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Big Data and Rising Internet Use Require Innovative Reference Data Management Solutions
Big data and internet proliferation are creating great opportunities in the financial sector, but firms must move quickly to develop innovative reference data solutions if they are to take advantage of these opportunities and remain competitive. Presenting at an ISITC Europe reference data briefing, Ken Price, vice president of sales at data management specialist Strevus…
Knowsis Offers Social Media Sentiment Data to Support Trading Strategies
Start-up data and analytics firm Knowsis is working with an initial five clients to incorporate its social media sentiment data into their trading strategies. The company declines to name the clients, but says one will go live imminently with strategies built around signals from Knowsis data, while others are considering how to add sentiment data…
Datawatch Acquires Panopticon
Visualisation specialist Panopticon Software is being acquired by Datawatch, in an all stock deal valued at $31.4 million. The deal should close by the end of September, subject to Datawatch shareholder approval. Before agreeing this deal, sources say that Panopticon was in discussions with partner SAP to be acquired by that company. Datawatch focuses on…
Swift Enhances SwiftRef Reference Data Utility and Plans Managed Services
Swift is building on last year’s introduction of SwiftRef, its payments reference data utility, with plans to extend web and cloud data services and develop managed services around the data it collects, cleanses, consolidates and publishes. SwiftRef went live in January 2012 and is delivering 194 data files every day to about 1,000 subscribers worldwide….
Markit Plans New-Build Corporate Actions Platform Post Acquisition of DTCC’s GCA Validation Service
Markit’s acquisition of DTCC’s Global Corporate Actions (GCA) Validation Service has been some time in the making – we first flagged it in Reference Data Review back in February – but it is a significant move for the company as it pursues a managed services strategy. The deal will be finalised on 1 July, at…
Telx’s NJR3 Data Centre Opens Today!
Located in Clifton, NJ, Telx’s new 215,000 square foot data centre – dubbed NJR3 – is having its grand opening today. Under construction since 2011 and built at a cost of $200 million, the three story LEED designed NJR3 features 100,000 square feet of usable “white space” for customer equipment, 24,000 kW of power, diversely fed from…
Q&A: Fred Malabre of FPL on High Performance Trading with FIX
As some exchanges have adopted proprietary binary protocols for HFT and other latency sensitive trading, the FIX Protocol organisation has been hard at work bringing FIX messaging into the world of high performance trading. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com found out what’s been happening from Fred Malabre, co-chair of the FPL High Performance Working Group (and senior director at…
Informatica Highlights Performance of SMX Messaging
Following on from last month’s announcement of Ultra Messaging SMX, Informatica has published a range of latency and throughput performance figures for the shared memory transport, covering a number of programming languages. Messaging latency as low as 39 nanoseconds was recorded, with overall latency more than 16 times lower than tests conducted on an earlier version…
S&P Capital IQ Adds Intelligence to Hosted Portfolio Risk Solution
S&P Capital IQ will roll out a new version of its Portfolio Risk solution this week packaging risk and scenario analytics with market data and fundament data to deliver real-time risk analysis for multi-asset class portfolios. The redesigned risk solution brings together the risk and portfolio analytics expertise acquired by S&P Capital IQ with R2…
Nasdaq OMX NLX Achieves Low Latency and Rising Trade Volumes in Start-up Phase
Nasdaq OMX NLX opened for business on the last day of May, offering a market for European short-term and long-term interest rate derivatives designed to provide ease of access, efficiency and the flexibility to respond to customer demands and list new products rapidly. Fast forward a couple of weeks and Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of NLX,…