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Numerix Embeds ActivePivot In-Memory Analytics to Extend CrossAsset Server Capability
Numerix has embedded Quartet FS’s ActivePivot in-memory analytics technology into its CrossAsset Server enterprise analytics engine to deliver real-time analysis, aggregation and visualisation of the large volumes of complex data that result from CrossAsset Service calculations of market risk and counterparty credit risk and derivatives valuations. The partnership provides the first best-of-breed addition to Numerix’s…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: IBOR, Therefore I Am
Eighteen months ago, we conducted a survey of 40 or so enterprise architects and data management professionals at Tier 1 and Tier 2 buy- and sell-side firms to try to understand how Big Data could be applied to our marketplace. The answers – you can download the report, sponsored by Platform Computing (now part of…
Low-Latency Summits: Looking Back and Forward – One More Time
Just a quick post to point back to the recent outing of our Low-Latency Summits, held in New York City on May 1. And also a point forward to our next Summits in the Fall. We audio recorded all of the sessions from May 1, and pulled in what presentations we were allowed, adding in…
BNY Mellon Report Explores Big Data in Finance, in the 21st Century
A report recently published by BNY Mellon – it’s available to anyone who request it from them – takes a look at big data, its definition and its potential, and “sketches its transformational influence on the 21st century global financial system, mainly from an asset management perspective.” The report was written by Jack Malvey, chief…
GoldenSource Responds to Market Interest in Financial Industry Business Ontology
The decision by GoldenSource to map its enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) signals initial industry take up of the semantic standard, which GoldenSource suggests could go as far as becoming a regulatory requirement for reporting. FIBO is an initiative of the EDM Council and describes in business terms…
GoldenSource Sets out LEI Store and Suggests an Entity Data Utility to Commoditise Compliance
GoldenSource is addressing the arrival of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) with its existing enterprise data management (EDM) software and the suggestion of a data utility that could commoditise compliance with regulations based on the LEI. The company has made its software LEI ready by allowing users to add LEI codes as additional or primary entity…
A Recruiter’s View: On FPGAs, Big Data And Women
Three very interesting features have emerged in fintech recruitment in the first trimester of 2013. The on off nature of FPGA development has led to cluster hiring in the space, big data has taken strides forward and there has been a noticeable improvement in diversity as companies take steps to add more women to their teams. Suspicion…
DTCC Plans Vendor Workgroup to Tackle Data Accuracy of the CICI and LEI
DTCC has responded to criticisms covering the accuracy and quality of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) it issues on behalf of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) saying data issues highlighted in a blog by data consolidator Alacra are the result of how business rules are being applied to entity registrations. Despite its defence, DTCC…
OTP Bank Implements Numerix CrossAsset to Support Pricing and Risk Analytics
OTP Bank – Hungary’s largest independent retail bank, with subsidiaries in eight other European countries – has implemented the Numerix CrossAsset analytics platform to support its derivatives analytics. The bank selected the CrossAsset platform on the basis of its independent library of market-tested pricing models and comprehensive instrument coverage. CrossAsset replaces other types of libraries…
The Valuations Webinar Library
As you’re aware, valuations have been something of a hot topic for us these past several months. I’ve blogged a few times about how tricky they are (see here and here, for example), and the topic has been serialised, as it were, through our A-Team Hot Topics programme of webinars and special reports. (The most recent…