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SmartStream Supports Open Source Identifiers in Reference Data Utility

SmartStream Technologies is planning to help users of its Reference Data Utility – or SPReD Securities Product Reference Data platform – adopt open source identifiers following an agreement with Thomson Reuters under which the latter will provide reference data including open source PermID identifiers to the utility. The company is also in conversation with Bloomberg…

New York City Data Management Summit Discusses Data as a Business Asset and Introduces A-Team’s BCBS 239 Handbook

Data governance, risk data aggregation, regulatory challenge, utility models, data architecture, Know Your Customer (KYC), data as an asset and machine learning were just some of the data management topics discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City. The conference also hosted the introduction of A-Team’s BCBS 239 handbook, which…

Regulation Review: BCBS 239

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 takes effect on January 1, 2016 with global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) the first tranche of banks that must achieve compliance. Domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) will follow three years after their designation as D-SIBs, although many national supervisors are expected to encourage compliance among these…

DataArt Round Table Discusses the Implications of Innovation

Financial services firms need to innovate to meet changing client expectations, but will innovation prove transformational for large incumbent firms or will it support only evolutionary development? This question and others around business models, new technologies, fintech start-up and regtech were the subject of a recent round table discussion hosted by technology consultancy DataArt. Chris…

Choosing an Approach to Analytics: Is a Single Technology Platform the Right Investment?

By Abhishek Bhattacharya, technology practice lead at Sapient Global Markets Effective analytics provide insight into what happened, why it happened and what is likely to happen in the future, and include the factors that could help shape different outcomes. But when it comes to the ‘how’ of analytics – including which technology platform or platforms…

A-Team Publishes BCBS 239 Handbook

As the January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for BCBS 239 approaches, A-Team Group has published a BCBS 239 Handbook dedicated to the regulation and designed to help data management and data governance practitioners implement its 14 principles successfully. The regulation embodies the post-financial crisis need for effective and efficient risk data aggregation and reporting across…

AxiomSL Plans Software-As-A-Service Version of its Regulatory Reporting Platform

AxiomSL is planning to introduce a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its regulatory reporting and risk management platform next year with a view to supporting asset managers and hedge funds that do not have sufficient IT resources to deploy the platform in-house. The SaaS solution will offer these types of firms an additional option on access…

Exchanges Increase Market Data Revenue at Greater Rate than Traditional Vendors

The acquisition of Interactive Data (IDC) by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will make ICE the third largest market data vendor after Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. It will also increase exchanges’ market data revenue, which in 2014 rose 12.05% to $3.26 billion. In the same period, traditional data vendors grew market data revenue by 4.07% to close…

Smart Order Routers: Transparency Clashes with Broker Proprietary Model

How do you strike a balance between providing transparency into smart order routing so that buy-side firms can understand how their orders are routed and can meet their best execution obligations, whilst protecting the intellectual property of the sell side firms providing order routing services? That’s a question that traders, asset managers and smart order…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Looking Under the Sentiment Analysis Hood

Our own sentiment analysis here at Intelligent Trading Technology is that sentiment analysis’ star is rising. A few weeks back, I chimed in on the progress this segment of our market has made as evidenced by the sophistication and enthusiasm on show by both presenters and audience members at a recent Bloomberg-hosted seminar on machine…