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Zeptonics Hit By Legal Ruling; Cannot Sell Ultra-Low-Latency Products
Australian financial trading technology vendor Zeptonics has been directed by the Federal Court of Australia to assign the ownership of certain of its products – including its ZeptoLink fanout device and ZeptoMatch matching engine – to proprietary trading firm Zomojo, which claimed ownership of them. It is considering appealing the decision, but for now it…
Trading Ecosystems and Liquidity
Liquidity is King Liquidity is a vital, if nebulous, conundrum. For a securities exchange, it is of the essence. Traders love it. Corporate issuers consider it crucial when choosing where to list. Yet at times it can depend on nothing more substantial than market sentiment. It is proverbially ‘sticky’ – liquidity attracts liquidity, yet it…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Markit-Asset Control – New Dawn Fades
The buzz around Markit’s alleged interest in Asset Control reached fever pitch a week or so ago when an anonymous caller to Reference Data Review suggested the deal was done and Asset Control’s senior management relieved of their duties. But just a few days after we went public with speculation of a transaction, the deal…
Opinion: Will Banks Meet The Regulatory Challenge?
By Stuart Grant, EMEA Business Development Manager – Financial ServicesSAP If we examine today’s regulatory landscape across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), we see a minefield of complexity and requirements that financial organisations must meet. In the UK specifically, with Basel III and papers such as The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS)…
SIX Financial Information Extends Evaluated Pricing Capacity
SIX Financial Information has set up an evaluated pricing valuation team in Frankfurt with a view to expanding its coverage of European assets and improving support for European clients. The team has four staff, with a fifth due to join shortly, and adds to existing teams of evaluators in Denmark and Stamford, Connecticut. According to…
Q&A: Panopticon’s Willem De Geer on (Big) Data Visualisation in Capital Markets
When discussing big data, the point is often made that deriving value from the data, through analytics, is where the real business win is. Panopticon Software has been in the analysis business – specifically data visualisation – since before big data was a common term. So we found out more about the company, and how…
Thomson Reuters Pushes DataScope Select into Front Office with DataScope Workflow License
Thomson Reuters is pushing DataScope Select, its delivery platform for non-streaming pricing and reference data, into the front office with the offer of data sets dedicated to the operation of transaction systems including order management systems (OMS), execution management systems (EMS) and portfolio management systems (PMS). Initial content is available immediately for OMS solutions under…
Bloomberg PolarLake Brings Managed Service for EDM to Market
Bloomberg PolarLake has rolled out the enterprise data management (EDM) managed service it proposed after its May 2012 acquisition by Bloomberg. The service will initially support security master and pricing data processing with more options to come later this year. Swedbank is its first user and SIX Financial Information its first data provider. PolarLake did…
Q&A: John Lockwood of Algo-Logic Systems on Reducing Time-to-Market for FPGA Apps
While the debate on whether to leverage FPGAs versus travel the Intel CPU roadmap for cutting-edge performance continues, there seems to be a common view that developing for FPGAs can be challenging. Looking to overcome that challenge is Algo-Logic Systems, with pre-built functionality for automated trading functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to the company’s founder and CEO…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Birth of a New Standard
The UK National Childbirth Trust – the NCT – is a venerable organisation that helps first time parents prepare for the arrival of their little bundle of joy. For mothers, it helps reduce the obvious stress of anticipation of the big day and creates a network of like-minded mums who swap tips and tales of…