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Q&A: Interactive Data’s Scott Caudell on Co-Lo and Managed Services
Managed service delivery in the low-latency world is an increasing focus as trading firms begin to measure ROI for their IT investments. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Scott Caudell, vice president, IT Infrastructure, at Interactive Data, about its 7ticks business, and where it fits in. Q: To begin with, can you outline what the Interactive Data 7ticks…
Kempen Capital Manages Collateral and Reduces Risk with Omgeo ProtoColl
Amsterdam-based asset manager Kempen Capital Management has implemented Omgeo’s ProtoColl to automate collateral management for OTC derivatives and reduce counterparty and operational risk. The asset manager first outsourced collateral management before bringing it back in house and creating a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet solution that has now been replaced with ProtoColl. The software went live in…
Federated Investors Implements Cadis EDM to Improve Data Management
Federated Investors is implementing the Cadis enterprise data management (EDM) platform to increase operational efficiency, reduce risk and manage data across multiple acquisitions that have supported the $370 billion asset manager’s growth in recent years. The selection of the Cadis EDM, a service oriented architecture (SOA) platform that allows data to be accessed wherever it…
Asset Control Readies AC Plus Data Platform for Transparency Regulations
Asset Control has rebuilt the heart of its AC Plus data management platform to meet demands for transparency in pending regulations such as the US Dodd-Frank Act and Europe’s Basel III and Solvency II directives. The transparency aspects of incoming regulations is having a significant impact on firms’ approaches to data management, a theme that…
S&P Capital IQ Bolsters CMBS Insight with Additions to ABSXchange
S&P Capital IQ has responded to customer demand for greater insight into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) by adding functionality to its ABSXchange structured finance analytics platform and upgrading its Excel Add-in that can be used across asset classes. Additions to the CMBS model within ABSXchange are an improved loan assumptions editor that allows users to…
Andrew’s Blog – MoneyMate Hopes to Capitalise on Fund Data Distribution Challenge
With a newly rebranded fund data management product, and a newly installed London business development executive in the form of Rachael Brown, MoneyMate is seeking to capitalise on the challenge of data management facing fund managers’ distribution operations. According to CEO Paul Fawsitt, fund managers are seeking to gain control over the data they need…
PolarLake Proposes SOA and Semantics for Big Data Management
PolarLake has responded to market – and regulator – demand for a real-time consolidated view of trade, position, reference and client data that can inform operational efficiency, risk management and compliance with a virtualised data warehouse solution based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and semantic technologies. The virtualised data warehouse plays into not only risk and…
Thomson Reuters Puts Onus on Management to Improve Performance
Thomson Reuters is pinning hopes for growth in its Financial & Risk business on the management team formed early this year under the auspices of president David Craig, and a change in attitude to Eikon – no longer a strategy, instead one of many products. The late 2011 shake-up and reorganisation of Thomson Reuters that…
Andrew’s Blog – NYSE’s Schaedel Heads for the Beach
I was sad to hear of Mark Schaedel’s departure from NYSE Euronext, where he has been head of market data for the past several years. Schaedel, based in Amsterdam, has been leading a bunch of innovative projects there, aiming to tap into the wealth of meta-data the exchange generates as a byproduct of its ‘market’…
Rainier Investment Management Selects Charles River as Data Source
Rainier Investment Management is delivering improved and more timely data to its portfolio managers and traders as a result of switching its data source from an incumbent supplier to the Charles River data service and upgrading its implementation of the Charles River investment management solution (IMS). The employee owned, Seattle-based investment bank went live with…