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Low Latency Summit: Low Latency Gives Way to Big Data and Analytics

The pressure to achieve ever lower latency in trading has not eased in the six or so years since low latency became an industry buzz, but it is beginning to ease as the pure need for speed gives way to growing interest in smart analytics and big data. Opening this week’s A-Team Group Low Latency…

A-Team Makes the BBC News!

Reference Data Review’s editor Andrew Delaney was interviewed for a BBC World Service show that aired this morning. The focus is on high frequency trading from our Low Latency Summit event earlier this week, but Andrew talks about regulators, data management and risk from about 7 minutes 30 seconds… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01j0081

From Big Data to Big Gains – Take a Step Back

By Atul Singh, Capco www.capco.com While there is no argument about the potential benefits of big data, the road ahead for organisations to realise those benefits is still being paved. “Overwhelming” is the buzz word and it is not just related to the volume of the data, but also to the implementation efforts required, and…

BBC Covers Low-Latency and Analytics; Interviews Low-Latency.com and TS-Associates

The BBC dropped by the Low-Latency Summit on Tuesday with a mission to find out more about electronic trading, low latency and analytics. Interviews with Pete Harris, editor of Low-Latency.com, Andrew Delaney, editor-in-chief at A-Team Group, and Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates, were conducted, and edited into a rather nice entry-level segment. Listen here.

Global Legal Entity Identifier System is Moved Another Step Closer to Completion

The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system has taken another significant step forward with the endorsement of three pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the exclusion of 3,000 pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) codes from the system. It is also finalising the appointment of a board directors for the…

London Stock Exchange Taps NeXXCom for Low-Latency Equinix Wireless Service

The London Stock Exchange today announced a millimetre-wave wireless service providing low-latency connectivity between its City of London data centre and Equinix’s LD4 data centre in Slough, which is host to many markets and trading firms. The service is being introduced in collaboration with NeXXCom Wireless and is likely to deliver a sub 300 microsecond roundtrip when…

A-Team’s DMS Awards Reward Best and Brightest in the Industry

A-Team Group hosted its inaugural DMS Data Management awards ceremony at last week’s DMS event in London, with the awards presented to the great and the good of the data management community by our own president and editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney, in a bow tie no less. The awards were devised to give recognition to those…

DMS Review: Regulation, Data Complexity Seen as Key Drivers in Coming 18 Months

Regulation will be the main challenge for data managers over the next two years, but it won’t be the only challenge as data complexity and volumes increase, business users demand better data, and unstructured data becomes part of the big picture. Still more, these challenges must be tackled in an environment of cost constraint. That…

DMS Review: Emerging Technologies Respond to the Challenges of Data Management

High performance technologies can support the delivery of efficient and effective data management, but they are not the only tools for the task as financial firms strive to centralise reference data, deliver the right data at the right time, and move towards on demand, always available data. This was the assessment of a panel of…

DMS Review: LEIs and the Focus on Entity Data

The emerging global legal entity identifier (LEI) remains far from the tipping point of acceptance across global capital markets and for some it appears as a precursor to a vast mapping exercise. But the standard is gaining ground and will form an integral element of the entity data that’s increasingly needed by companies and required…