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All That’s New at A-Team Intelligent Trading Summit
With just two weeks to go until A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in London, we are getting pretty excited about the event’s line up of speakers, who will address everything from the challenges and opportunities of regulation, including MiFID II, to the intricacies of high performance trading; the vendors that will showcase their smart trading…
NeoXam Bases Growth Strategy on Data Management, Investment Management and Accounting
NeoXam has consolidated its acquisitions of the past couple of years, including enterprise data management (EDM) specialist SmartCo, and set out a growth strategy based on the three disciplines of data management, investment management and investment accounting, and extended geographic reach across North America and Asia. The Paris-based company is also developing cloud based on-demand…
Giving Away the Value of Reference Data
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data is not only a foundation of data management, it is also a revenue earning commodity, particularly for exchanges and issuers of ISINs. MiFIR requires exchanges, multilateral trading facilities, organised trading facilities and systematic internalisers…
Exploring Interconnected Business Relationships
By Michael Goldberg, Content Marketing Director at Dun & Bradstreet How much do you really know about the companies you do business with day in and day out? Sure, you may understand how your growth is affected by dealings with a supplier you’ve worked with for over a decade. But what about the association that…
GoldenSource Partners Options to Extend Reach of OnDemand Managed Service
GoldenSource has extended its relationship with managed service and IT infrastructure provider Options to ensure it can meet growing global demand for the managed service version of its enterprise data management (EDM) solution. The company already uses Options’ Momentum managed application and hosting solution to support GoldenSource OnDemand, but has reinforced its partnership to deliver…
Markit Migrates EDM Users to Amazon Web Services Cloud
The migration of Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud has attracted six clients since it went live last April. The clients are split between North America and Europe and range from asset managers to third-party application providers using the company’s platform. Markit has been offering managed services using…
MiFID II: Putting the Clock Back
The type of trader you are will determine how you set your watch. That is the upshot of ‘RTS 25: Draft regulatory technical standards on clock synchronization’ published by the European Securities and Markets Commission in late September under the revision of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). “MiFID II moved away from…
SNL Financial Takes Upper Hand in Merger with S&P Capital IQ
The outcome of McGraw Hill Financial’s acquisition of SNL Financial in September 2015 and its merger with S&P Capital IQ is beginning to take shape in the form of an enlarged data, research and analytics company with a cumbersome name – S&P Capital IQ + SNL Financial – and a leadership line-up that suggests S&P…
Fenergo Teams Up with Markit and kyc.com to Improve Client Lifecycle Management
Fenergo has formed a strategic relationship with Markit that will allow banks using its client lifecycle management software to automate consumption of Know Your Customer (KYC) and counterparty data from Markit and kyc.com, a joint venture between Markit and Genpact. The automation is based on Data Integration Manager, an adjunct to Fenergo’s client lifecycle management…
Five Markets and Technology Predictions for 2016
By Jock Percy, CEO at Perseus Overall, 2015 was a fascinating year for the financial markets and, by extension, for financial technology solutions providers. At a macroeconomic level, the slowdown of growth in China squeezed commodity dependent markets, including commodity powerhouses such as Brazil, Australia and South Africa. Meanwhile, the Greek debt crisis unleashed a…