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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Live and Let Die
(With apologies to Paul McCartney and Ian Fleming) When you were young and your heart was an open book You used to say ‘live and let live’ (you know you did, etc.). But in this ever-changin’ world in which we’re livin’ Makes you give it a try: ‘Live and let die’ When I was young…
Abacus Launches StorageBurst Backup/Archiving
Abacus Group, which provides hosted IT services to hedge and private equity funds, has launched StorageBurst, an on-demand service that offers secure and redundant data storage off-site. Among other applications, StorageBurst helps funds store and back up tick level data to meet regulatory requirements. “It’s not uncommon for today’s hedge funds to deal with terabytes…
Aim Software Acquires ABI Informatic for Customer Base and Technology
Aim Software, vendor of the Gain reference data and risk management platform, has bought competitor ABI Informatic in a deal aimed primarily at acquiring its 25 European customers. Terms of the Jun 4 transaction – announced yesterday – which also gives Aim ABI’s Agio data management platform, weren’t disclosed. Vienna-based Aim’s CEO Martin Buchberger describes…
Rimes and Bi-Sam Partner to Co-Develop Performance Solutions
Rimes Technologies and Bi-Sam have boosted their commitment to work together and deliver streamlined performance solutions for asset managers based on Rimes’ index and benchmark data management and Bi-Sam’s performance measurement and reporting functionality. The companies already have a joint interface to their solutions that is well used, but the new partnership will provide a…
Deutsche Bank Demonstrates Benefits of Data Visualisation
Visualisation techniques are essential to gaining insight into data, processes and systems, and could also answer the question of whether high frequency trading is good or bad for financial markets, said Kerr Hatrick, head of Deutsche Bank’s Quantitative Products One team for Europe and Asia at MathWorks’ Matlab Computational Finance Conference in London this week….
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s Hot in New York
The New York Hilton is not best known for its air conditioning, and with temperatures threatening to hit 97 degrees Fahrenheit the second day of the Sifma Tech leaders conference promises to be challenging. It’s a busy and hot New York week. We kicked it off with some client meetings Monday, followed by the ubiquitous…
S&P Capital IQ Adds Credit Ratings and Frequent Delivery to Xpressfeed
S&P Capital IQ has added Standard & Poor’s credit ratings to its Xpressfeed enterprise data feed, and upgraded the feed delivery from daily and monthly to near real-time, bringing static data into the near real-time world. Xpressfeed including the credit ratings has been on beta test for a couple of months and went live this…
Netik’s Rebrand to CoreOne Underscores Repurposing of Data Management Assets
Netik, the data management company acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008, has rebranded as CoreOne Technologies to reflect its new lease of life as a data creation, processing and distribution company with products based on Netik technologies and repurposed proprietary capital markets platforms. The brand change has been led by CoreOne…
Markit Closes Cadis Deal, Rebrands as Markit EDM
Markit has completed the acquisition of Cadis, and will rebrand the data management platform under the Markit Enterprise Data Management banner. The company will sit alongside Markit’s other enterprise businesses, among them Markit Analytics, Markit Portfolio Management and Markit on Demand. As reported, CEO Daniel Simpson will continue to run the business. He’ll also join…
Asset Control Sees Broadening of Data Management Requirement in Japan
Asset Control’s decision to open an office in Tokyo – announced today – stems from a heightened level of interest both from the Japanese financial centre’s major banking institutions and the key service agents that provide trading-related capabilities to much of the domestic market. The data management platform provider has announced plans to bolster its…