Articles by Tanzeel Akhtar
Meeting the FIX Family
Tanzeel Akhtar meets up with a number of the protocol's early European adopters and looks at how FIX has become the most pervasive technology across our industry.
Industry Girds for Mifid II
LONDON-The financial services industry is gearing up for the second version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), according to participants who spoke during a recent industry roundtable on the effects of Mifid, adding that they…
Portware Revamp Targets Options Support
NEW YORK-As part of its version 5.0 release of its Portware Enterprise platform, execution management system (EMS) provider Portware tailored the latest update to sport greater support for options trading by re-engineering the platform's Portware Options…
Peresys Sets for EMS Update
JOHANNESBURG-FIX services and connectivity provider Peresys is currently developing a new front end for its browser-based PerFIX Trader execution management system (EMS), which is slated to launch in August, vendor officials tell DWT .
Nasdaq OMX Shutters Neuro, Turns to Equiduct
LONDON-An overcrowded and competitive European market has led Nasdaq OMX to announce the planned closure of its Nasdaq OMX Europe multilateral trading facility (MTF), dubbed Neuro, on May 21.
CEP Moves Beyond Algos
LONDON-Over the last year spending on complex event processing (CEP) has been on the rise within the capital markets, concludes the author of a report from industry analyst firm Ovum, to be released on June 18, officials inform DWT .
VSS Improves Microburst Management
BURLINGAME, CALIF.-Latency monitoring and technology provider VSS Monitoring has added a microburst detection feature, dubbed vCapacity, to its VSS Distributed Taps network traffic capture platform line.
Informatica Eyes Virtual Databases
NEW YORK-Data integration software vendor Informatica is planning to expand the "virtual database" capabilities of its Informatica 9 data integration platform in 2011, vendor officials tell DWT .
Sybase, Panopticon Partner on Visualization
LONDON-Database provider Sybase has selected the data visualization platform from Panopticon Software to provide real-time data visualization for its recently acquired Aleri complex event processing (CEP) business, which should be launched this week, DWT…