As Reference Data Review went to press, Interactive Data Corp., the main U.S. operating entity of Financial Times Interactive Data, reported fourth- quarter revenues of $120.4 million, up 24.8% from a year earlier. Net income rose 6.9% to $18.2 million from $17.0 million. For full year 2003, revenues increased by 18.0% to $442.7 million and net rose by 18.9% to $72.2 million.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By Gus Sekhon, head of product, FINBOURNE Technology. The City loves nothing more than a takeover tale as old as time. A US$2.5tn US asset management behemoth snapping up one of London’s most historic investment houses for £10bn sounds like a story of global ambition and deep pockets. The Schroders brand stays, the headquarters remains...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
The highly specialised realm of high frequency trading without doubt is a great driver for a range of high performance technologies that are becoming essential tools for Wall Street. More so than the now somewhat pedestrian algorithmic trading and analytics/pricing applications that are usually cited as the reason that HPC is hitting the financial markets,...
