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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…
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…
Jyske Bank Selects SmartStream Corporate Actions Solution in Back-Office Refit
Denmark’s Jyske Bank has gone live with SmartStream’s TLM Corporate Actions solution after a back-office technology refit that exchanged legacy systems with back-office platforms from Danish IT solutions provider Bankdata. The bank, the second largest independent bank in Denmark, went into production with the Bankdata and SmartStream systems in October 2012. It reviewed other corporate…
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…
Q&A: HPCC Systems’ Flavio Villanustre on Not Map Reduce and Open Source
HPCC Systems – a unit of LexisNexis – has been quietly building out a big data processing platform for several years, using it internally to power several of its parent’s services and applications. Now, it’s open sourcing the not-map reduce platform, and selling a commercial version to third parties. We got the detail from Dr….
Former Avox Chief Price Returns to Data Management Coalface at Strevus
Ken Price, the co-founder and CEO of Avox, who left the company late last year, has surfaced as vice president of sales at Strevus, a Silicon Valley start-up aimed at driving down the cost and improving the quality of managing digital assets in the finance sector. At Strevus, Price joins founders Ken Hoang, CEO of…
Markit Partners with Selerity to Enhance Dividend Services
Markit has teamed up with real-time event data specialist Selerity to automate production of its Markit Dividend product and deliver dividend announcements on an intraday rather than end-of-day basis. By integrating Selerity’s US dividend event data into Markit Dividend, Markit will not only be able to generate automated intraday alerts for equity option traders on…