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Interactive Data and FINRA Provide Transparency into Structured Securities Market

Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, today announced that Interactive Data and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have developed a set of reports designed to provide transparency into market activity related to U.S. structured securities on a daily basis. The reports consist of the U.S. Structured…

Stuart Guinness to join Credit Suisse as Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific

Credit Suisse announced today Stuart Guinness will join Credit Suisse as a Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific in the Asset Management Division, effective November 3, 2011. He will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Neil Harvey, Head of Asia Pacific and Head of Emerging Markets globally and Sudip Thakor,…

Cisco Introduces 40 Gig Switch, PTP and Buffering Stats

Cisco Systems has added the Nexus 3016 switch to the lineup that it’s pitching at low-latency financial trading. It’s Cisco’s first to support 40 gigabit per second ethernet communications, which reduces network serialisation latency. The 1RU 3016 features 16 ports, each of which can be operated at 40 gigabit per second, or alternatively at 4…

Big Data Solutions Tackle the Challenges of Increasing Regulation

The introduction of 70 capital markets regulations in Europe over the next 18 months and the addition of about 300 regulations in the US are driving the need for big data solutions that can deliver on-demand risk and business analytics reports, more granular risk management and the ability to combine unstructured data behind products such…

Managing Data Technology Remains a Challenges at Enterprise Level, DMRAV Delegates Told

Proving return on investment (ROI) while attempting to take an incremental approach to enterprise data management projects remains a significant challenge for managers seeking sign-off for EDM projects, delegates at A-Team’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London heard. According to panellists on the event’s discussion on ‘Technology Challenges of Building an…

Sybase’s Grant Highlights the Need for More Data Creation at Source

Rather than relying on data from external sources, firms should instead aim to create it from source documents, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development director for financial services at risk management solution vendor Sybase, during this afternoon’s keynote speech. Speaking to attendees at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London,…

Collaboration is Key to Resolving Data Issues Raised by Regulation

Financial institutions must collaborate to meet incoming regulatory requirements that challenge enterprise data management (EDM), according to a panel of industry experts assessing the impact of regulations on data management at today’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations Conference in London. Chairing the panel, Reference Data Review set the scene of incoming regulations requiring…

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…