Data Management
National Bank Financial Deploys NovaSparks FPGAs
Canadian investment bank National Bank Financial, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, has rolled out French data technology provider NovaSparks' FPGA Matrix feed handler framework─which delivers deterministic "wire-to-memory" and order book…
Redline Preps Asian Feeds, HK Presence
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions is adding support for datafeeds from Asian exchanges, and has established an office in Hong Kong to provide technical support to clients in the region.
Congrats to the BST Award Winners, as Data/Risk Rule the Day
At an event today in London, the winners of this year's Buy-Side Technology Awards were announced. Anthony discusses what made those entrants special and also notes that data and risk management played a major a role.
Ungovernable Data?
During a roundtable discussion hosted by Rimes Technologies, senior representatives from asset management firms discussed the data governance challenges facing them. From controlling data and managing regulatory change to securing board-level support,…
BATS Enlists Interactive Data for Low-Cost Data Terminals
US exchange operator BATS Global Markets has launched two new desktop data and analytics workstations, developed in conjunction with Interactive Data and based on the vendor's own terminal products, utilizing BATS' free-of-charge equities data.
Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange Startup Readies Data, Research Ahead of Launch
The Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange (APX), a new Sydney, Australia-based exchange that will list equities in Chinese and Australian companies, will begin rolling out a suite of data services with an emphasis on news and fundamental research, when it launches…
Nanospeed Readies FPGAs for Asia, Europe
London-based startup hardware provider Nanospeed, which this week launched its Nano-TG ultra-low-latency trading gateway for US equities and options markets, is now developing support for a number of additional Asian and European markets in response to…
ISE Blames OPRA for NBBO Data Exclusion
A technical issue at the Options Price Reporting Authority resulted in the International Securities Exchange's main market and secondary options exchange Gemini not being included in the OPRA national best bid and offer (NBBO) feed for part of the…
ISE Shuffles Data Execs, Soule Exits
The International Securities Exchange has reorganized the team of executives responsible for the exchange's market data, resulting in an expanded role for business development officer Jeanine Hightower and the departure of former head of market data Jeff…
Buy-Side Data Governance Requires a Cultural Change
At a recent Rimes Technologies roundtable, hosted by Waters, senior representatives from the buy side debated the issue of data governance within asset management firms. The problem with implementing effective governance, they said, may be cultural…
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…