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Open Source Moving On Up …
I’m writing this blog from the Red Carpet Club at SFO … heading back to NYC in an hour. It’s been a great week out here in the Bay Area catching up with some old friends and making some new ones. Earlier in the week, I attended the Open Source Business Conference. One of the…
Old Friends, Familiar Faces, Some Surprises
I am posting this from the San Francisco Bay Area, and it just struck me that a couple of major players from these parts were recently the subject of posts on this portal. What’s more, they are companies that – despite being once huge on Wall Street – I hadn’t expected to be covering in…
Can FPGAs Overcome the FUD?
So, those party animals at Activ Financial have invited me to a little gathering tonight – at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square – to formally launch ActivFeed MPU, their new hardware-accelerated feed handling software. It should be an great event, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about the black art of programming FPGAs (that’s…
Sybase and QuantHouse Team On Algorithmic Trading Strategies
Sybase and QuantHouse have formed a strategic alliance to jointly deliver a solution for back testing and regression testing for algorithmic trading strategies. The solution will enable financial services organizations to manage back testing on virtually any set of real-time and historic market data, the partners say. Central to this offering will be the ability…
The Low Latency Canary
The one constant in the world of financial markets IT is that nothing stays the same for very long. The world of market data feeds and the applications that process them is no exception. As data rates increase, and as processing systems (or any component of them) are upgraded and modified, performance can be hit….
CMA Appoints Peter Vitale Vice President, Sales
CMA, the credit information specialist, has appointed Peter Vitale as vice president, sales for its credit market pricing data (CMA DataVision) and intraday services (CMA QuoteVision). Vitale, previously head of sales at GFI’s Data & Analytics North America Division, will be based in New York, charged with responsibility for sales and account management globally.
Data Explorers Expands Client Relationship Management Team
Securities lending data provider Data Explorers has expanded its London and Boston sales and client services teams. Colette Vernon joins the CRM team in London, and Stephanie Le Blanc joins the Boston team, both reporting to Lucy McIntosh, head of client services. Vernon previously spent more than five years at Clearstream Banking as a senior…
Standard & Poor’s Appoints Burleigh Head of Sales EMEA
Standard & Poor’s has hired Damian Burleigh as head of sales and client service in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Burleigh, previously vice president, sales, Europe for S&P in London, will be responsible for sales and client relationships across Standard & Poor’s range of products and services.
Markit Expands Executive Team with Cameron Hire
Markit Group has appointed Niall Cameron to its executive management team. Cameron joins Markit as an executive vice president and will take responsibility for Markit’s Index Management and Equities businesses. Most recently Cameron was global head of traded markets and member of the global markets executive committee at ABN Amro, where he worked for more…
DTCC Picks up Penson Canada For Corporate Actions Data
Penson Financial Services Canada is the first Canadian clearing firm to use DTCC’s Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS). It joins a major Canadian bank among the users of the service, and DTCC says it is in active discussions with a number of other organisations in Canada about GCA VS. Susan Spivey, head of…