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Big Data in Trading and Risk Management
This industry briefing – sponsored by SAP – provides insight and analysis on how financial markets firms see Big Data approaches and technologies being leveraged for trading and risk applications. The briefing draws upon research conducted by A-Team Group’s BigDataForFinance.com web community, which included a survey of major financial markets firms based in the U.S. The survey…
Underlying Data and Overall Governance are Central to Surviving the Regulatory Tsunami
Financial services firms must tackle underlying data issues and enforce top-down governance strategies if they are to survive the regulatory tsunami, argued Anthony Kirby, director of Ernst & Young’s regulatory and risk management practice, at last week’s International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) conference in London. Addressing the operational impact of upcoming regulations,…
Delivering Sub-Microsecond Accurate Time to Linux Applications Around the World
Free white paper, authored by Symmetricom Trading applications at market participants require access to precise timing information – the same precise timing information – in order to transact business profitably, without risk and within regulatory edicts. The key word is precise. Accuracy is vital, and the more accurate the timestamp, the harder it is to…
Q&A: Interxion’s Patrick Lastennet on Demand For Co-Lo, Clouds and Big Data
We’ve been seeing a continued focus on companies that offer data centres for co-location and proximity, and how they are proving attractive offerings to trading firms needing to navigate an increasing regulatory landscape, and also to vendors looking to tap into liquidity hubs. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to Interxion’s director of marketing and business development for financial…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – Back in N.Y.C.
On a conference call the other day chatting about – what else? – LEI, a friend remarked on how ridiculously busy he was. Jetting about the place, flying in to here and there, meeting with clients, risking life and limb for the good of the company. “It’s that time of the year,” he said. “Budget…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – The Curse of Approved Supplier
We were saddened to learn earlier in the summer of the demise of Hyper Rig, a pioneer in the area of risk aggregation. To us, Hyper Rig’s commercial offering seemed as close as one could get to meeting practitioners’ stated requirement for a means of deriving risk measurement/management information from the broad range of relevant…
Markit Combines CVA and Capital Solutions Ahead of Basel III
Markit has combined its credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and regulatory capital solutions on one platform with a view to helping banks reduce the costs and overheads of meeting Basel III capital requirements. The Markit Analytics CVA & Capital platform integrates the management of CVA and internal model capital, allowing users to meet Basel III regulatory…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market
In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…
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…
High-Performance Trading Infrastructure on Demand
Financial markets firms can no longer spend what it takes to compete in the “low latency arms race.” The new reality demands high performance to be competitive with peers, but with an emphasis on upfront deployment and ongoing operational costs. High performance is measured not simply in trading execution speed and round-trip latency figures. Those…