Articles by Rob Daly
Mapping Out the Future of SORs
The concept of smart order routing (SOR) has proven itself over the past several years and has lead the industry to push the technology into new and wider implementations throughout their organizations. DWT discusses with Margaret Bailey, vice president…
SmartTrade Bows OTC Pricing Tool
French trading systems vendor SmartTrade will this week announce a new component to its liquidity management system for dealers to distribute customized prices on over-the-counter instruments to clients.
Kiss Your Naked Access Goodbye
Listening to the talking heads on television, it seems as if the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index last Thursday means the world is coming to an end. No, it's not. The national market structure has rules and procedures in place…
UNX Expands Execution Tools
NEW YORK-Trading platform and connectivity provider UNX has recently added the electronic trading services and equity trading algorithms from Knight Capital's Knight Direct trading system to its stable of trading tools available on its UNX Catalyst…
Quod to Focus on Benchmarking Capabilities
NEW YORK-As part of the next release of its trading execution platform, QF Adaptive Execution Platform (AEP), which is expected to launch in several weeks, Quod Financial will add features to the existing statistical engine to provide post-trade…
Progress Releases Single-Bank Portal FX Adapters
NEW YORK-Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider Progress Apama has expanded its presence in the foreign exchange (FX) market with the introduction of a suite of single-bank portal adapters for its Apama Capital Markets Framework, which are…
The New Spring Fashion
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Dealing with Technology would be going through some major and exciting changes in the coming months and I want to provide a sharper picture of what that will entail.
Industry Calls for Exchange-Based Risk Management Tools
NEW YORK-Early last week, the Market Access Working Group of the Futures Industry Association (FIA)-the U.S.-based trade association for the futures and options industry-released its recommendations on managing direct access trading risk, which primarily…
RNA Networks Primes Memory Cloud
PORTLAND, ORE.-Memory virtualization platform provider RNA Networks expects to release version 2.5 of its RNA MVX memory cloud offering later this month, which will feature a "memory visor" that pools memory resources from many servers into a distributed…
DexRex Debuts Social Media Archiving
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-Officials from compliance platform provider DexRex Gear have rolled out version 2.2 of the vendor's ChatSync platform, which incorporates archiving capabilities for the major social networking sites, sources said today, May 3.
Cracking the Secret Sauce
Next to low-latency execution, cross-asset trading is one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry today. However, the open secret is that while everyone seems happy to talk about cross-asset trading, very few firms have managed to truly deliver it to…
Creating the Proper Cross-Asset Recipe
Since the latter half of 2004, Barclays Capital has been refining its multi-asset-class electronic trading support to meet its client demands.
Laying the Groundwork for Cross-Asset Trading
As institutional investors' demand for cross-asset trading grows, sell-side firms are challenged to deliver the capability or risk losing order flow. Providing a single trading interface capable of trading multiple asset classes is the relatively easy…
Surveillance's Painful Proposition
Last week at during its board of governors meeting, the Security Traders Association (STA)-a U.S.-based advocacy organization for securities traders-responded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) concept release on market structure.
Thomson Reuters Charges Ahead with Elektron
LONDON-Market data and trading platform provider Thomson Reuters recently gave the industry a sneak peek of its next-generation data distribution network, dubbed Elektron.
FXall Prepares Trade Analytics
NEW YORK-Foreign exchange (FX) ECN operator FXall plans to introduce a set of pre- and post-trade analytics based on the trading trends that officials observe within the FXall's trading platforms, DWT has learned.
The Times They Are A-Changing
Now that we have reached mid-April, everyone should be inundated with commencement announcements from friends, family and those distant relations fishing for graduation gifts. Soon we will be in school auditoriums, gymnasiums or on the front lawn…