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People Moves: Smartstream, Statpro, Thomson Reuters, CME, AIMA and more
Some industry people moves, courtesy of Áine Hall at Hawk Search SmartStream appointed Richard Nicholas as director of professional services, APAC. (Smartstream press release.) StatPro announced Dr Ian Thompson has joined the group as client integration director. (StatPro press release.) Liquid Holdings Group announced the appointments of financial services industry veterans Jeremy Shaw, Richard Boesch…
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…
ICE Targets Strategic Growth through Acquisition of SuperDerivatives
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) plans to expand its market data, risk management and clearing operations through the acquisition of SuperDerivatives. The acquisition will be made through an all-cash transaction that puts a price tag of about $350 million on SuperDerivatives and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014. The acquisition of SuperDerivatives follows…
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…
Exegy Extends MarketDataPeaks to Canadian Markets
Market data appliance provider Exegy has teamed up with TMX Datalinx, the information services division of TMX Group, and the Financial Information Forum (FIF) to deliver MarketDataPeaks.ca, a free web service providing real-time information about market data messaging rates across major Canadian exchanges. The service includes a daily chart that is designed to help market…
Etrali Develops Solution for Market Communication Requirements of MiFID II
Financial firms subject to MiFID II must tackle the problem of recording, retaining and providing access to market communications in order to comply with the regulation’s data retention requirements and satisfy any increased regulatory scrutiny of recorded calls and emails. Robert Powell, global head of compliance and product management at Etrali Trading Solutions, says many…