Apache Hadoop
Waters Wrap: Snowflake Makes its Move (And Ref Data Headaches & Data-Sourcing-as-a-Service)
Anthony explores how Snowflake is trying to win over business in the cap markets, talks about the reference data space, and examines a new breed of data vendors.
Reinventing RBC: Royal Bank of Canada's Bruce Ross
Bruce Ross was tasked with leading the Royal Bank of Canada’s transformation of its technology department when he was named head of technology and operations at the Toronto-based bank in January 2014.
National Bank of Canada Taps TickSmith
The bank is using TickSmith's TickVault program to cope with volumes of quote and trade data that were exceeding the limits of traditional technologies.
Open to Open Source
The benefits of using open-source software are too great to ignore for financial firms.
An Open-Source Audit: Where Financial Firms Are Turning to Open Source
Financial firms discuss areas where they are either using open source or hoping to in the near future.
An Open-Source Audit: Where Financial Firms Are Turning to Open Source
Financial firms discuss areas where they are either using open source or hoping to in the near future.
Data Lakes: Uncharted Waters
Anthony Malakian examines why data lakes are growing in popularity, and the risks that they pose.
TickSmith Now Certified on Cloudera Enterprise Platform
The vendors began working together on a trading solution for an unnamed bank client.
Tag Team: McNamara and Zerbs Work Towards Common Tech Goals at Scotiabank
The two new heads of Scotiabank talk about the Toronto-based bank's latest projects and how they effectively work together.
TickSmith Builds Historical Order Book Viewer for Compliance, Testing
Users will be able to see historical prices in a virtual order book, and other factors impacting their trading performance.
Novetta Launches Entity Analytics
Service Has KYC, Risk Management Applications
Lakes, Fabrics and Conquering Big Data
Teradata Labs president Scott Gnau advocates the all-encompassing ‘data lake’ and ‘data fabric’ methods to organize and link pieces of big data
Watching For Big Data Adoption in 2015
BNP Paribas CDO Sees Big Data, Ownership and BCBS 239 as Keys in 2015
Volante Adds Hadoop Support for Big Data Management
Integration of Hadoop into the Volante Designer data integration product will help users avoid manual development work when creating Hadoop-based applications
Work in Progress
Big data has become a familiar topic in the financial information industry, but what success have firms had in implementing technology to derive value from the increasing volumes of structured and unstructured data being generated, asks Nicholas Hamilton
Are You Ready for 'Bigger' Data?
Banks’ legacy systems are struggling to cope with the ever-increasing volumes and speed of data. Steve Dew-Jones highlights some of the major considerations for the financial services industry if it is to catch up with other sectors.
Slicing Through Big Data Buzz
Editor's View
The Big Data Picture
The concept of big data has become daunting, as the conversation around it increases in volume – just like the increased trading volume that drives firms to consider how to operate with it, manage it and process it. Michael Shashoua examines the methods…