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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…
Publishing Reference Data in a Post-MiFIR World
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team One area where a delay in implementing MiFIR would allow market participants and regulators much needed time to sort out vital details is the area of reference data publication. ESMA has made it clear that, in…
Feature: Sizing the Problem and Finding Solutions for Risk Data Aggregation
Risk data aggregation became a hot topic after the financial crash in 2008, when it became clear that banks did not have the necessary risk information readily available to understand their exposures to counterparties and inform regulators of their positions. Senior managers were making poor decisions based on poor data and supervisory regulators failed to…
MiFID II Delay Would Provide Time for a More Considered Approach
By Daniella Huggins, global marketing manager at Velocimetrics As speculation solidifies into reality, it’s looking increasingly likely that MiFID II’s implementation date will be pushed back by a full year, extending the rather unrealistic 13-month compliance timeframe to a much more manageable 25 months. MiFID II is a far-reaching regulation with an impact on multiple…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: ITS – The Story So Far
Out of the ashes of A-Team’s highly successful Low Latency Summit conference series riseth the Intelligent Trading Summit, scheduled for this coming February 4 in London. Born of the concept that it’s no longer enough simply to be fast – you have to be smart, too – the Intelligent Trading Summit uniquely brings you the…