About Xenomorph
Xenomorph provides trusted data management solutions to many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
With more than two decades’ experience managing large volumes of complex data and analytics we can quickly configure a solution for your requirements.
Managing Market Data in the Cloud
/in Blog Post /by Matt PickLess Fluff. More Concrete Use Cases.
Anyone attending last week’s FISD Technology Forum in London will have been treated to a very enjoyable afternoon. Not only was the event well attended, offering a great networking opportunity (special thanks to the team at FISD and host sponsors JP Morgan); but the content being debated was also first class (particular kudos to David Anderson).…
New SEC Fund Leverage Rules – What you need to know
/in Blog Post /by Matt PickThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has re-proposed a set of rules to limit leverage and use of derivatives by US funds. Dubbed 18f-4, the new SEC fund leverage rules, if adopted, will likely pose significant data management challenges for the investment management community.…
Model Risk Management: Driving Data Quality and Auditable Processes
/in Blog Post /by Jean-Paul CarbonnierFinancial models are pervasive across the industry. But controls over how they are used are not that well evolved. As a consequence I thought I would look at the benefits of applying enterprise data management techniques to control model-derived data and address model risk management challenges.…
Examining the Rules of Valuation for Investment Managers
/in Blog Post /by Jean-Paul CarbonnierAt Xenomorph we are always looking to stay one step ahead of our clients’ requirements for data management solutions. To do that we aim to maintain a close understanding not only of their core business operations (across front, middle and back-office functions) but also their regulatory obligations.…
EDM in the Cloud: Understanding the Business Case
/in Blog Post /by Jean-Paul CarbonnierThe economic case for cloud services is more complex than first meets the eye. Comparing any in-house supported technology to one delivered as a cloud service is inherently fraught with subjectivity; depending on your point-of-view and assumptions one could argue the business case for either side.…
No Data Point is an Island
/in Blog Post /by Matt PickModelling Data Dependencies
Across the capital markets universe there are a myriad of complex interdependencies always in play. Whether it’s the relationship between an index and its constituents, an option and its underlying or an ETF and its benchmark – there are very few data points that are not intrinsically linked to at least one other (if not many more).…
Mizuho Americas Deploys Xenomorph EDM+ on Microsoft Azure
/in Press Release /by Matt PickNEW YORK, LONDON AND SINGAPORE: Xenomorph today announced that the securities division of Mizuho Americas, the US-based subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, has upgraded to the latest generation of TimeScape EDM+, Xenomorph’s enterprise data management platform running on Microsoft Azure.
Mizuho Americas has been a longstanding user of Xenomorph’s TimeScape platform to normalize, enrich, validate and cleanse all critical data supporting the firm’s trading and risk operations.…
Market Data, Reference Data and Blockchain
/in Blog Post /by Jean-Paul CarbonnierThis blog was written by Xenomorph consultant JP Carbonnier
Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), has the potential to disrupt a wide range of business models across the financial services industry. However, the potential application of blockchain to the worlds of market data and reference data has not received that much attention.…
Xenomorph Adds QuantLib Pricing Models to EDM+
/in Press Release /by Jean-Paul CarbonnierLondon, New York, Cape Town– 9th of November, 2018 – Xenomorph has integrated the QuantLib open source library of pricing models into its EDM+ enterprise data management platform. The new development means EDM+ users can call QuantLib pricing engines from any of the user interfaces integrated with EDM+, including Microsoft Excel, programming APIs like Python, .NET,…
Xenomorph Launches Version 5.0 of TimeScape EDM+
/in Press Release /by Jean-Paul CarbonnierLatest release offers faster and more scalable architecture, new functionality, improved GUI and data integration / distribution options.
NEW YORK AND LONDON – Xenomorph, a provider of data management technology to banks, asset managers and insurance companies, has launched Version 5.0 of its flagship enterprise data management platform TimeScape EDM+.…