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Sheena Clark Extends Remit with Role of Managing Director at BCC Group
Sheena Clark, founder of Financial Machineries, has extended her remit by partnering BCC Group and becoming UK managing director of the company. At BCC, Clark is responsible for all global client activities around the group’s ONE Solution financial data enterprise platform and its market data cloud solutions. She will use her extensive market knowledge and…
Improving Operational Efficiency in the Data Management Process
By: Hugo Boer, Senior Product Manager, Asset Control As the financial services industry starts to harness a raft of new data sources for fast, effective and usable insights, the bottleneck for financial institutions becomes how well they really understand their data management processes. How many firms, for example, can answer the following questions: Do we…
Algorithm Framework Allows QuantConnect Community to Share Code Modules
QuantConnect, an open source, cloud-based algorithmic trading platform, is inviting its community of algo developers to share code modules through Algorithm Framework, a tool that provides a defined structure for developing algos and allows code modules to be reused. The framework tool breaks down algos into five core features: universe selection, alpha creation, portfolio construction,…
Smartkarma’s Boost Research Provides Business Accelerator for Investment Analysts
Smartkarma, an investment research network for independent research providers, has introduced Boost Research, an accelerator programme designed to support investment analysts who want to start independent research businesses, improve the supply of independent research to the market, and increase the variety of opinions in research to help investment decisions and lead to better outcomes for…
Market EarlyBird Adds Mobile Version of Safe, Smart Twitter for Tweet Searches
Market EarlyBird has introduced a native mobile client for EarlyBird Safe, Smart Twitter for Finance, a read-only, anonymised service that provides Tweet search and filtering capabilities enabling users to find financial Tweets that others miss. The initial desktop Earlybird service is being used by banks and buy-side firms to enable traders, researchers and portfolio managers…
ITRS Integrates MapR AI and Analytics into Geneos Gateway Hub
ITRS Group is collaborating with MapR to integrate the latter’s AI and analytics platform into its Geneos real-time monitoring and analytics tool. MapR software will be integrated into ITRS’ Gateway Hub, a new module available to Geneos customers that will make it easier for them to capture data and alerts, and use a range of…
IHS Markit Repositions Business with Acquisition of Ipreo and Sale of MarkitSERV
It’s all change at IHS Markit as the company pushes further into the alternatives market through an agreement to acquire Ipreo and plans to move out of OTC derivatives processing through a sale of its MarkitSERV derivatives trade processing business. The company has agreed to acquire Ipreo, a provider of financial services technology, data and…
Final Call for Comments on FRTB Capital Requirements for Market Risk
The January 1, 2022 implementation deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may be three years out, but the data management challenges of compliance need to be considered now. Most importantly, a BCBS consultation paper on the standardised approach to calculating minimum capital requirements for OTC derivatives needs urgent industry input on…
A Ticking Clock: The Tricky Issue of Timestamping for MiFID II
MiFID II has introduced rigorous new requirements for timestamping and clock synchronisation, forcing firms to overhaul existing technology and implement new systems to comply. Accuracy is everything – but how successful has the industry been in meeting the tighter demands? In advance of A-Team’s webinar on timestamping and clock synchronisation tomorrow, we take a quick look…
Fenergo Extends Market Reach in Partnership with Delta Capita
Fenergo has partnered technology consulting and managed services provider Delta Capita to deliver a ‘Powered by Fenergo’ client remediation offering designed to address market demand and act as a catalyst to the adoption of Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution either onsite or as a managed service delivered by Delta Capita. The strategic partnership is the…