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On Demand Analytics Have Become Increasingly Important, Says Sybase’s Grant
Regulatory and business pressures are driving firms to invest in risk management functionality such as on demand analytics capabilities, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development manager for financial services at Sybase, during his keynote speech at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London. There has been a serious increase in…
SCOR Global Investments Selects Cadis to Optimise Operational Efficiency
SCOR Global Investments (SGI), the investment management company of the SCOR Group, a global reinsurance company headquartered in Paris, has selected Cadis to implement its data management strategy. SCOR’s investment portfolio amounted to EUR 12.1 billion in June 2011. Cadis will be taking in data from multiple sources including Bloomberg, Interactive Data and EFA-European Fund…
Data Integration and Emerging Technologies Offer Beneficial Opportunities
Data integration and the adoption of technologies including data location aware computation, in database analytics and event stream processing will improve analytics, reduce decision making time and, in turn, contribute to cutting the costs associated with duplicated data. Addressing the issue of integrating data for high compute enterprise analytics, a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s…
Q&A: Sidera Networks’ Maura Mahoney on Partnerships and New Data Centres
Barely a day goes by when there isn’t an announcement from one of several wide area connectivity players, which underpin the world of low-latency trading. Sidera Networks is one of those at the centre of the action, and IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Maura Mahoney, vice president for marketing and business development at the company, to…
Financial Intergroup’s Grody and BT’s Pickles Debate the LEI Issue
Following on from the questions about the legal entity identification (LEI) work going on as a part of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) efforts to determine a global standard that were raised by BT Global Banking & Financial Markets’ head of industry initiatives Chris Pickles last week,…
CME’s Aurora Co-Lo: Quick Facts
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange opened its new data centre – housing the Globex matching engine – in August, 2010. Now it’s planning to add co-location services, beginning January 29, 2012. Here’s some more information … – The data centre is located in Aurora, IL – 40 miles west of the city. – It is a…
Virginie’s Blog – Musical Chairs
It seems that 2011 has been another year filled with management shakeups, M&A activity and high profile exits and entrances within the vendor and practitioner communities. EDM solution vendors and data vendors in particular seem to have engaged in an ongoing game of musical chairs, not least of which has been the continued reshuffling at…
Industry Body Goes on Membership Drive
ISITC Europe, the industry group dedicated to improving the operational efficiency of the global financial industry, today announced it is launching a campaign to increase membership in the run up to its annual conference. ISITC Europe speaks for the whole industry, including broker/dealers, custodians, investment managers as well as vendors and utilities. Its mission is…
Andrew’s Blog – Big Blue Data
IBM’s announcement this week of plans to acquire Platform Computing vindicates our decision to include some Big Data discussion topics in our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London on October 17 – that’s next week. Big Data has been dismissed in some quarters as just another buzzword. If another such one-time…
Citi Deal Puts Fidessa Derivatives Platform on Global Map
Fidessa just bagged a big one. While its derivative platform has done well in Europe – around 50 customers to date – today’s announcement, made during the Futures Industry Association’s annual expo here in Chicago, of a worldwide rollout by Citi has put it on the global map. The managed service will provide initial low-latency…