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Pivotal Taps NYSE for Data Dispatch Middleware
Pivotal – the EMC/VMware analytics spinout – has released Pivotal Data Dispatch (PDD), a platform for discovery of and analytical processing on data stored in disparate repositories. The product was developed at NYSE Euronext for its internal surveillance and regulatory purposes and has been in use there since 2007. According to product documentation, PDD provides…
Citicom Solutions Fulfils Dodd-Frank Trade Recording and Reconstruction Requirements
Citicom Solutions is pushing its Assure voice and text data capture and analysis solution beyond the UK and into the US market with a view to helping financial firms meet Dodd-Frank regulation requiring swap trading communications to be recorded and trades to be reconstructed. The real-time solution is also designed to provide a proactive view…
Market Surveillance Requires Systems that are Lean, Fast and Flexible
In a highly regulated trading market that is growing in complexity, yet must prove transparency, market surveillance is a significant challenge – but it can be addressed using technologies that span systems and data management, and deliver real-time alerts of potential abuse in the market. The pressing issues of surveillance and how best to tackle…
IBM Combines Algo Risk Service with Managed Data to Deliver Cloud Risk Analytics
IBM has combined its Algo Risk Service, a cloud-based risk offering acquired with Algorithmics in 2011, with cloud managed data services to deliver IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud, a risk analytics solution that transforms upstream and downstream data to make it available for portfolio and enterprise risk modelling. The service is offered as a…
Oddo Asset Management Selects CounterpartyLink for Entity Data
Oddo Asset Management has selected CounterpartyLink to supply validated legal entity data and links to pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that will be used to support regulatory requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC). The French asset manager has online access to CounterpartyLink’s central entity database, which includes content defined by and used by clients. Tanguy…
Low Latency Summit: News and Social Media Analytics Move into High Speed Trading
Real-time news has already made its way into high speed trading strategies and social media is not far behind. But these big data sources need to be handled with care, and focused analytic solutions may be the best way to start. This was the conclusion from a panel discussion addressing ‘News and Social Media for…
Global Legal Entity Identifier System is Moved Another Step Closer to Completion
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system has taken another significant step forward with the endorsement of three pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the exclusion of 3,000 pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) codes from the system. It is also finalising the appointment of a board directors for the…
A-Team’s DMS Awards Reward Best and Brightest in the Industry
A-Team Group hosted its inaugural DMS Data Management awards ceremony at last week’s DMS event in London, with the awards presented to the great and the good of the data management community by our own president and editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney, in a bow tie no less. The awards were devised to give recognition to those…
DMS Review: Regulation, Data Complexity Seen as Key Drivers in Coming 18 Months
Regulation will be the main challenge for data managers over the next two years, but it won’t be the only challenge as data complexity and volumes increase, business users demand better data, and unstructured data becomes part of the big picture. Still more, these challenges must be tackled in an environment of cost constraint. That…
DMS Review: LEIs and the Focus on Entity Data
The emerging global legal entity identifier (LEI) remains far from the tipping point of acceptance across global capital markets and for some it appears as a precursor to a vast mapping exercise. But the standard is gaining ground and will form an integral element of the entity data that’s increasingly needed by companies and required…