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Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Flash For The Men, Not The Boys
In the search for increased financial application performance, systems architects are exploring a number of different hardware approaches. Parallel processing is one of them. Another is deploying Flash memory as a substitute for hard disk storage, which can be particularly effective where data throughput is a bottleneck. As it happens, quite a bit has been…
Bloomberg Extends Vault with File Analytics for Dark Data
Bloomberg has added File Analytics to its Vault enterprise information management service with a view to helping organisations locate and manage dark data held in files and documents. The company defines dark data as ‘unstructured, untapped data that is held by organisations, which has not been analysed or processed’, and says users of the Vault…
Gilbert Dupont Extends Use of SunGard Valdi Market Access to Reach Turquoise and Equiduct
Société de Bourse Gilbert Dupont is building on its relationship with SunGard and its use of the company’s Valdi Market Access software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to extend its reach to Turquoise, the London Stock Exchange’s pan-European multilateral trading facility. Gilbert Dupont, a specialist in small and mid-sized company research and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe Crédit…
Oversight Committee of the Global LEI System Moves Common Data File Forward
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has published the second part of a common data file format for pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs). This follows the introduction in February 2014 of a first common data file format for pre-LOUs to use in publishing LEI data or communicating with other…
Vulpes Cuts Costs with Markit’s Expanded Portfolio Valuations Service
Vulpes Investment Management has increased data accuracy and decreased vendor and technology costs by deploying valuations, risk and straight-through-processing (STP) provided by Markit. The Singapore-based investment manager was using different vendor systems to support portfolio management, execution, evaluation and risk across asset classes including exchange traded derivatives, private equity and illiquid debt holdings, but wanted…
Options Completes Expansion of Velocity IaaS to Mahwah Data Centre
Options has completed the expansion of its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) trading platform to the NYSE colocation facility in Mahwah, New Jersey. With this development, Options’ clients will not only benefit from exchange colocation to access a wide variety of dark and lit markets across the US, but also from low-latency trading strategies that could improve…
Argon Design Delivers Ultra-Low Latency Trading System to Prop Shop
Argon Design, a Cambridge, UK-based engineering design consultancy, has developed an ultra-low latency financial trading system for a proprietary trading firm doing latency arbitrage on a leading exchange in the US. The system went live in May and builds on Argon’s September 2013 introduction of high-performance trading technology that combines the benefits of field programmable…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Feeling the Collars of the Libor Traders
Financial institutions are bracing themselves for further regulatory clampdown on market pricing on the wake of the LIBOR and FX market manipulation scandals. As regulators draft new guidelines for benchmark data contributions, and UK Chancellor George Osborne signals increased scrutiny of the London FX market’s pricing procedures, data managers and compliance officers are assessing their…
ICE Agrees Sale of NYSE Technologies’ NYFIX and Metabit to Ullink
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has reached agreement to sell NYSE Technologies’ NYFIX and Metabit businesses to Ullink, just days after it confirmed agreements to sell Wombat and SuperFeed to SR Labs, and its 25% stake in Fixnetix back to the company. ICE says these sales complete its previously stated intention to divest certain non-exchange related assets…
Opinion: Piecing Together the Data Scientist Puzzle
By Dev Bhudia, Vice President, Product Management, GoldenSource Depending on whom you speak to, the definition of a data scientist seems to mean different things to different people. Some see it as a glorified number crunching role, while others believe the position requires someone more inquisitive to spot and respond to key trends. The role…