Use Case | Alternative Data TickSmith’s GOLD Platform standardizesalternative data for ingestion and distribution at scale The Need for Alternative Data Alternative data in the financial industry refers to non-financial data that impacts financial markets. This data is essential, as it gives insight into the potential price movements and behavior of financial instruments. Some …
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Coping with Big Data: CSTA 2018 Recap This past August, at the 2018 annual Canadian Traders Securities Association, TickSmith was invited to speak with industry titans on the importance of using big data technologies as financial firms accumulate more and more data. The panel was moderated by Patrick Mcentyre, Managing Director, Electronic Trading & Services at National Bank Financial. The panelists include: …
TickSmith’s Data Lake platform, GOLD, provides the missing link to centralize data from external and internal data sources. Based on big data technology and built as a modular and scalable framework, the GOLD Platform can be installed on premise and on cloud. The open nature of our platform makes it easier than ever for clients …
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We did it again- we hosted the second edition of our breakfast event to discuss the topics of: open technology, data lakes, and cloud storage security. There has been a lot of buzz around what exactly a data lake entails, especially in comparison to data warehouses. We wanted to clear the air and define what …
We hosted our first breakfast event on Wednesday, February 21st in Montreal with the contribution from Finance Montreal and AWS Amazon. The event’s purpose was to shine light on an issue that many financial institutions face which is: coping with large and diverse sets of data. The room was filled with eager-eyed professionals from banks such as …
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We’ve all heard it. It’s the age old ‘build vs. buy’ software debate. You (assuming you are a financial institution or a market maker) have a great challenge of deciding whether you should save money with a ready-to-go solution or invest in a costly and time-consuming yet customizable option. You find off-the-shelf software solutions ideal …
TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications for the Capital Markets and financial services, today announced the launch of a new TickVault module. “Marketplace Advanced Insights” is designed to help market participants better understand how they are performing, how their peers are behaving, and how they can adjust their strategies.
Montreal, May 18, 2017 – TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications, released an open-source Python API feature to obtain data from its flagship TickVault* Big Data platform. Based on Hadoop technology, TickVault* processes, stores, and analyzes massive amounts of capital market data. The addition of the Python API to TickVault* provides data scientists …
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By Bogdan Istrate Big Data: everyone talks about it, but few know how to leverage it for a competitive advantage. At TickSmith, we live and breathe Big Data, and we know that easy access to the wealth of data created every day is every bit as important as the processing done on it. That’s why …
Montreal, December 20, 2016 – TickSmith’s TickVault* Platform is now compatible with Thomson Reuters Tick History, providing the buy side community an in-house solution to manage this data in its entirety through one single interface. To demonstrate the platform compatibility, TickSmith has launched a demonstration portal at https://trdata.tickvault.com. This demonstration site allows users to demo the …