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McObject, MemSQL Continue Focus on In-Memory
There’s nothing that new about in-memory databases, but with advances in hardware behind them, their use within low-latency applications is drawing increasing interest. Recent news from McObject and MemSQL underscores the trend. McObject has released the eXtremeDB Financial Edition, which adds some financial markets functionality to its existing small footprint in-memory database. The key additions...
Aim Software Acquires ABI Informatic for Customer Base and Technology
Aim Software, vendor of the Gain reference data and risk management platform, has bought competitor ABI Informatic in a deal aimed primarily at acquiring its 25 European customers. Terms of the Jun 4 transaction – announced yesterday – which also gives Aim ABI’s Agio data management platform, weren’t disclosed. Vienna-based Aim’s CEO Martin Buchberger describes...
Q&A: July’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
Happy Insurrection Day! Yep, I am a Brit … and so I am working today while most of the low-latency community is having a slow day instead. It seemed a good time to kick off a new monthly series where I get to give some opinions and insight into the world of low latency, and...
ANNA Pitches National Numbering Agencies as LEI Local Operating Units
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is back in the game and vying for a place in the development of the global legal entity identifier system proposed by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and approved by the G20 global summit in Mexico last month. An ANNA general meeting in London last month deemed the...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Summer of LEI
Summer – such as it exists here in London – is typically characterised by a slowdown in activity in our marketplace. But we are bracing ourselves for a busy season as the world ponders just how the legal entity identifier (LEI) will look – and how to deal with it once it emerges. The pace...
Eikon Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ as Thomson Reuters Halts New-Client Sales of 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has halted sales of its 3000 Xtra premium desktop service to new clients, in a move seen as a vote of confidence in successor desktop product Eikon. As of July 31, Thomson Reuters’ sales teams will offer new clients Eikon as the sole choice of premium desktop, although existing 3000 Xtra clients will...
Vertex Analytics Offers Hosted Time Series Data, CEP
Chicago-based Vertex Analytics has unveiled ECHO, combining realtime and historic futures tick data with complex event processing (CEP) technology, delivered on either a client-installed or hosted service. Initially, ECHO is offering data from the Chicago exchanges – the CME and CBOT – as well as from NYMEX and the IntercontinentalExchange, with history back to 2010,...
MapR Betas Hadoop on Google’s New IaaS Cloud
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has begun a private beta program for its offering running on the Google Compute Engine, that company’s recently announced (still in beta itself) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiative. At the announcement of GCE – which provides on-demand Linux-based compute nodes, with storage options – MapR demonstrated the integration, completing a one terabyte TeraSort...
Cusip Outlines Role for Fellow NNAs in Hybrid Approach to LEI
Following proposals for a federated approach (from the Financial Stability Board) and a centralised approach (from DTCC/Sifma) to development of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, Cusip Global Services (CGS) is proposing a hybrid solution that calls for the active involvement of the National Number Agencies in the LEI process. The proposal is aimed...
Stop Press: S&P Capital IQ Swoops on CMA for European Valuations Data
S&P Capital IQ has struck again, continuing its buying spree with the purchase of London-based Credit Market Analysis Ltd., the valuations data subsidiary of CME Group. The acquisition plugs a gap in S&P Capital IQ’s valuations coverage, which will now include CMA’s speciality areas of structured finance and over-the-counter derivatives pricing. S&P Capital IQ’s traditional...