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Datacom Taps Formby, Releases Matrix Switch for Co-Lo

Datacom Systems – a vendor of network taps and matrix switches – has appointed Kevin Formby as its new president and CEO. Formby joins from packet capture/latency monitoring specialist Endace, and as such brings with him much experience of the financial markets vertical in general, and low-latency infrastructure in particular. On the heels of Formby’s on-boarding,…

S&P Capital IQ Bolsters CMBS Insight with Additions to ABSXchange

S&P Capital IQ has responded to customer demand for greater insight into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) by adding functionality to its ABSXchange structured finance analytics platform and upgrading its Excel Add-in that can be used across asset classes. Additions to the CMBS model within ABSXchange are an improved loan assumptions editor that allows users to…

Andrew’s Blog – MoneyMate Hopes to Capitalise on Fund Data Distribution Challenge

With a newly rebranded fund data management product, and a newly installed London business development executive in the form of Rachael Brown, MoneyMate is seeking to capitalise on the challenge of data management facing fund managers’ distribution operations. According to CEO Paul Fawsitt, fund managers are seeking to gain control over the data they need…

Q&A: Sébastien Jaouen of Orange Business Services on MiFID II, Electronic Trading and Latency

We all know that regulation drives much of the innovation in electronic trading and the technology that addresses it. In Europe, the MiFID II initiative looks set to shake up the electronic world for new asset classes, and that’s going to feed through to data volumes and latency. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Sébastien Jaouen, head of trading…

PolarLake Proposes SOA and Semantics for Big Data Management

PolarLake has responded to market – and regulator – demand for a real-time consolidated view of trade, position, reference and client data that can inform operational efficiency, risk management and compliance with a virtualised data warehouse solution based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and semantic technologies. The virtualised data warehouse plays into not only risk and…

Direct Edge Taps Xignite for Historical Data Cloud

Stock exchange Direct Edge has launched EdgeBook Cloud, an on-demand service providing depth-of-book historical trade and quote data from its EDGA and EDGX markets. The data is delivered via Xignite’s cloud-based infrastructure, and is targeted at market analysis, back-testing, and compliance applications. There are three delivery options: “Our goal is to make EdgeBook Cloud the…

Thomson Reuters Puts Onus on Management to Improve Performance

Thomson Reuters is pinning hopes for growth in its Financial & Risk business on the management team formed early this year under the auspices of president David Craig, and a change in attitude to Eikon – no longer a strategy, instead one of many products. The late 2011 shake-up and reorganisation of Thomson Reuters that…

Andrew’s Blog – NYSE’s Schaedel Heads for the Beach

I was sad to hear of Mark Schaedel’s departure from NYSE Euronext, where he has been head of market data for the past several years. Schaedel, based in Amsterdam, has been leading a bunch of innovative projects there, aiming to tap into the wealth of meta-data the exchange generates as a byproduct of its ‘market’…

Exchange Co-Lo Update: CME, Nasdaq

The last week or so has seen significant action in the world of exchange co-location – a space (excuse the pun) that as a whole is hotter than ever – with happenings at CME Group and Nasdaq OMX. The news – though there was no actual news release – from CME Group was the planned…

Q&A: Alice Botis of Fidessa on Latam Trading – Opportunities and Challenges

Electronic trading in Latin America continues to be a hot subject, with action moving beyond Brazil to other countries. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Fidessa’s head of business development for the region, Alice Botis, to get an update, and a handle on low-latency initiatives in the marketplace. Q: Can you start by some scene setting – where…