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Caplin Launches Caplin Direct SDP-as-a-Service
Caplin Systems’ launch today of Caplin Direct, a hosted, managed single-dealer platform for banks in the FX market, aims to make state-of-the-art SDP capabilities to financial institutions that may not have the budget or technical resources to implement a deployed solution. According to CEO Paul Caplin, the initiative represents the third generation of SDP development,…
Global LEI System is Here to Stay but Needs Further Development
The global Legal Entity Identifier system (GLEIS) has made its mark in the market and is here to stay, despite the continuing absence of a Central Operating Unit (COU) that will run the system, a lack of data standardisation that should be sorted out by the COU and concerns about how well entities will maintain…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: To Utility and Beyond!
Another penny has dropped in the onward march toward outsourced enterprise data management. UBS’s decision last month to outsource its securities reference data to iGate, which is using Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution – the former Cadis Software – to manage the data, fulfils a strategic intent to industrialise processes where possible. Perhaps more…
BBVA Selects Markit EDM as a Central Hub for its Enterprise Data
BBVA Asset Management has selected Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform to centralise and streamline its data. Markit secured the contract after a competitive selection process including workshops and a final proof of concept. The platform will replace a mix of point-to-point and in-house developed data management solutions and will act as a central hub…
Traiana Supports EMIR Reporting with a Management Solution for Unique Trade Identifiers
Traiana has started to onboard customers of its Unique Trade Identifier (UTI) management solution with a view to helping them meet the February 12, 2014 reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation, which requires both sides of a trade to report using the same trade identifier. The UTI management service is an extension of Traiana’s…
Vulpes Investment Management Revamps IT for Systematic Trading
Vulpes Investment Management is revamping its technology infrastructure as it moves out of volatility trading and into systematic trading. The revamp includes implementation of OneMarketData’s OneTick stream processing and tick data management solution for quantitative research, modelling and strategy development, as well as a Tora electronic trading platform and portfolio management system, Redis in-memory database…
Debate Argues the Case for an Investment Book of Records
Vendors have begun to develop Investment Book of Record (IBOR) solutions and in-house teams are beginning to build them, but issues around what an IBOR should look like, how it should work and whether it will deliver benefits remain open to question. Ian Hunt, a consultant and subject matter expert working with M&G Investment Management…
Fitch Solutions Extends its Use of LEIs and Monitors Global Adoption
Fitch Solutions has extended its adoption of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by adding the codes to unrated entities. The company has been adding pre-LEI codes to Fitch rated issuers and debt issues since early this year and is making all its LEI data available on the Fitch Ratings website and in its data feed products,…
Leveraging In-Memory for Real-Time MapReduce Analytics
See the video below on how in-memory technology from ScaleOut Software can boost MapReduce 40x for financial applications, such as real-time risk analytics.
SuperDerivatives Combines Market Data and Calculation Engine to Deliver Credit Value Adjustment Solution
SuperDerivatives has completed development of a credit value adjustment (CVA) solution for OTC derivatives portfolios and incorporated it into its eValueX valuation service, CorporeX corporate risk and compliance system, and SDX front-office system. Results of CVA calculations can be received by SuperDerivatives’ users as Excel or XML files that can be integrated back into their…