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FPGAs, Established for Market Data, Now Being Leveraged for Transactions, Pre-Trade Risk
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) – providing hardware-based acceleration for processing typically performed in software – are being increasingly adopted for financial markets applications, with signs that their use is moving beyond boosting market data delivery, to address transactional performance as well. Fixnetix and Wall Street FPGA are providing two such examples, as hardware acceleration…
Bloomberg and Information Mosaic Partner on Corporate Actions
Bloomberg Data Solutions and Information Mosaic executives today announced a strategic partnership to provide a new service that will streamline corporate actions processing and reduce operational risks and costs. For the first time, financial institutions will be able to use the same Bloomberg corporate actions data for investment decisions in the front office, as well…
IMA’s Sears Warns of the Dangers of Leaving Lawyers to Define Industry Standards
Last week’s MiFID Forum in London saw Guy Sears, director of Wholesale at the Investment Management Association (IMA), warn attendees of the dangers of leaving it up to lawyers or regulators to decide on the best data standards for use within the context of MiFID reporting. He indicated that such a move is potentially damaging…
European Commission’s Leaked MiFID Review Paper Highlights Data Standardisation Challenges Ahead
Following on from the slew of technical advice and consultation papers that have been issued by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) over the course of this year, the European Commission has finally drawn together its public consultation document on the subject of the MiFID Review, a draft of which was leaked last week….
BT’s Pickles Discusses the Data and Risk Management Aspects of the Sequel to MiFID
Although there has been significant focus on the front office and trading impacts of the MiFID review, there are a whole host of middle and back office concerns to consider. Reference Data Review speaks to Chris Pickles, head of marketing for Financial Markets & Wholesale Banking at BT, about his perspectives on these challenges. There has…
Broadridge Introduces the First Mobile ProxyVote Platform
Proxy voting moves to the next generation of advanced technology with today’s announcement by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) that its ProxyVote.com platform will be available on mobile data devices such as smart phones and tablets in early 2011. The announcement and demonstration was made at Broadridge’s annual Investor Communications Conference, held today in New…
Missing a Trick?
The breakdown of the time spent on each area for discussion at yesterday’s MiFID Forum was indicative of the general press and industry attention that is being given to certain aspects of MiFID over others. The majority of the presentations focused on the front office and market data impacts of the directive’s revisions (with good…
End of January Deadline for Responses to US Proposals for OFR Reporting of Counterparty IDs
The industry has just under two months to respond to the proposals regarding how firms will report data to the Office of Financial Research, including the standards that must be used for identifying counterparties. The statement of policy was published in the Federal Register at the end of last month for public comment and firms…
CEBS’ FINREP Reporting Changes Include a Whole Host of New Data Requirements, Says FRSGlobal’s Neary
The Committee of European Banking Supervisors’ (CEBS) incoming financial reporting framework (FINREP) changes, which are due to be implemented by 31 December 2012, include a set of new data requirements resulting from the changes to the underlying reporting templates, according to Niamh Neary, Core expert at risk and regulatory compliance solution vendor FRSGlobal. CEBS has…
TFG Fund Services’ Toyer Elaborates on its Implementation of Xtrakter’s XREF; Jinks Discusses Xtrakter’s Ambitions
TFG Fund Services implementation of Xtrakter’s XREF service is all part of its strategy to concentrate on its core risk management and valuations business rather than be bogged down with in-house data sourcing and scrubbing, says Martin Toyer, CEO of the fund services firm. Previously, the firm had to dedicate in-house resources to source and…