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Bordeaux Dispatch – Extending the Tentacles
Actually, I used Bordeaux to get your attention. I write this blog from rural Perigord – the village of Bourdeilles, to be exact – which sits close to some wine appellations that are regarded as Bordeaux, like St. Emilion and Pomerol. So, yes, it’s a stretch. But there is a theme at play here. Bourdeilles…
Intel’s Nehalem EX Changes the Game for Low Latency
Intel calls its chip release strategy “Tick Tock” which means better, faster, cheaper chips every year. A year ago, the groundbreaking Nehalem chip was introduced, and this past week saw the introduction of a high-end version of that, Nehalem EX. Featuring more cores, better memory I/O and larger memory addressability, the Xeon 7500 as it’s…
Russell Investments And Interactive Data Introduce Fair Value Adjusted Index Information For Select Russell Global Indices
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business will provide its Fair Value Information Service (FVIS) for international equities to Russell Investments for use in providing fair value adjusted information on Russell’s global equity indices. This information is designed to help…
Mackie Research Capital Goes Live on SunGard’s Fame for Pricing Data and Analytics
Mackie Research Capital, one of Canada’s largest independent full service investment firms, has implemented SunGard’s Fame for pricing data and analytics to help support the firm’s investment, research and trading strategies and activities. Providing live data and desktop tools for analysing investment results and opportunities, Fame helps Mackie Research Capital view and analyse accurate, aggregate…
UK FSA Indicates BIC Codes are Needed for all Transaction Reporting Firms, Defers AII System Launch Indefinitely
This month, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has indicated that transaction reporting firms under MiFID will need to obtain a bank identifier code (BIC) in order to be in compliance with wider European level regulations. Firms will have to apply to Swift for a BIC before they email the transactions monitoring unit (TMU) with…
Ex-Netik Exec Hale Joins Multifonds IGEFI as New Global Head of Transfer Agency
After 13 years as executive vice president of EMEA for data management solution vendor Netik, Keith Hale has joined Multifonds IGEFI as its new global head of transfer agency. In his new role, Hale is responsible for all aspects of its software package Multifonds Transfer Agent at the buy side software solution provider including strategy,…
Moving Interactive Forward – Slowly
Unsurprisingly, there has been little news from Interactive Data on how its ‘strategic review’ is progressing. As you’ll recall, the company took everyone by surprise – including its staff – with the announcement that it’s exploring options as its current owner, Pearson, looks at focusing on its core business, which increasingly seems to be not…
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
When we first heard the latest theory on the succession plan for the former Reuters – that is to say, the market data vendor now known as Thomson Reuters Markets – we thought it was just so much tittle-tattle. It was back in October or November, and the integration of Reuters with Thomson Financial had…
Standard Chartered Selects UnaVista for Reference Data Solution
The London Stock Exchange announced today that Standard Chartered, a major international bank, has selected UnaVista as its global repository for reference data. Standard Chartered recently became the first bank to benefit from the Exchange’s partnership with FactSet Research systems, and are now receiving counterparty and issuer linkage data from FactSet through UnaVista. Standard Chartered…
Handling Electronic Records and Dealing with Risk Management
By Robert Jones, legal consultant at Kroll Ontrack, and John Doherty, litigation partner at Manches What other challenges and benefits might arise when addressing the most effective management of electronically stored information? The Information Commissioner’s Office recently announced new fines to deter breaches of the law in relation to personal, which could see organisations being…