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Opinion: From Lehman to Amazon – Rethinking Financial Data Management
By Richard Petti, CEO, Asset Control The tide of regulation is rising inexorably, swamping the financial services sector with ever more prescriptive disclosure requirements; from Dodd-Frank to Basel III and Solvency II, the regulatory response to the enduring financial crisis continues to evolve but the direction of change is constant. It’s widely acknowledged that the…
Andbank Selects AIM’s Gain Portfolio Pricing Data Management Application
AIM Software’s business approach to data management has been endorsed by Andbank, a private bank based in Andorra that has gone live with the company’s Gain Portfolio Pricing data management application. The AIM solution was chosen following a comprehensive evaluation and selection process and is being used to service the bank’s primary private banking and…
Morningstar Augments Solvency II Solutions with UBS Delta’s Capital Requirement Calculations
Morningstar UK has extended its range of Solvency II solutions for asset managers through a partnership with UBS Delta that adds fund level Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) calculations to the company’s fund portfolio holdings data and Solvency II classifications. Morningstar has included fund portfolio holdings data for many years and Solvency II classification data since…
Broadridge Details Rollout of Collateral Management Modules
Broadridge Financial Solutions has beaten its deadline to bring collateral management products based on Lombard Risk Management’s technology to market and set out plans covering development of the product line. The company made its alliance with Lombard Risk public at the end of March 2014 and said products would follow at the end April or…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The Convergence Continues
More evidence this week that market practitioners are embracing intelligence in trading with news that a major global investment bank has implemented a risk and data management platform that appears to make a significant step toward the Holy Grail of incorporating enterprise analytics into the pre-trade decision-making process. This is precisely the kind of thing…
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Selects Cinnober to Support Strategy for Growth
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) partnership with Cinnober to develop a multi-asset clearing platform is expected to deliver not only real-time clearing, but also overall trading improvements and greater market certainty. The contract between Cinnober and the JSE to build a real-time integrated clearing platform initially handling six asset classes was signed last week. Implementation…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Data Utility – Inflexion Point?
For me, one of the most entertaining and informative sessions at our Data Management Summit in London last month was the panel on utilities. Yes, it was a little busy – with no fewer than six (count ‘em!) panellists – but the discussion certainly got the blood flowing. The utility panel session at our DMS…
Quincy Data Extends Low Latency Market Data Service to Frankfurt
Quincy Data has pushed further into Europe with the extension of its Quincy Extreme Data service to Frankfurt. The Frankfurt service distributes CME Group market data from the CME Aurora data centre in Chicago to the FR2 data centre in 37.79 milliseconds. The company has also lowered the latency of distributing CME Group data from…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Getting Smart at ITS New York
I’m thrilled that the agenda for our Intelligent Trading Summit on May 13 in New York is emerging as a match for our new editorial ‘agenda’ here at Intelligent Trading Technology. As you know, we are progressing at pace through our expansion of the remit, from pure low-latency infrastructures to a broader view of how…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: On the Enduring Appeal of the LEI
It’s a sad day indeed when dinner party conversation turns to a 20-digit number. And yet, if asked what is the most compelling topic of coverage in our sphere of influence, I feel compelled to include within the top three at least: the LEI. Of course, explaining what the LEI is all about – and…