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DTCC’s MD of Corp Comms Goldstein Makes His Exit
After nearly 20 years with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) communications team, current managing director of corporate communications and public affairs Stuart Goldstein is due to depart for pastures unknown. Goldstein’s departure was announced in a recent intra-company memo and comes at a time when DTCC is raising its public profile in order…
Wall Street FPGA Applies Hardware Acceleration to FIX
Well, FIX Cancel messages, to be precise. A just-released white paper from Wall Street FPGA – a company whose focus is pretty self explanatory from its name – details how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (or FPGAs) can be used along with the open source QuickFIX engine to rapidly fire off cancel messages to matching engines….
Profidata Group Opens London Office
Profidata Group, a provider of investment and wealth management systems, has expanded its operations by opening a London office to serve the UK and Ireland region. This expansion comes at a time of sustained growth for the company. Christian Widmer, CEO of Profidata Group, said: “As well as growing our business across Northern Europe we…
Information Mosaic Americas Hires Sigrid Wiley As Product Specialist
Information Mosaic, a post-trade automation solutions vendor, announced today that it has hired Sigrid Wiley as a product specialist for the Americas region. In this role, Wiley will perform business analysis and consulting tasks, as well as deliver pre-sales support to the Americas sales team. She will also provide input to regional product direction. Wiley…
GoldenSource’s Stock Discusses 2010 Results and Prod Dev Plans in Pricing Space
Last week, GoldenSource announced that in 2010 it had achieved a 30% increase in revenues on the previous year, which Tom Stock, senior vice president of product management at the EDM vendor, attributes in part to the success of its new market data, data warehousing and risk management focused solutions. Speaking to Reference Data Review, Stock…
SEC Deals Another Blow to the Ratings Agencies with Further Proposed Legislative Amendments
As part of its overall crackdown on the credit ratings agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has this week proposed a series of amendments to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 that will remove the requirements for mandatory credit ratings. The proposals are in accordance with the provisions…
DTCC’s Thompson Testifies About the Importance of Data Repositories Beyond the Swaps Market
In keeping with its recent focus on data repositories, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) managing director and general counsel, Larry Thompson, this week testified before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry stating that OTC derivatives market transparency could be improved by extending to other asset classes the current data repository model…
DataFlux Acquires Baseline Consulting
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced it has acquired Baseline Consulting, a data management services and consulting firm. The move will provide DataFlux customers with the technical and business expertise to achieve more rapid ROI from their data management projects. Baseline helps organisations enhance the value of enterprise data, improve business results…
Canuck Exchanges Take Solace in Data Distribution
So Toronto’s TMX Group just let it be known that it’s using Solace Systems’ message routers to distribute its market data. That makes it the second Canadian exchange group to go public with such news, following CNSX Markets, which revealed its planned adoption last September. Neither exchange group had to travel far to find their…
Good Year for GoldenSource?
The announcement of record 2010 results this week by EDM vendor GoldenSource could come as a surprise to some, given the bashing that the concept of ‘golden copy’ has taken in the industry of late and the numerous (thinly veiled) references to the troubles being experienced by the more established EDM vendors in the market…