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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Steep Learning Curve for Adaptive Trading

As many of you know, we like to spend some time with the marketplace to try to understand some of the nuances of the topics we cover, particularly as we prepare for our big conferences, like the forthcoming Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on May 13. Attendees of our London equivalent last month will…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: If Only…

I frequently find myself in meetings, on calls, at conferences, listening to people talk about the data and data management impact of regulation. I’ve heard it said many times, by suppliers mostly, that regulation is our friend. And it’s probably fair to say that without regulation, our industry would not be moving at quite the…

Lab49 Describes Development of UBS Neo Cross-Asset Platform

Lab49, a strategy, design and software development consultancy working with investment banks, asset managers and exchanges, has detailed its involvement in the creation of UBS’s Neo cross-asset platform, which is designed to provide access to all UBS Investment Bank products and services, and includes social web technologies and mobile access. The consultancy’s involvement as a…

First Derivatives and Pivotal Collaborate on Next-Generation Data Architecture

First Derivatives (FD) is providing consulting services around technology from Pivotal with a view to helping customers build next-generation data architectures and applications for risk management, regulatory compliance, market surveillance and trading. FD will work initially to help clients install and commission Pivotal software and build out intelligent data lakes using semantic tagging, but expects…

AIM Software Extends Market Reach with Business Applications for Data Management

AIM Software is challenging competitors in the enterprise data management (EDM) space with a business approach to data management that includes fixed price, packaged applications covering market data, reference data and corporate actions data. The Vienna, Austria based company says these solutions, plus a ‘Go West’ strategy focused on expansion in the US and UK,…

Software Vendors Welcome Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ Partner Programme

Software vendors and end users have welcomed the formalisation of Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ vendor partner programme that allows financial software vendors to make their apps ‘Bloomberg ready’ by connecting them to Bloomberg applications and providing access to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg introduced the programme with 125 financial software partners offering everything from order, execution and risk…

Thomson Reuters Eases the Burden of KYC Compliance with Accelus Org ID Managed Service

Thomson Reuters has set up a managed service designed to help financial institutions and their clients comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. Called Accelus Org ID, the service aims to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of compliance by providing accurate, up to date identity data and avoiding the need to repeat the…

CounterpartyLink Adds Risk Screening to Legal Entity Information Service

CounterpartyLink has augmented its legal entity and counterparty intelligence service through a partnership with RDC, a provider of risk and compliance data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, Politically Exposed Persons protection, corruption, fraud and crime protection, vendor screening and monitoring, and credit risk monitoring. The partnership is a response to…

Win $10,000 of Ciara Kit at A-Team’s Intelligent Trading Summit

Ciara Technologies always strived to conquer different markets, and diversify its offering without losing sight of its customers’ needs. Although this path can be more complex than others, it has led us constantly to address new customer challenges, and pushed us to maintain high levels of competency. At Ciara, we believe that performance is the…

Managed Reference Data Services – Are Utility Models the Way Forward?

The combination of cost, complexity and compliance are driving managers of reference data to examine new delivery models that avoid the duplication, manual intervention and expense of current business methods. But is a utility or managed service provider the best way forward? From recent industry conversations, not only do many believe it is, but are…