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Calxeda Hires Niall Dalton and Geno Valente
Calxeda – developer of EnergyCore ‘system on a chip’ processors being pitched at big data applications – has hired Niall Dalton and Geno Valente, both of whom are well known in the financial markets space. Dalton has joined as chief software architect and will be based in the company’s soon-to-be-opened Sunnyvale, Ca. office. He was…
Data Management: Time for a New Best Practice Model
By Nigel Pickering, Founder, www.ref-data.com Firms have been attempting the ‘data centralisation’ path for many years – yet few, if any, have truly succeeded in delivering a solution to the underlying drivers and objectives. Many will have concluded that integrating their core data is the route to managing reference and transactional data across the many…
Tibco Scales Spotfire 5 In Memory; Partners with Teradata
Tibco Software has announced Spotfire 5, the latest version of its analytics platform, which leverages in-memory functionality derived from Tibco’s ActiveSpaces data grid to improve performance. Separately, the company has extended its partnership with data warehouse vendor Teradata. “Spotfire 5 is capable of handling in-memory data volumes orders of magnitude greater than the previous version…
Q&A: Dataminr’s Ted Bailey on Hotspots Among The Hashtags
Specialising in creating “actionable insights” for financial traders from the deafening noise that is Twitter, Dataminr recently made its own news by raising $13 million in Series B funding (for a total to date of $16 million). We spoke to Dataminr founder and CEO Ted Bailey to find out more about the company and its…
Nasdaq OMX Sets up Data Storage Solution in the Amazon Cloud
Nasdaq OMX is challenging regulatory data management requirements with a cloud platform powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and tailored by Nasdaq OMX to provide secure and scalable data storage that cuts the cost of existing internal and external storage options. Called FinQloud, the cloud platform initially offers two regulatory solutions for US financial firms,…
European Commission Consults on Compilation of Indices and Benchmarks
The European Commission’s spotlight on data transparency has panned out to cover benchmarks and indices. Following the Libor scandal and the Commission’s move to amend proposals for market abuse regulation and criminal sanctions to clarify that any manipulation of benchmarks is illegal, it has issued a consultation paper on the production of benchmarks and market…
MoneyMate Proposes Solution to Holdings Data Issues of Solvency II
MoneyMate’s introduction of a look-through and reporting utility, which will provide data connectivity between insurance companies, asset managers and third party administrators, is aimed to support insurers that must comply with Solvency II and asset managers that want to protect the investment strategies they are using while providing necessary holdings data to insurers and their…
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…