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Actian’s Vectorwise 2.5 Now GA
Actian has announced general availability of its Vectorwise 2.5 release, with a continued focus on improved performance for big data applications. New features include a predictive buffer manager to further enhance performance on concurrent queries. In-memory updates are now performed at a more granular level for faster and more efficient inserts and updates. Also, improved...
FSB Outlines Plans for Federated Access to Centralised ISO 17442-Based LEI Database
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has outlined details of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system that it will propose at the forthcoming G20 meeting on June 18-19 in Los Cabos, Mexico. The system would involve the creation of “a ‘logically’ centralised database of identifiers and corresponding reference data” that would appear seamless to users...
Markit Closes Cadis Deal, Rebrands as Markit EDM
Markit has completed the acquisition of Cadis, and will rebrand the data management platform under the Markit Enterprise Data Management banner. The company will sit alongside Markit’s other enterprise businesses, among them Markit Analytics, Markit Portfolio Management and Markit on Demand. As reported, CEO Daniel Simpson will continue to run the business. He’ll also join...
Intel, Ion Provide SSD Boost to kdb+
A just published STAC report sponsored by Intel provides insight into performance benchmarks for Kx Systems’ kdb+ database running against an Ion Computer Systems storage appliance containing solid state disk (SSD) technology from Intel. According to the report, several tests that form part of STAC’s M3 benchmark suite – focused on the performance of historical...
Asset Control Sees Broadening of Data Management Requirement in Japan
Asset Control’s decision to open an office in Tokyo – announced today – stems from a heightened level of interest both from the Japanese financial centre’s major banking institutions and the key service agents that provide trading-related capabilities to much of the domestic market. The data management platform provider has announced plans to bolster its...
Cusip Global Services Talks Down Open Symbology Initiatives and Favours Standards
Cusip Global Services (CGS), the provider of Cusip securities identifiers owned by the American Bankers Association and managed by S&P Capital IQ, has set the cat among the pigeons by criticising proprietary symbologies for their lack of efficient operability. Rather, CGS reckons that standards, supported by organisations such as itself, are the only way forward towards efficient and reliable capital markets. A report on the power...
Q&A: Cross River Fiber’s Michael Sevret on Connectivity and the Mahwah Opportunity
With NYSE Euronext’s announcement that it is to open up remote access into its Mahwah, NJ data centre, one can expect the network provider community to respond to the opportunity to provide new low-latency routes. First to announce its plans is Cross River Fiber. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Michael Sevret, the company’s executive vice president and...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: ReferenceDataReview 2.0
In case you hadn’t already noticed, we used our Data Management Summit on May 22 to introduce our new ReferenceDataReview.com website. We officially relaunched RDR – which we first introduced back in 2003, when reference data was no more than a twinkle in the financial data segment’s eye – last week. The response so far...
Fixed Income with Electronic Trading
In the world of electronic trading, fixed income has seen slow uptake compared to equities and foreign exchange, mainly due to the much more complicated types of underlying financial calculations – which can require many minutes, sometimes even hours of processor time. This stands in marked contrast to electronic trading of equities or foreign exchange...
Lime Brokerage, OneMarketData Offer Quant Trading Platform
Lime Brokerage has tapped OneMarketData to provide a hosted, on-demand analytics for real-time and historical market data covering major U.S. equities and derivatives markets. The offering – powered by OneMarketData’s OneTick tick database and complex event processing product – will deliver an on-demand cloud service that enables quantitative research, rapid design and back-testing of algorithmic...