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Reference Data Management Takes Center Stage
By Sol Zlotchenko, VP Product Management, Paladyne Systems. Market developments and a host of major regulatory initiatives are forcing the arcane world of reference data into the spotlight. Reference data drives all investment firms’ activities. As Accenture points out, accurate reference and market data are essential for effective investment decisions, trade execution, securities pricing, portfolio…
Q&A: Fiberblaze’s Troels Gert Nielsen on TCP Offload Approaches, Altera FPGAs and Opening Up in The Big Apple
Trading firms – especially those into HFT – are always looking for a technology edge, and customised solutions can provide it. The custom approach is what Fiberblaze specialises in, though that’s not stopping it releasing a more generalised product this month. Embracing Altera FPGAs, and opening an office in New York City is also in…
Q&A: ParStream’s Mike Hummel on Bringing Low Latency to Big Data
Bringing low latency to the world of big data is what ParStream – which recently raised $5.6 million in series A funding – has been working on now for several, years, with some impressive results. We talked to the company’s CEO Mike Hummel to find out more about the company and its technology. Q: First,…
New AvoxData Legal Entity Portal to Host Value-Added Data Sets
Avox’s new enhanced legal entity data portal, released last week at www.avoxdata.com, will provide the preferred delivery system for Avox as it integrates value-added data sets to its core identifier offerings. The new capability – not to be confused with parent DTCC’s planned legal entity identifier utility scheduled for imminent release – gives clients secure…
Big Data in Financial Services – Opportunity or Cost?
By John Bantleman, RainStor www.rainstor.com We recently hosted a dinner in New York City with 20 technology executives focused on big data in banking and financial services. I found the event insightful, so I thought it would be interesting to share some of the perspectives from those who attended. The first (and close to my…
Q&A: OneMarketData’s Louis Lovas on TCA, Latency and Big Data
Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) is of increasing importance to trading success and while it is very much a business imperative, implementing it and putting it to effective use relies on a combination of low-latency technologies and big data approaches. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com got the TCA low down from Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData. Q: To…
Q&A: Bay Microsystems’ Gerry Jankauskas on Wide Area Network Latency Optimisation
As trading firms roll out their operations across geographies, connectivity and associated latency considerations move focus from local network fabrics to wide area ones. And that presents many new challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com connected with Gerry Jankauskas, CTO at Bay Microsystems, to find out what part his company plays in the solution. Q: When was Bay Microsystems…
Bank Sarasin Tackles Corporate Actions Operational Risk with Aim Software
Swiss private bank Bank Sarasin has increased its investment in Aim Software solutions, adding the company’s corporate actions data scrubbing and matching capability to an existing data management structure based on Aim’s Gain platform and supporting pricing and static data since 2002. The bank looked at a range of corporate actions solutions to automate manual…
Q&A: Corvil’s Donal Byrne Puts Latency Under The Lens
Latency management specialist Corvil has introduced its Trade Lens functionality, designed to map the technicalities of latency management onto trading business operations. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Corvil CEO Donal Byrne to get the details. Q: Can you describe what Trade Lens does, and why it’s of benefit to trading operations? A: The Trade Lens transforms the…
Q&A: Perseus Telecom’s Jock Percy on Fast Fibre and Formula 1
Low-latency connectivity continues to be an area of spend for most trading firms, and tapping into far markets is one of the focuses. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Jock Percy, CEO of Perseus Telecom, to get some insight into the action. Q: Let’s start with an update on the transatlantic link – QuanTA. How’s it going?…