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Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Pushing Forward the Global LEI System
While many capital markets participants eased off the pace and headed out for a vacation over the summer, it seems there has been no slowdown for those developing the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, with the system’s Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) taking two significant steps forward in as many weeks in August. First was…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Tonic for the FATCA-Brand GIIN
If Solvency II is considered the most onerous of the regulatory regimes about to hit our financial data community, then FATCA surely is not far behind it – and it is now officially the most imminent. Indeed, following a slight delay (from July 15), the US tax authorities this week unveiled the FATCA registration portal,…
Researchers Harness Supercomputers for Game Changing Financial Markets Analysis
Researchers from a number of U.S. universities, tapping into supercomputing power and optimising code, believe they have made a “game changing” step in the speedy analysis of financial markets, reducing operations from hours or even days, down to minutes. The researchers from the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of San…
MarketPrizm Latest to Offer Tick Data as a Service
Managed connectivity and co-lo specialist MarketPrizm plans to introduce a hosted tick database of global exchange data in Q4 of this year, representing the latest vendor to offer tick data as a service to trading and investment firms looking to leverage it for algorithmic backtesting and quantitative analysis. MarketPrizm’s service – available initially in its…
SunGard Extends Reach of Acquired XSP Corporate Actions Solutions
XSP’s December 2012 acquisition by SunGard has given the corporate actions specialist greater geographic reach, a broader customer base and the opportunity to integrate its software with SunGard middle- and back-office applications. XSP’s latest geographic push is into Asia-Pacific, where it has customers, but mostly global customers with offices in the region. Taking advantage of…
Do We Need a Chief Data Officer?
By Steve Young, CEO, Citisoft Recently I had an interesting conversation with a client with regard to where data management belongs within an organisation and whether there is a need for a buy-side firm to appoint a Chief Data Officer (CDO). The client, a very successful mid-range asset management firm, is organised along fairly clear…
LSE Details Go Live of Pre-LEI System and Expects Smooth Transition to Global LEI system
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) went live with its pre-Legal Entity Identifier (pre-LEI) system issuing Interim Entity Identifiers (IEIs) on Monday August 5. It reports significant interest in entity registration, with many draft records being created ahead of payment and submission, and one complete transaction issuing an IEI to global equity trading services firm BTIG…
TMX Atrium Builds Out Low-Latency Infrastructure and Network Community
TMX Atrium is upgrading its North American network, has completed an upgrade of its European network and has experienced a flurry of activity around third-party connectivity over the past couple of months, but there is more to come as the provider of managed low-latency connectivity meets the needs of customers seeking lowest latencies as well…
Q&A: Victor Yodaiken of FSMLabs on Time Synchronisation Made Easy
Measuring time with great accuracy – and ensuring it is consistent across the many servers that make up a trading enterprise – has historically been costly and difficult. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Victor Yodaiken, CEO of FSMLabs, to find out how his company is making it easier. Q: What does FSMLabs – and your TimeKeeper software…
Finance and Insurance Firms Turn to Third-Party Service Providers for Corporate Credit Valuations
Global banks, asset managers and insurance companies are adopting innovative approaches to valuing high-yield corporate credit in response to regulatory and client demand for transparent, defensible and timely evaluated pricing. Instruments under particular scrutiny include high-yield bonds, leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations, all of which can be hard to price and all of which…