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A ZERO-TRUST
DATA & ANALYTICS PLATFORM

 Modern
Data-Driven
Decision Making
Consortium Driven Design and Governance
Reimagining
Secure Analytics
Collaboration

ABOUT CALCGUARD

CalcGuard is a highly scalable platform for sensitive data aggregation and modern analytics production, providing companies a low-cost solution for secure and efficient collaboration. 

 

The unique insights and intelligence that improves investment and trading decisions requires better data quality and tools.

 

CalcGuard’s first deployment is for global equity markets, with other asset classes to follow.  

EXPANDED
UNIFORM DATA

ZERO-TRUST
DATA SHARING

STREAMING
INSIGHTS

DATA & ANALYTICS
COLLABORATION

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PLATFORM OVERVIEW

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01 / CONTENT
Expanded content drives unique insights and streaming intelligence
02 / GOVERNANCE
Best practice corporate, platform and data governance protects everyone's interests
03 / SECURITY
Advanced security and control framework protects data regardless of state or location
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Advanced

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CONTENT
SECURITY
GOVERNANCE
01 / CONTENT 
Usability
  • Increased Granularity​

  • Extendable & Interoperable​

  • Customizable Tools

Usable, streaming insights.

 

CalcGuard delivers full trade data including fills, partials, replaces, cancels, zero-routes, acknowledgements and rejections. The data model is designed for extendibility, ease of integration and collaboration across market stakeholder groups. An intuitive user interface and customizable analytics tools provide efficient access to the depth and breadth of information required in today’s marketplace.

01 / CONTENT
Data Quality
  • Common, FIX-Based Data Model​

  • Streaming, Asynchronous Transformation​

  • Correlation & Lineage

 

CalcGuard transforms data on-the-fly, to a FIX-based common data model, and applies governance rules asynchronously without impacting performance. Events are correlated without timestamp dependencies and data lineage is assured through a unique root ID which is persisted throughout the ecosystem.

02 / GOVERNANCE

02 / GOVERNANCE

​Data Governance

  • Flexible Controls & Permissioning​

  • Remote Data Access Management

  • Immutable Access and Control Ledger

The CalcGuard control framework provides a powerful combination of role and time-based access controls at the field level. Data access rights can be controlled or withdrawn remotely using CalcGuard's Data Vault technology. CalcGuard's usage and permissioning ledger provides an auditable record of data access and control activities. 

Platform Governance

  • Best Practice Governance​

  • Industry Consortium Owned

  • Investment Management Advisory Council

The CalcGuard consortium incorporates best practice governance principles to protect common stakeholder interests and ensure value for the consortium members and their clients. The entity is industry-owned and all product deliverables are driven by investment management stakeholders. 

02 / GOVERNANCE

03 / SECURITY
​Secure Collaboration

  • Containers for Real-Time and Persisted Data​

  • Secure Collaboration Easily Managed

CalcGuard enables secure data collaboration by applying cloud-native container technology to streaming and persisted data stored locally or remotely. Write-only access to data can be enabled while read/write or read-only access can be managed separately. A flexible deployment plan accommodates participant's existing setup.

03 / SECURITY
Advanced Encryption

  • Quantum-Safe Encryption​

  • End-to-End Protection​

  • Sightless to CalcGuard Operations​

CalcGuard applies advanced, quantum-safe encryption technology to protect data on an end-to-end basis regardless of network, use or storage. ​

The CalcGuard security model allows data to be accessed for computation or quality management while remaining encrypted. Data remains sightless even to CalcGuard operations and can only be accessed by permissioned users.

Data Quality

Secure

Collaboration

Usability

Platform

Governance

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Data

Governance

Platform
Leadership

LEADERSHIP

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Tim Sargent

Prior to founding CalcGuard, Tim Sargent founded Quantitative Services Group (QSG) in 2001 and served as its President and CEO. In 2011, Tim sold QSG to Markit Group Ltd. and led their global index group. Before QSG, he developed DLJ’s global quant trading group. Prior leadership roles at Northern Trust, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers. 

TIM SARGENT

Chief Executive Officer

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Jim Northey

Jim Northey currently serves as a co-chair of the FIX Global Technical Committee and 3 ISO committees. Before joining CalcGuard, he was Senior Vice President of Strategic Research focusing on Protocol Engineering and Standards at Itiviti Group AB, following acquisition of The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC in 2015, which he co-founded in 2006. 

JIM NORTHEY

Chief Technology Officer

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Mark Schaedel

Mark Schaedel was the global head of Custom Index and Benchmark Services at IHS Markit. Before Markit, Mark co-founded the COBA Project, an EU market structure and a consolidated tape consortium. Mark served as global head Information Services at NYSE Euronext and was a founding executive board member of NYSE Technologies. 

MARK SCHAEDEL

Chief Industry Advisor

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Enrico Cacciatore

Enrico Cacciatore is a Senior Quantitative Trader and Head of Market Structure & Trading Analytics for Voya Investment Management. Enrico manages trading for the quantitative equity team, ETP trading for the Multi-Asset Strategies Solutions Enrico was the 2018 Markets Media Buy-Side Quantitative Trader of the Year.

ENRICO CACCIATORE

Head of the Investment Management Advisory Council (IMAC)

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Jeff Estella

Jeff spent twenty years at MFS Investment Management and held the leadership roles of the Director of Global Equity Trading, Director of Trading Analytics, and Director of Investment Operations.  Currently, he provides independent consulting and advisory to the financial services and legal community, leveraging his experience and industry expertise. 

JEFF ESTELLA

Advisor & Board Candidate

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Bill Hartnett

Bill is a successful financial technology with deep experience in the digitization of capital markets processes. Previously Global Head of FinTech and Market Infrastructure Investments for Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Bill managed a large portfolio, focused on early-stage growth investments in data and analytics, execution venues & high-performance computing.

BILL HARTNETT

Advisor & Board Candidate

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Manisha Kimmel

 

Manisha Kimmel has over twenty-five years of experience working with financial institutions and regulators. She is the Head of Strategic Planning, Low Latency Group for LSEG. Prior to that she was Chief Policy Officer at Maystreet, Senior Policy Advisor at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Leadership roles at Refinitiv and FIF.

MANISHA KIMMEL

Advisor & Board Candidate

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Jamie Selway

Jamie is the former Head of Electronic Brokerage at ITG. Prior to ITG, Jamie was a Managing Director at White Cap Trading, an institutional agency brokerage he co-founded in 2003. He previously served as Chief Economist at Archipelago and worked in equity derivatives research at Goldman Sachs. 

JAMIE SELWAY

Advisor & Board Candidate

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CONTACT

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