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Q&A: RTI on The Value of a Millisecond, and How Jitter Fits In
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) recently held a seminar ‘Straight Talk About Low-Latency, The Value of a Millisecond’ which highlighted the relationship between the technical minutiae of low latency systems and the business issues related to electronic trading. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with John Akbari, Director of Financial Market Business Development at RTI, to find out some more…
Brewin Dolphin Opts for Zoomix Accelerator for Instrument, Client Data Management
UK private client investment manager Brewin Dolphin has implemented Zoomix’s Accelerator enterprise data management platform to automate the matching, standardization and classification of hundreds of thousands of customer and financial data records. Accelerator is a so-called ‘self-learning’ data management platform that analyzes the relationships and meanings relevant to any data domain by observing decisions made…
The Sun Sets For Larry, Rises For Others?
It’s been a while I know, but this blogging business just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. My thanks then to “Uncle” Tom Groenfeldt for alerting me on his blog to the recent departure from Sun Microsystems of Larry Scott, where he was vice president for financial services. Larry is going somewhere,…
Q&A: Steve Gleave of Endace on Latency Monitoring
In the news yesterday as a result of its global partnership with Reuters, Endace’s technology – coupled with that of partner Trading Metrics – underpins the Reuters Latency Monitor. But just who is Endace, and what does their technology really do? IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Endace vice president of marketing Steve Gleave to find out more…
A Night At The OPRA Maybe Ain’t So Bad
Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA – the Options Price Reporting Authority – makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite – because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a…
Existing Regulation Could Spur On Corporate Actions STP, Aite Predicts
The lack of an explicit regulatory imperative to address the efficiency of corporate actions processing is often cited as a reason for the industry’s lack of progress towards this goal. While it’s true that efforts like Giovannini do include corporate actions, there is no specific directive or legislation that demands firms meet a standard for…
A-Team Analysis: Can S&P Solve the Problem of Entity Identification Where the ISO Process Has Failed?
Another month, another twist in the tail of the International Business Entity Identifier (IBEI) story. In fact, there could be two twists this month if the Swift CIVIC initiative does turn out to be on the skids. As reported extensively in Reference Data Review last year (in the October 2007 issue among others), the ISO-led…
Swift Admits CIVIC Plans “Under Review”, as Observers Suggest Business Case Proving Difficult
As Reference Data Review went to press, it emerged that Swift could be having second thoughts about pressing ahead with previously-announced plans to allocate BIC-like codes to funds – dubbed CIVICs (Reference Data Review first brought to light Swift’s CIVIC plans as far back as September 2006). In light of the failure of the ISO…
Buy Buy Buy
There was quite a bit of M&A activity last week. Oracle and BEA for $8.5 billion (we’ll have to see whether that’s good news for BEA’s Weblogic Event Server), Sun Microsystems and MySQL for a billion, and NYSE-Euronext snapping up Wombat Financial Software for $200 million. For Wombat – headquartered in Nevada’s Incline Village where…
Now is the Time for Reference Data Collaboration, TowerGroup Says. But is it Really?
When it comes to reference data, TowerGroup has something of a reputation for spotting a trend just as it is about to become a major industry focus. Statistics from the analyst’s first major report on the subject in 2001 and its updated iteration in 2005 are still liberally cited by industry commentators in print and…