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Corvil Giga Platform Delivers Real-Time Operational Intelligence and Big Data Integration

Corvil has added streaming analytics, big data adapters, auto data discovery and more to its network performance monitoring solution to deliver a streaming analytics platform designed for real-time operational intelligence and big data integration. The Corvil Giga release – which will be followed by Tera and Peta releases supporting greater data volumes within the next…

Mark Hepsworth Returns to London as President of Interactive Data EMEA

Interactive Data has confirmed that Mark Hepsworth has returned to London to lead the company’s EMEA business as president. His responsibilities include the company’ pricing and reference data, trading solutions, managed solutions and desktops businesses in the region. Hepsworth remains a member of the company’s global executive committee. Hepsworth moved to London early this year…

Interactive Data’s Stephan Wolf is Named as CEO of the Global LEI Foundation

Stephan Wolf, chief technology officer and member of the executive board at Interactive Data Managed Solutions AG has been named as the CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) that was established in June 2014 and will oversee the development and operation of the Central Operating Unit of the Global LEI System. The…

Velocimetrics Redraws Product Roadmap to Include TS-Associates’ Solutions and Technologies

Velocimetrics has licensed the intellectual property rights (IPR) of TS-Associates’ TipOff and Application Tap network monitoring and analysis products following the company’s collapse into administration. Velocimetrics says it will continue to maintain and develop the former TS-Associates products as well as integrate them with its own technology, which offers real-time business-level insight into activity across…

BMO Global Asset Management Benefits from SimCorp IBOR

BMO Global Asset Management is making better investment decisions on behalf of its clients following the implementation of SimCorp Dimension as an investment book of record (IBOR). The asset manager says the IBOR supports consistent data in downstream applications and provides better information, faster. It has also allowed the asset manager to introduce new products…

Numerix Teams With CameronTec on OTC Structured Products Pricing

Numerix has teamed up with CameronTec to deliver OTC structured products pricing including real-time response to quote requests. The solution was developed to meet the needs of a bank in Singapore, but is expected to gain traction further afield as banks trade increasingly sophisticated derivatives products. The Singapore bank wanted to scale its structured products…

Chair of LEI Foundation Details Final Push to Complete Global LEI System

The formation of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and the first meeting of its board of directors late last month signal a final push towards completion of the Global LEI System (GLEIS). A CEO for the foundation is expected to be appointed in October and will manage the Central Operating Unit (COU) of…

NovaSparks Partners Thesys to Deliver FPGA Based Market Data Service

NovaSparks has set up a partnership with Thesys Technologies to provide a low-latency market data service to Thesys customers. The service is based on NovaSpark’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware architecture, including a feed handler that allows efficient and cost effective access to market data with minimal impact on the resiliency and latency of…

BlueBay Asset Management Selects Confluence Hosted Services for Regulatory Reporting

BlueBay Asset Management has selected Confluence to support its automated regulatory reporting following a competitive selection process and on the basis of the company’s ability to meet both immediate and future regulatory reporting requirements. BlueBay, a manager of fixed income and alternative investment products, will initially use Confluence’s Unity NXT hosted services for AIFMD, Form…

Six Bidders Shortlisted to Build the US Consolidated Audit Trail

The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) first proposed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) back in 2010 has come a step closer to reality with the selection of six bids from a list of 10 RFP responses that were submitted to build and maintain the audit trail. The six bids still in the running…