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Platform Computing Dramatically Simplifies Private Cloud Management for Enabling Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today launched Platform ISF 3.0, the latest release of its award-winning software for building private and hybrid clouds. Designed to dramatically improve customer productivity when deploying and managing application services, the new version includes the Platform Cloud Application Designer, which allows customers to create…

BondDesk Completes BondWorks Rollout at Raymond James

BondDesk, the premier provider of retail fixed income trading technology and execution services, today announced that it has completed its latest rollout of the revolutionary BondWorks™ wealth management platform with Raymond James Financial and its network of approximately 5,400 financial advisors. Today’s announcement follows the BondWorks initial deployment with Janney Montgomery Scott and more than…

Q&A: Mat Young of Fusion-io on Making Flash Fast

Fusion-io is about high performance Flash – aka NAND – storage, though – as Mat Young, EMEA senior director at the company points out – it would be wrong to view it as a SSD player. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked him to explain … Q: Can you begin by describing what Fusion-io does?  What are your products?…

Andrew’s Blog – Joyeux Noel FISD Style

The FISD’s European Holiday Party last night was – as it always is – a fun affair, and a great way of doing the rounds of the market and reference data set before the Christmas Break. Less jolly was the General Meeting’ flagship regulation panel, which saw panellist after panellist express frustration, confusion and downright…

CFTC’s Gary Gensler: Shining a Light on Swaps Transparency

CFTC chairman Gary Gensler has urged market practitioners to rally behind the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that will boost transparency in derivatives markets and outlined the steps the derivatives regulatory agency has taken to improve transparency in the swaps markets it oversees. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Office of Financial Research and the Financial…

Q&A: Chad Attlesey of Hardcore Computer on Overclocking … And How To Do It!

A recent performance benchmark conducted by Citihub resulted in a lot of talk about “overclocking” of CPUs, and what the driver for it is. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Chad Attlesey, CTO of overclocking leader Hardcore Computer, to explain what it’s all about, how to overclock reliably, and what performance gains might be seen. Q: Can you begin…

OTC Reform Causing ‘Big Data’ Challenge

By Ciaran Henry, US country manager for Rule Financial In 30 years the OTC derivatives landscape has not faced such sweeping changes as it does today. Dodd-Frank, EMIR and the Volcker Rule are all new regulations in the capital markets devised to protect US and European consumers from ‘bailing out the banks’ again. As these…

Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade

Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…

HSBC’s Johnson Highlights the Deep Data Content Requirements of Solvency II

Although Solvency II may at first appear to be an insurance only focused regulation, the asset management and asset servicing communities are having to prepare for some fairly onerous deep data requirements coming their way by way of their insurance clients, warned Chris Johnson, head of product management for market data services at HSBC Securities…

Markit Signs Multi-Year Contract Renewal and Service Expansion with XSP to Streamline Corporate Actions Processing

XSP, the global leader in end-to-end Corporate Actions automation, announced today that Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, has signed up for XSP’s new Headline Indices functionality. Markit uses the XSP v5 platform to supply buy- and sell-side firms with daily calculations for its various index services. The addition of XSP’s Headline Indices…