Deutsche, Lab49, SuperD

Deutsche Bank said last week that it will create a "significant" presence of research analysts within the Dubai International Financial Center to support the bank's global equities business, focusing on company and technical analysis of Middle East-listed and international stocks. The bank has tripled its headcount in the region during the past three years and now has 180 staff spread over six countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Financial technology consultancy Lab49 has partnered with complex event processing technology vendor Aleri to provide tools for consolidating, analyzing and displaying data across fragmented markets for better trading decisions and compliance purposes. The consultancy has integrated Aleri's Market Liquidity Analysis engine with its visual framework software to create a virtual order book and consolidated last price and best bid and offer prices for securities from multiple sources, including trade reports, quotes and order books.

Derivatives pricing software vendor SuperDerivatives has broadened the capabilities of its pricing platform by adding access to NYSE Euronext's Liffe Connect derivatives trading platform. The connectivity will allow clients to view OTC prices alongside streaming derivatives prices from the exchange, and to merge the two sets of data with the aim of increasing transparency and tightening bid/offer spreads for Liffe's listed interest-rate derivatives contracts.

Online trading portal Zecco Trading has signed a two-year agreement with Arizona-based data vendor QuoteMedia to provide Zecco with streaming Level 2 market data, charting packages, research and real-time portfolio management capabilities.

InstantBull, a Bedford, Mass.-based aggregator of freely available stock data and message boards from the Internet, last week launched a news aggregation portal, newsflashr.com, which collects news stories from the Web and displays a montage of topics, with word size used to represent interest-based traffic numbers, and color coding to designate freshness of news. The service also provides a feeds page, where users can customize the topics they receive, and filter news by various criteria. The news is automatically re-generated every 15 minutes.

Swedish data visualization software vendor Panopticon has signed an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) agreement with Tbricks, a new Stockholm-based automated trading system provider, to enable Tbricks to integrate Panopticon's visual tools with the strategies and algorithms on its trading platform, and to distribute the integrated software as part of the system to banks and hedge fund clients.

Institutional investment advisor Symphony Asset Management is to implement software for market and reference data management from Paladyne Systems to create a central market and reference data repository, integrated with the firm's internal applications and vendor datafeeds. Symphony is rolling out Paladyne's Price Master as a central repository for time-series analytics, pricing and valuation, and compliance reporting; Paladyne's Analytics Master as a firm-wide warehouse and reporting system; and Paladyne's Security Master as a repository of securities terms and conditions data.