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Interactive Data Adds Fixed Income to Fair Value Services

Interactive Data’s release of fair value information services for international fixed income securities initially covers sovereign and corporate bonds in the EMEA region, but the company plans to extend coverage to fixed income securities in Asia and Australia, and also has plans to build out the real-time fair value information service it introduced in March…

CounterpartyLink Fattens Legal Entity Data Feed to Support Regulatory Compliance

CounterpartyLink is helping users of its legal entity data meet regulatory compliance and risk requirements with the addition of deeper beneficial ownership information and the inclusion of CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) in its data feed. Additional data fields to support the extended information have been included in the legal entity database that CounterpartyLink distributes…

Chris Bannocks Joins Barclays to Head Up Global Reference Data

Chris Bannocks has moved on from the role of managing director, global head of enterprise data management at Nomura International to head up reference data at Barclays. Bannocks joined Barclays in London this week and takes the title managing director, global head of reference data. His responsibility is reference data on a global basis across…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three-Letter Acronym (TLA) Syndrome

Next week, as you may know, I’ll be heading to NYC and not for R&R. Our newest Brit on the Street (BOS) – Caroline Statman – and I will be doing the proverbial rounds of the reference data world to see what’s what and what will be what come 2013. It’s going to be a…

Q&A: Interxion’s Patrick Lastennet on Demand For Co-Lo, Clouds and Big Data

We’ve been seeing a continued focus on companies that offer data centres for co-location and proximity, and how they are proving attractive offerings to trading firms needing to navigate an increasing regulatory landscape, and also to vendors looking to tap into liquidity hubs. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Interxion’s director of marketing and business development for financial…

Low Latency Machine Readable News Feeds Broaden Content, Geo Reach

Recent developments from providers of machine readable news and sentiment analysis, and their partners, point to increasing take up of this segment of market data, and how its applicability is expanding both in terms of content type and trading markets served. Deutsche Boerse – with its AlphaFlash product that’s largely the result of its acquisitions…

Invesco Builds Out Eagle Performance and Data Management Solutions

Invesco has completed the second implementation phase of Eagle Investment Systems’ performance measurement solution covering its retail and institutional business in the UK and continental Europe. The performance measurement system is complemented by Eagle’s Pace data management platform, which is being used to improve internal reporting across performance, holdings, transactions and risk metrics. The data…

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…