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Regulatory Oversight Committee of the LEI System Endorses a Further Five pre-Local Operating Units
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier system (GLEIS) made headway over the holiday season, endorsing a number of pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and listing national business registries that have confirmed there are no impediments to entities and pre-LOUs using their information as part of the reference data attached to each…
What Exchanges Must Do to Remain the Stable Trading Venues of the Future
The financial industry has long relied on exchanges to provide a stable infrastructure for financial markets. As self regulatory organizations (SROs), exchanges have been guided by regulations intended to protect their members and serve as the foundation of trading infrastructure. Not a small task. Yet, despite the great responsibility, over the years, exchanges have evolved…
Talking Intelligent Trading Technology with Andrew Delaney: Getting Smart About Trading
Welcome to 2014, and the launch in earnest of IntelligentTradingTechnology.com. As of today, I’ll be your host and editor as we explore how the convergence of high-performance technologies for low-latency trading and the emerging hunger for Big Data-type solutions converge to create the kinds of analytics heretofore unavailable to the pre-trade and at-trade environments. I…
Opinion: Dangerous Data
By Philippe Verriest, Director, Euroclear Data is a vital component of our capital markets. Ensure this data is accurate, and you have a solid basis from which to make considered business decisions. Get it wrong and you risk contaminating many parts of the transaction chain. If there is one lesson that the global financial crisis…
STAC Benchmarks GPUs for Options Risk Analytics
STAC has for the first time published results for its STAC-A2 options risk analytics benchmarks running on Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that point to a near order of magnitude speed up compared to traditional x86 CPUs. STAC-A2 is a suite of benchmark tests developed by market participants that measure the time to complete the calculation of…
Q&A: Exablaze’s Matthew Chapman on Network Switch Latency and Management
In a world where major network vendors like Cisco Systems and Arista Networks are competing on increasingly complex functionality, there is still room for niche products that fulfill straightforward local connectivity needs, including manageability with negligible latency. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Exablaze’s CTO Matthew Chapman about this need, and how his company is addressing it. Q:…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: AC’s Petti – Our Asset Is Under Control
Richard Petti – who recently took over as CEO of EDM platform provider Asset Control – is bullish about the company’s prospects after a rethink of strategy in the wake of its acquisition by LA-based private equity group Marlin Equity Partners. Some may have written off the stalwart data management supplier following this year’s messy…
Q&A: Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley on Packet Capture and Performance Management
Packet capture – grabbing every data packet on a network for analysis – is becoming increasingly important, not just for specialist latency measurement but for higher level monitoring and management of trading and compliance functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley how and why it is being integrated into the company’s network interface cards. Q: Solarflare has…
Deutsche Bank to Pick Up Mantara Assets
Trading system vendor Mantara has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will see its technology pass to Deutsche Bank, one of its customers. A request to the company’s CEO Michael Chin for further information was not responded to, but it is thought that the company has essentially ceased operations. Mantara sold Catalyst, an extensible desktop…
Sapient Global Services Brings Close of Business Reporting Service to Market
Sapient Global Markets has responded to the need for commodity solutions for non-core operations with a managed end-of-day reporting service called Close of Business Service, or CoBS. The service is designed to help firms reduce reporting complexity and cost, and improve risk control and profit predictability. The service has been in use by a handful…