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Financial Stability Board Sets up Study on Trade Repository Data Aggregation
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has set up a feasibility study to consider how OTC derivatives data reported to trade repositories can be aggregated and shared among authorities monitoring risks to financial stability. The options for data aggregation being investigated by the study include a centralised model, a logically centralised model based on federated data…
Swift Starts to Populate BIC to LEI Directory with GEI and CICI Pre-Legal Entity Identifiers
Swift has met customer demand for Business Identifier Code (BIC) to Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) mapping with a BIC to LEI directory for users of its SwiftRef payments data platform and BIC to LEI mapping in a handful of its existing products. The company says it has mapped 4,800 BICs to pre-LEIs – over time…
NYSE Technologies Promotes Shared Infrastructure for Trading and Post-trade Processes
NYSE Technologies CEO Jon Robson is promoting the concept of shared infrastructure in financial markets with a view to driving down costs, increasing agility and delivering the transparency required by regulators. In an open note to industry and a video titled ‘A Call for Collaboration’ that are posted on NYSE Technologies’ TechTalk microsite, Robson says…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The 100 Club Circa 1977
What do Colin Hall, Colin Gibson, Rupert Brown, Chris Johnson, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Tom Dalglish, Robert Hofstetter and Neville Homer have in common? They are all part of the unique mix of familiar faces and rising stars that makes our Data Management Summit the place where the enterprise and reference data community comes to share their…
Q&A: Embium’s new CEO Janice Robson on Rapidly Deploying Algo Strategies
Embium is the new name for Cyborg Trading Systems, providing a cloud-delivered, broker neutral, algorithmic trading platform. As well as a new name, the company has a new CEO. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Janice Robson to find out about the past, present and future. Q: What is it about Embium that caused you to join…
Low Latency – It’s All About Big Fast Data
When one hears the term ‘Big Data’ one is drawn to thinking about batch analysis of vast datasets, such as web logs, click streams and, apparently, phone records. Technologies like Hadoop and NoSQL are mentioned, already in the context of their lack of performance, and murky ROI. But in the financial markets, the world of big…
Thomson Reuters Debates the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) will take its toll on data management functions with most financial firms expecting know your customer (KYC) and client onboarding processes to be hit hardest by the legislation. During a webinar hosted by Thomson Reuters, participants also pointed out that FATCA is the tip of the iceberg,…
Q&A: EOTPRO’s Bill Dennis on Broadening the Market for MRN
Leveraging machine readable news and social media updates is an emerging approach that’s thus far been adopted by trading firms and hedge funds with significant technology and quant expertise. EOTPRO is now looking to broaden the usage of MRN through is web portal, and IntelligentTradingTechnology.com found out more from CEO Bill Dennis. Q: How did…
CICI Utility Cuts 18,000 pre-Legal Entity Identifiers from its Database
The CICI utility that issues CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) for use in the interim global legal entity identifier (LEI) system will today remove 18,000 records from its database. These records are part of the tranche of 22,000 records that DTCC, which works with Swift as a pre-Local Operating Unit (pre-LOU) in the interim global…
Is Low Latency the New Disaster Recovery?
“Everyone wants low latency … the trouble is no one wants to pay for it,” were words spoken recently by a senior executive of a major financial IT vendor. It was a private meeting, so I won’t name the individual or the company, but what was said resonated with me, because it echoed my increasing…