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ANNA Pitches National Numbering Agencies as LEI Local Operating Units
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is back in the game and vying for a place in the development of the global legal entity identifier system proposed by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and approved by the G20 global summit in Mexico last month. An ANNA general meeting in London last month deemed the…
Q&A: July’s Low Down on Latency with Pete Harris
Happy Insurrection Day! Yep, I am a Brit … and so I am working today while most of the low-latency community is having a slow day instead. It seemed a good time to kick off a new monthly series where I get to give some opinions and insight into the world of low latency, and…
Eikon Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ as Thomson Reuters Halts New-Client Sales of 3000 Xtra
Thomson Reuters has halted sales of its 3000 Xtra premium desktop service to new clients, in a move seen as a vote of confidence in successor desktop product Eikon. As of July 31, Thomson Reuters’ sales teams will offer new clients Eikon as the sole choice of premium desktop, although existing 3000 Xtra clients will…
Cantor Fitzgerald Upgrades to XSPrisa SaaS Model for Corporate Actions
Cantor Fitzgerald has become the second customer to license XSP’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) XSPrisa solution for automated corporate actions processing. The first customer, an unnamed but large global firm based in New York, has been in production for three months following XSP’s introduction of XSPrisa this spring. Cantor Fitzgerald has been using the enterprise version of…
Stop Press: S&P Capital IQ Swoops on CMA for European Valuations Data
S&P Capital IQ has struck again, continuing its buying spree with the purchase of London-based Credit Market Analysis Ltd., the valuations data subsidiary of CME Group. The acquisition plugs a gap in S&P Capital IQ’s valuations coverage, which will now include CMA’s speciality areas of structured finance and over-the-counter derivatives pricing. S&P Capital IQ’s traditional…
Cusip Outlines Role for Fellow NNAs in Hybrid Approach to LEI
Following proposals for a federated approach (from the Financial Stability Board) and a centralised approach (from DTCC/Sifma) to development of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, Cusip Global Services (CGS) is proposing a hybrid solution that calls for the active involvement of the National Number Agencies in the LEI process. The proposal is aimed…
MapR Betas Hadoop on Google’s New IaaS Cloud
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has begun a private beta program for its offering running on the Google Compute Engine, that company’s recently announced (still in beta itself) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiative. At the announcement of GCE – which provides on-demand Linux-based compute nodes, with storage options – MapR demonstrated the integration, completing a one terabyte TeraSort…
Vertex Analytics Offers Hosted Time Series Data, CEP
Chicago-based Vertex Analytics has unveiled ECHO, combining realtime and historic futures tick data with complex event processing (CEP) technology, delivered on either a client-installed or hosted service. Initially, ECHO is offering data from the Chicago exchanges – the CME and CBOT – as well as from NYMEX and the IntercontinentalExchange, with history back to 2010,…
DST Meets Customer Demand for Corporate Actions through Deal with XSP
DST Global Solutions has responded to customer demand for a corporate actions solution on its HiPortfolio investment accounting platform through an agreement with XSP that covers joint development of a HiPortfolio integrated corporate actions module that will be powered by XSP. Initially, the solution will be made available in Australia and New Zealand where DST…
Windy Apple Seeks Customers for NYC-Chicago Microwave Link
Windy Apple Technologies has emerged from stealth mode and is looking to sign up customers for its microwave service linking New York City to Chicago. According to executives attending the HFT World conference in Chicago, the service provides a round trip latency of nine milliseconds. The company has been in existence since 2009 and actually…