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Thomson Reuters Outlines the Data Challenges and Opportunities of Form PF
Thomson Reuters has warned private fund advisors that they must be able to source substantial amounts of accurate data and automate reporting if they are to meet the regulatory challenge of Form PF. In an industry briefing published this month – titled Form PF: Data Takes Center Stage – Thomson Reuters global head of evaluated…
DTCC and Swift Signal CICI Portal as First Mover Advantage in Contest to Build LEI Infrastructure
DTCC and Swift are back in play and aiming to be major providers to the global legal entity identifier (LEI) infrastructure after gaining first-mover advantage through this week’s official opening of a web portal for Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) interim compliant identifiers (CICIs). Selecting from four potential providers, the CFTC last month designated the…
CICI Utility Goes Live in Preparation for CFTC’s October OTC Reporting Rule
The initial implementation of the DTCC’s and Swift’s CICI Utility Portal has gone live at https://ciciutility.org. The release of the site – which aims to support Phase 1 of global assignment of the CFTC’s Interim Compliant Identifiers by providing timely and accurate entity records – comes a month after the DTCC and Swift were named…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…