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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…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Managed Services for Intelligent Trading
Trading firms are looking to leverage hosted and managed services to improve business agility and reduce cost, but with these benefits come challenges. Last Week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York addressed the pros and cons of outsourcing in a panel discussion led by A-Team Group conference chair Pete Harris, who was joined…
Intelligent Trading Summit: In Search of Agile Trading Solutions
As firms look beyond latency to improve trading and risk strategies, on-demand agility is coming into the picture, offering the ability to model and test strategies in accelerated time throughout the trading day. Last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York considered the issues of on-demand agility and how it can be achieved…
The Future of Big Data and Other Musings
By Michael Mayhew, chairman and director of research, Integrity Research Associates Last week, at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit held in New York City, I moderated an insightful panel on the growing use of big data and data driven analytics in the buy-side research process. The panel of experts discussed a number of interesting topics…
Lombard Risk Offers Free XBRL-Checker to Support Corep Compliance
Lombard Risk Management is offering firms that must comply with the latest Common Reporting (Corep) rules a free eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) checker to help them resolve XBRL validation errors that can occur when submitting required reports to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA’s Gabriel reporting system has been in place since…