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A-Team Webinar Details the Need for Independent and Transparent Security Valuations
Independent and transparent security valuations have become essential to financial institutions that must meet growing regulatory requirements with a focus on valuations and liquidity. Panel members joining this week’s A-Team Group webinar, Managing Valuations Data for Optimal Risk Management, agreed that independence and transparency are key to valuations, and highlighted growing market understanding and interest...
Victory Snaps Up Sailfish; Expands to New Geographies, Asset Classes
Chicago-based Victory Networks, which provides co-location and technology services to boutique trading firms, has acquired New York City’s SailFish Systems in order to expand its services into new geographies and asset classes. Driving the combination are the technology needs of a growing number of startups being created by algorithmic traders leaving major players. These new...
Q&A: GigaSpaces’ Adi Paz on In-Memory Performance and Big Data
The In-Memory term is increasingly in use, and in the context of big data. We asked Adi Paz, vice president of marketing and business development at GigaSpaces Technologies, to explain the integration of in-memory and big data technologies, and what benefits can be expected. Q: Let’s begin with some GigaSpaces and XAP basics. Can you...
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...