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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Let the LEI Games Begin

This week we’re publishing our long-awaited special report on the LEI: ‘What the Global Legal Entity Identifier Will Mean for Your Firm’. Frankly, it’s purpose is to do what it says on the tin: to help you figure out what you need to do about the most talked about development after the iPhone 5 (I…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Lessons From Mitteleuropa

Chatting with one of our favourite data practitioners as we stood in the passport line at our favourite airport – if Heineken did airports, they’d do London City – en route home from the FIMA DACH event in Frankfurt yesterday, we remarked how ‘the Europeans’ had a different attitude toward data management from the Anglo-Saxon…

Tibco Taps Pluribus for FTL Message Switch; Adds Appliance for Enterprise Messaging

Tibco Software has added to its messaging arsenal with the introduction of the Tibco FTL Message Switch and the Tibco Enterprise Message Service Appliance. Both new products were announced at the company’s annual Tucon user conference, held this week in Las Vegas. For the FTL Message Switch, Tibco is partnering with Pluribus Networks, a startup…

Q&A: Dave Malik’s Cisco Nexus 3548 Deep Dive

Following up on the big Cisco news the other week of the launch of its Nexus 3548 switch, featuring latency of less than 190 nanoseconds, IntelligentTradingTechnology.com wanted to find out more about the new offering, its capabilities and the technology behind it. Dave Malik, senior director within its financial services group, provided some answers. Q:…

EDI Adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to Corporate Actions Services

Back-office reference data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) has implemented Bloomberg Global Securities Identifiers (BBGIDs) in its equities reference, pricing and corporate actions data feeds. The London-based provider is planning further implementation in its fixed income corporate actions service and forthcoming mortgage-backed securities service. The company’s decision to adopt Bloomberg’s Open Symbology (BSYM), a free-to-use…

DST Global Solutions Partners XSP to Deliver Corporate Actions Capability

DST Global Solutions has secured a global reseller agreement with corporate actions specialist XSP. The agreement covers both an integrated corporate actions module for the company’s HiPortfolio asset servicing solution and direct sales of the XSP software. DST will initially play on its strength in the Australian investment management market with a view to becoming…

Netik Transformation into CoreOne Leaves Little of the EDM Specialist at Large

Last week’s formal introduction of PrimeOne Solutions, a hosted prime brokerage service within the CoreOne Technologies group, marks the end of the first wave of CoreOne development and the final resting place of Netik, the enterprise date management company that was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008 and rebranded as CoreOne…

Verdande, Nastel Team for CBR-Based Operational Analytics

Verdande Technology and Nastel Technologies have teamed up to combine their case-based reasoning (CBR) and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, respectively, to provide financial services organisations with predictive analytics to reduce system outages and to remain compliant with regulatory reporting. CBR allows for an adaptive “human” approach to problem solving that analyses data patterns in…

Kx Releases kdb+ 3.0 To Ease Management of Big Data

Kx Systems has released version 3.0 of its kdb+ database, improving performance and simplifying the storage of massive data sets, such as long histories of time series data. The optimised code in 3.0 utilises Intel “Sandy Bridge” processor Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) instructions to boost performance of calculations. As for…

Markit Gains Rights to Distribute Euroclear Bank’s Eurobond Reference Data

Euroclear Bank is transferring all existing and future distribution and commercialisation of its Eurobond reference data to Markit, leaving the bank to focus on core business around settlement and clearing, and giving the financial information services provider rights to distribute reference data covering more than 200,000 Eurobonds. The strategic agreement covers a broader set of…