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Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…
Careful Redundancy and Re-Purposing Can Improve Trade Execution
Looking at what systems to switch off and how take apart infrastructures to optimize resources and hardware are the best ways address undue complexity of electronic execution infrastructures, states Bob Mudhar, partner at Citihub Consulting, who will be on a panel covering issues for electronic execution infrastructures at the Intelligent Trading Summit to be hosted…
Advanced Logic Analytics Delivers OneLogic Big Data Analytics Platform
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a start-up in the big data space, has released OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured big data in real time. Use cases for the platform include predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics for better-informed trading decisions, and data management for regulatory compliance. As the company makes…
Truphone Provides Solace For Industry BlackBerry Users
The business world, and particularly the financial industry with its stricter security needs to protect trading communications, has not been as quick as consumers to give up on BlackBerry, but has also needed a way to retain SMS text message communications. Last week’s launch by mobile network and mobile recording provider Truphone of its SMS…
MiFID II Best Execution Presents Challenges and Opportunities
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) raises the bar on best execution, presenting significant data management challenges, but also opportunities to use best execution data to gain competitive edge. Where MiFID required investment managers to show they had taken ‘reasonable’ steps to demonstrate best execution, MiFID II requires ‘sufficient’ steps, suggesting a more…
Proving Best Execution Depends On Collecting More Data
The best way to accomplish all the aspects of ensuring best execution of trades in a manner compliant with Europe’s MiFID II regulation taking effect next year is by gathering all data, market history and relevant information in one place, says Dermot Harriss, senior vice president at OneMarketData, who spoke in a January 26 webinar,…
Change is on the Horizon for Ultra-Low Latency Data
Technology cost and performance have characterised the ultra-low latency data space over the past few years, but change is on the horizon as trading firms review technology investment and chase game changing innovation. The opportunities and challenges of managing ultra-low latency data will be discussed at next week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in London….
Silverfinch Builds Data Aggregation Templates into PRIIPS Solution
Silverfinch is building templates designed to aggregate and distribute data required by Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Products (PRIIPs) regulation for Key Information Documents (KIDs) into its PRIIPs compliance engine. The company plans to finalise the solution following the release of Level 2 Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that could be published by the European Commission…
Privitar Provides Products to Meet Data Privacy by Design Requirements of GDPR
Privitar is meeting the privacy by design and default principles of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with innovative data privacy solutions that play not only into regulatory compliance, but also into gaining greater value from data, particularly big data. The company’s approach to GDPR data privacy requirements is based on risk mitigation provided by two…
Aperio Chooses Linedata OMS
Investment management firm Aperio Group expects to implement Linedata’s Longview order management system (OMS) by the end of the first quarter of 2017, says Lisa Clossey, a project manager and business analyst at Aperio who worked on the firm’s choice of Linedata as an OMS provider. Aperio plans to replace internal systems and use Linedata…