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Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation
By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure…
MacKay Shields Implements Markit EDM to Support Data Management
MacKay Shields, a US-based investment firm owned by New York Life Investment Management and with over $70 billion in assets under management, has selected Markit EDM’s data management solution to manage the collection and distribution of data across its investment management systems. Markit won the deal in a competitive selection process and is working with…
Interactive Data Sets Out on Route to Deliver Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Services
Interactive Data is building out real-time delivery of its evaluated pricing services starting with plans to expand its real-time fixed income pricing services to include real-time evaluations. The expanded service is due to roll out in the final quarter of 2013 and will be followed by additional evaluation services with availability boosted from end of…
S&P Capital IQ Supports Credit Risk Assessment with Additional Platform Tools
S&P Capital IQ will go live with a suite of credit risk assessment tools on its online research, data and news platform on Monday, April 29. The credit risk tools are designed to help assess rated and unrated public and private companies and support activities including peer analytics, portfolio reviews and counterparty credit assessments. They…
A-Team Group Webinar Reveals Significant Issues in Development of the Global LEI System
The global legal entity identifier initiative is well underway with a Regulatory Oversight Committee providing governance and pre-Local Operating Units assigning legal entity identifiers, but the ultimate success of the system depends on the as yet unformed Central Operating Unit, the quality of entity data and its ongoing maintenance. These issues and more related to…
Q&A: Gil Tene of Azul Systems on Why Java Works for Low Latency
It’s a bit of a paradox that Java is so widely used across all applications and industries, and yet is often cited as not suitable for the automated trading space. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Gil Tene, CTO and Co-founder of Azul Systems, to find out more about Java performance, and how to improve it. Q: To…
Regulatory Oversight Committee Updates LEI Development Progress
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative has made its second report on development of the LEI system, detailing progress in each of the three tiers that make up the system and noting ongoing plans for pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and pre-LEIs. The report does not address the burning…
OneMarketData Extends Reach of OneTick Complex Event Processing Engine
OneMarketData has extended the reach of its flagship complex event processing (CEP) product OneTick through a contract win with market-maker Optiver and an integration arrangement with execution and order management systems supplier FlexTrade Systems. Optiver selected OneTick to support its activities in the Asia Pacific region and is implementing the OneTick engine and its historical…
MemSQL Ships Distributed In-Memory Database
Following up on its unveiling in June of last year, San Francisco-based MemSQL has released a distributed version of its eponymous in-memory database, aimed at introducing big data scalability to the low latency performance provided by the initial release. With its distributed version, MemSQL is providing in-memory performance, with access via the common SQL database…
Quantifi Stresses Data Management Requirement for Basel III Credit Risk
Quantifi has built out its counterparty credit risk platform to meet the capital requirements of Basel III. But the company warns that data aggregation and management coupled to a centralised approach to the regulation are essential to full compliance and managing the cost of capital. Basel III regulation was finalised in June 2011 and will…