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Will NYSE Mahwah Access Spur Latency Spend?
The decision by NYSE Euronext to open up access to its Mahwah, NJ data centre to third party co-location, and to adopt a more open connectivity policy is going to be welcome news for at least some trading firms seeking low latency, and vendors servicing them. But whether it will be the game changer it…
NYSE Technologies’ Young Heads to Bloomberg
Bloomberg has hired away NYSE Technologies CEO Stanley Young to be CEO of its Enterprise Products and Solutions (EPS) division. At Bloomberg, Young will report to Mark Pesonen, who is elevated from the CEO role to become chairman of that division. According to a Bloomberg spokesperson, Pesonen “will continue to oversee the long-term vision and…
Q&A: AMD’s John Fruehe on Standardised Servers for Financial Services
A recent event by the Open Compute Project highlighted work being done to create standard designs for servers. AMD showcased its Roadrunner specification, which is targeted at financial services. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the background from John Fruehe, AMD’s director of product marketing for enterprise products. Q: AMD recently announced its open ‘Roadrunner’ specification for servers, specifically…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Grid, Big Data and Hadoop Lead March of Emerging Technologies
A round-up of emerging technologies at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit found industry experts favouring grid and big data technologies as they strive to architect the data management platforms of the future. A panel discussion moderated by A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney looked first at big data, how it is perceived and managed, and…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three Reasons to Be (Cheerful) at DMS
It’s taken a full week to recover from our Data Management Summit last week. More than 200 London market practitioners gathered to hear from a formidable cast of reference data and enterprise infrastructure characters. It was an action-packed day, with plenty of news you can use (or could, if you were there), earnest discussion, and…
NYSE Technologies To Introduce Market Data Analytics Lab
NYSE Technologies is rolling out its Market Data Analytics Lab (MDAL), providing hosted access to its historical trade and quote (TAQ) data, with the ability to perform analytics on the hosted data. MDAL will allow users to query selections of the entire TAQ database – for now covering U.S. markets – and perform analytics, downloading…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Regulation and Business Mix as Drivers for On-Demand Risk Analytics Development
Regulation is driving change in the financial services industry, not least in the area of risk analysis where on-demand reporting is becoming a regulatory requirement as well as a management need and potential business opportunity. In response to regulatory change, the deployment of technology is changing, but what are the outcomes and how can financial…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Proliferation of Entity and Securities Identifiers Adds to Data Management Burden
Legal entity and securities identifiers have hit the headlines over past months, but their value to the financial industry and how they will be used remains uncertain. Leading an industry panel at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit, A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney asked panellists for their views on securities identifiers, particularly legal entity identifiers…
Financial Stability Board Calls for More Expert Input on LEI Infrastructure
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has returned to the drawing board, inviting financial industry experts to provide further development details for an infrastructure that could underpin legal entity identifiers (LEIs) and support a federated model for the distribution and registration of LEI numbers rather than a central registration authority and depository. The FSB’s request for…
NYSE Technologies Taps Hanweck GPU Calculations for Options Analytics Feed
NYSE Technologies is set to roll out its Options Analytics low-latency data feed, which includes implied volatilities and Greeks data for U.S. listed options, as well as quotes on options and underlying assets. The service monitors the entire U.S. OPRA composite NBBO feed and U.S. Level 1 composite feeds for underlying stocks and indices, with…