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Global LEI System Takes Two Small Steps Towards Operation

The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has inched forward with operational moves being made by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) to address reference data issues around the LEI and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to accept LEIs from all endorsed pre-local operating units (LOUs). The Secretariat of the ROC has written a…

Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Sketch Roadmap for Algo Testing Facility

The tie-up of Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Technologies to deliver an algorithm testing facility is expected to endure beyond initial plans to offer algo testing for US equities trading and take testing into other asset classes over time. It is also expected to help trading firms get ahead of any regulatory mandates that may set…

Peel Hunt Signs Up for Wolters Kluwer FS’s New Summix Risk Platform

UK brokerage Peel Hunt has deployed Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ recently released Summix risk, compliance and finance platform. The system integrates technologies from acquired software providers FRS Global and FinArch, providing an upgrade path for users of these systems as well as a platform for new clients like Peel Hunt. Peel Hunt selected Summix for…

SAP and SAS Partnership Develops In-Memory Analytics for Big Data

SAP and SAS have signed a strategic agreement to develop data management and analytics solutions that allow SAS’s analytics applications to run on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The aim is to deliver real-time data analysis, with early solutions due in the first half of next year. The partners plan to develop high-performance solutions across a…

A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View

Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only…

Recorded Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk and Regulatory Perspective

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. With financial institutions acquiring international businesses – whether through mergers-and-acquisitions activity or organic growth – cross- border trading and investment has become the norm. But with it comes a new level of complexity, as firms grapple to deal with multiple regulatory regimes, market conventions…

Q&A: Supermicro’s Don Clegg on Accelerated Processors For Performance and Cost Reduction

Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor is driving new server technologies that the financial markets are keen to adopt. But in today’s cost-reduction environment, it’s not just about top performance – through accelerated CPU clock speeds – but also how to roll out and operate in a cost effective way – which brings in server density,…

IBM Combines Algo Risk Service with Managed Data to Deliver Cloud Risk Analytics

IBM has combined its Algo Risk Service, a cloud-based risk offering acquired with Algorithmics in 2011, with cloud managed data services to deliver IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud, a risk analytics solution that transforms upstream and downstream data to make it available for portfolio and enterprise risk modelling. The service is offered as a…

Market Surveillance Requires Systems that are Lean, Fast and Flexible

In a highly regulated trading market that is growing in complexity, yet must prove transparency, market surveillance is a significant challenge – but it can be addressed using technologies that span systems and data management, and deliver real-time alerts of potential abuse in the market. The pressing issues of surveillance and how best to tackle…

Recorded Webinar: The Data Challenge in Market Surveillance

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Since the start of the financial crisis, market surveillance has been a high priority issue across capital markets. Buy-side and sell-side firms have stepped up their game, and so, too, have regulators. The need for accurate, real-time surveillance will continue to escalate as market…