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Dalglish to UBS as CTO of Group Data

Tom Dalglish has joined UBS as CTO, Group Data. In this role he will be “Making it easier to access reference data for the enterprise.” Dalglish was previously director and chief information architect, Equities at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and also held positions at JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Summit Systems. He is also…

Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication

By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK.  As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…

Boston Ships ARM-Based Servers

Server vendor (OK, they sell workstations too) Boston has begun shipping its Viridis server, which leverages low power ARM chips – most popularly found in mobile devices – from Calxeda.  The rack mountable 2U server comprises 192 processing cores and is being pitched at high throughput applications, such as big data processing.  Each server draws…

TS-Associates Changes The Latency Management Game With Correlix Acquisition

TS-Associates has acquired the assets of competitor Correlix, a significant transaction that is likely to impact the dynamics of the latency management space.  Most immediately, the acquisition brings it new customers and key functionality, including InfiniBand support, comprehensive trade flow analysis and a business-oriented user interface.  Correlix’s RaceTeam service, which was adopted by a number…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market

In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…

Thomson Reuters Continues Build Out of Elektron Data Delivery Infrastructure

Thomson Reuters has built out its Elektron data feed infrastructure with a third data centre in Chicago to support the Elektron Real Time low latency consolidated data feed – it has already deployed it in London and New York. The company has also added delivery of direct feeds from Canadian exchange venues to its Elektron…

Q&A: Bay Microsystems’ Gerry Jankauskas on Wide Area Network Latency Optimisation

As trading firms roll out their operations across geographies, connectivity and associated latency considerations move focus from local network fabrics to wide area ones. And that presents many new challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com connected with Gerry Jankauskas, CTO at Bay Microsystems, to find out what part his company plays in the solution. Q: When was Bay Microsystems…

Anova Deploys Millimetre Wave Technology For New Jersey Wireless Network

When Anova Technologies announced recently that it had deployed a wireless network linking NYSE Euronext to Direct Edge, one word was missing from its press release: microwave. That’s because the connectivity specialist has gone in a different technology direction to the one in vogue right now as the basis for its wireless offerings. The radio…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Filling the Fund Income Data Gap

In what I see as further evidence of an enhanced market focus on corporate actions and related activities, a group of asset servicing and fund administration firms have launched a London-based working group focused on fund income data. The Fund Income Data Working Group (FIDWG) is hoping to address the dearth of available information on…

CFTC Names DTCC and Swift to Provide CICIs Ahead of FSB LEI Development Meeting

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has designated DTCC and Swift as the provider of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) that will be used by registered entities and swap counterparties to comply with the CFTC’s swap data reporting regulations. The CICI identifier and its infrastructure that will be used by the CFTC are billed as…