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MathWorks Extends Matlab Capability through Integration with Numerix
MathWorks and Numerix have integrated the Numerix Cross-Asset Integration Layer with MathWorks’ Matlab numerical computation environment to allow Matlab users to access Numerix calculations in the creation of applications for pre-trade pricing, modelling and analysis of complex financial instruments. The integration was completed last year and incorporates Numerix CrossAsset Integration Layer templates in the Matlab…
Swift Builds Out Financial Crime Compliance Business with KYC Data Utility
Swift is pushing into compliance services for financial crime regulation with a dedicated business unit that is offering a Know Your Customer (KYC) data utility and planning additional solutions including business intelligence tools for regulatory compliance. A pilot of the Swift KYC Registry went live this week with a group of Swift member banks. The…
Opinion: Dangerous Data
By Philippe Verriest, Director, Euroclear Data is a vital component of our capital markets. Ensure this data is accurate, and you have a solid basis from which to make considered business decisions. Get it wrong and you risk contaminating many parts of the transaction chain. If there is one lesson that the global financial crisis…
Getting a Grip on Benchmark Contributions
A discussion of the issues surrounding bank-contributed market information for benchmarks and indexes. Recent scandals involving bank-contributed financial information – most notably 2010’s discovery of fraudulent contributions to the widely used the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark – have underscored the lack of transparency and lack of control of the rates and prices financial…
Q&A: Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley on Packet Capture and Performance Management
Packet capture – grabbing every data packet on a network for analysis – is becoming increasingly important, not just for specialist latency measurement but for higher level monitoring and management of trading and compliance functions. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Solarflare’s Bruce Tolley how and why it is being integrated into the company’s network interface cards. Q: Solarflare has…
Details of Fatca Compliance Remain Elusive Despite Looming Deadlines
The first deadline for reporting under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) is set for July 1, 2014 and it looks like it will stay that way, despite calls from industry participants for a delay on the grounds that they need more time to prepare and that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has…
Global LEI System is Here to Stay but Needs Further Development
The global Legal Entity Identifier system (GLEIS) has made its mark in the market and is here to stay, despite the continuing absence of a Central Operating Unit (COU) that will run the system, a lack of data standardisation that should be sorted out by the COU and concerns about how well entities will maintain…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: To Utility and Beyond!
Another penny has dropped in the onward march toward outsourced enterprise data management. UBS’s decision last month to outsource its securities reference data to iGate, which is using Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution – the former Cadis Software – to manage the data, fulfils a strategic intent to industrialise processes where possible. Perhaps more…
BBVA Selects Markit EDM as a Central Hub for its Enterprise Data
BBVA Asset Management has selected Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform to centralise and streamline its data. Markit secured the contract after a competitive selection process including workshops and a final proof of concept. The platform will replace a mix of point-to-point and in-house developed data management solutions and will act as a central hub…
Vulpes Investment Management Revamps IT for Systematic Trading
Vulpes Investment Management is revamping its technology infrastructure as it moves out of volatility trading and into systematic trading. The revamp includes implementation of OneMarketData’s OneTick stream processing and tick data management solution for quantitative research, modelling and strategy development, as well as a Tora electronic trading platform and portfolio management system, Redis in-memory database…