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ESMA Approves Trade Repositories for EMIR and Sets February Deadline for Derivatives Reporting
The reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has been set for February 12, 2014, following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) approval of four trade repositories for derivatives trading. A request by ESMA to delay the reporting deadline for exchange-traded derivatives by a year has been turned down by the European Commission….
Global LEI System Takes Two Small Steps Towards Operation
The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has inched forward with operational moves being made by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) to address reference data issues around the LEI and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to accept LEIs from all endorsed pre-local operating units (LOUs). The Secretariat of the ROC has written a…
SAS Teams With SAP for Real-Time Analytics
Analytics specialist SAS is working with SAP and its in-memory HANA technology in order to offer real-time applications, including potentially for financial markets trading and risk use cases. Early offerings are due in the first half of 2014. Ken Tsai, head of SAP HANA product marketing and vice president of technology innovation platforms at SAP,…
Q&A: Skyler’s Mike Vieyra on Market Data Management and LIBOR
Skyler Technology is a company that has re-invented itself since its early days as a complex event processing company from the San Francisco Bay Area, to focus on market data management – with some relevant technology for compliance in markets such as LIBOR – from a UK base. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to CEO Mike Vieyra to…
Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Sketch Roadmap for Algo Testing Facility
The tie-up of Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Technologies to deliver an algorithm testing facility is expected to endure beyond initial plans to offer algo testing for US equities trading and take testing into other asset classes over time. It is also expected to help trading firms get ahead of any regulatory mandates that may set…
Bloomberg and Markit Exchange Reference Data to Bolster EDM Services
Bloomberg and Markit have responded to market demand for a wider choice of vendor data for enterprise data management (EDM) with a non-exclusive agreement to distribute each other’s pricing and reference data through their EDM platforms Bloomberg Polarlake and Markit EDM. The companies report increasing interest in choosing and consuming broader datasets as customers and…
Rutgers University to Host Statistics for Risk Conference This Week
Rutgers University’s Master of Financial Statistics and Risk Management (FSRM) programme will host the Rutgers Statistics for Financial Risk Management Conference this coming Thursday, November 7. The event reflects the FSRM programme’s emphasis on statistical and data analytics tools for measuring, monitoring, managing and mitigating uncertainty, risk and volatility. “We are keen to establish a…
Change is Happening at Low-Latency.com …
In the financial markets, the only constant is change … and over the past couple of years, the world of low latency has changed. At one time, reducing latency was an arms race, with zero as the finish line. Now, with the race close to a conclusion, the focus is shifting to the high performance…
SAP and SAS Partnership Develops In-Memory Analytics for Big Data
SAP and SAS have signed a strategic agreement to develop data management and analytics solutions that allow SAS’s analytics applications to run on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The aim is to deliver real-time data analysis, with early solutions due in the first half of next year. The partners plan to develop high-performance solutions across a…
A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View
Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only…