Bloomberg PolarLake Brings Managed Service for EDM to Market
Bloomberg PolarLake has rolled out the enterprise data management (EDM) managed service it proposed after its May 2012 acquisition by Bloomberg. The service will initially support security master and pricing data processing with more options to come later this year. Swedbank is its first user and SIX Financial Information its first data provider. PolarLake did...
Former Avox Chief Price Returns to Data Management Coalface at Strevus
Ken Price, the co-founder and CEO of Avox, who left the company late last year, has surfaced as vice president of sales at Strevus, a Silicon Valley start-up aimed at driving down the cost and improving the quality of managing digital assets in the finance sector. At Strevus, Price joins founders Ken Hoang, CEO of...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Markit Eats Asset Control – Can It Be True?
That Asset Control has been on the sales block for the better part of the 12 months isn’t a surprise to anyone. But that Markit, recent acquirer of EDM platform Cadis, would be the acquirer from current owner Fidelity Ventures? That’s something else. To be fair, we’ve been hearing that Asset Control, an early innovator...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS 2013 – On LEI and Other Data Management Challenges
Data management is critical to the challenges facing financial services and capital markets participants. Across the board, from meeting increasing regulation and getting in line behind the forthcoming legal entity identifier (LEI) to enhancing transparency and risk management, data management is key. It features in many of the issues we have covered over the past...
Chaikin Offers iPad Stock Analytics Application and Prepares Trading Element
Chaikin Analytics, the equity analytics provider set up in 2009 by Wall Street veteran and real-time analytics workstation pioneer Marc Chaikin, has introduced Chaikin Analytics for iPad, an investment analytics application for the iPad and iPad Mini that is targeted to attract between 5,000 and 10,000 subscribers over the next two years. Version 1.0 of...
Basel Committee Publishes Definitive Principles for Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published ‘Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting’, a final document based on an earlier version of the principles issued in June 2012 for consultative purposes. The document includes 14 principles grouped into four headline topics and states that global systemically important banks (G-Sibs) should start...
Quartet FS Opens Access to ActivePivot Analytics Engine
Quartet FS has opened access to its ActivePivot in-memory analytics engine by adding support for a number of non-proprietary front-end user interfaces to the software. As an alternative to the Quartet FS Live interface, the company is offering access to ActivePivot through visualisation tools that are compatible with the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query language for...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Billion Dollar Startup
Last year was a busy year from Standard & Poor’s, or at least for the part of Standard & Poor’s that is now known as S&P Capital IQ. President Lou Eccleston – who cut his teeth in our industry as part of the core management team of Bloomberg, where he headed sales for many years...
Volksbank Employs MXG Team for Misys to Murex Migration
Volksbank ?sterreich is working with Murex system integrator MXG Team to migrate its trading and risk management activities from Misys Summit and Kondor+ platforms to a single Murex 3.1 MXpress platform. Phase 1 of the project was completed at the end of November 2012 and migrated a Summit front-to-back office system to the Murex platform...
Australia’s ASIC Taps First Derivatives Big Data Solution for Market Surveillance
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)’s selection of First Derivatives’ Delta Stream+ Market Surveillance solution is aimed at giving the regulator the same kinds of tools available to high frequency traders for monitoring market activity and identifying possible fraudulent behaviour. The deployment of Delta Stream+ is seen as an early application of big data...