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ECB’s Draghi Cites Data Granularity in Pursuit of Financial Stability
Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), this week noted the need for a wider variety of granular data to sustain financial stability and more data to monitor and avoid potential systemic risk in unregulated financial institutions and markets.
Efama Launches Complaint About S&P ISIN Pricing in Switzerland
The European Fund and Asset Management Association’s (Efama) complaint against Standard & Poor’s practice of making end users of its International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) in Switzerland pay a licence charge and fees for the numbers is in the hands of the Swiss competition authority Wettbewerbskommission (Weko). A small scale dispute, perhaps, but one that…
Fixed Income Markets Push Low Latency
Separate developments – with BrokerTec in the U.S. and with MTS in Europe – are pointing to the move by fixed income markets into the low-latency trading space. These developments follow on from the increasing adoption of low-latency technologies in the foreign exchange markets, as latencies are pushed lower for all asset classes. ICAP-owned BrokerTec…
Arista Application Switch Extends Choices for FPGA Deployment and Architectures
Last month’s announcement by Arista Networks of its 7124FX Application Switch – which incorporates an Altera FPGA alongside low-latency network switching – has expanded the possibilities for system architects looking to incorporate hardware acceleration by running application code – such as algo trading – on FPGAs. It’s also boosted the industry penetration of FPGA chipmaker…
Interactive Data Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing to Decrease Risk
Interactive Data has upgraded its Vantage web application for evaluated pricing transparency to Version 2.0. The upgrade offers a significant expansion of instrument coverage, from 125,000 securities in Version 1.0 to 2.8 million in Version 2.0, and improved compliance and risk management through greater transparency of the firm’s evaluated pricing in the fixed income market.
Study Points to Google Searches for Stock Analysis
Investors should consider the frequency of Google searches for particular keywords when analysing movements in the stock market. This is one of the key practical recommendations of a new report from researchers at Essex Business School at the University of Essex and Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia which has been published…
StreamBase Debuts LiveView 1.0 Real-Time Analytics
StreamBase Systems has released LiveView version 1.0, a real-time analytics platform for streaming and historical data, which allows trading firms to analyse business events in real time, before they are committed to enterprise data stores. The LiveView Continuous Query Server – built upon StreamBase’s complex event processing (CEP) technology – can consume data from more…
BlackRock Taps Panopticon for “Big Data Challenge”
Investment manager BlackRock is tapping Panopticon for its suite of information visualisation products, including its Developer SDK for Java and .NET, the Panopticon EX enterprise application and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit. The tools will allow BlackRock to deploy Panopticon Treemap, Heatmap and other interactive data visualisation tools to support its internal operations and in…
Nexxcom Pushes Down Latency with Wireless Networks in NY/NJ and London Metros
With services aimed at the financial trading community, Nexxcom Wireless is rolling out its microwave wireless data network in the NYC/NJ and London, UK metro areas, beating the latency of fibre-optic wired services by a significant margin. The company has provided these latency figures for several popular routes: PATH LATENCY RTT* SPEED of LIGHT** Carteret,…
HKEx Announces Initial Hosting Ecosystem Members
Ahead of its Q4 launch for hosting services, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has announced 22 service providers that will set up to provide co-lo and connectivity to the exchange’s core trading platform. “The initial group of founding members, covering telecommunications, market data and financial technology services, provides an excellent base for our…