SIRCA Technology

SIRCA has developed a unique and powerful research infrastructure which is made available to SIRCA's member universities to enable researchers to produce high quality and importantly, timely research outcomes. These outcomes would be difficult if not impossible to achieve without this centralised infrastructure.

Our Expertise

• Financial Markets Data
  Price, financial history and corporate event data is provided by the Australian Stock Exchange, the Sydney Futures Exchange, financial institutions and regulatory bodies. SIRCA has also negotiated to warehouse and distribute financial market data for over 240 international exchanges as part of an agreement with Reuters Australia. The range of data available is described in Data Services.
• Computing Hardware
  The volume of market data and the frequency of access requires significant computing power. This infrastructure is provided by SIRCA's technology partner, the Australian Centre of Advance Computing and Communications (AC3). AC3's super-computing facility is best of breed. The facility utilises state-of-the-art security practicies.
• Computing Software
  Software is required to efficiently manipulate, filter and manage data. This functionality is provided by SMARTS (Security Market Automated Research Training and Surveillance) under licence from SMARTS Pty Ltd. This software includes a range of sophisticated metrics which enable the rapid analysis of key market variables to assess market efficiency.
• Custom Programming
  SIRCA's programming staff have an extensive understanding of the financial services industry and are experts in the use of tools used to manipulate data to meet the requirements of researchers. Programming staff can also undertake development of standardised software and databases.
  Programming Support
• Request Management
  For researchers requiring data from SIRCA's vast range of databases, a request can be submitted to SIRCA's Request Management team via a Data Request Form (members only).
• Research Application Service Provider
  RASP provides researches with online access to historical data on a number of major stock exchanges (members only)
  RASP
• Participants
  SIRCA uses best practice infrastructure and uses products and services from a wide variety of vendors and partners that enrich and enhance the vast knowledge network being made available to Australia's financial markets researchers.