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Is KYP the New KYC?
The ever-increasing focus on risk and compliance has resulted in a growing need to combine KYP and KYC processes, linking client and instrument data. Tine Thoresen reports
Valuations remain top priority for the buy side
Financial research firm Standard & Poor's (S&P) has unveiled a new service to help investors accurately value structured assets and complex securities.
Thomson Reuters expands news analytics
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a machine-readable news offering allowing clients to incorporate news into their trading and risk management strategies. The product, NewsScope Event Indices (NEI), is targeted at hedge funds and investment banks pursuing…
New battle lines
If there's one thing I've learned about stock exchanges, it's that they love numbers. Usually record-breaking numbers. No matter how negative or doom-laden a set of financial results may be, exchanges nearly always manage to spin them so that somewhere,…
There will be risk
Energy and commodities markets provided no safe haven for buy-side firms last year. Abysmal performances combined with higher margins and mounting investor redemptions could be chalked up to the fact that 2008 punished the financial industry…
Month in Numbers
"That's happened pre- and post-Amaranth, and it's been big hedge fund shops posting losses as well as small ones. Have they learned from Amaranth? Of course not"
GFI Launches Eastern European Data
Interdealer broker GFI will this month launch a new data product that will provide foreign exchange rates and money market data from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, officials say.
PhaseCap Rolls Out StreamBase CEP
Boston-based PhaseCapital, a new quantitative investment firm that will launch next month, has rolled out technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems for managing market and trade data within the firm's proprietary…
Acquire Grows Web Data Tools
Roseland, NJ-based news aggregator Acquire Media is expanding the custom service it provides for incorporating information culled from Web sites and blogs based on lists of preferred Web-based information sources provided by clients.
Dow Jones Adds Ratings to Algo News
Dow Jones is enhancing its Elementized News Feed to incorporate ratings changes from Standard & Poor's in a standardized data format that allows the information to be easily integrated into algorithmic and black-box trading strategies, officials tell…
Panel: Budgets Steer '09 Strategies
Cost issues will be the primary drivers in 2009 for firms to seek greater value from data vendors and decide potential changes to their market data infrastructures, including switching data providers or tapping new technologies, panelists said at a…
Start with the Gateway
The benefit of offering cross-asset trading is obvious to any broker-dealer: It simplifies the trading life of institutional clients by giving them a single point of contact with their brokers. However, delivering this capability, especially…
Trading Technologies Releases X_Trader 7.6
LONDON—Derivatives trading system provider Trading Technologies International (TT) plans to release version 7.6 of its trading platform X_Trader this week.
BofA Bows Sybase RAP for Risk Data
Bank of America Securities has begun a project to consolidate data from across different business lines to produce more accurate, real-time risk and pricing metrics, using Sybase's RAP (Risk Analytics Platform) Trading Edition.
NYSE Preps Non-CTA Trade Data Feeds
The New York Stock Exchange will this week begin a pilot test phase of two new feeds of trade data from its main NYSE and NYSE Arca markets, separate from the Consolidated Tape Association feed, to meet the latency needs of high-frequency trading firms,…