Data Management
StreamBase's Tibbetts: Capital Markets Firms "Well Placed" to Derive Value from Big Data
Victor Anderson speaks to Richard Tibbetts, CTO of StreamBase, at this year's New York-hosted Waters USA conference.
BofA’s Reilly: Mobility About Risk and Data Control, Not Cost Cutting
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has internally distributed 55,000 BlackBerrys and 5,000 Apple iPads, as well as 20,000 devices that it supports as part of its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. In one year, it handles 2.6 billion instant messages, 1.2…
Gresham Computing Claims Ultra-Low Latency Transaction Control
London-based Gresham Computing claims that its financial transaction control system can complete 500,000 transactions per second.
NYSE Data Policy Gets Cautious Welcome, But Unit of Count Plans Irk Subscribers
Firms praise NYSE Euronext's adoption of per-user netting in new consolidated license agreement, but say the exchange could go further.
Startup iPerform Data Bows Near-Real-Time Bond Pricing
More frequent pricing will create greater transparency for traders and index providers, officials say.
A Foot in the Cloud
Data center services providers advise data managers to consider the value of cloud computing functions rather than just the cost savings they may bring
StatPro Adds Options, OTC Derivatives to Revolution
Analytics platform expands coverage to meet demand from clients building more complex cross-asset portfolios
NYSE, Chi-X Data Vets Lay Out Plans for EU Consolidated Tape
Proposals would set up an independent body to administer data capture and licensing, and commercial policies for European pre- and post-trade tapes.
Equity Trustees Chooses Calastone For Order Routing
The Australian managed fund and financial services firm says the order routing service will help it to reduce the potential for error in back-office transactions
Risk Reduction Isn't Just Semantics
Crossing the “semantic barrier” requires alignment of “tribal knowledge” with the actual meaning and concepts being described. Financial industry consultancy IQ3Group’s Mack Frankfurter considers how this can be accomplished through data standards
Rimes' Steve Cheng on Rationalizing Benchmark Data
Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, speaks to Rimes Technologies' Steve Cheng at a Rimes and BI-SAM co-sponsored industry roundtable held in New York.
OppenheimerFunds' Allu on Centralizing Data Feeds
Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, speaks to OppenheimerFunds' Ramesh Allu at a Rimes and BI-SAM co-sponsored industry roundtable held in New York.
Open Platform: The Data-Centric Approach
As institutions seek to generate alpha in a low-interest rate environment, there has been an explosion in the types of investments firms are engaging in, including derivatives and alternatives. As a result, many front-office solutions providers have…
Michael Shashoua: Play the Game
Taking cues from other industries, data management operations executives are looking to techniques including “gamification” as ways to solve problems in their field. Michael details the ways and means such methods are being applied.