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Data Storage Group Receives Patent For Innovative Data Deduplication Technology
Data Storage Group, an industry leader in data backup and disaster recovery software, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company US Patent 7,860,843 for the firm’s core data deduplication technology. DataStor’s unique and innovative software-based approach, known as Adaptive Content Factoring?, is a technological breakthrough offering significant advancements…
ESMA Issues Call For Evidence About Credit Ratings Agency Registration Requirements, Technical Standards Incoming
Following on from its predecessor’s work last year, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is reaching out to credit ratings agencies and the users of ratings to provide feedback on its proposals for endorsement guidelines, which will form the basis for technical standards that will need to be adopted by 7 June this year….
Hunton & Williams Names Bridget Treacy London Office Managing Partner
Hunton & Williams is pleased to announce the appointment of Bridget Treacy as London office managing partner. Treacy, who also leads the firm’s UK privacy and information management practice, will be responsible for providing leadership and coordinating with firm leaders to oversee strategic planning and client service initiatives for the London office. She succeeds Martin…
UCITS IV Compliance Requirements are Driving Interest in SunGard’s FastVal Solution, Says Compton
Regulatory change has been kind to the valuations solution vendor community of late, with requirements for increased transparency and independence providing these firms with a perfect ‘in’ to financial institutions’ back offices. Accordingly, SunGard’s FastVal solution has witnessed this uptick in interest as a result of the increased investment in derivatives by the more traditional…
Agio Technology Undergoes Rapid Growth, Driven by Increased Hedge Fund Demand for Managed IT Services
Agio Technology, a provider of managed IT services for premier hedge funds, today announced that it marks its first full year of operation. Agio experienced a rapid expansion of its business, driven by the extensive hedge fund pedigree of its management team and the increasing trend in the hedge fund industry to outsource non-core technology…
Isbank Reduces Credit Risk by Adopting Fitch Solutions’ Risk & Performance Platform
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, is pleased to announce that Isbank, Turkey’s national bank, has reinforced its credit risk reduction processes by subscribing to Fitch Solutions’ Risk & Performance Platform (RPP), thus expanding its ability to access credit risk measures, CDS pricing and ratings data. Isbank reinforced its extensive credit risk reduction…
Modernise Data Protection Laws says Former UK Information Commissioner
Former UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas CBE called today for a modernised European framework for data protection to address the realities of the digital world of the 21st Century. “The pace of technological change is increasing both benefits and threats,” said Thomas, now a strategy adviser at leading international law firm Hunton & Williams and…
NFA in the Frame to Take Over Derivatives Registration from the CFTC, But What of Regulatory Follow up?
Last week, Reference Data Review noted that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is contemplating ceding control over data registration requirements to another body, namely industry group the National Futures Association (NFA). The result of such an action, which itself is being driven by the regulator’s funding woes, could mean that power and influence is back in…
Q&A: SpryWare’s Daniel May on Boosting Ticker Plant Performance
Chicago-based SpryWare recently announced its ticker plant can process 10 million messages per second. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s co-founder Daniel May about the market data explosion, how SpryWare is responding, and trends for 2011. Q: The latest capacity test on your MIS ticker plant show that it can process 10 million messages per second….
Regulatory Pressure is Compelling Investment in Data Quality, Says Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Dalglish
Regulatory pressure is compelling firms to plough investment into their data infrastructures in order to be able to ensure the consistency of the basic reference data underlying their businesses, according to Tom Dalglish, director and chief information architect at Bank Of America Merrill Lynch. Developments such as the Office of Financial Research also represent the…