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A Recruiter’s View: On FPGAs, Big Data And Women

Three very interesting features have emerged in fintech recruitment in the first trimester of 2013. The on off nature of FPGA development has led to cluster hiring in the space, big data has taken strides forward and there has been a noticeable improvement in diversity as companies take steps to add more women to their teams. Suspicion…

GoldenSource Responds to Market Interest in Financial Industry Business Ontology

The decision by GoldenSource to map its enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) signals initial industry take up of the semantic standard, which GoldenSource suggests could go as far as becoming a regulatory requirement for reporting. FIBO is an initiative of the EDM Council and describes in business terms…

GoldenSource Sets out LEI Store and Suggests an Entity Data Utility to Commoditise Compliance

GoldenSource is addressing the arrival of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) with its existing enterprise data management (EDM) software and the suggestion of a data utility that could commoditise compliance with regulations based on the LEI. The company has made its software LEI ready by allowing users to add LEI codes as additional or primary entity…

DTCC Plans Vendor Workgroup to Tackle Data Accuracy of the CICI and LEI

DTCC has responded to criticisms covering the accuracy and quality of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) it issues on behalf of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saying data issues highlighted in a blog by data consolidator Alacra are the result of how business rules are being applied to entity registrations. Despite its defence, DTCC…

Markit Builds on Risk Expertise to Extend Functionality of Portfolio Valuations Service

Markit has added in-house risk expertise and newly developed scenario analysis to its portfolio valuations service with a view to offering users improved risk management and increased transparency around valuations. The same market data and pricing models are used to drive both risk and valuations, allowing the service to provide value at risk (VaR) and…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Close Shave

Anyone who was lucky enough to squeeze into the opening keynote presentation at our Data Management Summit in March (standing room only) would have heard me winging it a little as I awaited our speaker – Wipro’s Paolo Mittiga – who’d been delayed by various transportational snafus. When I took the stage to offer our…

Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation

By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure…

A-Team Group Webinar Reveals Significant Issues in Development of the Global LEI System

The global legal entity identifier initiative is well underway with a Regulatory Oversight Committee providing governance and pre-Local Operating Units assigning legal entity identifiers, but the ultimate success of the system depends on the as yet unformed Central Operating Unit, the quality of entity data and its ongoing maintenance. These issues and more related to…

Q&A: Gil Tene of Azul Systems on Why Java Works for Low Latency

It’s a bit of a paradox that Java is so widely used across all applications and industries, and yet is often cited as not suitable for the automated trading space. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Gil Tene, CTO and Co-founder of Azul Systems, to find out more about Java performance, and how to improve it. Q: To…

Regulatory Oversight Committee Updates LEI Development Progress

The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative has made its second report on development of the LEI system, detailing progress in each of the three tiers that make up the system and noting ongoing plans for pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and pre-LEIs. The report does not address the burning…