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Andrew’s Blog – Risk Architectures R Us
For those of you who missed last month’s seminar in London on approaches to risk data, fret no more: We will be continuing the debate next Thursday in a webinar with our friends from Lloyds Bank, Sybase and Fidessa; sign up here, it’s free, and it’ll also give you a flavour of what we have...
NYSE Technologies, Bloomberg Offering Open Data APIs
This week’s formal roll out of OpenMAMA – aka the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API – from NYSE Technologies and friends (now officially hosted as a Linux Foundation project) means that trading firms and vendors now have a choice of open data APIs, the other being Bloomberg’s newly open BLPAPI. OpenMAMA – now at...
With SIX Rollout, Nasdaq OMX Pushes Matching Latency Below 40 Microseconds
With SIX Swiss Exchange now up and running with its new SWXess platform, its technology supplier Nasdaq OMX can point to the fastest implementation of its X-Stream Inet matching technology, with average round-trip latencies of less than 40 microseconds. That’s probably the fastest matching engine anywhere in the world today. SWXess went live with equities...
S&P Capital IQ Details Plans for QuantHouse and R2 Acquisitions
S&P Capital IQ has set out its store following the February acquisition of risk analytics provider R2 and the April addition of real-time exchange and market data supplier QuantHouse saying its existing products will be integrated with the new arrivals to deliver more and more innovative solutions. According to Lou Eccleston, president of S&P Capital...
Multiple Repositories Expected to Emerge for Derivatives Trade Reporting
Regulations requiring derivatives trades to be reported to data repositories are looming in the US and not far behind in Europe, yet uncertainty remains about what exactly must be reported, which firms must report and how many data repositories there will be on a global scale. Debating the problems and opportunities of reporting derivatives trades...
Connectivity and Co-Lo Roundup: CFN, Colt, Interxion, SIX, Thomson Reuters …
It’s TradeTech time in chilly and soggy London (though I am happily writing this from sunny, 90-degree Austin) – which means a deluge of press releases that is a Big Data problem in itself. Here are some highlights, focusing on connectivity, co-lo and a bit of cloud. CFN Services – is moving into Europe, starting...
Fixnetix Taps BittWare, Altera FPGAs for iX-eCute Phase 2
Fixnetix is tapping BittWare, and its latest Altera Stratix V FPGA-based network cards, to support the second phase of its iX-eCute trade execution and pre-trade risk service. The move represents a boost for Altera, since iX-eCute originally leveraged FPGAs from rival Xilinx. “We’re pleased to be at the second phase of iX-eCute, and our newly...
SwiftRef Utility to Include LEI, Reference Data
Interbank messaging organisation Swift is suggesting that its SwiftRef payments reference data utility, which went live in January, will also host legal entity identifier (LEI) reference data when it becomes available later this year, and perhaps securities reference data as well. SwiftRef was conceived to fill a perceived market gap in accurate and up-to-date payments...
China’s CITIC Securities Moves into International Trading with GoldenSource
Beijing-based CITIC Securities has selected GoldenSource to provide a core enterprise data management (EDM) platform to support its move into international securities trading. The first phase of data management will use the GoldenSource Securities & Products solution as the security reference data platform.
US Data Transparency Coalition Focuses on Federal Data in Capital Markets
The US Data Transparency Coalition (DTC) introduced last week to advocate for the standardisation of federal data published online, warns that without significant changes in electronic data creation and management capital markets remain open to a crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. If that is a worst case scenario of...