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Data Management Summit: Regulatory Challenges Demand Better Data Management & Risk Data Aggregation
The increasing complexity and more onerous obligations of new regulatory initiatives, particularly the recent EMIR deadlines, is demanding more sophisticated data management and better risk data aggregation programmes at banks and other financial institutions, according to industry experts at the A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit (DMS) last week. The panellists agreed that too much of…
Data Management Summit: IBM and GoldenSource Unveil Reference Data Utility Solution
IBM used its participation in A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit last week to unveil details of its partnership with GoldenSource to deliver a reference data utility. The partners are running the GoldenSource enterprise data management (EDM) platform in the IBM cloud to provide the utility and are talking to prospective clients that are considering the…
Data Management Summit: UBS’s Brown on Creating a Data Map of the Financial Enterprise
Rupert Brown, lead architect in the office of the CTO at UBS Investment Bank, opened the A-Team Group Data Management Summit with a keynote presentation covering the creation of a data map for a financial enterprise. Taking a traditional map as his starting point and later touching on the topographical nature of the London Underground…
Intelligent Trading Summit: The Human Resources Conundrum
Statistics presented by MathWorks at this week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit suggest a significant skills gap among UK graduates entering the financial services sector and a need to develop fresh skills in areas such as data science. Presenting the results of the company’s skills research project among 43 buy-side firms, Steve Wilcockson, industry manager…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Tackling Today’s Problems to Deliver Next Generation Trading
Today’s trading environment is ring-fenced by problems, but there are solutions and technologies that can revitalise trading and make it fit for purpose for next generation traders who are already immersed in technology. Presenting a keynote address at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit, Steve Grob, director of group strategy at Fidessa, described what is going…
Intelligent Trading Summit: An Architecture for Intelligent Trading
A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit dedicated to discovering What’s Next for Data Driven Trading Technology got underway with an inspiring opening keynote presentation from Alessandro Petroni, senior principal architect, financial services, at Tibco Software. Petroni discussed the need for intelligent trading, the challenges it presents and the value it offers. He also described the management…
Perseus Telecom Adds London Metro Microwave Connectivity
Perseus Telecom has closed the gaps between London’s trading markets with microwave connectivity linking the Equinix LD4 data centre in Slough, the NYSE data centre in Basildon, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) data centre and the City based London Hosting Centre. The metro connectivity links Equinix LD4, which hosts foreign exchange and equities trading engines,…
McKay Brothers Builds Out Low Latency Microwave Connectivity
McKay Brothers is shaving fractions of milliseconds off its microwave routes between US financial data centres as it begins to deliver its 2014 US Microwave Roadmap. The roadmap targets latency between Aurora in Chicago, Illinois and Secaucus in New Jersey at below 8.05 milliseconds and latency between Aurora and Carteret, New Jersey at below 8.00…
ITRS Delivers Murex Monitoring Interface Via Excelian Tie-Up
ITRS has partnered with integrator Excelian to add Murex to the list of trading and risk applications handled by its Geneos performance monitoring system. The arrangement will give mutual clients access to real-time metrics on system performance for Murex solutions. ITRS already delivers predictive, real-time monitoring and management capabilities for over 100 third-party trading and…
Q&A: Velocimetrics’ Steve Colwill on Real-Time Business Insight
As trading firms look to improve business performance, perhaps using sophisticated strategies running at speed, and regulators demand increased transparency and integrity across trading environments, the need is for tools that can monitor and analyse complex business flows. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Velocimetrics’ CEO Steve Colwill about the need for real-time business insight and how it…