Data Management
Setting Sights on OTC
Greater oversight of over-the-counter derivatives is here to stay. And as many are still struggling with unresolved data challenges, complying with regulatory needs is set to be a complex challenge. Carla Mangado explores how improved data management and…
Setting Sights on OTC
Greater oversight of over-the-counter derivatives is here to stay. And as many are still struggling with unresolved data challenges, complying with regulatory needs is set to be a complex challenge. Carla Mangado explores how improved data management and…
Algo enhances real-time risk offering
Toronto-based financial risk management software provider Algorithmics will launch a new version of its Counterparty Credit Risk product with enhancements in real-time risk management in October this year.
The cap-and-trade tirade
From financial reform to healthcare and war, it seems no issue will escape scrutiny and revision in the US this year. But it is energy policy, and in particular emissions management, that a number of hedge funds and other trading desks are keeping their…
Algo releases new Credit Valuation Adjustment module
Toronto-based Algorithmics, a provider of sell- and buy-side risk management technology and services, has announced the availability of its new Credit Valuation Adjustment module designed to assist banks to use their capital more efficiently through more…
News in Numbers
"The way dark pools are utilised today is really on an institutional level, and the public isn't being harmed. What moves prices in the stock market are institutional plays - Johnny and Grandma buying 200 shares of a stock are not moving the market,…
Calypso Technology unveils version 11
San Francisco-based Calypso Technology, a provider of integrated trading and risk management software, has released Calypso Version 11. According to the vendor, the new offering provides refined repackaging, consolidation and rationalisation of its…
Exchanges Take Data Hit as Layoffs Cause Decline in Terminal Numbers
Despite higher overall revenues for the second quarter, exchanges are making less money from market data sales in 2009, largely as a result of fewer workstations subscribing to their data, according to a raft of recent financial results.
Screen Preps Infomatch Update
Dutch market data software vendor Screen Consultants is preparing to launch a new version of its Infomatch data inventory management software, which will include new reporting features and the ability to automatically reconcile invoice information for…
InfoNgen Aims Tags at Broker Research
Web-based content aggregator InfoNgen is launching a campaign to encourage sell-side research providers to adopt its Intelligent Research Tags, developed for tagging news content with metadata about stories and the companies and subjects mentioned, to…
MSCI Barra Expands Historical Data
Index and risk software provider MSCI Barra has expanded the amount of monthly historical data available via its Gem2 (Global Equity Model) product for more detailed portfolio attribution and back-testing, and is planning to increase the amount and…
Essex Radez Grows NY4 Data Footprint
Essex Radez, a Chicago-based market maker and provider of data and trading technology, has expanded its presence in Equinix's NY4 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ, with the addition of extra rack space for client co-location, connections to the firm's other…
LSE Continues Data Re-org, Cuts Siracusano
The London Stock Exchange continues to flatten reporting lines for its information services division and has reshuffled responsibilities within the group, as part of a management reorganisation initiated by chief executive Xavier Rolet.
CMA Adds Asian Cut of DataVision
Credit Market Analysis, a subsidiary of CME Group, is preparing to launch a third update time to its DataVision daily credit default swap pricing service, to reflect prices at the close of Asian market trading.