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ConvergEx Appoints Jim Karelas Head of Asia-Pacific Transition Management
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that Jim Karelas has joined the firm as head of Asia-Pacific Transition Management. In his new role, Mr. Karelas is based in Sydney, Australia and reports to Kal Bassily, head of Global Transition Management. “Jim brings with him many years of experience in the transition management space,...
Xtrakter to Offer New FSA Reporting for Derivatives Trades
Xtrakter, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting, is now reporting derivative transaction data for clients to the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) using a newly implemented industry format – the Alternative Instrument Identifier (Aii). In compliance with MiFID, the use of Aii for transaction reporting across Europe for derivatives...
Shakeup Continues at S&P, as President Sharma Indicates Citi’s Peterson Will Take Over Next Month
Standard & Poor’s president Deven Sharma, who has recently overseen the internal restructuring of the credit agency and data vendor into two separate businesses, has indicated that next month he will be handing over his responsibilities to Douglas Peterson, who is currently chief operating officer of Citibank. Sharma will stay on in an advisory capacity...
Andrew’s Blog – Get Involved in A-Team’s DMRAV Event – London October 17
While London’s weather may not make for exciting summer activities, we’re getting mildly animated at the prospect of pulling together the programme for our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London on October 17. Ages away? Hardly. Get the bank holiday weekend out of the way and it’s just a month to...
Capco Expands UK Capital Markets Leadership Team as Industry Undergoes Fundamental Reforms
Capco, the global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial services industry, has appointed Rob Deakin as a Partner within its UK capital markets leadership team, where he will be working with Tier One investment banks on improving the performance of their technology organisations. Rob joins Capco with significant consulting expertise in investment...
DataFlux Gains Solvency II Momentum with New European Insurance Customers
DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced that nine European insurance firms have selected its technology over the past few quarters to underpin their Solvency II data management initiatives. The DataFlux Solvency II data governance framework is being used by firms to take practical steps to adhere to a wide range of...
Vienna Stock Exchange Positions itself as Data Hub for CEE
The market data of the Macedonian Stock Exchange can now be subscribed to via the Vienna Stock Exchange. This is another step forward for the Vienna Stock Exchange in its endeavor to position itself as the data hub for CEE. The one-stop shop concept of the Vienna Stock Exchange means that data vendors can subscribe...
BreakingPoint Adds Latency Monitoring
BreakingPoint Systems – yep, yet another Austin neighbor of mine – which specialises in performance and resiliency testing technology, has introduced network latency monitoring to its FireStorm CTM test suite. Its new BitStream Test Lab is targeted at layer 2/3 testing, and incorporates: – A clock resolution of 10 nanoseconds.– 10 Gigabits per second traffic...
IBM Publishes Redpaper: “WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging in Financial Exchanges”
Just off the presses is this technical document – IBM refers to them as redpapers – on “WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging in Financial Exchanges.” Among other things, it illustrates how to create a “highly available matching engine component,” using the RCMS (Reliable and Consistent Message Streaming) API. For more information, and to download the...
Q&A: NYSE Technologies’ Brian Doherty on Data Fabric V6 and MultiVerb
NYSE Technologies recently rolled out version 6 of its Data Fabric messaging platform, including significant new functionality for scale out of networks while maintaining very low latency. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com checked in with Brian Doherty, NYSE Technologies’ global product manager for Data Fabric, to find out the how and the what. Q: For Data Fabric 6, you...