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Industry Doubts Urgency Of US CFTC’s Reg AT
The industry’s sense of urgency concerning Reg AT is dropping, because little action is expected to put its rules in effect in the US following the May 1 ending of the comment period on the regulation. Reg AT, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Regulation Automated Trading, contains risk and transparency provisions for automated trading….
Fixed-Income Trading Operations Catch Up
Fixed-income trading operations may be as much as 15 years behind equities trading operations, but they are catching up quickly, according to executives in the field who spoke at the FIX Trading Community’s Americas Trading Briefing in New York on April 26. “All the advancements in technology, the transfer of information and the execution of…
The Regulatory Stick and Beneficial Carrot of Data Governance
If the stick behind data governance is regulatory compliance, the carrot is business and operational benefit stretching to revenue creation, reduced expenditure, better customer satisfaction and improved data to solve business problems. The challenges and opportunities of data governance were discussed during this week’s A-Team Group webinar, A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Data Governance…
‘Multi-Genre Analytics’ Emerges For Pre-Trade Assessments
Data analytics provider Teradata has developed a new type of algorithmic analytics applicable to securities trading information, called “multi-genre analytics.” Teradata developed the service in response to firms seeing predictive models as a cost they get stuck with when those models are needed for certain kinds of trades, says Sri Raghavan, global product marketing manager….
Misato Takes Disruptive Technology Approach to Enterprise Data Management
Misato is addressing financial institutions’ enterprise data management (EDM) challenges with a disruptive approach based on open source high-performance data bus technologies. The company’s Data Hub moves away from traditional data warehouse and extract, transform and load (ETL) solutions to focus on how data is consumed by applications. Working backwards, the hub can then reduce…
MDX Technology License Helps MarketAxess Users Get Liquidity
Real-time data distribution solution provider MDX Technology’s addition of MarketAxess as a provider of market data through its platform will help users attract liquidity from buy-side clients, according to Paul Watmough, CEO of MDX Technology (MDXT). “We can, from the same secure channels and mechanisms, attract liquidity back on to [MarketAxess] trading platform, so we…
Data Management Industry Weathers the Political Storm
Capital markets in the US and Europe are fraught with uncertainty following the election of President Trump in the US and the start of the Brexit process in the UK, but what material effects will these changes have on data management and will they present more opportunities than threats? The regulatory landscape in uncertain times…
How to Implement Data Quality Metrics that Deliver for the Business
Data quality metrics are essential to financial firms and can deliver significant operational benefits that are increasingly driven by emerging technologies such as machine learning. The business case for metrics, best approaches to implementation, and the potential of technology to improve both data quality and metrics were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar, Using…
Making Data Valuable Requires Quality and Structure
Building the ability to recognise the value in data and derive that value for the enterprise is a complicated proposition to include in data management models, according to experts who spoke at the Data Management Summit hosted by A-Team Group in New York earlier this month. First, firms should establish an “accountability structure through a…
Buy-Side Automation Of Trade Orders Rises
Metori Capital Management’s selection of QuantHouse’s QuantFACTORY algorithmic trading development framework represents the beginning of buy-side firms automating trade order execution based on a portfolio manager’s conceived strategy, according to Stephane Leroy, business co-founder and chief revenue officer of QuantHouse. While sell-side firms have already had automated trade execution based on pre-set strategies in place…