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Quotix and Celer Technologies Implement Azul Systems’ Zing JVM
Azul Systems continues to build its direct and third-party customer bases with recent wins for its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) at Quotix, a provider of intelligent trade execution and management for the foreign exchange market, and Celer Technologies, a provider of adaptable high performance trading platforms. Quotix selected Zing to support and optimise the…
OneMarketData Moves into Packaged Solutions with OneTick Market Surveillance
OneMarketData has begun the roll out of a series of packaged solutions with the introduction of OneTick Market Surveillance Service, a hosted solution created by the company in partnership with Fundamental Interactions. The solutions deviate from the company’s traditional commercial model of licensing the OneTick time series tick database and analytics engine software to users…
Data Management Summit: Guidelines for Effective Data Governance
Data governance is increasingly important in a data management environment driven by regulatory requirements and cost constraints, but to be effective it needs to be underpinned by cultural change across an organisation, supported by active data governance committees and able to ensure ongoing ownership of core datasets. The need for effective data governance to address…
All You Need to Know About Entity Data
We’ve been tracking entity data and issues around its management for a good number of years now. In fact, the topic of Legal Entity Identifiers was one of our hottest for a couple of years. And while the emphasis continues to shift (right now, client onboarding is what it’s all about!), the issue at the…
Data Management Summit: Arguing the Case for Shared Services
The A-Team Group Data Management Summit held in London this week opened with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index and a keynote presentation by Nick Murphy, director of consulting at IGATE, on the potential of shared services or utilities for reference data management. Regulatory Data Index The A-Team Regulatory Data Index sponsored by…
State of Wisconsin Investment Board Details its Implementation of Markit EDM
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) plans to make Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution the centrepiece of its new MIDaS data architecture. The architecture requires Markit EDM to support data distribution, quality control and mastering, and is designed to improve processes including the delivery of external data to SWIB and the internal integration…
Datactics Adds Data Quality Manager to FlowDesigner Platform
Datactics has extended its FlowDesigner data quality and matching software with the addition of Data Quality Manager (DQM), a browser-based application that makes the software easier to use and control across a firm with multiple data sources and an existing master data management solution. DQM works with FlowDesigner to support rapid configuration and management of…
Australian Securities Exchange implements Velocimetrics to Monitor Trading Platform Performance
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has completed the implementation of Velocimetrics’ real-time performance monitoring and analysis software, giving it greater operational insight into the performance of its trading platform and the ability to respond quickly to any latency issues that could cause trading delays or compromise customer experience. The exchange selected the Velocimetrics software working…
iMeta Technologies Integrates Assassin Entity Data Management Platform with Avox Web Services
iMeta Technologies has integrated its Assassin entity data management platform with Avox’s recently released web services to deliver an automated solution for client onboarding and ongoing client data management. Avox introduced web services based on application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to provide fast electronic access to its legal entity data early this month….
Final Call for Input to ESMA Study on a Messaging Protocol for Reporting under MiFIR
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is canvassing market participants’ views on messaging protocols for transaction reporting under the Markets in Financial Investments Regulation (MiFIR) in a questionnaire with a response deadline of March 6, 2015. The questionnaire is part of a study on technical formats for MiFIR commissioned by ESMA and contracted to…