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Q&A: SunGard’s Aditya Yadav on Concurrent Design, and How Stealers Can Help
Most agree that most of the effort to date to reduce the latency of trading systems has been focused on the ‘easy’ areas – lowering propagation latency, speeding up network stacks, using faster processors. The ‘hard’ part – tackling application design – is yet to come, and parallelisation of business logic – aka concurrency –…
Numerix Taps Azure Cloud For Compute, Big Data
Risk and valuations vendor Numerix has enabled its Numerix Portfolio software to make use of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, offering the the ability to burst complex pricing and risk calculation processes to public cloud infrastructure. As well as providing access to increased compute resources, it also allows the processing of very large data sets to solve…
Learning From Mistakes: Applying Big Data to Realtime Risk Analysis
by Daniel Wakefield, IMGROUPwww.imgroup.com As the financial sector once again reels under yet more allegations of huge losses (this time at JPMorgan Chase) there is a more than mild sense of déjà vu here at IMGROUP. Yet again, questions are being asked about how one desk, perhaps even one trader, can lose such a significant…
GigaSpaces Points XAP9.0 at Big Data
GigaSpaces Technologies has released XAP9.0 – its application platform – focusing it on real-time big data applications. Says Adi Paz, GigaSpaces’ EVP of marketing and business development: “What is common to all real-time analytics systems is the need for streaming data processing, alongside batch processing, such as Hadoop provides. However, building a system for big…
S&P Capital IQ Offers Data Solution for Customer Relationship Management
S&P Capital IQ has pulled together vast amounts of its in-house data to create a data solution for customer relationship management (CRM) systems. The aim of the company’s CRM Data Suite is to help users seed and power proprietary CRM systems that avoid duplication of records and are instead based on master records updated by…
Interactive Data Adds CDS to Valuation Service and Promises Speedy Delivery
Interactive Data has added credit default swaps (CDS) and two CDS indices to its independent OTC derivatives valuation service, increasing transparency around the evaluation of these asset classes and helping users to improve risk management and regulatory compliance through a better understanding of CDS valuations. The company is also working towards intra-day and ultimately near…
Interactive Data Readies for Fallout from European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Interactive Data is seeking to reassure users of its evaluated pricing and reference data services that they will not be affected by any fallout from the European sovereign debt crisis. The big data provider has outlined its plans for responding to a Greek exit from the euro and other scenarios in a letter to customers….
EMS Functionality, Increased Footprint are Key Drivers in Mantara’s Acquisition of UNX
Customer requests for increased desktop functionality, as well as the opportunity to increase the footprint for its pre-trade risk and connectivity services, were key drivers for Mantara’s acquisition of UNX, says president and CEO Michael Chin. UNX’s installed base for its Catalyst EMS offers Mantara a “valuable desktop presence” says Chin, providing a ready platform…
Q&A: Ron Huizen of BittWare on Accelerating FPGA Development
BittWare was in the news recently with its FPGA network boards being adopted by Fixnetix for its trading and pre-trade risk offering. As well as providing hardware, BittWare’s also has tools to speed up FPGA development, helping to overcome a much-cited drawback of adopting them. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s vice president of technology Ron…
euNetworks Latest To Tap Ciena 6500
Ciena has been in the news a bit of late, with its 6500 packet optical platform being adopted by several network providers, most recently euNetworks for its 100 gigabit upgrade. euNetworks his upgraded a portion of its entire European network to the higher bandwidth, with roll out in Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris, and also…