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NYSE Technologies Offers Sneak Peak at Data Fabric V6
Ahead of its official launch – which Low-Latency.com will of course be all over – NYSE Technologies’ managing director for enterprise software Brian Doherty has been discussing the latest version of the Data Fabric messaging product. MultiVerb is one of the key enhancements, combining multicast and RDMA paradigms. Says Doherty: “As part of our testing…
The AIFMD in Focus: Valuations and Data Reporting Requirements Incoming
The controversial Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which was first proposed in 2009, was published last month and is due to come into force over the next couple of years, includes key data related requirements such as increased transparency into valuations and new fund registration processes. A-Team Insight examines the latest and final version…
New UK CEO Takes the Helm at Leading Financial Services Consultancy Capco
Capco, the global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial services industry, has announced today that Andrew Tarver has been appointed Capco’s UK Chief Executive Officer. Thirty-five year old Andrew was previously a Partner in Capco’s UK capital markets team. Ismail Amla, Capco’s previous UK CEO, will now head Capco’s North American practice….
Sapient Global Markets and Murex Announce Strategic Partnership
Sapient Global Markets, a business and technology services provider to the capital and commodity markets and part of Sapient Corporation and Murex, a leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk management and processing solutions, today announced that Sapient Global Markets has joined the Murex Partnership Program to provide professional services to clients of both organizations. The…
Russell Investments Makes Key Appointment for Index Business
Russell Investments has appointed Shelton (Shellie) Unger as director of plan sponsor sales for Russell Indexes. Unger, who has more than thirty years of financial services experience, will lead a focused initiative to introduce the full depth and breadth of Russell Indexes’ product and service offering to the plan sponsor community in the U.S., including…
“Hockey Stick” Moment for CVA Due to Regulatory and Accounting Rule Changes
Accounting standards changes, Basel III and the development of industry best practices for risk management and valuations have caused a “hockey stick moment” for the development of credit valuation adjustment (CVA). Dan Travers, product manager for Adaptiv and CVA solutions at SunGard, explains that CVA is a fast evolving area and the last five years…
Intel Snaps Up Fulcrum Microsystems
Intel is acquiring Fulcrum Microsystems, a developer of interconnect chips leveraged by ethernet switches, such as those from Arista Networks, IBM System Networking (Blade Network Technologies, as was) and Mellanox. While Intel’s big play is all about data centre fabrics and cloud computing, the impact on low-latency networking for the financial markets is clear, given…
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Data Quality Imperative Underlying Recent Risk Management and Regulatory Requirements
There seems to be a recurring refrain within a whole host of recent regulatory papers, including the MiFID Review, UCITS IV, Basel III, Solvency II or any number of UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) papers: references to accuracy, consistency, timeliness, reliability and completeness of data are present in all of them. Reference Data Review speaks…
Teradata’s Krishna Champions Data and IT Focused Amendments to OFR’s Structure, Talks up Big Data
Data warehousing solution vendor Teradata has thrown its hat into the ring to act as a key technology partner to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and Dilip Krishna, vice president of financial services at the vendor, testified during last week’s government organised roundtable on systemic risk about the benefits of a big data…
Credit Suisse Strengthens Asia Pacific Global Markets Solutions Group Management And China Investment Banking Coverage
Credit Suisse today announced the appointments of Carl Bautista, Mervyn Chow and George Pavey as Co-heads of its Global Markets Solutions Group (GMSG) for Asia Pacific and the appointment of Zeth Hung as Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Department and GMSG for Greater China. The appointments, announced today by Vikram Malhotra and Helman Sitohang,…