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Nasdaq OMX Partners Corvil to Dive Deeper into Risk Management
Nasdaq OMX has teamed up with Corvil to enhance its TradeGuard risk management suite with RiskWrapper, a solution designed to provide additional protection against risk by monitoring trades at the network level and comparing them to those in the risk system to identify any abnormal activity and alert users to anomalies. RiskWrapper provides tight integration…
ICE Targets Strategic Growth through Acquisition of SuperDerivatives
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) plans to expand its market data, risk management and clearing operations through the acquisition of SuperDerivatives. The acquisition will be made through an all-cash transaction that puts a price tag of about $350 million on SuperDerivatives and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014. The acquisition of SuperDerivatives follows…
Exegy Extends MarketDataPeaks to Canadian Markets
Market data appliance provider Exegy has teamed up with TMX Datalinx, the information services division of TMX Group, and the Financial Information Forum (FIF) to deliver MarketDataPeaks.ca, a free web service providing real-time information about market data messaging rates across major Canadian exchanges. The service includes a daily chart that is designed to help market…
LIBOR: Could We Have Seen it Coming?
The repercussions of the LIBOR price fixing scandal are likely to run and run. We now know that from around 2005 onwards a number of banks were attempting to manipulate rates. Over $6 billion has already been levied in fines, and with $300 trillion-worth of contracts pegged to this all-important benchmark, the figure could well…
Corvil Giga Platform Delivers Real-Time Operational Intelligence and Big Data Integration
Corvil has added streaming analytics, big data adapters, auto data discovery and more to its network performance monitoring solution to deliver a streaming analytics platform designed for real-time operational intelligence and big data integration. The Corvil Giga release – which will be followed by Tera and Peta releases supporting greater data volumes within the next…
Velocimetrics Redraws Product Roadmap to Include TS-Associates’ Solutions and Technologies
Velocimetrics has licensed the intellectual property rights (IPR) of TS-Associates’ TipOff and Application Tap network monitoring and analysis products following the company’s collapse into administration. Velocimetrics says it will continue to maintain and develop the former TS-Associates products as well as integrate them with its own technology, which offers real-time business-level insight into activity across…
NovaSparks Partners Thesys to Deliver FPGA Based Market Data Service
NovaSparks has set up a partnership with Thesys Technologies to provide a low-latency market data service to Thesys customers. The service is based on NovaSpark’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware architecture, including a feed handler that allows efficient and cost effective access to market data with minimal impact on the resiliency and latency of…
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…