Data Management
Anthony Malakian: BST North America: Of Data and People
This year’s Buy-Side North American Summit served up valuable insight into the areas of data management, risk management and the ongoing importance of getting the business on board with IT initiatives.
Nanotick Launches Historical On-Demand CME Data Service
Nanotick, a joint venture between direct market access software provider Onix Solutions and proximity hosting and market data provider VDIware, has launched an on-demand service that provides historical market data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange …
HKEx Data Goes Live on NYSE SuperFeed
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is making consolidated market data from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's new Orion Market Data platform-which utilizes underlying technology from NYSE Technologies-via NYSE Technologies'…
'Human Error' Blamed for Nasdaq Index Outage
Human error forced Nasdaq OMX to halt trading for a number of derivatives contracts linked to its Nasdaq 100 Index (NDX) earlier today, Tuesday Oct. 29, after the exchange's Global Index Data Service (GIDS 2.0) failed to disseminate values for about 45…
State Street's Saul: FIBO is Adding Transparency, Reducing Risk
State Street's David Saul has put himself right in the middle of efforts to promote the FIBO ontology as a means to reduce risk through better data management. He speaks with Michael Shashoua about FIBO's progress and the virtues of "smart data"
BNY Mellon Unveils Fund Liquidity Aggregator
BNY Mellon has launched a new risk and collateral management solution called Liquidity Aggregator, which will be incorporated into the firm's Collateral Universe suite of products.
GFI Adds Next-Gen Exotic Pricing Models to Fenics
London-based interdealer broker GFI has launched a new version of its Fenics FX options pricing and risk tool with enhanced mathematical models, including a Local Stochastic Volatility (LSV) pricing model to enable users to price complex exotic options,…
Power to the Business
Front-office staff usually avoid getting involved in data strategy, but new efforts are being made to engage them by giving them greater control over the data they need
S&P CapIQ Adds Credit Risk Indicators to XpressFeed
S&P Capital IQ is planning to make its entire universe of pre-scored point-in-time, short- to mid-term and long-term credit risk indicators for financial institutions and non-financial corporates available via its XpressFeed data platform.
KUDOS* to the Humble Spreadsheet (*KUDOS = Known and Unknown Dependency of Spreadsheets)
Firms don’t often think of spreadsheets as big contributors to their data budget. But they’d be mistaken. And not only can these be drains on data resources; they can also present tricky problems when updating them to ensure they are properly consuming…
Deutsche Exec on Empowering Business Users, Demonstrating Value of EDM
Vaibhav Bhanot, director, enterprise architecture and strategy, at Deutsche Bank, says the bank plans to introduce a self-service model for data usage that will give business users greater control over the information they need
UBS Exec on the Benefits of Self-Service Data Usage
Sandeep Mehta, managing director, head of enterprise services, at UBS, explains how the bank is empowering its business staff by eliminating intermediaries between them and IT staff
Moscow Exchange Outlines Data IT Roadmap
The Moscow Exchange is changing the way it distributes market data as part of an ongoing technology consolidation that began in 2011, following the government-ordered merger of the RTS and Micex exchanges into a single national venue.
Ballintrae's CEO Pearson Talks Data Admin Standardization at WFIC
Ian Pearson, CEO at UK-based technology and market data consultancy Ballintrae, which operates the Ballintrae Exchange Rules and Regulations Database (BERRD) for managing market data policies, speaks to IMD about the lack of progress in achieving…
Moody's Brings in S&P's Burleigh
Damian Burleigh recently left his role as managing director of S&P Capital IQ for EMEA in London to join Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of rival ratings agency Moody's as senior director of sales and client services.
Data Governance Challenges on the Buy Side
Steve Cheng, Rimes Technologies, talks to Waters at the Rimes Data Governance Conference in London, about data governance on the buy side.
TR Bows Canadian MBS Pricing
Thomson Reuters has launched an evaluated pricing service for Canadian mortgage-backed securities as part of its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service that prices 2.5 million global fixed income securities, derivatives and loans daily, to help clients assess…
HKEx Taps NYSE Tech XDP for Data Distribution
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has selected the XDP market data engine from NYSE Technologies, the technology arm of NYSE Euronext, to power its Orion Market Data (OMD) platform.
Constrained by Capital Requirements, Wealth Management IT Struggles to Comply
Wealth managers and private banks, the heirs of aging technologies and manual processes, need to change. Prodded by regulators to deploy more efficient and flexible operating infrastructures, most of them have been left with big gaps to fill and…
SecLending Data Vendor DataLend Grows Coverage
DataLend, the New York-based market data vendor arm of securities finance trading and post-trade platform provider EquiLend, has expanded the number of firms contributing data to its service, bringing the total inventory value covered by its data to $10…
SuperDerivatives Debuts DGX Direct Feed
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is launching a new real-time data feed dubbed DGX Direct, in response to demand from customers for the ability to stream the range of cash and derivatives market data…
Deutsche Börse Opens Data-Trading Simulation Cloud
Deutsche Börse's Market Data and Services division has unveiled a cloud-based market simulation environment for trading firms to develop and test applications designed to work with its Eurex derivatives market's T7 trading architecture-which is designed…
Xenomorph Builds Connector to Add S&P CapIQ Data to TimeScape
Data management technology provider Xenomorph has built a connector between its TimeScape database and analytics platform and S&P Capital IQ’s Enterprise Data Solutions services, to provide mutual clients with out-of-the-box access to the vendor’s…