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Markit Combines CVA and Capital Solutions Ahead of Basel III
Markit has combined its credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and regulatory capital solutions on one platform with a view to helping banks reduce the costs and overheads of meeting Basel III capital requirements. The Markit Analytics CVA & Capital platform integrates the management of CVA and internal model capital, allowing users to meet Basel III regulatory…
EDM Council Promotes Data Management Maturity Model as Industry Standard
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has completed the core content of a Data Management Maturity (DMM) model aimed at helping financial services firms improve risk management and operational efficiency. The EDM Council expects the DMM to become an industry standard and suggests it could, in the long term, become a regulatory requirement for firms…
xCelor Taps Arista Application Switch for FPGA-based Ticker Plant, Pre-Trade Risk
Chicago-based market data feed specialist xCelor is getting set to release ticker plant and pre-trade risk functionality running on Arista Networks’ 7124FX Application Switch. The switch combines a Stratix V FPGA from Altera with a network switch for data processing as close to the network as one can get. The company is currently testing its…
FSB Private Sector Preparatory Group Agrees LEI Development Schedule
The first meeting of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) initiated by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and held in New York last week consulted on the development and use of a global LEI system, concluding that any system should ultimately extend beyond financial markets to cover the global financial services…
Dalglish to UBS as CTO of Group Data
Tom Dalglish has joined UBS as CTO, Group Data. In this role he will be “Making it easier to access reference data for the enterprise.” Dalglish was previously director and chief information architect, Equities at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and also held positions at JP Morgan, Bear Stearns and Summit Systems. He is also…
Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication
By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK. As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…
Boston Ships ARM-Based Servers
Server vendor (OK, they sell workstations too) Boston has begun shipping its Viridis server, which leverages low power ARM chips – most popularly found in mobile devices – from Calxeda. The rack mountable 2U server comprises 192 processing cores and is being pitched at high throughput applications, such as big data processing. Each server draws…
TS-Associates Changes The Latency Management Game With Correlix Acquisition
TS-Associates has acquired the assets of competitor Correlix, a significant transaction that is likely to impact the dynamics of the latency management space. Most immediately, the acquisition brings it new customers and key functionality, including InfiniBand support, comprehensive trade flow analysis and a business-oriented user interface. Correlix’s RaceTeam service, which was adopted by a number…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market
In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…
Thomson Reuters Continues Build Out of Elektron Data Delivery Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters has built out its Elektron data feed infrastructure with a third data centre in Chicago to support the Elektron Real Time low latency consolidated data feed – it has already deployed it in London and New York. The company has also added delivery of direct feeds from Canadian exchange venues to its Elektron…