Modelling & Visualization
Post-Financial Crisis, Firms Must Address the Fallibility of Models
Following the release of a whitepaper, “Top 10 Best Practices for Managing Model Risk,” Fincad CEO Bob Park says one of the great lessons of the financial crisis is the importance of model validation and stress-testing.
Quartet FS Launches Real-Time Alert System
ActivePivot Sentinel provides intelligent monitoring and alerts with video capability.
Cray Launches New Big Data Appliance
YarcData division announces enterprise release.
Financial Tech Talk: Decreasing Latency Through Better UX Design
Is it possible to reduce the "human latency" around trading systems as much as 95 percent while increasing the information density presented to a trade 10-fold without causing information overload?
Focus on Data Models Soars in Ref Data Industry
Firms are increasingly focusing on ensuring consistency in data models and definitions used across the organization
Video: Teradata's Dilip Krishna on Data Models
Teradata has seen a growing number of firms interested in data management programs aimed at ensuring consistency in the use of terms and values. Tine Thoresen speaks to Dilip Krishna, partner, financial services, North East, Teradata, about the data…
The Struggle to Implement Dodd-Frank Act Changes
Surveys of financial services industry CEOs and operations executives find that a majority recognize that the US Dodd-Frank Act and the SEC’s implementation thereof will force them to change their business models. Yet the same researchers indicate that…
YCharts Embeds Charts in StockTwits
Chicago-based fundamental data analysis provider YCharts last week began providing users of StockTwits.com-an aggregator of stock-related "tweets" from traders and investors-with access to its fundamental metrics and charts.
Connors Group Powers Up 'The Machine'
Financial information and commentary portal provider Connors Group has rolled out its Web-based analytics platform, The Machine, including a new tool aimed at investment advisers for building quantified portfolios.
Panopticon Taps Progress, Sybase for Data Connectivity
Stockholm-based data visualization software vendor Panopticon has partnered with Sybase and Progress Software to broaden the range of real-time and historical data that it can display, and has developed an updated software development kit (SDK) that…
Quantum Leap
BNP Paribas drastically accelerated calculation times while slashing electricity consumption with the help of a new GPU-based architecture.
Quantum Leap
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New ClariFI release targets 'quantimental' managers
New York based ClariFI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard & Poor's and part of S&P's Capital IQ business, has unveiled the latest version of its flagship offering, ModelStation v4.0. The most significant enhancement in 4.0 is the inclusion of Event…
EPFR Tests Emerging Markets Currency Flows
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global is testing a new dataset that shows money flows into and out of different emerging market and global currencies, officials tell Inside Market Data .
SIFMA 2008: Vendors Broaden Services, Appeal
This year's SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibition saw data vendors and technology providers concentrate on expanding the breadth of their services to appeal to new, different user bases.
SmartBlocks Build Trading Strategies
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