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McObject Improves Performance of eXtremeDB Financial Edition and Eases Development with Version 6.0
McObject, a provider of low latency, high performance database management technologies, will release eXtremeDB Financial Edition version 6.0 today. The new version is a major upgrade including support for big data management for capital markets analytics and access to the database’s vector-based statistical functions using SQL and Python. Version 6.0 of eXtremeDB Financial Edition has…
GFT Blue Paper Presents the Potential of Big Data Technologies
As the technology infrastructure of financial services firms begins to buckle under the strain of huge and increasing volumes of data, many firms are investing in big data projects to improve data management for the purposes of regulatory compliance, risk reduction, cost efficiency and business benefit. The extent and intent of investment varies, however, with…
Feedzai Partners Azul Systems to Deliver Ultra-Fast Fraud Prevention Solutions
Azul Systems has signed up Feedzai, a company that uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyse big data in commerce, as an independent software vendor that will use its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) to power ultra-fast processing of big data within the Feedzai Fraud Prevention That Learns software. In the financial services sector, Feedzai works…
Shenzhen Stock Exchange Selects Kx Systems kdb+ for Data Analytics
The Laboratory for Financial Innovation at China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is implementing Kx Systems’ kdb+ high-performance database and programming language as the basis of a data analysis platform for market risk assessment, market performance analysis and trading simulations. The Laboratory provides internal services to the exchange and before selecting the Kx Systems solution was…
Nasdaq OMX Partners Corvil to Dive Deeper into Risk Management
Nasdaq OMX has teamed up with Corvil to enhance its TradeGuard risk management suite with RiskWrapper, a solution designed to provide additional protection against risk by monitoring trades at the network level and comparing them to those in the risk system to identify any abnormal activity and alert users to anomalies. RiskWrapper provides tight integration…
ICE Targets Strategic Growth through Acquisition of SuperDerivatives
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) plans to expand its market data, risk management and clearing operations through the acquisition of SuperDerivatives. The acquisition will be made through an all-cash transaction that puts a price tag of about $350 million on SuperDerivatives and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014. The acquisition of SuperDerivatives follows…
Exegy Extends MarketDataPeaks to Canadian Markets
Market data appliance provider Exegy has teamed up with TMX Datalinx, the information services division of TMX Group, and the Financial Information Forum (FIF) to deliver MarketDataPeaks.ca, a free web service providing real-time information about market data messaging rates across major Canadian exchanges. The service includes a daily chart that is designed to help market…
Opinion: “Big Data” Analytics will Play an Important Role in the Fight Against Payments Fraud
By Mike Urban, Director, Financial Crime Risk Management, Fiserv Fighting payments fraud has become one of the biggest challenges for financial organisations across the globe. In recent years there has been an explosion in both access channels and real-time payment methods meaning that monitoring financial transactions and ensuring that they are secure and legitimate has…
RiskFirst Builds Business in US with PFaroe Risk Analytics Platform
RiskFirst, a UK-based risk analytics provider, is building out its business in the US with the support of partner Winklevoss Technologies and early client wins with its PFaroe real-time, web-based valuation, analytics and reporting platform at Rocaton Investment Advisors and Nuveen Asset Management. The company, formerly known as PensionsFirst, introduced PFaroe in the UK market…
Fonetic and Tango Team to Deliver Dodd-Frank Compliant Voice Recording and Speech Analytics Solution
Fonetic, a provider of voice recognition and linguistics analytics, has set up a partnership with Tango Networks, a provider of business mobility services, to offer a mobile voice recording and speech analytics system designed to help financial institutions meet voice compliance requirements on the trading floor. The solution is a server software overlay that can…