Data Management
Market Crisis Pushes IT Agility
LONDON-The economic downturn is forcing firms to reassess their IT strategies in order to keep ahead of the competition in the coming year, according to industry participants.
BlueCrest Builds on CEP Data Platform
London-based hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management is expanding the range of data sources and analytics that it makes available to its traders over a market data platform created using technologies from complex event processing software vendor…
'08 Data Spend Flat, Driven by Asia, EMEA
Firms worldwide will spend $23 billion on financial data in 2008-the same as in 2007-with a drop in outlay in the Americas but an increase in EMEA and Asia, according to research released by Burton-Taylor International Consulting.
Building a Better Brazilian Exchange
Nearly nine months into the integration, officials from Brazilian exchanges Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) and Bovespa are focusing on eliminating redundancies while maintaining technology upgrades. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets…
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Automating the election process presents the biggest opportunity for firms to reduce corporate actions-related losses, says Alan Parsons, securities product manager, CheckFree
Thor Hammers Out Quant House Data Deal
New York-based high-frequency-trading hedge fund Thor Asset Management USA is expanding the number of real-time exchange datafeeds it sources via low-latency data vendor Quant House, officials tell Inside Market Data.
IT Spending to Drop in 2009
LONDON-Sell-side IT organizations should plan to do more with less as industry experts predict a double-digit decline in IT spending for next year.
SunGard, Algo, RiskMetrics top Chartis risk rankings
In its annual ranking of risk technology vendors, Chartis Research has rated SunGard as the top provider for the third successive year, closely followed by Oracle, Algorithmics and RiskMetrics.
StatPro joins the pricing/valuations fray
London-based StatPro Group has entered the buy-side pricing and valuations space by unveiling its Complex Asset Pricing (CAP) service, a system for pricing complex financial assets. Through this move, StatPro has joined a select handful of service…