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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?…
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…
Chicago’s Mini-Prop Shop Boom Creates a Boon for Low-Latency Providers
The Volcker Rule, part of the larger Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, is an attempt to bar banks from proprietary trading – or making trades for their own benefit – with customer funds. Many banks have pushed back against the proposed rule citing a threat to some of their most profitable activities. In response, the rule…
ScaleOut Addresses Big Data In-Memory Analytics; Adds Multi-Site, Cloud Support
ScaleOut Software has released version 5 of its ScaleOut StateServer in-memory data grid. For the first time, it supports linking grids across physical sites, including leveraging cloud services – providing an elastic architecture for big data analysis. Version 5 is currently available for public clouds Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. “By helping developers and…
Brown Brothers Harriman Works with DTCC to Reduce Risk in Corporate Actions
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has gone live with DTCC’s standards-based corporate actions real-time messaging and expects the solution to provide both operational efficiencies and reduced operational risk. The solution is part of a multi-year corporate actions reengineering project at DTCC that will replace 60 legacy systems by 2015 with a single platform that is compliant…