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Infochimps Rolls Platform Update; Adds Realtime, Streaming Capabilities
Infochimps has released version 1.1 of its cloud-hosted Big Data Platform, adding the capability to connect to streaming data. The updated Data Delivery Service – based on Apache Flume – allows the platform to connect to enterprise data sources via either out-of-the-box or custom-developed connectors. Within the DDS is the ability to process data streams,…
Big Data in Financial Services – Opportunity or Cost?
By John Bantleman, RainStor www.rainstor.com We recently hosted a dinner in New York City with 20 technology executives focused on big data in banking and financial services. I found the event insightful, so I thought it would be interesting to share some of the perspectives from those who attended. The first (and close to my…
On Your Marks: LEI Work Kicks Off!
It’s around 12 months since the work began on the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) initiative, but today the really hard work for the financial industry begins. The Financial Stability Board is today holding its first call to coordinate the activities of the Private Sector Preparatory Group, which has been built from some 170 volunteers…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Louis Lovas on TCA, Latency and Big Data
Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) is of increasing importance to trading success and while it is very much a business imperative, implementing it and putting it to effective use relies on a combination of low-latency technologies and big data approaches. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the TCA low down from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: To…
Cloud Platforms Gain Traction in Low-Latency Trading
Cloud platforms – once viewed as suitable only for middle- and back-office operations – are being increasingly adopted to support the front-office. While cloud remains a much overused buzzword, true cloud technologies are now delivering the kind of performance required for low-latency trading, and offer mechanisms to marry business return to technology investment. This topic…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: How to Profit from LEI
As predicted here, the Summer of LEI continues unabated. Returning from a couple of weeks in the Mediterranean – now on a diet – I read with interest our own Sarah Underwood’s account of the Financial Stability Board’s inaugural Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG), and settled down to catch up on…
Actian Links to Hadoop
Actian is planning to release a bi-directional data connector between its Vectorwise analytical database and Hadoop. It allows unstructured data from Hadoop to be pulled into Vectorwise for fast analysis, and then pushed back into Hadoop, or other systems. The data connector will be available by year end.
Market Data Tools Pitches DeltaT Latency Measurement to App Developers
Startup Market Data Tools is rolling out DeltaT, a latency measurement tool with a focus on the needs of developers writing interfaces to market data feeds. Founded by former Thomson Reuters software development specialists, Market Data Tools is aiming DeltaT at a more focused marketplace than that being addressed by latency monitoring heavyweights Corvil and…
OneMarketData Wins in Asia and Plans Front-Office Reference Data Product
OneMarketData has won its first OneTick customer in Asia and is planning the addition of reference data to the complex event processing (CEP) and tick data management solution. The company’s entry into Asia is with SBI Securities, a large online securities firm in Japan. SBI went to market with a competitive tender for systems integrators…
Knight Under New Ownership Following ‘Algos Gone Wild’ Debacle and $440 Million Trading Loss
Knight Capital Group now has new owners as a result of hastily arranged $400 million equity refinancing, required to keep the trading firm alive after trading losses last Wednesday of $440 million, the result of algorithmic trading that went horribly wrong. The new equity – two percent preferred shares that may be converted into common…