Data Management
Vanguard's Benchmark Shift Influencing Others
Vanguard Group's switch away from MSCI benchmarks due to their cost could change how other benchmark and index data users think about where they go for the data, according to a consultancy serving 200 member firms
James Brearley Selects SIX for Data
UK firm taps SIX FinancialInfo to provide pricing and reference data
Data Volume, Velocity Necessitates In-Motion Analytics
David Wallace, global financial services marketing manager at Cary, NC-headquartered analytics provider SAS, says firms need in-motion analytics if they are to cope with the sheer volume and velocity of data today.
Building Blocks The Evolving State of Datacenters
While datacenters are an accepted part of the technology landscape, they’re remarkably inflexible and expensive by nature. But new technologies such as modular datacenters and financial extranets are beginning to uproot the traditional buy-and-build…
Maximized Analysis
The ability to grasp big data and gain competitive advantage based on how a firm manages and leverages that data will differentiate financial institutions, says Barbara Ridpath, of the International Centre for Financial Regulation
Open Platform: To Tame the ‘Zoo’ of Market Data, First Tame the Metadata Monster
With rising volumes of market data, the cost of onboarding client transaction data can be a barrier to firms looking to expand client business. However, a strategy that crosses the boundaries of market and reference data to create an extensive and…
Dion Integrates Market Data Center With Dfferentia
Market Data Center will act as a data validation engine for Dion's Dfferentia derivatives trading platform
MahiFX Adds Price Alerts, Historic Charting
The online platform now features customizable price alerts and a historical charting package to provide traders with greater insight.
FactSet Integrates MSCI ESG Research, Ratings
Partnership will bring MSCI's environmental, social and governance ratings and analysis to FactSet clients
GoldenSource Partners With Neoflex To Crack Former Soviet Countries
The vendor of EDM software believes its partnership with a Russian firm will help develop business in the region, where it says it has secured a contract with "a large financial institution" and has "an active pipeline of additional interest"
Link Up Markets Chooses Swift For T2S
The joint venture of European and African CSDs will use the Value Added Network service to connect to Target2-Securities infrastructure
Capco: European Firms Yet To Embrace Unstructured Data
Survey of European financial firms identifies a lack of uptake of content such as social media by trading operations
Euroclear Taps SmartStream To Run Data Utility
Euroclear and SmartStream have launched Central Data Utility (CDU), using SmartStream systems to reduce broken trades caused by fragmented or bad data
