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IMS Launches SEC Service to Help Advisers & Managers Cope with Dodd-Frank
A new service has been developed by The IMS Group (IMS), the leading regulation and compliance consultancy, to meet the needs of non-US based investment managers affected by the imminent implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. More than three quarters of the hundred delegates at a recent IMS conference expressed...
SIX Telekurs and TNS Intensify Collaboration to Target Growth in Asia
Financial information provider SIX Telekurs and Transaction Network Services, a global data connectivity provider, are intensifying their collaboration to source real-time market data from high growth financial centres in Asia. TNS will host communications between market data sources in Asia and SIX Telekurs? regional data centre in Singapore. Significant among the data sources are stock...
FPGA Momentum Accelerates!
Perhaps it’s just me reacting to NIWeek, which just concluded here in Austin, but I seem to be noticing the F word – for FPGA (that’s Field Programmable Gate Array for you x86 guys) – cropping up more and more these days. Could it be that these specialised ‘go faster, run cooler’ chips that have...
XTF Data Now Available on RIMES
RIMES Technologies, the award-winning benchmark data service provider, today announced that it has become the first data integrator to offer ETF ratings and analytical data from XTF, the global research and advisory firm dedicated to helping investors harness the power of Exchange Traded Funds. XTF offers a focused range of technical and fundamental research, financial...
UK FSA Finally Launches its Zen System Ahead of November’s AII Reporting Deadline, Details Ref Data Requirements
After a series of delays over the last three years, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has finally launched its new enhanced transaction reporting and market surveillance system for the collection of Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) codes, as required under the upcoming 13 November deadline for the reporting of these new codes. This new identification...
Thomson Reuters Marketing Exec Field Departs for Deutsche Bank
The management shake up within data giant Thomson Reuters has not been restricted to those at the top, individuals from many levels have entered and exited through the revolving doors over the last couple of months. One such exit has been strategic marketing manager Tiffany Field (nee Bloor), who last month joined Deutsche Bank as...
Interactive Data Brings Local Evaluated Pricing Expertise to Germany
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has expanded its award-winning evaluated pricing services capabilities in Germany. A new team of evaluators based in Interactive Data’s Frankfurt office will provide local market knowledge and expertise in the evaluation of German domestic fixed-income securities in...
New S&P Index to Represent the Global Macro/Managed Futures Universe
S&P Indices has launched the S&P Systematic Global Macro Index (SGMI), which aims to reflect price trends of highly liquid global futures, representing the general level of volatility taken by managers in the global macro and managed futures/Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) space. The Index is diversified globally across 37 constituents, falling into the six most...
FOW TRADEdata Named TT Connected Partner
Trading Technologies International (TT), a leading provider of order-entry software and solutions for professional derivatives traders, and FOW TRADEdata, a specialist data aggregator and distributor of reference data for exchange traded derivatives, are pleased to announce that FOW TRADEdata has been named a TT Connected Partner. FOW TRADEdata’s Xymbology service ensures clean symbol mapping of...
Q&A: Cisco’s Dave Malik on New Nexus Switches and Trading Fabric Architectures
Earlier this year, Cisco Systems announced new switches focused firmly on the low-latency trading space, and along with them, it announced its Trading Fabric architecture, setting out how these switches, along with other components, can be deployed to solve real-life application challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com checked in with Cisco’s director of solutions architecture Dave Malik to get some...