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What’s More Important: Latency or Determinism?
While speed was everything, latency determinism – ensuring consistent latency throughout your systems for every trade – is increasingly a critical metric for traders executing multi-venue strategies. A recent shift in exchange policy may make a focus on latency determinism even more important. “The fastest in the pack is a Lance Armstrong-type character using every…
Misys Delivers Cloud Based Version of FusionCapital
Misys is building out its FusionCapital trading platform on the basis of its four core workflow solutions – Kondor, Summit, Opics and Sophis – and the addition of components including pricing, curves and securities inventory that can be used across the core solutions but also by third-party vendor solutions. The FusionCapital platform is the culmination…
SmartStream Signs Up Data Vendors for Reference Data Utility
SmartStream Technologies is building out its Reference Data Utility (RDU) – informally known as the SPReD Securities Product Reference Data platform – through the addition of data vendor agreements with Interactive Data, Exchange Data International, SIX Financial Information, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Euromoney Tradedata. These agreements add to a tie-up with…
The FIGI Moves Forward Via Inclusion in ISO 20022 Messaging Standard
The open source Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), is coming closer to being a primary security identifier following its inclusion in the ISO 20022 external code set for financial instrument identification and its formal approval as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG). The identifier is also starting…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Deploying Fast DBMS Across the Trading Enterprise
The recent STAC report on McObject’s eXtremeDB Financial Edition 7.0 database management system gives trading infrastructure and application developers cause for hope on two levels: performance and price. And this in turn raises the very real prospect of deploying high-performance database management technology in functional areas throughout the trading and risk landscape. According to McObject…
Fenergo Enhances Client Lifecycle Management with Data Integration Manager
Fenergo has enhanced its client lifecycle management solution with the addition of Data Integration Manager, a rules-based data interface designed to ease the problems of using multiple data sources for applications such as client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML). The company has integrated three DTCC data services used for these kinds…
From Bitcoin to Back Office 2.0 – A Quick Intro to Block Chain Technology
By Pete Harris, Principal, Lighthouse Partners “Nothing much more than a fancy kind of database,” is how Blythe Masters described block chains, a technology that underpins the bitcoin crypto currency, but which has applications as diverse as proving ownership of intellectual property to acting as the processing glue between devices in the Internet of Things….
A-Team Webinar Discusses BCBS 239 Compliance Ahead of January Deadline
The journey towards BCBS 239 compliance continues with global systemically important banks expected to be able to satisfy supervisors when the regulation comes into effect on January 1st 2016. Other banks that are not yet within the scope of the regulation are also making progress, considering how they will comply with the 14 principles of…
Consorzio Operativo MPS Plans Implementation of GoldenSource Customers and Counterparties Solution
Consorzio Operativo MPS, the technology arm of Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Siena, the world’s oldest bank and flagship of the MPS Group, has selected the GoldenSource Customers and Counterparties data management solution to create, maintain and publish a standardised reference data repository for the group’s counterparty data. The technology operation is already rolling out…
Metamako Adds Third-Party Apps to Ultra-Low Latency Switching Platform
Metamako, a provider of deterministic ultra-low latency devices, has set up a partner programme to encourage third parties to develop applications for its MetaApp and MetaMux switching platforms, which include ultra low-latency switching, an onboard field programmable gate array (FPGA) and a server, and are typically used to trade directly with exchanges. Dave Snowdon, founder…