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Markit Combines Products to Deliver Integrated Resource Management
Markit has brought together three existing products to deliver Integrated Resource Management, a front-office analytics application designed to help financial institutions calculate the costs of funding and capital resources required for OTC derivatives trades. The solution adds to the company’s Markit Analytics platform, which is based on the Quic risk analytics software acquired by the…
Terracotta Blends Low Latency and Big Data
Software AG’s Terracotta unit has introduced its Universal Messaging product, a middleware platform spanning enterprise to web to mobile connectivity, providing low latency performance and big data transport as appropriate – and aligning with the emerging ‘big data in motion’ paradigm. “Big, fast data at your fingertips requires seamless real-time data movement, no matter what type…
Aegon Asset Management Extends Use of Markit’s Enterprise Data Management Platform
Aegon Asset Management is extending its use of Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform beyond the UK with implementations of the software at other business operations in the US and the Netherlands. Initial plans show four separate installations of the software, one each in the UK and US, and two in the Netherlands. These will…
NYSE Euronext Subsidiary Takes Over Administration of Libor
NYSE Euronext subsidiary NYSE Euronext Rate Administration has been selected ahead of the London Stock Exchange as the new administrator of Libor. The transfer of administration of the benchmark from BBA Libor, a subsidiary of the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), follows an outbreak of attempts to manipulate Libor for financial gain last year and is…
Aim Software Upgrades Gain to Meet Pricing Needs of Clearstream International
Aim Software has responded to a request from Clearstream International for increased pricing performance and timely price delivery with an upgrade to its Gain data management platform. The upgrade can support daily pricing of over 700,000 records based on 2 million raw prices in less than 20 minutes. Clearstream International, the international central securities depository…
OpenGamma Tackles Market Structure Change and Regulation with Platform 2.0 Risk Management
OpenGamma has responded to changes in OTC derivatives market structure and rising regulatory demand for advanced risk management with a second version of its open source analytics and risk management platform, OpenGamma Platform 2.0. The platform is available today and builds on the first version of the software that was released in April 2012. It…
Activ Taps Solarflare for Gen 3 Ticker Plant, Focuses on TCO Reduction
Moving away from its DIY past, Activ Financial Systems has turned to Solarflare to provide FPGA and network technology for its Generation 3 market data processing unit (MPU), which will be rolled out to customers from this month. While its use of FPGAs has low latency benefits, Activ CTO Mike Dunne says the increasing focus is…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Is Lance Uggla the New Michael Bloomberg?
No, he’s not running to be mayor of New York, as far as we’re aware. But he is leading a company that has pretensions for the No. 1 slot in financial information and infrastructure. That’s our conclusion from recent events at Markit, and the growing swell of talk about what’s to come in the not-too-distant…
SIX Financial Information and swissQuant Partner to Deliver Portfolio Risk Management System
SIX Financial Information has teamed up with swissQuant Group to deliver a portfolio risk management service for private banks and asset managers facing increasing regulatory requirements around risk reporting. The service is called ImpaQt and combines SIX Financial Information reference data and market data history with swissQuant’s proprietary calculation engine to provide on-demand quantitative risk…
Swedbank Robur Extends use of SimCorp Dimension to Cover Solvency II
Swedbank Robur has extended its use of SimCorp Dimension to include the software provider’s Solvency II solution. The asset manager was already using Dimension as its core investment management platform and its choice of the software for Solvency II was a natural move as the platform already includes most of the functionality required to meet…