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Peel Hunt Signs Up for Wolters Kluwer FS’s New Summix Risk Platform
UK brokerage Peel Hunt has deployed Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ recently released Summix risk, compliance and finance platform. The system integrates technologies from acquired software providers FRS Global and FinArch, providing an upgrade path for users of these systems as well as a platform for new clients like Peel Hunt. Peel Hunt selected Summix for…
Q&A: Supermicro’s Don Clegg on Accelerated Processors For Performance and Cost Reduction
Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor is driving new server technologies that the financial markets are keen to adopt. But in today’s cost-reduction environment, it’s not just about top performance – through accelerated CPU clock speeds – but also how to roll out and operate in a cost effective way – which brings in server density,…
Pivotal Taps NYSE for Data Dispatch Middleware
Pivotal – the EMC/VMware analytics spinout – has released Pivotal Data Dispatch (PDD), a platform for discovery of and analytical processing on data stored in disparate repositories. The product was developed at NYSE Euronext for its internal surveillance and regulatory purposes and has been in use there since 2007. According to product documentation, PDD provides…
GoldenSource, SIX Provide FATCA Solution for Big UK Bank
GoldenSource has secured its first customer for the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) solution it has developed using its enterprise data management (EDM) platform and Connections service. The customer, a UK-based global universal bank, has also signed a contract with SIX Financial Information to provide data for the FATCA solution. The GoldenSource Connections…
Citicom Solutions Fulfils Dodd-Frank Trade Recording and Reconstruction Requirements
Citicom Solutions is pushing its Assure voice and text data capture and analysis solution beyond the UK and into the US market with a view to helping financial firms meet Dodd-Frank regulation requiring swap trading communications to be recorded and trades to be reconstructed. The real-time solution is also designed to provide a proactive view…
Xenomorph Adds S&P Capital IQ Data Connector to TimeScape
Xenomorph has added S&P Capital IQ to the list of data vendors it works with to provide connectors between data solutions and its TimeScape analysis and data management platform. The connectors enable data integration and allow commingling of multiple data sets from different sources, in support of applications such as dual sourcing of price information….
Opinion: Data Management – Still Not Available in High Definition
By Steve Young, CEO, Citisoft “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ” – Abraham Lincoln…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: IBOR – The Next Great Hype?
Kudos to Ronan Brennan, CTO at fund data management specialists MoneyMate, whose blog – IBOR – The Next Great Hype? – explores whether the concept of the investment book of record (IBOR) is anything more than mere hype. I’m pleased to report that he concludes there’s more to it than just bluster. Certainly, it’s something…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech – Breaking Bad?
In what on paper looks like an executive clear-out ahead of the November 4 completion of InterContinentalExchange’s acquisition of NYSE Euronext, NYSE Technologies’ CEO Jon Robson and COO Terry Roche are leaving the company, according to sources close to the arrangement. The development follows the apparent breakdown of talks to spin off the NYSE Tech…
ICE/NYSE Acquisition: Robson To Depart As Speculation on NYSE Technologies’ Future Heats Up
Ahead of the November 4 completion of InterContinentalExchange’s acquisition of NYSE Euronext, it seems there is significant movement regarding the future of the exchange group’s NYSE Technologies services unit, including the soon-to-be departure of CEO Jon Robson. Sources say that Robson and COO Terry Roche are both expected to depart, possibly related to fallout from…