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A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into Improving Data Contributions
Data contributions to financial benchmarks have been a cause for concern since the Libor scandal emerged in 2012, yet despite heavy fines imposed on banks that manipulated the rate, only now are efforts to improve the situation being made in earnest. Addressing the issues of data contributions to the market, an A-Team Group webinar entitled…
Quincy Expands QED with Equity and Energy Futures
Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of select equity and energy futures sourced from 350 East Cermak and cash treasuries sourced from Carteret. With this development, Quincy clients will not only benefit from additional data sources, but also Quincy’s broad distribution of data from eight exchanges to trading…
Fidessa Promotes David Polen to Global Head of Electronic Execution
Fidessa has appointed David Polen as global head of electronic execution with responsibility for developing the company’s platform and electronic execution capabilities across global markets. Reporting to Mark Ames, global head of sell side services, Polen will deliver a range of managed solutions that will allow brokers to present their clients with intelligent and cost-effective…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Flash For The Men, Not The Boys
In the search for increased financial application performance, systems architects are exploring a number of different hardware approaches. Parallel processing is one of them. Another is deploying Flash memory as a substitute for hard disk storage, which can be particularly effective where data throughput is a bottleneck. As it happens, quite a bit has been…
Gilbert Dupont Extends Use of SunGard Valdi Market Access to Reach Turquoise and Equiduct
Société de Bourse Gilbert Dupont is building on its relationship with SunGard and its use of the company’s Valdi Market Access software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to extend its reach to Turquoise, the London Stock Exchange’s pan-European multilateral trading facility. Gilbert Dupont, a specialist in small and mid-sized company research and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe Crédit…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Feeling the Collars of the Libor Traders
Financial institutions are bracing themselves for further regulatory clampdown on market pricing on the wake of the LIBOR and FX market manipulation scandals. As regulators draft new guidelines for benchmark data contributions, and UK Chancellor George Osborne signals increased scrutiny of the London FX market’s pricing procedures, data managers and compliance officers are assessing their…
Exegy Sets out Development Plans for Hardware Accelerated Appliances
Exegy, a provider of hardware accelerated appliances, has detailed product developments it will release later this year including a faster, feature-rich Java applications programming interface (API), improved integration of the company’s managed services infrastructure with Thomson Reuters’ Data Access Control System (DACS), and a fourth generation of the Exegy platform. These additions follow the release…
Azul and C24 Offer Compact In-Memory Storage Solution for Zing
Java specialist Azul Systems and messaging provider C24 Technologies have combined their expertise to deliver an in-memory storage solution compromising C24’s Simple Data Objects (SDO) message compaction technology integrated with Azul’s Zing Java virtual machine (JVM). The solution supports the Financial Products Markup Language (FpML), as well as FIX and ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging…
Fidessa Responds to Demand for a Consolidated Trading Platform
Fidessa has responded to ongoing client demand for consolidated trading platforms that reduce total cost of ownership and increase efficiency with the addition of US Treasuries to its global futures and options platform, and connectivity to BrokerTec and Nasdaq OMX eSpeed. The addition of US Treasuries to the derivatives platform takes the company into fixed…
Options Builds Out Velocity Platform with Velocimetrics Real-Time Performance Analytics
Options continues to build out its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), ultra-low latency electronic trading platform with the addition of Velocimetrics’ real-time monitoring and performance analysis solution. The companies have partnered to roll out the Velocimetrics software at Velocity colocation sites around the world, starting in the US with deployments in New Jersey. Options recently added the…