The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association has named Marc Alvarez, EVP products and marketing at TAP Solutions, to its board as chairman of its Securities Model Working Group.
The requirement for high-performance data systems to support trading analytics for hedge funds, high-frequency trading firms and electronic liquidity providers is well established. But the explosion in Big Data over the past several years has expanded the scope of inputs being used by these firms. At the same time, cloud technologies have added complexity to...
With Intelligence, the investment intelligence data provider, has acquired CAMRADATA, the London-based data and analysis service for institutional investors, from Punter Southall for an undisclosed sum. “Our mission is to help investment managers raise assets and allocate better, and we do that by giving them the data they need,” says Charlie Kerr, CEO of With...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
At the same time, the growth of high frequency and event-driven trading techniques is spurring demand for direct feed services sourced from exchanges and other trading venues, including alternative trading systems and multilateral trading facilities. Handling these high-speed data feeds its presenting market data managers and their infrastructure teams with a challenge: how to manage...
