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Q&A: Ron Huizen of BittWare on Accelerating FPGA Development
BittWare was in the news recently with its FPGA network boards being adopted by Fixnetix for its trading and pre-trade risk offering. As well as providing hardware, BittWare’s also has tools to speed up FPGA development, helping to overcome a much-cited drawback of adopting them. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s vice president of technology Ron…
Swift Struggles to Stay in the Game as FSB Favours Federated Approach to LEI
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has veered away from existing plans for the infrastructure that will support legal entity identifiers (LEIs), proposing a federated model for the distribution and registration of LEI numbers rather than a single and central global registration authority. This could be a significant blow to Swift, which was selected last year…
Opinion: 20 Points on the LEI Initiative
By Allan D. Grody, President, Financial InterGroup Holdings 1. There was a rush to pass legislation in the US after the onset of the financial crisis 2. The legislation was written piecemeal as you would expect since the financial industry itself is “piecemeal”, that translates into silos of business and piecemeal/silos of understanding 3. The…
Andrew’s Blog – Risk Architectures R Us
For those of you who missed last month’s seminar in London on approaches to risk data, fret no more: We will be continuing the debate next Thursday in a webinar with our friends from Lloyds Bank, Sybase and Fidessa; sign up here, it’s free, and it’ll also give you a flavour of what we have…
NYSE Technologies, Bloomberg Offering Open Data APIs
This week’s formal roll out of OpenMAMA – aka the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API – from NYSE Technologies and friends (now officially hosted as a Linux Foundation project) means that trading firms and vendors now have a choice of open data APIs, the other being Bloomberg’s newly open BLPAPI. OpenMAMA – now at…
Multiple Repositories Expected to Emerge for Derivatives Trade Reporting
Regulations requiring derivatives trades to be reported to data repositories are looming in the US and not far behind in Europe, yet uncertainty remains about what exactly must be reported, which firms must report and how many data repositories there will be on a global scale. Debating the problems and opportunities of reporting derivatives trades…
SwiftRef Utility to Include LEI, Reference Data
Interbank messaging organisation Swift is suggesting that its SwiftRef payments reference data utility, which went live in January, will also host legal entity identifier (LEI) reference data when it becomes available later this year, and perhaps securities reference data as well. SwiftRef was conceived to fill a perceived market gap in accurate and up-to-date payments…
US Data Transparency Coalition Focuses on Federal Data in Capital Markets
The US Data Transparency Coalition (DTC) introduced last week to advocate for the standardisation of federal data published online, warns that without significant changes in electronic data creation and management capital markets remain open to a crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. If that is a worst case scenario of…
Trading Technologies/MathWorks Partner for Data Intensive Quant Trading
Trading Technologies International, which develops trading systems for the derivatives markets, has partnered with MathWorks, developer of the Matlab data analysis and numerical computation package, to link the two systems so that data intensive quantitative trading algorithms can access realtime pricing and submit orders directly to markets. The Matlab Datafeed Toolbox leverages Trading Technologies’ XTAPI…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Louis Lovas on Deep Data
OneMarketData has been building technology to process big data since way before the term even existed. Its customers actually need to process “deep data” – reliable and accurate data instances down to a granular level, stored over long periods of time. We spoke to OMD’s director of solutions Louis Lovas about deep data, and what…