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Cisco and Friends Publish Real World Latency Statistics for Nexus 3548 Switch
Cisco Systems has teamed with a group of market data feed handler, latency management and integration vendors to produce an early set of real world latency statistics for its recently introduced Nexus 3548 switch. Apart from Cisco, the latency testing – which comprised a proof-of-concept implementation to show end-to-end latency validated with real-time market data…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Murdoch’s Dow Excitement
Amid the twin distractions of the two Ss – Sandy and Sibos – an innocuous Tweet by no less than Rupert Murdoch almost passed us by this week. It read: Most of this week with Dow Jones team. Exciting things coming soon. And it was accompanied by the photo above. That looks an awful lot…
TraFXpure Plans Random Latency FX Trading
Nope, the date is not April 1, though I had to double check. TraFXpure, a planned spot market for foreign exchange, has begun testing for an early 2013 go live, exercising a matching engine that features random latency execution. To be exact, the matching engine’s latency is not random, but orders submitted to it will be…
Digital Reasoning, Tableau, Cloudera Focus Unstructured Data Analytics on Financial Markets
Partnering with Tableau Software for data visualisation, and leveraging Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution for storage, Digitial Reasoning is applying its Synthesys unstructured data analytics platform at financial markets applications. Synthesys takes structured and unstructured text as input and then uses named entity recognition, understanding of time and geographic references, combined with patented relationship analysis, to develop…
Interactive Data Unveils Apex XML-Delivered Reference Data Suite
Interactive Data has responded to market demand for easy and cost-effective access to reference data with the introduction of Apex, a selection of reference data service delivery and access mechanisms including intraday data transfer, event-based messaging, web-services applications program interfaces (APIs) and a hosted managed database service. Acknowledging growing customer interest in data standards for…
LEI Development Embraces Change and Picks up Speed Ahead of G20 Meeting
The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) third progress note on the legal entity identifier (LEI) initiative, released last week, has met with a positive response from those involved in shaping the system, potential infrastructure providers and market data vendors, despite changes to some proposals and the collapse of perceptions that have built up during debate on…
Interactive Data Provides Evaluated Pricing for INTEXcalc and Pushes on with Vantage Transparency Platform
Intex Solutions, a provider of structured securities deal models and cashflow analytics, has selected Interactive Data to provide independent evaluated prices on a range of securitised bonds for use in its INTEXcalc cashflow analysis application. The application is designed to offer transparency, ease of use and speed in analysing structured financial securities. The Interactive Data…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Valuations and Electronic OTC Markets
While all eyes seem to be on the LEI and its tortuous birth, many of our clients and contacts are preparing – perhaps more quietly – for perhaps the other great challenge or opportunity of 2013: valuations. Before I set off for New York a couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to catch up…
Capco Proposes the Creation of a Data Culture to Advance Data Management
Financial firms are falling short on data management issues such as calculating the true cost of data, identifying the operational cost savings of improved data management and embracing social media data, but according to research by consultancy Capco, these issues can be resolved with a cross-organisational and practical approach to data management and the development…
Exegy Delivers Data Tone in Mahwah and Aurora
Exegy has made its Data Tone service, providing low-latency market data, available at NYSE Euronext’s Mahwah, NJ data centre, and at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s data centre in Aurora, Il. Data Tone provides low cost feeds as a service, leveraging Exegy’s ticker plant. At Mahwah, Exegy is offering access to NYSE data feeds, and in…