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Industry Optimistic for Innovation in 2014
At the start of the New Year, it’s customary to say goodbye to the past year and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the next. In keeping with this theme, Inside Market Data asks vendors what they expect to drive or hinder innovation in the…
Utility Models: SmartStream Discusses Reconciliations
Dr. Darryl Twiggs, head of product at SmartStream Technologies, discusses the changing role of reconciliations as a process, and how new technologies are affecting its evolution within the back-office environment. Interview by James Rundle
OptionsCity CTO: Harnessing Big Data for Value-Add Analytics is Key in 2014
Victor Glava, chief technology officer of options trading platform provider OptionsCity, discusses the commoditization of traditional datasets and delivery mechanisms, and describes where firms will need to add value in 2014.
IDC's Doe: Internalization, Collaboration, Electronification to Drive Innovation in 2014
With new regulations and more liquidity pools requiring increased data processing and storage, Emmanuel Doe, president of Interactive Data's Trading Solutions group, outlines how the industry can turn challenges into opportunities to leverage new…
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Empirasign: In 2014, Turn Data ‘Cost Centers' into ‘Opportunity Centers'
With budgets still under pressure, Empirasign Strategies founder and president Adam Murphy explains how innovation in 2014 will require the data industry to apply the same changes in attitude that brought about the BYOD movement to "bring your own market…
EidoSearch Predicts Predictive Shift in 2014
With Big Data and predictive analysis becoming more widely adopted and better understood, David Allen, vice president of sales and marketing at predictive analytics provider EidoSearch, explains why 2014 will be the year that traders "figure out how to…
Rimes' Cheng: ‘Clear and Present Danger' of Regulation Will Cause ‘Tipping Point' for Managed Data Services
Steve Cheng, global head of data management solutions at economic and benchmark data and managed service provider Rimes Technologies, warns of the need for firms to investigate and leverage new technologies to address regulatory change.
Thomson Reuters' Brittan: Analytics Will Be Key to Unlocking Value in 2014
Philip Brittan, chief technology officer and global head of platform for Thomson Reuters' Financial & Risk division, discusses the importance of analytics in delivering competitive edge from commoditized content.
Edgar Online President: Industry Must Face Fear of Change to Exploit Apps, Mobile in 2014
David Frankel, president of Edgar Online, explains why he believes analytics─increasingly delivered through apps and mobile devices─will be the source of innovation for the financial technology and data industries next year.
Euroclear's Groot on Data Utilities
Martijn Groot of post-trade services vendor Euroclear explains how data utilities can help financial firms reduce costs and improve data quality
Talking State Street's Global Exchange with Ivan Matviak
Ivan Matviak, senior vice president at State Street, talks with Waters' Tim Bourgaize Murray at the annual Waters USA conference in New York City.
UBS CTO Correy Voo on Data Sovereignty
Waters' Tim Bourgaize Murray catches up with Correy Voo, CTO for platform services and applied innovation at UBS, at the annual Waters USA conference in New York City.
IRD's Senior Reporter On LEI's Role in EMIR
Nicholas Hamilton discusses how the legal entity identifier can be used to easy the challenges of aggregating large amounts of data when the trade reporting requirements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation comes into force on February 12
McObject Taps Hillier-Brook to Build UK, European Presence
Issaquah, Wash.-based in-memory database provider McObject has appointed Ian Hillier-Brook as new representative in the UK and Europe, responsible for introducing McObject's eXtreme DB high-performance, in-memory database to financial services firms in…
Getting to Grips with the Details of LEI Standardization
As more pre-local operating units begin to issue pre-legal entity identifiers, the P-LEI.org website is performing an important role by providing consolidated files of pre-LEI data. Standards expert Ken Traub tells Nicholas Hamilton how P-LEI.org came…
GS1 Consultant on Pre-LEI Consolidated File Project
Ken Traub of GS1 explains how the not-for-profit standards body and a consortium of three other organizations are helping the industry by making consolidated files of pre-legal entity identifier data and statistics on the data available on the P-LEI.org…
60 Seconds with Tej Sidhu, Calypso
Tej Sidhu, CTO and senior vice president of engineering, Calypso.
FISD's David Anderson on Progress of FIA Data Certification Program
David Anderson of industry association FISD and Atradia Consulting outlines the progress of FISD's Financial Information Associate certification program at the recent Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference.
FISD's Tom Davin Discusses Key Takeaways from APFIC 2013
Tom Davin, managing director of industry association FISD talks about new exchanges and new initiatives from FISD in the Asia-Pacific Region, following the Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Jim Trotter, BI-SAM
Jim Trotter, managing director, performance and reporting at BI-SAM, talks to Waters at the 2013 Buy-Side Technology Awards in London.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Padmesh Thuraisingham, Markit
Padmesh Thuraisingham, managing director and global head of portfolio valuations at Markit, talks to Waters at the 2013 Buy-Side Technology Awards in London.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Alan Hamilton, Equipos
Alan Hamilton, CEO at Equipos, talks to Waters at the 2013 Buy-Side Technology Awards in London.
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: John Legrand, Eagle Investment Systems
John Legrand, managing director, head of EMEA and APAC at Eagle Investment Systems, talks to Waters at the 2013 Buy-Side Technology Awards in London.