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Talking Reference Data with Reference Data: Maximising Utility

It comes as no surprise at all that the managed services panel at our Data Management Summit in London next week is the most oversubscribed. Everyone wants to be on it. That reflects the mood in London that I’ve picked up on in recent months. The concept of outsourcing data management to a third party…

Russia’s National Settlement Depository Selects GoldenSource for Corporate Actions Solution

GoldenSource has secured a contract with Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD), which will use the vendor’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform for the distribution of automated corporate actions data across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The contract was signed last week and the parties expect to have initial elements of the system up and…

Linedata Transforms Global Hedge Platform to Deliver Integrated Portfolio and Risk Management

Linedata has transformed its Global Hedge platform to deliver a new release that provides a single log-on to integrated portfolio and risk management, and real-time access to data and reporting. Linedata initially brought together and rebranded its Beauchamp hedge fund management tools, including analytics and data from Riskdata, in Linedata Global Hedge at the end…

Q&A: McObject’s Steve Graves on Vectors, CPU Cache and Pipelining to Boost Analytics Performance

Trading firms are looking to boost the speed at which they run analytics, in order to provide faster trading signals and more effective risk management. Leveraging vector-based processing, and managing data so that it remains in the CPU cache can help. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to McObject’s CEO Steve Graves for some explanations. Q: You just released…

Experts Debate the Data Management Issues of Fatca

Financial institutions in the scope of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) need to start work on compliance immediately, if they have not already done so, as deadlines are looming, the data management task is onerous and penalties for non-compliance are severe. This call for action was made in an A-Team Group webinar…

Eagle Taps In-Memory VoltDB For Performance Measurement

BNY Mellon unit Eagle Investment Systems has selected and will resell in-memory database technology from VoltDB. Eagle will leverage the VoltDB database to underpin real-time analytics and decision support functionality initially for its performance measurement offering. VoltDB is an ACID-compliant relational database offering a SQL interface and Java stored procedures, designed to support high velocity…

DST Global Solutions Upgrades Anova to Improve Compliance Process

DST Global Solutions has included additional dashboards and upgraded reporting functionality in release 3.0 of its Anova post-trade data management solution. The aim of the release is to improve the ability of users to aggregate and access investment data quickly and accurately for regulatory compliance purposes. The release also allows key compliance metrics to be…

BittWare’s TeraBox Bulks Up FPGA Processing for Trading Scale and Analytics

FPGA specialist BittWare has introduced TeraBox, an appliance that delivers up to 16 FPGAs, and targeted at high scale trading and analytics applications. TeraBox supports up to eight BittWare S5-PCIe-DS cards, each of which hosts two Altera Stratix V FPGAs, 64 gigabytes of RAM and 16 10gE network ports. Thus, each 5U appliance can scale…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Ready for Primetime

Oh, the sacrifices we make for our audiences…. My family – mostly my daughter – will testify that I have put on a few pounds over the summer. I put this down to the fact that I’ve spent the past few months scouring the world – well, the City – for talent and ideas for…

Fiserv Fatca Solution Augments Existing Financial Crime Risk Management Platform

Fiserv has added a compliance solution for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) to its Financial Crime Risk Management platform and named one of its development partners, Manulife Insurance, a global provider of life insurance and wealth management, as its first user. Called Fatca Manager, the Fiserv solution leans on the detection, workflow and…