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Element22 Proposes Open Source Data Models for LEI and More
Data management specialist element 22 has set in motion an open source project designed to develop a conceptual data model for the financial services industry that could lead to standard data schemas and help firms avoid reinvention of data models when addressing new system builds. The so-called ?mod (fimod) Open Source Project is a response…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS 2013 – On LEI and Other Data Management Challenges
Data management is critical to the challenges facing financial services and capital markets participants. Across the board, from meeting increasing regulation and getting in line behind the forthcoming legal entity identifier (LEI) to enhancing transparency and risk management, data management is key. It features in many of the issues we have covered over the past…
Ion Trading Acquires Twice to Add Strength in Treasury Risk Management
Ion Trading is back on the acquisition trail, this time building strength in treasury management systems through last week’s takeover of Horsham, Pennsylvania-based Financial Software Systems and the acquisition the previous week of London-based IT2 Treasury Solutions, through subsidiary Wall Street Systems. A dark horse in capital markets, Dublin-headquartered Ion Trading has quietly developed a…
Q&A: January’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
It’s a new year, and it brings with it new questions from the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … Q: What does the potential acquisition of NYSE Euronext by IntercontinentalExchange mean for the exchange group’s NYSE Technologies unit? A: Ah, an easy one to begin 🙂 Well, it’s going to take a few months for the transaction to close,…
Rimes Sets Out Bloomberg Open Symbology Adoption Plan
Rimes has joined the growing group of data service providers offering Bloomberg Open Symbology (BSYM) to help clients streamline workflow and reduce operational risk. The company has gone live with Bloomberg’s global security identifier (BBGID) on the Rimes Benchmark Data Service and is initially providing cover across the 100-plus equity data sources it offers. Later…
Chaikin Offers iPad Stock Analytics Application and Prepares Trading Element
Chaikin Analytics, the equity analytics provider set up in 2009 by Wall Street veteran and real-time analytics workstation pioneer Marc Chaikin, has introduced Chaikin Analytics for iPad, an investment analytics application for the iPad and iPad Mini that is targeted to attract between 5,000 and 10,000 subscribers over the next two years. Version 1.0 of…
Wolters Kluwer Integrates Acquisitions to Deliver Single Platform Risk and Compliance Solutions
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ decision to abandon the brand names of FRSGlobal, which it acquired in September 2010, and FinArch, which it acquired in July 2012, marks a major step forward in the company’s work to integrate the acquisitions’ products to form a combined offering driven by a single business oriented data architecture. The product…
SEC Names RiskMetrics Co-Founder Gregg Berman as Head of Office of Analytics and Research
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named risk expert Gregg Berman as head of the Office of Analytics and Research in its Division of Trading and Markets. The office was set up last year to conduct research and analysis that will help inform the Commission’s policies on markets and market structure. Its focus…
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: The LEI Presents Opportunities Not to be Missed
The global legal entity identifier (LEI) system mandated by the G20 in November 2011 and initiated by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) soon after has been some time in the making, but it seems to be headed in the right direction despite disagreement among market participants on some elements of the solution; a change of…
Q&A: Chris Lees of FixSpec on the “Myth” of Standard FIX
The FIX protocol has been around for years – since 1992 in fact – and is pretty much ubiquitous in the world of electronic trading. But it is still difficult to implement for many. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Chris Lees, founder of London-based startup FixSpec, to find out what the issues are, and what his company is…