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Low-Latency Connectivity Provides Summer Buzz
The summer months are usually pretty quiet in the world of low-latency trading, and that’s generally true this year, except in the world of connectivity. We’ve been reporting a bit on various wireless initiatives – and there’s more to come – but there’s also been a fair amount of action in the traditional wide area…
Bank Sarasin Tackles Corporate Actions Operational Risk with Aim Software
Swiss private bank Bank Sarasin has increased its investment in Aim Software solutions, adding the company’s corporate actions data scrubbing and matching capability to an existing data management structure based on Aim’s Gain platform and supporting pricing and static data since 2002. The bank looked at a range of corporate actions solutions to automate manual…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Riding the Regulatory Wave
Some years ago, I debated with the president of a well known enterprise data management platform provider about whether the market’s obsession with risk represented the ‘killer app’ the EDM segment had long been searching for. He wasn’t entirely convinced; I, of course, was. And although there are many good reasons to embark on an…
Q&A: Corvil’s Donal Byrne Puts Latency Under The Lens
Latency management specialist Corvil has introduced its Trade Lens functionality, designed to map the technicalities of latency management onto trading business operations. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Corvil CEO Donal Byrne to get the details. Q: Can you describe what Trade Lens does, and why it’s of benefit to trading operations? A: The Trade Lens transforms the…
DNB Nord Is Early Adopter of IBM’s New InfoSphere Reference Data Application
IBM has added a ready-to-run application for reference data management to its InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) platform. The so-called InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management Hub v10 has been beta tested by banks including DNB Nord in Europe and was released by IBM as an electronic upgrade last week. The application offers centralised reference data…
Xenomorph Adds Heatmaps, Charting to TimeScape
Xenomorph has released new Data Analysis and QL+ Explorer add-ins for it TimeScape Workbench data management platform, enhancing its reporting and charting capabilities and introducing new interactive heatmaps for visual data validation and decision support. Through the enhancements, users will be able to configure default charts and analytical functions to be applied to each asset…
Exegy Intoduces Journal and Replay For Tick Data Analysis
Ticker plant vendor Exegy has released its Journal and Replay system, designed to allow regulators, compliance groups, quants, and technicians to have access to raw tick-by tick data, time stamped to the nanosecond. Journal and Replay allows customers to capture and recreate every trade, quote, order book price, update, halt, modify or cancel sent from…
Latest Thomson Reuters RIC Proposal Addresses Fees, Scope to Assuage EC Inquiry
Thomson Reuters has made further concessions on licensing policies for its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in an effort to end the European Commission’s enquiry into a breach of European competition rules by the company. The move follows an earlier rejected attempt to address EC anti-competition concerns. Comparing the revision to Thomson Reuters’ last and unsatisfactory…
Bouchard Rolls AlgoFast Event Driven Trading Platform
Chicago-based Bouchard Systems has unveiled its AlgoFast suite of execution software, focused on processing machine readable news feeds to drive trading decisions. In its first release, the software supports trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with execution via Interactive Brokers. Founder Justin Bouchard – who comes with many years of cross-market trading experience – says…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Live and Let Die
(With apologies to Paul McCartney and Ian Fleming) When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say ‘live and let live’ (you know you did, etc.). But in this ever-changin’ world in which we’re livin’ Makes you give it a try: ‘Live and let die’ When I was young…