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A-Team Webinar Discusses Adoption of the Utility Model for Reference Data Management
The concept of a utility model for reference data management is beginning to turn into a reality, but views diverge on exactly how a utility should be built and the business benefits it can deliver. A recent A-Team Group webinar discussed adoption of the utility model, considering not only early solutions in the market, but…
NeoXam Moves into EDM Market with Acquisition of SmartCo
NeoXam is moving into the enterprise data management market dominated by the likes of Markit, Asset Control and AIM Software following its acquisition of SmartCo and its flagship products DataHub, a reference data management platform, and IBOR, an investment book of records providing a single source of up-to-date positions. NeoXam plans to use the SmartCo…
Kx Systems Seals OEM Deal with CoreOne Technologies
By Zoe Schiff First Derivatives’ Kx Systems has forged an OEM licensing agreement with CoreOne Technologies, a data management platform. Under the arrangement, CoreOne will deploy Kx System’s kdb+ tick and time-series database to help clients process growing data volumes and perform intricate analytics. Kx Systems’ existing clients include Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Morgan Stanley,…
Markit Plans to Build Corporate Actions Capability On Back of Information Mosaic Acquisition
Markit is back on the acquisition trail with this week’s announcement that it has agreed to acquire Information Mosaic, a provider of corporate actions and post-trade securities processing software – but Information Mosaic may not be Markit’s only acquisition interest as we have heard it is considering buying another well known data management company. Financial…
EDM Council Releases First Standard FIBO Component
The Enterprise Data Management Council (EDM Council) has released its first standard financial industry ontology, FIBO Foundations, having received approval for the ontology from standards awarding body the Object Management Group (OMG). The council plans to release a further six ontologies that adhere to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) open standard on a quarterly…
A-Team Webinar Debates the Data Management Challenges of Solvency II
The January 2016 deadline for Solvency II compliance is fast approaching, leaving many insurance firms, asset managers and third-party administrators with much to do as they tackle data management issues that are raised by the regulation and include huge data volumes, multiple data sources, new data types and complex data aggregation. The data management challenges…
Thomson Reuters Adds Sentiment Data on Companies to its MarketPsych Indices
Thomson Reuters has added indices covering over 7,500 global companies to its MarketPsych indices, giving investors greater insight into how emotions and perceptions move financial markets, and helping them to define more effective trading strategies. The company indices add to MarketPsych indices that have been developed by Thomson Reuters in conjunction with MarketPsych, a consultancy…
MetaMako Launches MetaApp Latency-Reduction Device
By Zoe Schiff Low latency trading specialist Metamako has launched MetaApp, a latency-reduction device aimed at the trading and exchange communities and the telcos that provide them with connectivity. MetaApp seeks to address firms’ growing requirement for flexibility and determinism in their efforts to establish and support low-latency infrastructures in support of fast market access….
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Flash Crash Blame Game
As you know, we don’t often wade in on macro market structure issues, preferring instead to stick to our proverbial knitting: trading infrastructure that uses high-performance technologies to introduce some smarts. But the recent arrest of a culprit in the authorities’ long-running efforts to assign blame for the May 6, 2010, so-called Flash Crash –…
NanoSpeed Cuts Trading Latency with FPGA Based Nano-Gateway
NanoSpeed has halved the latency of its first FPGA based trading gateway with the addition of Nano-Gateway, an FPGA including interfaces for up to 32,000 trading algos, market data feed handlers, pre-trade risk checks, limits that can be changed on the fly, and the ability to deliver client orders to an exchange in less than…