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SIX Financial Information Puts Defensibility at Core of Evaluated Pricing Service
SIX Financial Information has put defensibility at the heart of its next-generation Evaluated Pricing Service (EPS), which will replace existing pricing products covering complex securities pricing and fair value pricing. Migration to the new service started this week and is expected to be complete by the end of October with most existing customers simply switching...
Considerations for Low Latency in Asia Pacific – Part 2 – Infrastructure Development
In the not too distant past, Asia was thought to have a lower quality infrastructure than developed nations in North America and Europe. However, widespread government investment in infrastructure projects in the region has seen significant improvements in core underlying infrastructure critical to stable trading platforms. [Before you continue, you might want to read Part...
Hibernia Connects to Amazon Cloud
Hibernia Atlantic is connecting its global network into Amazon’s AWS cloud platform, via the latter’s AWS Direct Connect facility, which provides higher bandwidth and possibly lower costs, compared to internet connectivity. AWS Direct Connect is available at several Amazon platform instances, including those in New York City, Virginia, California, plus London in the UK and...
TS-Associates Look To Cut (Cycling) Latency in The Alps
Those civic-minded chaps at TS-Associates are participating in The Alpine Challenge in early September – cycling a series of mountain stages in the French Alps – all for the UK Youth charity. The company is fielding a four-person team (though not CEO Henry Young, as he claims he has a bad knee), who will compete...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Jewel in the Reference Data Crown
How is your knowledge of India’s geography? By which I mean: Do you know where Pune and Chennai are? And how long does it take to get to Bangalore from Mumbai? Mine’s appalling. So I’m going to brush up on what’s where in relation to where. It’s a big place, so this could take a...
Thomson Reuters Outlines the Data Challenges and Opportunities of Form PF
Thomson Reuters has warned private fund advisors that they must be able to source substantial amounts of accurate data and automate reporting if they are to meet the regulatory challenge of Form PF. In an industry briefing published this month – titled Form PF: Data Takes Center Stage – Thomson Reuters global head of evaluated...
Market Participants Fund Research in Supercomputing/Data Intensive Science For Financial Markets
A number of financial market participants are funding research into the use of supercomputing and data intensive science directed at improving the stability, regulation and enforcement of U.S. markets. The $100,000 funding is being directed to the Centre for Innovative Financial Technology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The funders are Tudor Investment Corp., AJO Partners,...
DTCC and Swift Signal CICI Portal as First Mover Advantage in Contest to Build LEI Infrastructure
DTCC and Swift are back in play and aiming to be major providers to the global legal entity identifier (LEI) infrastructure after gaining first-mover advantage through this week’s official opening of a web portal for Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) interim compliant identifiers (CICIs). Selecting from four potential providers, the CFTC last month designated the...
Andrew’s Blog: Enterprise Data Soap
The dust had hardly settled on the ‘news’ that former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group chief Jon Robson had left to join NYSE Technologies as CEO – still unconfirmed as of this time of writing – when we learned that his right hand man for the past several years, Enterprise Content head Gerry Buggy, was following...
Considerations for Low Latency in Asia Pacific – Part 1 – Growth and Drivers
Asian markets are undergoing a paradigm shift as they mature, grow and react to the redistribution of global wealth. Markets in the US and Europe have been undergoing rapid change over the last few years with volumes rising, spreads tightening, and significant growth in high frequency and algorithmic trading, together with widespread regulatory change. Some...