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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…
Wipro Pumps $30 Million Into Opera Solutions
Indian IT heavyweight Wipro has invested $30 million in New Jersey-based predictive analytics specialist Opera Solutions. It’s unclear what this values Opera at, but Wipro’s investment is a minority stake. Opera’s offerings include its cloud-based Signal Hub range. Signals are predictive patterns and anomalies in big data sets. Signal Hubs are domain-specific collections of Signals…
Bayer Implements SunGard Adaptiv Solutions to Support Risk Management
Germany’s Bayer AG has implemented a selection of SunGard’s Adaptiv solutions for risk management to ensure it meets the fair value accounting mandates of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS 13) and is ready to comply with European Market Infrastructure Regulation that is expected to come into force later this year. The German enterprise that…
Turning Up the Volume on Wireless
Judging by the views of a number of wireless network equipment manufacturers and service providers participating in last week’s Low-Latency Summit in New York City, demand from trading firms for low-latency wireless connectivity is strong despite the challenges of reliability, limited bandwidth and cost. Speaking as part of the “Are You Tuning In to Wireless?”…
AlgoFast Plans to Build Up Partner Program and Push Down Latency
AlgoFast’s first partnership with another independent software vendor, trade routing, market data and technical analysis specialist CQG, takes the company a step closer to its ultimate goal of providing its algorithmic event trading software to the online retail market. The partnership allows CQG to supply AlgoFast’s software with its global market data and trade execution…
BT Extends Radianz Base with Move into Interxion’s London Data Centre
BT’s decision to deploy a range of BT Radianz services at Interxion’s Brick Lane, City of London data centre marks the company’s second move into a carrier neutral collocation data centre in London following a deal to run services out of Equinix data centres, including a London location, in April last year. The company says…
FATCA – Ask for Directions or Read the Map?
By Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft. The approach to handling transaction data for FATCA reporting should build on both ‘male’ and ‘female’ strengths in the organisation. Looking at transactions, we see that FATCA requires the reporting of a) individuals’ account balances (and in due course, income and proceeds) and b) withholding tax. This is detailed…