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Opinion: Size Isn’t Everything – Handling Big Data Variety
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services In my last post I briefly touched on the subject of unstructured data and schema-less repositories. In this instalment, I’d like to focus on this topic in a bit more detail, and look at the Variety aspect of Big Data from several angles….
We’re Back … With Some Industry Views …
Welcome to 2012 from Low-Latency.com! We hope it will be a year of success and prosperity for all in our community. We ended last year with a few of our own predictions, to to get this one going, we asked some of our friends what they expected to see over the next 12 months. Here…
Q&A: Joshua Walsky of Broadway Technology on Functional Scale and “Build and Buy”
Any trading technology firm that is co-headquartered in New York City and Austin, Texas, gets my attention, even when it’s been flying under the radar for the past few years. Now, Broadway Technology is taking investment from its clients – including Goldman Sachs – to accelerate its rate of growth. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the…
Heptagon Capital Goes Live with Thomson Reuters Pricing and Reference Data via Advent
Advent Software, a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, and Thomson Reuters today announced that Heptagon Capital, a specialized investment management firm, can access pricing and reference data from Thomson Reuters via Advent’s new market data interface. This critical and timely information will enable Heptagon Capital to enhance its…
Q&A: Pierre Feligioni of QuantHouse on Why FPGAs Are The Next Step
QuantHouse is an established player in the low-latency datafeed handling business, but only very recently launched a hardware accelerated solution. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked the vendor’s co-founder and COO Pierre Feligioni to explain the move, and provide some more technical detail. Q: QuantBOX is your first offering to make use of hardware acceleration. With the continuing performance…
Trillium Targets Data Management Solution at Fatca Compliance
Trillium Software aims to ease the data management burden on financial institutions that must comply with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) with data assessment and management services that will help them identify, gather and manage the data needed to meet the Act’s requirements. For many, compliance will be neither easy nor low…
CMA Launches CMA NAVigate 1.8, Providing OTC Derivatives Valuations On-Demand
CMA, the leading provider of intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has launched a new release of CMA NAVigate, its web-based workflow solution which brings transparency and independence to the valuation of OTC positions. CMA NAVigate 1.8 introduces an intuitive user interface that provides the tools, pricing transparency and real-time support that clients require…
Pricing Partners Introduced a Generic Solver to Smoothen Trades Structuring
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that its award winning solution, Price-it Excel is now shipped with a generic solver to enable users to structure their trades easily and seamlessly. Leveraging the scripting language that allows pricing virtually any financial derivatives, this solver can…
Toyota Tsusho Metals Deploys IPC’s Unigy Trading Platform in Japan
IPC Systems Inc., a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms, today announced the successful, live implementation of Unigy, its revolutionary new unified trading communications platform, at Toyota Tsusho Metals Ltd (TTM), Branch in Nagoya Japan, a company operating in futures and options trading on the…
Opinion: The FSA, ESMA and the Commission – The Markets’ Strictest Parents?
By Matthew Coupe, sales director, EMEA, Redkite Financial Markets When the UK’s streets broke out into mass rioting this summer, the UK government responded with unprecedented force. Officially, the riots were quashed by intelligence-led, nationally mobilised law enforcement, backed by the politicians at the heart of Westminster. Unofficially, of course, the streets were out of…