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The Network Effect
Looking at the latest news from Sanford C. Bernstein, about them joining SunGard’s Global Network got me thinking a bit. First, what does the “C” stand for? Next, since I couldn’t find an answer to that first one, is where do networks from the likes of SunGard fit in the low-latency world? And it all…
Asset Control’s McGranaghan on the Data Vendor’s Partnership with Oracle
Asset Control is one of a number of vendors working with Oracle to benchmark its technology capabilities with a view to the vendors working closely together to improve the scalability and response times of EDM solution vendor’s platform. Reference Data Review speaks to Donal McGranaghan, senior vice president of product and development at Asset Control, about how…
Strange Bedfellows in Singapore?
Certainly in some people’s eyes. Or maybe just an example of pragmatism, co-operation and even industry standards at work. I speak of the rollout at the Singapore Exchange of pre-trade risk functionality in the form of the Risk Management Gateway from NYSE Technologies. And its soon to be hookup with the exchange’s new matching system,…
The Business Benefits of Lowering Latency – What Are They?
There’s much talk of late about whether investment in reducing latency is worth it. OK, that’s expressing this issue very simply, but for sure there is more focus on determining actual business benefits resulting from lowering latency, and the associated technology costs. One global investment bank turned to Sumerian to help them bridge business and…
Low Latency and Windows – Strange But True?
Reading through the latest from TS-Associates, it was interesting to learn that their Application Tap function now supports Windows, from the makers of Xbox. It got me thinking about how widespread the adoption of Windows is for low-latency applications, so I asked the company’s CEO Henry Young for his thoughts. “There is a surprising amount…
Market Data Peaks Smashes Through 5 Million!
Wow! My favourite website MarketDataPeaks.com hit 5.12 million messages/second – a new record – on June 30. In part, the new peak is because the service is now including NYSE’s OpenBook Ultra, which only recently got added with an update to the site. Also, the update fixed an issue with OPRA, which was being under…
State Street to Provide Multi-Domicile Investment Manager Operations Outsourcing for the F&C Group
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, announced today that it has been appointed by F&C Asset Management (F&C) to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for some £106 billion in assets. State Street will provide F&C, and its subsidiary Thames River Capital with services for their global…
Virginie’s Blog – Keeping an Eye on Google
I noted the announcement of Google’s participation in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s new data standards subcommittee this month with interest. Given its potential in the financial services market in the area of data management (in the cloud) and the experience it brings to the table, it’s a surprise that steps hadn’t been taken sooner…
EFAMA Elects Mr Claude Kremer as its New President
EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association, has announced today that Mr Claude Kremer was elected President of EFAMA for a two-year term. The election of the new EFAMA head took place in Lucerne during the Annual General Meeting. The representatives of the European investment management industry also appointed two Vice-Presidents, Mr Christian Dargnat…
A Low-Latency Lap of SIFMA
Well, I’ve actually completed a few laps of the exhibits over the past couple of days. There’s no doubt the show was once again smaller than before, but the world of low latency was still pretty well represented. Here are some notes from what I’ve seen … * Content providers were few and far between….