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Andrew’s Blog – Big Blue Data
IBM’s announcement this week of plans to acquire Platform Computing vindicates our decision to include some Big Data discussion topics in our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London on October 17 – that’s next week. Big Data has been dismissed in some quarters as just another buzzword. If another such one-time...
Industry Body Goes on Membership Drive
ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, today announced it is launching a campaign to increase membership in the run up to its annual conference. ISITC Europe speaks for the whole industry, including broker/dealers, custodians, investment managers as well as vendors and utilities. Its mission is...
Virginie’s Blog – Musical Chairs
It seems that 2011 has been another year filled with management shakeups, M&A activity and high profile exits and entrances within the vendor and practitioner communities. EDM solution vendors and data vendors in particular seem to have engaged in an ongoing game of musical chairs, not least of which has been the continued reshuffling at...
CFN Adds CME Data, Elementised News to Alpha
CFN Services has augmented its recently-released Alpha Platform with the addition of market data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and elementised news from Selerity. Alpha is CFN’s managed service, providing ready access to market data, news and transactional services from a number of access points globally. CME data will be delivered in a roundtrip time...
Citi Deal Puts Fidessa Derivatives Platform on Global Map
Fidessa just bagged a big one. While its derivative platform has done well in Europe – around 50 customers to date – today’s announcement, made during the Futures Industry Association’s annual expo here in Chicago, of a worldwide rollout by Citi has put it on the global map. The managed service will provide initial low-latency...
Options IT Taps Celoxica for Managed Futures HFT
Managed data and transactions service provider Options IT has tapped Celoxica to provide HFT trading services for futures trading in the U.S. and Europe. By leveraging Celoxica’s Container technology and providing requisite server hardware and connectivity, Options IT customers need just to provide the algorithm code, and can be operational within days. Celoxica’s recently-introduced Container...
Asset Control’s Lynch Discusses Ongoing Hiring Strategy, Gibbins’ Recent Appointment
Earlier this week, EDM vendor Asset Control announced that it had brought on board ex-Microsoft exec Brooks Gibbins to take on responsibility for its product management, corporate strategy and business development across all of its solutions. Phil Lynch, CEO and president at the vendor, explains that the appointment of Gibbins fits into Asset Control’s aim...
RIMES to Unveil Investit Survey Findings in Upcoming Webinar
According to a new study commissioned by RIMES Technologies and conducted by independent research firm Investit, there is an ever increasing demand for additional index and benchmark data as nearly three out of four (72%) global investment management organizations indicated they expect to see an increase in their usage in the coming year. In fact,...
GMI & Si2 Partner, Offering ESG Proxy Research Resource
GMI and Si2 announced today a strategic partnership to provide seamless subscription access, account management and special pricing to the firms’ ESG Board Briefing Research, Shareholder Proposal Analysis, and Executive Pay Scorecards to their institutional and corporate clients. The combination of GMI’s market-leading compensation analysis with Si2’s expert insights into key environmental and social issues...
Axioma Names Ian Webster Managing Director, Europe
Axioma, a leading provider of decision support, risk analysis and portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution tools, today announced that Ian Webster has been appointed Managing Director, Europe. Webster will lead the company’s efforts to accelerate the pace of Axioma’s market share in Europe and will oversee Axioma’s rapidly growing global indexing initiatives. “Europe is an...