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IT Execs Split on Merits of Buy vs Build

Cost and functionality remain key factors in financial firms’ decisions to buy or build new data infrastructures, but the physical size of a firm and...

Inside Market Data | News | Events | 24 May 2013

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Firms Keep Mining Big Data in Search of Riches

While industry participants remain divided over the true definition of Big Data and its potential uses in capital markets, the race is on within financial institutions to figure out how to best extract value from unstructured data and new datasets, according...

Inside Market Data | News | Events | 24 May 2013

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Panel Blames Bloomberg Scandal for More Distrust of Vendors

The revelation that Bloomberg reporters were able to access some client usage information about the vendor’s terminals has led to a greater distrust of market data vendors, and could have further ramifications on client-vendor relationships going forward,...

Inside Market Data | News | Events | 24 May 2013

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Inside Market Data Hall of Fame: Barry Raskin, 'The Builder'

Barry Raskin, President, SIX Financial Information USA

Inside Market Data | News | People | 24 May 2013

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Rapid Addition Partners with Azul Systems to Enhance its Java Virtual Machine

Trading technology provider Rapid Addition has announced its partnership with Azul Systems to offer low latency, jitter-free Java trading engines.

Sell-Side Technology | News | Latency | 24 May 2013

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BAML Exec: "Granular Data Creates Aggregation Challenges"

A Bank of America Merrill Lynch director told delegates at this week's North American Financial Information Summit that firms face challenges aggregating the more granular data now required for risk management

Inside Reference Data | News | Risk Management | 24 May 2013

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Rabobank's Rembrandt M&A Taps Coveo to Map Fundamentals to M&A Database

Rembrandt M&A, the mergers and acquisitions arm of Dutch banking group Rabobank, has deployed mapping functionality from Canadian technology vendor Coveo to link fundamental data on companies held within its customer relationship management platform with...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Consumers | 24 May 2013

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HSBC CDO: "Reporting Regs Emphasize Need To Manage Data Throughout Lifecycle"

HSBC's Peter Serenita told delegates at the North American Financial Information Summit that firms need processes for managing data throughout the trade lifecycle in order to comply with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's new reporting requirements...

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 24 May 2013

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NAFIS Latency Panel: Stop and Think Before Spending on Speed

Firms whose trading strategies rely on speed must continue to invest in ways to reduce latency, even if tighter budgets make it harder to justify spend on new technologies, while non-latency-sensitive firms must assess whether their business model and...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 24 May 2013

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EDM Driven By More Than Savings, Says Fund Exec

Risk management and business needs are becoming greater reasons for using enterprise data management, said Michael Korby, senior vice president of front-office development at Highbridge Capital Management, speaking at the North American Financial Information...

Inside Reference Data | News | Data Management | 24 May 2013

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Latest Whitepapers

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Key challenges in data architecture

Complex, dated and unwieldy data infrastructure is not uncommon among even the most progressive companies in the world of finance. As financial regulations...

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Key challenges in legal entity identification

With the launch of a new legal entity identifier (LEI) looming, the financial services industry needs to get ready to ensure efficient and timely implementation...