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Quincy Data and McKay Brothers Plan Additional Microwave Links and Super Fast Market Data Services
Quincy Data, a provider of low latency market data, and its partner McKay Brothers, a developer of microwave networks spanning key financial centres, have come a long way in the short time since they were set up in 2010, but they have further to go with plans to build out additional connectivity and enhance their…
Tech Mahindra Details Global Data Utility Based on Acquired UBS Platform
Tech Mahindra, a business process outsourcing specialist and parent of London-based investment management technology consultancy Citisoft, has repositioned a reference data platform acquired from UBS Global Asset Management to offer an offshore reference data utility aimed at meeting market demand for lower cost, high quality data that can reduce risk and increase efficiency. The global…
Wolters Kluwer Expands Portfolio of Regulatory Reporting Solutions
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services is expanding its portfolio of national regulatory reporting solutions through an agreement to acquire Svenson, a software suite dedicated to the Austrian market, from SmartStream. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but the acquisition is expected to close this summer and will include the transfer of Svenson’s 15 employees…
Talking Reference Data With Sarah Underwood: Getting to Grips with Data Management Development
Enterprise data management has become central to conversations at financial institutions about strategy setting, business development, profitability, risk management, regulatory compliance, technology innovation and more. Yet it remains difficult to itemise and successful solutions are elusive. Some of the conversations concentrate on long-term data standardisation and centralisation, others on data management outsourcing, and many on…
Volta Details its Plans for Great Sutton Street Data Centre in Central London
Volta Data Centres powered up its first data centre in central London in April 2013 and has since secured its first customer and an additional carrier to those already embedded in the building. And there is more to come as the company builds out the 45,000 square feet of hosting space at the Great Sutton…
Trading Firms See Merit in Social Media Strategies, But Also Risks
Trading firms see the advantages of implementing execution strategies driven by social media alerts, including Twitter and Facebook updates, and some are already doing so. But many also are wary of the risks associated with leveraging information sources that are not subject to the same quality controls as traditional news media. Those are the findings…
LSE Details Go-Live of Pre-LEI as Regulatory Oversight Committee Reviews Global LEI System
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is planning to go live with the issue of pre-legal entity identifiers (pre-LEIs) called Interim Entity Identifiers (IEIs) on July 31, following its confirmation June 6 as a pre-Local Operating Unit (pre-LOU) under the sponsorship of the UK Financial Conduct Authority. The exchange detailed its plans this week during a…
Datactics Launches Suite of Tools to Address Regulatory and Other Data Management Challenges
Datactics has launched a suite of data management tools aimed at helping financial institutions deal with the raft of regulatory requirements now impacting legal entity and other data types, including the new global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Datactics is offering a flexible solution that meets the data management needs of any size of financial institution,…
Redefining VaR and Multi-Dimensional Analytics
By Georges Bory, managing director and co-founder, Quartet FS New regulations, such as Basel III, are changing the banking landscape and putting additional pressures on banks. These include more stringent requirements for risk modelling and ratios so they are better equipped to respond to changing market conditions. This puts measures of market risk, particularly Value…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: No Migration Tsunami Expected from Newly Extended RICs
The great thing about writing a weekly blog is that one post inevitably begets another. Last week, I speculated on how Markit might be poised to capitalise in certain changes currently under way within our marketplace. No sooner had I hit the ‘publish’ button than I was inundated with emails and texts drawing my attention…