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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Spreadsheet Wars Reprised
In an interview with the excellent Robert Elms on BBC Radio London the other day, author and autistic savant Daniel Tammet said something along the lines of: “Mathematics is more about how you came up with the answer than the answer itself.” Tammet was promoting his forthcoming new book, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates…
New AvoxData Legal Entity Portal to Host Value-Added Data Sets
Avox’s new enhanced legal entity data portal, released last week at www.avoxdata.com, will provide the preferred delivery system for Avox as it integrates value-added data sets to its core identifier offerings. The new capability – not to be confused with parent DTCC’s planned legal entity identifier utility scheduled for imminent release – gives clients secure…
Andrew’s Blog – Musical Chairs (Part 94)
A couple of months ago, I was surprised to learn while on a Greek mountainside of Stanley Young’s appointment as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions division. At the time, we speculated that more activity may be afoot, suggesting that Young may be to NYSE Technologies and Bloomberg what Jon Robson was to…
Q&A: August’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
Continuing the monthly Q&A where I cover some of the questions I get asked as I interact with the IntelligentTradingTechnology.com community … from Knight Capital to Correlix to wireless. Q: How much was low latency technology to blame for the huge trading loss at Knight Capital? A: Blame? Not at all in my book. For…
Cisco Readying New Nexus 3500 Low-Latency Switch
Details are scarce but a mid-September launch for Cisco Systems’ new Nexus 3500 top-of-rack switch is in the cards, a product that will reduce latency significantly compared to its current offerings. Cisco execs aren’t denying the switch is coming, but neither are they spilling the beans. Press coverage suggests the 3500 will have port-to-port latency…
Big Data – The Other Side of Low Latency
We write a lot here about the latency of moving data from point A to point B. But latency is also inherent in the processing of that data at points A and B. Most likely, the processing of data is a more complex undertaking than transporting it. And that’s where big data comes in. For…
Infochimps Rolls Platform Update; Adds Realtime, Streaming Capabilities
Infochimps has released version 1.1 of its cloud-hosted Big Data Platform, adding the capability to connect to streaming data. The updated Data Delivery Service – based on Apache Flume – allows the platform to connect to enterprise data sources via either out-of-the-box or custom-developed connectors. Within the DDS is the ability to process data streams,…
Big Data in Financial Services – Opportunity or Cost?
By John Bantleman, RainStor www.rainstor.com We recently hosted a dinner in New York City with 20 technology executives focused on big data in banking and financial services. I found the event insightful, so I thought it would be interesting to share some of the perspectives from those who attended. The first (and close to my…
On Your Marks: LEI Work Kicks Off!
It’s around 12 months since the work began on the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) initiative, but today the really hard work for the financial industry begins. The Financial Stability Board is today holding its first call to coordinate the activities of the Private Sector Preparatory Group, which has been built from some 170 volunteers…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Louis Lovas on TCA, Latency and Big Data
Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) is of increasing importance to trading success and while it is very much a business imperative, implementing it and putting it to effective use relies on a combination of low-latency technologies and big data approaches. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the TCA low down from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: To…