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CSC’s Ferrara: Turn Regulatory Compliance into Competitive Advantage
It is no longer enough to take a point-in-time approach to each financial regulation as it emerges. Rather, firms must adopt coherent data management strategies if they are to fulfil all compliance requirements and create competitive advantage from investing in meeting regulations. That’s the message from Davide Ferrara, partner in retail and wholesale banking, financial...
Reference Data Management Takes Center Stage
By Sol Zlotchenko, VP Product Management, Paladyne Systems. Market developments and a host of major regulatory initiatives are forcing the arcane world of reference data into the spotlight. Reference data drives all investment firms’ activities. As Accenture points out, accurate reference and market data are essential for effective investment decisions, trade execution, securities pricing, portfolio...
Interactive Data Joins the Growing Crowd of Solvency II Solution Suppliers
Interactive Data pitches into the Solvency II market today with a service based on existing technology plus one data element sourced from DTCC’s Avox. The company’s Solvency II Service is available immediately to help insurance companies, asset managers and fund administrators ready themselves for the first Solvency II deadline of January 1, 2013. By this...
Nasdaq Releases FPGA-Accelerated Data Feed
Nasdaq has gone live with a version of its TotalView Itch full depth equities feed driven by FPGA technology. The feed is being directed at trading firms that are particularly latency sensitive, with no queuing during data bursts that occur at peak trading periods. The TotalView Itch 4.1 FPGA feed is identical in format to...
Q&A: Fiberblaze’s Troels Gert Nielsen on TCP Offload Approaches, Altera FPGAs and Opening Up in The Big Apple
Trading firms – especially those into HFT – are always looking for a technology edge, and customised solutions can provide it. The custom approach is what Fiberblaze specialises in, though that’s not stopping it releasing a more generalised product this month. Embracing Altera FPGAs, and opening an office in New York City is also in...
Redline Slashes Latency With InRush 3
Redline Trading Solutions has released version 3 of its InRush tick plant, which leverages the latest Intel chips to slash “apples to apples” processing latency from five to just 1.2 microseconds. According to Redline CEO Mark Skalabrin, the latency figures quoted relate to InRush (version 2 versus version 3) running purely on Intel chips, and...
VistaOne Packages vReporter to Deliver Hosted Solvency II Solution
VistaOne Solutions, a division of Netik rebrand CoreOne Technologies, has pulled together some of its existing software and service technologies to deliver a hosted end-to-end packaged solution for Solvency II compliance. The offering is expected to be the first of many, with VistaOne planning to package the vReporter data management and reporting software it acquired...
MIK Lures Data Management Clients with Free Form PF Filing Software
No such thing as a free app? Probably not, but MIK Fund Solutions comes close with the offer of free-of-charge software for Form PF filing. The catch is simple, if users like the software, MIK hopes they will be interested in licensing its data management platform. According to Marshall Safer, co-founder and chief operating officer...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech Bags Robson – What Next?
It was with a mix of satisfaction and relief that I read the press release confirming the appointment of former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group president Jon Robson as CEO of NYSE Technologies. You, of course, read it here first. The question now is what it means for our marketplace. Doubtless our colleagues over at sister...
Tervela, Teradata Partner To Move and Distribute Big Data
Messaging specialist Tervela is partnering with analytics database vendor Teradata, to deliver solutions for moving and distributing big data. The alliance will help customers upload their data into Teradata’s data warehouse for analysis, and will also allow rapid distribution of data across multiple warehouses. “We are seeing demand for high performance data movement in capital...