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Markit Integrates Datasets to Deliver Enhanced iNAV for ETPs
Markit has integrated its fixed income evaluated pricing and fair value data services with exchange traded fund data to deliver an enhanced intraday net asset value (iNAV) service for exchange traded products (ETPs). The service is available immediately and is designed to improve transparency around ETP pricing. The company has offered an iNAV service for…
Raiffeisen Bank Implements Asset Control Data Management Platform
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is in the process of implementing Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform with a view to centralising data management for end-of-day valuations and market risk calculations across its operations in Europe and Asia. The bank selected Asset Control after an evaluation of competitive solutions and a successful proof of concept….
Markit Develops Managed Services With CTI Acquisition
Markit’s agreement to acquire tax compliance and reporting services specialist Compliance Technologies International (CTI) will add a tax component to the company’s managed regulatory reporting services that already include the Counterparty Manager platform and the recently introduced Markit | Genpact Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Services. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed and the transaction…
Options Builds Out Velocity Platform with Velocimetrics Real-Time Performance Analytics
Options continues to build out its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), ultra-low latency electronic trading platform with the addition of Velocimetrics’ real-time monitoring and performance analysis solution. The companies have partnered to roll out the Velocimetrics software at Velocity colocation sites around the world, starting in the US with deployments in New Jersey. Options recently added the…
Opinion: Uniting Entity Data – the Missed Opportunity
By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director, EMEA & Asia, Goldensource The industry’s drive to understand and reduce systemic risk has created fresh challenges around instrument and entity data that put technology under a whole new light. However, in a post-2008 crisis landscape dominated by regulatory reform, compliance is only part of the issue. If firms can…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: With Decision Latency, Performance Focus Turns Inward, and Parallel
As efforts to reduce data transmission latency begin to hit the speed of light barrier (the wireless networks being rolled out are pretty much the end game), attention is turning away from the speed of trade execution and towards the speed of trade construction and optimisation – decision latency as some call it. Addressing decision…
Enyx-Options Partnership Aims to Yield High Performance at Reasonable Cost
Hardware-accelerated trading solutions provider Enyx has partnered with Options to offer its nxFeed market data distribution system through the Options Velocity platform. The combined solution aims to offer the benefits of FPGA-based data delivery at a lower cost point via a managed service business model. The solution enables users to access, via a single API,…
Markit and Genpact Release KYC Service
Markit’s tie-up with business process specialist Genpact, which was made back in September 2013, has come to fruition in a Know Your Customer (KYC) service designed in conjunction with Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. Called Markit | Genpact KYC Services, the companies’ KYC offering is based on Markit’s Counterparty Manager service and Genpact’s…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Risk Require a New Approach
Regulation and risk are driving a new approach to data management across financial markets, but they are not the only drivers as firms seek cost reductions, operational efficiencies and a means of using data as a business asset. These issues and more were debated by a panel of experts at last week’s A-Team Group Data…
Data Management Summit: Defining the Role of the Chief Data Officer
As financial institutions battle escalating data management requirements and growing regulatory pressures, the appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) looks increasingly attractive to handle the workload, ensure strong data governance and play into the business strategy. At A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in New York last week, A-Team Group editor Sarah Underwood was joined…