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Metamako and Velocimetrics Offer MiFID Compliant Timestamping
Metamako and Velocimetrics have developed a joint solution designed to enable capital markets firms to capture, analyse and precisely timestamp trading data in compliance with the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Under the partnership, Metamako’s low-latency network devices aggregate and directly route packets of nanosecond-precision timestamped data to Velocimetrics’ VMX…
QuantHouse Makes Trading Technologies Available to Virtu Financial SI Platform
QuantHouse has made its QuantFEED and QuantLINK trading infrastructure technologies available to Virtu Financial’s disclosed systematic internaliser (SI) platform, allowing the Virtu SI to provide firm quotes efficiently and transparently to a wide range of market participants. Virtu Financial is an electronic market maker providing liquidity to the global equity, exchange traded fund, energy, and…
Sponsored Blog: Curium Data Systems’ Adam Saunders Discusses the Release of CuriumEDM
This week, Curium Data Systems launches CuriumEDM (Enterprise Data Management). Data Management Review (DMR) interviews Adam Saunders, Director of Curium Data Systems about the new platform. DMR: Why did you decide to build out the enterprise data management capability on top of the existing data quality management and business intelligence modules? Adam Saunders: We always…
Brickendon Proposes a Five-Pronged Approach to GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a game changer, requiring firms to identify, manage and provide access to individuals’ personal data. Are firms up to speed on meeting the regulation’s May 2018 compliance deadline, or is there still some way to go? Ahead of a panel session on GDPR at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for…
Ex-Client Takes Lead at 3di North America
Data management software and services provider, 3d innovations (3di), has hired former client Greg Kozar to run its products and services practice in the US and Canada. Kozar is a market data specialist and consultant who previously worked at Moody’s, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, among others. He will advise 3di’s clients – across banks,…
Carlos Lopez Lansdowne Joins Exegy as Sales director Europe and Asia
Industry veteran Carlos Lopez Lansdowne has joined financial market data solutions provider Exegy as its sales director for Europe and Asia. He will support Exegy’s drive to prepare European clients for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) compliance and to deploy solutions in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Based in London, Lansdowne will report directly…
Ultimate Trading Machine Proposes Record Tick-To-Trade Speed
Traders are being offered top speed tick-to-trade performance using a server engine from Solarflare, LDA Technologies and Penguin Computing. The server, nicknamed the Ultimate Trading Machine (UTM), can achieve a 98 nanosecond tick-to-trade time – the delay between receiving a market tick showing an opportunity to an algorithm, and sending the buy/sell order. The UTM…
RegTech Solutions Show Potential to Make Compliance Processes More Efficient
With just a few weeks to go before A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we caught up with Tammy Eisenberg, Director, Investment Management Risk & Compliance at BNY Mellon, to talk about her views on regtech and the challenges it could address. At the event, Eisenberg will…
Enyx Integrates Xilinx FPGA Technology to Power nxFeed
Enyx has increased the performance of its nxFeed solution on the back of a new release of its FPB2 platform that is powered by Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ (VUS+) field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. The FPB2 platform, developed by Bittware, uses the Xilinx VUS+ FPGA to offer a four-times larger matrix than Enyx’s previous platform,…
Wall Street Horizon Extends Corporate Events Intelligence with EventBreaks
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate events intelligence, has introduced EventBreaks, a service that alerts institutional investors to changes in corporate events. The service covers each of the 40-plus event types the company tracks and provides granular information around how events move, alerting users to the time, date and substance of…