Articles by Steve Dew-Jones
MEP Says No to Minimum Resting Times
Kay Swinburne, member of the EU's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, believes minimum resting times for orders will not make it into the final drafting of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II).
WFE Chief Urges Regulators to Embrace Technology
Regulators need to appreciate the positive impact that technology has had upon the capital markets and not fear its use within them, according to Hüseyin Erkan, CEO of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
Bloomberg Adds FX Options Functionality to Platform
Bloomberg has enabled foreign exchange (FX) options trading on its multi-bank trading platform, FXGO.
QuantHouse Partners Cisco for Low-Latency Data Provision in Asia
QuantHouse has partnered with Cisco to provide accelerated price discovery and support for algorithmic trading on its proprietary fibre optic network in Asia.
Sanlam Private Investments Implements SS&C's Portia Operations Platform
Sanlam Private Investments, a South African asset management firm, has gone live with SS&C's middle-to-back office investment operations platform, Portia.
Bloomberg Launches App Portal
Bloomberg, a New York-headquartered provider of financial information, has released a new app portal.
PhilipCapital Singapore, Schroders Connect to Calastone for Order Routing
PhilipCapital Singapore, a brokerage firm with $18 billion under management, has gone live on Calastone's automated funds order routing service.
Jih Sun Futures Taps Orc for Taiwan Futures Exchange Connectivity
Jih Sun Futures, the brokerage arm of Taiwan-based Jih Sun Financial Holdings, has chosen Orc Software to provide connectivity to the Taiwan Futures Exchange.
Cleartrade Exchange Enables Price Discovery of OTC Derivatives
Cleartrade Exchange, the Singapore-based venue supporting the trading of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, has launched a new service enabling the automatic injection into the market of orders linked to an underlying commodity price.
Ovum Data Incorporated Into Bloomberg Platform
Ovum's telecommunication and information technology industry data is now available on Bloomberg's professional service platform.
Squawker Chooses BT Radianz for Infrastructure Provision
Squawker, an electronic trading venue due to go live in the first quarter of next year, has entered into a strategic partnership with BT Radianz.
GAM Joins SunGard Global Network for Mutual Fund Distribution
Dublin-based investment management firm GAM, which has $48 billion in assets under management, has joined SunGard's Global Network to distribute its mutual fund products.
Orc Links ABN Amro for Execution
Orc, a technology vendor owned by Nordic Capital Fund VII, now provides access to US execution services through ABN Amro Clearing.
HTML5 the Future for Web-Based Trading Apps
A survey of over 300 app developers within the financial services industry suggests that HTML5 is the future platform upon which web-based trading apps will be built.
ADM Investor Services Taps Trading Technologies for Derivatives Access
Chicago-headquartered ADM Investor Services has chosen Trading Technologies' (TT's) fully managed hosting service to provide its institutional investors with access to the global derivatives markets.
ASIC Considers Kill Switch Introduction
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), plans to release a new set of rules for automated trading this week, chief among which will be the introduction of circuit breakers for brokers.
MarketAxess to Acquire Euroclear's Xtrakter
MarketAxess is set to acquire Xtrakter, a provider of regulatory transaction reporting and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Euroclear, early next year.
Can Vendors Ease Compliance Burden?
As yet another regulatory reform takes effect—the European Securities and Markets Authority's regulation on short selling—Imagine Software's Brian Miranda says firms are struggling under the weight of it all.
BAML, SunGard Forge Treasury Knowledge Alliance in Asia-Pacific
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and SunGard are set to launch a treasury knowledge platform in the Asia-Pacific.
KLP Asset Management Chooses Quantifi for Interest Rate Derivatives
Nordic investment management firm KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS (KLP Asset Management) is using Quantifi's technology for risk management and the pricing of interest rate derivatives.
Dion Launches X-Gen 4 for STP
Dion Global Solutions has launched the latest version of its business process engine X-Gen.
SmartStream Reduces Reconciliations, Cash Management to T+0
Transaction life cycle management (TLM) specialist SmartStream has announced the release of a new service to offer combined reconciliations and cash management on a T+0 time frame.
Data Volume, Velocity Necessitates In-Motion Analytics
David Wallace, global financial services marketing manager at Cary, NC-headquartered analytics provider SAS, says firms need in-motion analytics if they are to cope with the sheer volume and velocity of data today.