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Intel Expands Networking Clout with QLogic Buy … But What Impact on Trading Systems?
Intel’s planned acquisition of QLogic’s InfiniBand business – announced last week – further advances its general ‘world domination’ plans in networking. And while its aspirations go way beyond low-latency trading, expect a trickle down that will over time impact how automated trading systems are implemented. QLogic’s InfiniBand offerings – shortly to be owned by Intel…
1View Proposes Ref-Data.com as a Solution for Consistent Reference Data
Data management specialist 1View Solutions is offering financial data managers a short cut to clean and consistent reference data that avoids the pursuit of a single golden copy. Instead it provides an outsourced service that matches internal data with reference data from vendors including Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data, SIX Telekurs and Exchange Data International (EDI)….
Let’s Try Again for a European Consolidated Tape
Before there was Turquoise, there was Boat. And Boat, you’ll recall, was the industry’s answer to the then-incoming regulation designed to ensure that pan-European equity trades were reported to a mechanism available to all in a standardized way. This was required because Europe’s markets were about to fragment, due to the introduction of multilateral trading…
Q&A: Certichron’s Tim Costello on Why It’s Important to Know the Time!
In low-latency electronic trading, and especially in an increasingly regulated world, being able to document transactions and especially exactly when they happen – in a way that is provable when disputes arise – could be crucial. But who has the correct time? That would be Certichron, says its director of sales Tim Costello, below in…
Lime Brokerage Rolls LimeDirect Pre-Trade Risk; Minimises Latency, Shuns FPGA Technology
Lime Brokerage has rolled out its LimeDirect pre-trade risk service – providing compliance for SEC rule 15c3-5 while adding minimal latency. But unlike competitive services, the offering – which Lime officials say is based on an “innovative blend of hardware and software” – does not leverage FPGA technology, because Lime technologists believe it is too…
Thomson Reuters Launches Fixed Income Global Snapshot to Provide Greater Transparency and Flexibility to Investors
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of a new evaluated pricing capability, the Fixed Income Global Snapshot (FIGS). By re-evaluating all non US fixed income securities with updated benchmark curves and credit spreads at both 3pm and 4pm, Eastern Daylight Time. FIGS will provide investors with updated, accurate fixed income evaluations and transparency they need…
MarkitSERV Starts Trade Data Feed to Global Repository for Interest Rate Derivatives
MarkitSERV, the most widely used electronic trade processing service for OTC derivative transactions, today announced that it is now transmitting confirmed trade records to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) new Global Trade Repository (GTR) for over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives. With clients’ authorization, MarkitSERV’s trade reporting system automatically transmits confirmed trade records to…
EDI Collaborate with 1View Solutions to Publish Comprehensive Reference Data
Exchange Data International (EDI), the well-established provider of Security Reference and Corporate Actions data, today announced the availability of its extensive range of global data through a new and radically different Reference Data service called Ref-Data.com. Ref-Data.com is a professional data network which allows Financial organisations to significantly reduce maintenance overheads, improve consistency and quality…
NYSE Technologies Goes Live with Dual Liquidity Centres in Toronto
NYSE Technologies has gone live with dual Liquidity Centres in Toronto, the latest in the rollout of its network of trading hubs, following on from its primary operations in Mahwah, NJ, and Basildon, UK, and the more recent opening in Tokyo. The Toronto liquidity centres provide co-located low-latency access to local markets, with one at…
The OTC Derivatives Case for LEIs
Hot on the heels of the Financial Stability Board’s creation of expert panels to advise on the development of legal entity identifiers (LEI), international regulators IOSCO and the Bank for International Settlements this week weighed in to stress the importance of LEIs to the ongoing efforts to boost transparency in the OTC derivatives marketplace. In…