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Open Platform: The Very Long Engagement of Market Data and Big Data
The industry is finally recognizing the big use cases for Big Data
OpenMAMA Sets Out Six-Point Development Plan
The development efforts aim to boost uptake of the open-source OpenMAMA messaging layer.
BlackRock's Godrich: OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Centers Increasingly on the Rise
The money manager's chief technologist sang the praises of open-source technologies at BST North America.
SR Labs Readies New Hosted Data Solution, Touts OpenMAMA
The new solution will address compliance and data management, leveraging OpenMAMA messaging to aid migrations.
Tick42 Builds TREP-OpenMAMA Bridge
Bridge will support data capture and publishing between platforms, as well as user migrations.
Symphony Composes Open-Source Foundation
The bank-backed messaging vendor aims to use open-source to better its code and gain the trust of its users.
Open Platform: Two’s Not a Crowd: Market Data’s Dirty Secret
Will Bloomberg's recent outage make financial firms more willing to consider alternative offerings?
Open Platform: The ‘Hidden Tax’ of Index Data
As index use has grown, so have the ways in which entrenched index providers are extracting revenues from licensing their indexes and underlying data. But with cost still a key concern, with the popularity of exchange-traded funds growing, and with…
Open Platform: Weathering the Perfect Storm of Cost, Complexity and Regulation
As the importance of data rises, so does the attention paid by regulators to how it is managed, increasing the data management burden on buy-side firms and prompting them to consider new models, such as managed services, says Steve Cheng, global head of…
Open Platform: Big Data, Little Urgency
Bombarded by hype about Big Data, financial firms feel pressured to adopt Big Data solutions. But, depending on their needs, firms should think twice before throwing out existing data warehouses, says Jonas Olsson, founder and chief executive of Swedish…
Object Trading Adds OpenMAMA Interface to FrontRunner
Trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading is adding support for NYSE Technologies' OpenMAMA messaging layer framework-the open-source version of its Middleware Agnostic Messaging API-to its Frontrunner direct market access suite, to…
KUDOS* to the Humble Spreadsheet (*KUDOS = Known and Unknown Dependency of Spreadsheets)
Firms don’t often think of spreadsheets as big contributors to their data budget. But they’d be mistaken. And not only can these be drains on data resources; they can also present tricky problems when updating them to ensure they are properly consuming…
Derivatives Reform: Preparing for an Uncertain Data Landscape
A shift to derivatives, coupled with the creation of swap execution facilities and the potential “futurization” of swaps onto exchanges will make location key for derivatives markets and brokers seeking to bolster the value of their data, says Patrick…
Striking a Balance on Operational Risk
The culture within the financial services industry has, unsurprisingly, become much more risk aware since the 2008 crisis. Under such conditions, how can fund administrators balance managing operational risk against achieving efficiencies, while at the…
Open Platform: Intelligent Approaches for a Changing Sell-Side Landscape
The growth in market complexity, combined with decreasing trading volumes and an unrelenting churn in global regulation, has had a fundamental effect on traditional sell-side business models. Downward pressures on revenues are accompanied by the soaring…
Open Platform: Don’t Just Track the Cost of Market Data, Track the TCO of Market Data
Asset managers need a structured method for measuring the full cost of market data ownership, which is often unknown, or is poorly or inaccurately calculated. With data budgets still under pressure, it’s time to ditch the spreadsheets and find the hidden…
Open Platform: Products Don’t Sell Themselves
Great developers build great products, but aren’t necessarily good business people. Those who recognize this—and are willing to hand over responsibilities to others with the right skills for each function—stand a better chance of their product achieving…
Open Platform: New Windows on Financial Technology
Ease-of-use platforms such as Windows 8 offer new ways in which we will interact with work away from the desk, argues Paul Higdon.
Open Platform: The Front Office in the Cloud
The need to cut costs without compromising client service and business performance is putting tremendous pressure on businesses, spurring them to evaluate their internal processes and consider moving some of these to a managed services model. The past…
Time to Ditch the Spreadsheets
The IT function, which spends somewhere between 2 and 5 percent of a company’s revenues—as much as $5 billion in some large financial services companies—still produces managerial accounting, budgeting, planning, and performance reporting on spreadsheets…
Open Platform: The Data-Centric Approach
As institutions seek to generate alpha in a low-interest rate environment, there has been an explosion in the types of investments firms are engaging in, including derivatives and alternatives. As a result, many front-office solutions providers have…
Open Platform: Assembling the Big Data Puzzle
Harnessing the potential of Big Data will require financial firms to invest in a combination of solutions that include unstructured data analytics, visualization tools, cloud compute and storage, along with a full understanding of the challenges that…