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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Spreadsheet Wars Reprised
In an interview with the excellent Robert Elms on BBC Radio London the other day, author and autistic savant Daniel Tammet said something along the lines of: “Mathematics is more about how you came up with the answer than the answer itself.” Tammet was promoting his forthcoming new book, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates…
OneMarketData Wins in Asia and Plans Front-Office Reference Data Product
OneMarketData has won its first OneTick customer in Asia and is planning the addition of reference data to the complex event processing (CEP) and tick data management solution. The company’s entry into Asia is with SBI Securities, a large online securities firm in Japan. SBI went to market with a competitive tender for systems integrators…
EDM Council Promotes Data Management Maturity Model as Industry Standard
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has completed the core content of a Data Management Maturity (DMM) model aimed at helping financial services firms improve risk management and operational efficiency. The EDM Council expects the DMM to become an industry standard and suggests it could, in the long term, become a regulatory requirement for firms…
Winning the Big Data Race for Trading Communication
By Paul Metcalfe, Orange Business Serviceswww.orange-business.com Big data is increasingly becoming a key concern for technologists, especially with the recent introduction of recording for voice and SMS on mobile phones for trading activities in the UK. As additional voice recording requirements contribute to the growing repository of data firms have to hold to comply, the…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market
In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Filling the Fund Income Data Gap
In what I see as further evidence of an enhanced market focus on corporate actions and related activities, a group of asset servicing and fund administration firms have launched a London-based working group focused on fund income data. The Fund Income Data Working Group (FIDWG) is hoping to address the dearth of available information on…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Riding the Regulatory Wave
Some years ago, I debated with the president of a well known enterprise data management platform provider about whether the market’s obsession with risk represented the ‘killer app’ the EDM segment had long been searching for. He wasn’t entirely convinced; I, of course, was. And although there are many good reasons to embark on an…
DNB Nord Is Early Adopter of IBM’s New InfoSphere Reference Data Application
IBM has added a ready-to-run application for reference data management to its InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) platform. The so-called InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management Hub v10 has been beta tested by banks including DNB Nord in Europe and was released by IBM as an electronic upgrade last week. The application offers centralised reference data…
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…