GFT Blue Paper Presents the Potential of Big Data Technologies
As the technology infrastructure of financial services firms begins to buckle under the strain of huge and increasing volumes of data, many firms are investing in big data projects to improve data management for the purposes of regulatory compliance, risk reduction, cost efficiency and business benefit. The extent and intent of investment varies, however, with...
Feedzai Partners Azul Systems to Deliver Ultra-Fast Fraud Prevention Solutions
Azul Systems has signed up Feedzai, a company that uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyse big data in commerce, as an independent software vendor that will use its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) to power ultra-fast processing of big data within the Feedzai Fraud Prevention That Learns software. In the financial services sector, Feedzai works...
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Selects Kx Systems kdb+ for Data Analytics
The Laboratory for Financial Innovation at China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is implementing Kx Systems’ kdb+ high-performance database and programming language as the basis of a data analysis platform for market risk assessment, market performance analysis and trading simulations. The Laboratory provides internal services to the exchange and before selecting the Kx Systems solution was...
A-Team Group Webinar Describes a Buy-and-Build Approach to Developing Agile Trading Systems
Agile trading systems are key to market differentiation, but rather than following the well-trodden path of building proprietary systems, firms are beginning to favour a buy-and-build approach that not only meets immediate needs, but also accommodates rapid development to meet evolving trading and customer requirements. Hosting an A-Team Group webinar entitled How to Create an...
Nasdaq OMX Partners Corvil to Dive Deeper into Risk Management
Nasdaq OMX has teamed up with Corvil to enhance its TradeGuard risk management suite with RiskWrapper, a solution designed to provide additional protection against risk by monitoring trades at the network level and comparing them to those in the risk system to identify any abnormal activity and alert users to anomalies. RiskWrapper provides tight integration...
Quincy Expands QED with Eurex Futures
Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of bond and equity futures from Eurex that will be distributed to data centres across the UK, New Jersey and Illinois. This is the first European data source to be added to the service, which already distributes data from eight US exchanges...
Fidessa Develops FIX-Based Affirmation Service for the Buy Side
Fidessa is pushing further into the post-trade space with the addition of an affirmation management service (AMS) for the buy side. The service is due to be available in the fourth quarter of 2014 and follows the introduction of Fidessa’s FIX-based Post-trade Hub for the confirmation of trades between buy-side and sell-side firms in August...
Quincy Expands QED with Equity and Energy Futures
Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of select equity and energy futures sourced from 350 East Cermak and cash treasuries sourced from Carteret. With this development, Quincy clients will not only benefit from additional data sources, but also Quincy’s broad distribution of data from eight exchanges to trading...
Fidessa Promotes David Polen to Global Head of Electronic Execution
Fidessa has appointed David Polen as global head of electronic execution with responsibility for developing the company’s platform and electronic execution capabilities across global markets. Reporting to Mark Ames, global head of sell side services, Polen will deliver a range of managed solutions that will allow brokers to present their clients with intelligent and cost-effective...
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Flash For The Men, Not The Boys
In the search for increased financial application performance, systems architects are exploring a number of different hardware approaches. Parallel processing is one of them. Another is deploying Flash memory as a substitute for hard disk storage, which can be particularly effective where data throughput is a bottleneck. As it happens, quite a bit has been...