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FIX Reference Data Subgroup Update: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data has traditionally been treated as a ‘back-office’ function – almost as though only data that is fast-changing has relevance to a firm’s trading operations. But for more and more firms today, reference data has…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Plato Gets Its Socrates
Kevin Covington’s appointment to the board of Delta Capita this week underscores a perhaps more wide-ranging development: the emergence of the Plato Partnership, which named Delta Capita as its strategic consultant earlier this year. As you’re doubtless aware, Plato Partnership is an industry-led consortium that aims – in its own words – to offer “new…
Redline Adds Bloomberg B-PIPE to InRush Ticker Plant
High-performance data platform provider Redline Trading Solutions has added Bloomberg’s consolidated B-PIPE market data feed to the list of feeds available via its InRush accelerated ticker plant. Redline says the addition of B-PIPE was driven by requests from customers and by its strategy to expand globally. As a result of becoming a registered participant of…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: Back and Bigger Than Ever
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team towers as we put the finishing touches to the agenda for our Data Management Summit conference in London on October 1. And of course, right behind it is our planned summit in New York on November 3, of which more later in a future edition of this missive. We…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Long and Winding Road to (CSC’s) Heart
Hats off to Hugh Hughes and the team at Fixnetix, who’ve sold the company to CSC (Computer Sciences Corp.), in a deal that gives the small but influential provider of managed services for trading the muscle it has craved for so long. It’s been a long journey with many twists and turns. Fixnetix has been…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: A Salesman to the Core
Anyone who’s ever met Rob Flatley will attest to the fact that he was born to sell CoreOne Technologies, and probably to Markit. And so it transpires that Markit has bought yet again in the enterprise data space, this time parting company with $200 million for CoreOne and its One-suffixed affiliates in the Symphony Group,…
Celoxica Adds Hardware-Based Ticker Plant for OPRA Data
Hardware accelerator specialist Celoxica has launched the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for the OPRA options pricing feed. CTP for OPRA aims to minimise users’ data centre footprint while processing the OPRA data set’s high message volumes at ultra-low latency. OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, provides market data from 12 US options exchanges. Already considered…
Alize Trading Builds Algo Trading Business on Horizon Platform
By: Zoe Schiff Alize Trading, a Paris-based algorithmic prop house, has gone life with Horizon Platform with a view to developing its algorithmic trading business. The flexibility of Horizon’s algorithmic trading software allows smaller prop trading firms to engage in trades with a few exchanges and gradually increase their scale of operation as they grow….
Opinion: Avoiding the Troubles of Target Obsession Disorder
By Dennis Slattery, CEO, EDMworks A lot of effort has recently gone into researching the impact of target setting in the public sector. Does it deliver a benefit or not? The topic is relevant to financial services as many of us are engaged in designing metrics for measuring and improving data quality. Unsurprisingly, evidence from…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Sarah Underwood: The Scapegoat of the Libor Scandal
The conviction of former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes on eight counts of conspiring to rig the Libor benchmark and the handing down of a 14-year jail sentence hit the headlines big time. The judge said Hayes was the centre of the conspiracy, the Serious Fraud Office acting as prosecutor said he was motivated…