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Nasdaq, a leading provider of real-time market data and analytics to large institutions, financial professionals, and retail investors, has added four new data sets to the Nasdaq Analytics Hub.
The Hub debuted in May 2017 to address the growing needs of the buy-side to gain access to potential new trading and investment signals derived from the growing number of structured and unstructured data sets. The addition of these four new data sets provides insights from corporate filings, combinations of fundamental and technical factors, and two different approaches for long and short investing.
“Nasdaq is continuing to bring innovation and change to the
The most vital asset a business controls is its information. As the driver of many business processes, data is a powerful tool, and therefore has to be secure, accurate and accounted for. When this sensitive information gets into the wrong hands, it can cause serious damage to a firm’s business operations and reputation.
Types of dirty data
Forgotten data poses a critical security risk to financial firms. This type of data includes old reports, archived emails, outdated customer information and information that is stored on devices you may not realise (eg flash drives, scanners, printers, and video conference equipment). Verizon’s 2008
By George Ralph, RFA – Imagine you’re the CTO of a successful hedge fund. You’re not big enough to have a dedicated CISO but you think you’re doing a pretty good job of securing your network. Your applications and databases are secure, you’ve just invested in a network intrusion detection system and some next generation firewalls.
Next, you move on to your internet traffic and cloud services. You make sure your firm’s SSL certificates are up to date, and you use HTTPS and OAuth2.0. Then you insist all remote users access the network via secure VPN, that files are
Running an alternative fund management business has become a far more considered, strategic affair in the light of significant regulatory changes post-08. One might compare it to the ultimate game of strategy, chess. To stay in compliance with AIFMD, Dodd-Frank, and the upcoming MiFID II and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in Europe, fund managers have to think two moves ahead, and ensure that they have their pawns in position. One wrong move and they run the risk of facing what might be best described as regulatory checkmate.
“I think the implementation of AIFMD has had the biggest impact on
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today published the results of its Fixed Income Institutional Voice Survey, with US and European institutional traders revealing that “sourcing liquidity” is the most important factor when selecting a trading venue.
Driven by regulatory and market structure changes, the fixed income trading landscape has recently shifted as the buy side aims to find an optimal path to unlock and source liquidity when trading bonds. As a result, discussions around trading have moved toward an increase in electronic trading and having the right technology in place in order to navigate the rapidly changing fixed income
Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust PLC, a newly incorporated close-ended public limited company, has begun trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust PLC raised gross proceeds of USD100,111,000.
Robert Barnes, Global Head of Primary Markets and CEO Turquoise, London Stock Exchange Group, says: “Welcoming the second Gabelli fund to our markets today is a milestone for the company, having successfully raised over $100 million and testament to the strength of the UK fund industry. London Stock Exchange continues to finance a variety of issuers from across the world, with over £4.4
Street Contxt, a fintech company that helps brokerages, independent research providers, and asset managers distribute, manage, unbundle, and value research, has launched its buy side service.
The new functionality allows investors, including hedge funds, pension funds, and institutional asset managers, to never miss information that they care about by centralising and organising the entire firm’s content and knowledge, whether it comes from brokers, independent research providers, internal sources, corporate IR, filings, the web, or anywhere else. Street Contxt enables fund managers to access one portal to share the firm’s subscriptions and internal knowledge, collaborate internally on investment ideas, monitor their
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate event intelligence, has expanded its global dataset to include nearly 1,000 new companies.
The increased offering, which includes data for all 40+ event types Wall Street Horizon tracks, includes the full roster of constituents for all major European and Asian indexes.
Since 2008 Wall Street Horizon has offered a limited international dataset a la carte, but today’s expansion will now see the full Enchilada platform – which tracks dozens of event types including earnings dates, dividend dates, options expiration dates, splits, spinoffs and investor conferences – extended beyond the
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – In these turbulent times, it sometimes feels like we need to be armour plated to protect ourselves against the relentless barrage of attacks against our families, our businesses, our economy and our political stability.
Risk management, and cybersecurity have never felt more important than right now, in light of global events.
Our clients; alternative investment firms, private equity firms, prime brokers and insurance firms have a specific set of risks that they need to manage, and the list continually shifts in order of importance.
Top of the risk list is business continuity. Making sure you
ULLINK, a provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, and Enfusion, provider of cloud-based investment management software solutions, have launched a new solution for users of Enfusion’s Integráta buy-side Order & Execution Management System (OEMS).
The new solution utilises ULLINK’S NYFIX network to automate allocation and post-trade confirmation/affirmation workflows, generating significant efficiency and cost benefits for Enfusion clients. Through an extension of Enfusion’s Integráta platform, users can now leverage NYFIX to send allocation instructions and automatically match broker confirmations in near real-time – seamlessly catching errors and inhibiting costly trade breaks. The new solution also gives
