues of cost, adoption and long-term success dominated a debate on the legal entity identifier (LEI) held in London last week. The debate on ‘The Implications of Building a Global Legal Entity Identifier’ – organised by Interactive Data and Goodacre – featured speakers from DTCC, HSBC Securities, JP Morgan and Interactive Data. Mark Davies, vice...
GoldenSource Offers Hosted Enterprise Data Management Platform
GoldenSource is back in the off-the-shelf solutions market with a hosted version of its enterprise data management (EDM) platform. The company released the first in a planned series of packaged applications, the GoldenSource Insight dashboard, earlier this month. GoldenSource OnDemand, like the packaged products, is a response to increasing cost pressure in the market and...
AMD SeaMicro Server Offers 512 Cores and 5PB Storage; And Intel Chips!
AMD’s just announced SeaMicro SM15000 server and Freedom Fabric Storage is pushing density limits by packing up to 512 compute cores with 4TB of RAM into a 10 RU system, connecting into up to more than five petabytes of disk storage. Unusually, the first units available will feature chips from rival Intel, with models based...
S&P Capital IQ Works with Dun & Bradstreet to Build Out Private Company Data
S&P Capital IQ has more than doubled its coverage of private company data in Western Europe and North America following a deal with Dun & Bradstreet to provide raw data that is then cleaned and checked for integrity by S&P Capital IQ. While S&P Capital IQ has offered some private company information for a couple...
OFR’s Blaszkowsky Challenges Industry to Make Data Fit for Purpose
David Blaszkowsky, senior policy advisor at the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), has challenged perceptions of data management in financial markets, saying data is not a conundrum but a business problem that can be tackled in a way that other industries have tackled problems using a rigorous and judicious approach. Speaking at this week’s...
The LEI Standard: Universal Acceptance
By Bill Meenaghan, Global Product Manager, Omgeo ALERT These are interesting times for the reference data industry. Ambitions for a universal standard to quickly and easily identify the legal entities of financial institutions globally may, at one time, have been considered over-ambitious. The global coordination and project management required to establish a universal standard –...