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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…
LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee Says its Size is Slowing Short-Term Progress
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System has missed the end of June deadline it set itself to provide details on the endorsement of pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) saying that the size of the Committee has slowed down the finalisation and publication of the relevant documents. The ROC’s second plenary…
Thomson Reuters Develops Accelus Governance, Risk and Compliance Platform
Thomson Reuters is building out its Accelus governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform with an updated user interface for Accelus Risk Manager, additional workflow tools and further functionality including the company’s BoardLink portal, enhanced disclosure capabilities and e-learning. Thomson Reuters’ GRC business was established about three years ago, with the Accelus brand following about six…
OFI Mandats Switches from Deployed to SaaS Version of Linedata Chorus
OFI Mandats, the investment management services provider for insurance funds within OFI Group, has switched from the in-house deployed version of Linedata’s Chorus investment accounting software to the recently released software-as-a-service (SaaS) version. Its aim is to modernise and improve the security of the solutions it offers to its clients and, through the inclusion of…
SAS Integrates Technologies to Deliver Decision Manager Platform
SAS has pulled together existing and new technologies to deliver SAS Decision Manager, a platform that integrates predictive analytics, business rules and data management to support decision making. The platform is also being built into other SAS products with the first to host the technology being SAS High-Performance Risk. The risk solution uses the platform…
NYSE Technologies’ Robson Calls for Collaboration; Pushes Shared Infrastructure to Reduce Costs
Nine months after taking the reigns at NYSE Technologies, CEO Jon Robson has begun to articulate a renewed vision for NYSE Euronext’s IT services operation with “A Call for Collaboration” to the financial markets. Of course, in Robson’s mind, that collaboration hopefully means trading firms will embrace the cloud platform, global network and open sourced middleware…
Volante Partners SwiftRef to Offer Users a Single Source of Payments Reference Data
Financial data integration specialist Volante Technologies has joined the SwiftRef partner programme, allowing its users to connect to the payments reference data utility and access datasets and query tools required to make timely and accurate payments. The companies have worked together for some years, with Volante technology offering transformation between messaging formats for over 70…