Articles by Rob Daly
SunGard Debuts Brass Successor
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-As part of a global rollout of a new integrated software and execution services suite, Valdi, SunGard officials announced today, April 19, the general availability of the vendor's next-generation multi-asset order management system (OMS…
Nascent Cloud Security Drives Hybrid Strategies
NEW YORK-While compute clouds promise inexpensive and plentiful computing resources, the lack of standard security practices has led many users in the financial services industry to adopt a hybrid public-private cloud strategy, according to members of…
FSMLabs Updates TimeKeeper Monitoring Tool
FSMLabs, a provider of real-time software and operating system management technology, has released version 3.0 of its TimeKeeper server-clock synchronization product for applying accurate timestamps to data being distributed between low-latency trading…
FSMLabs Updates TimeKeeper
AUSTIN, TEXAS-Time synchronization platform provider FSMLabs has released version 3.0 of the vendor's TimeKeeper server clock synchronicity platform, officials announced today, April 12.
SunGard Merges Business, IT Consulting Units
NEW YORK-Trading software provider SunGard will combine its business and IT consulting groups into a new entity, SunGard Global Services (SGGS), in an effort that has been in the works since early in 2009, vendor officials announced today, April 5.
AMD Partners Debut 'Magny-Cours' Servers
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the general availability of servers incorporating the vendor's new eight- and 12-core AMD Opteron 6000 Series processors, codenamed Magny-Cours, from its original equipment…
A Little Spring Cleaning
Now that spring has finally arrived in the northern hemisphere, it is the perfect time to do a little spring cleaning-opening up the windows, airing out the house and hosing down the garden furniture. With dual announcements of new processors from Intel …
Fidessa Eyes Canadian Options
TORONTO-Market connectivity and trading platform provider Fidessa plans to add support for Canadian options trading to its hosted Canadian Trading Platform (CTP), according to officials.
Algo Engineering Launches Tech Start-up
Trading Technology
Waiting for the Cloudburst
The Daly Close
Savvis Strikes First Symphony Notes
Datacenters
Lime Branches Out
Trading Technology
Atrium Plans FX Fiber Ring
NEW YORK-As part of an ongoing project, network provider Atrium Network plans to finish the deployment of a network dedicated to foreign exchange (FX) connectivity by the end of the year, according to vendor officials.
Trading Firms Zero in on Nanoseconds
BARCELONA-The time it takes a beam of light to travel approximately 30 centimeters in a vacuum-one billionth of a second-will be the new performance benchmark for electronic traders, according to industry insiders who participated in a panel discussion…
Overcoming the Options Dilemma
As more institutional investors open their portfolios to equity options, sell-side broker-dealers face the challenge of executing instructional-sized orders in a market that is typically less liquid than equities.
ConvergEx Delves into Options TCA
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage BNY ConvergEx plans to expand the breadth of its transaction cost analysis (TCA) offering to cover equity options, DWT has learned.
Savvis Strikes First Notes of Symphony
NEW YORK-Network and datacenter host Savvis is preparing to deliver the first portion of its Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Datacenter (VPDC) offering sometime before the end of the second quarter, according to vendor officials.
Peeking Over the Garden Wall
About 15 months ago, I started to wonder when the industry would begin seeing third-party compute clouds that would meet the rigorous demands of the financial services industry. I'm still waiting.
AlgoEngineering Spins Off Tech Startup
NEW YORK-Low-latency execution provider AlgoEngineering recently launched a new venture, dubbed Algo Technologies, which will turn the vendor's proprietary infrastructure into products and services for third parties.
FlexiSphere Expands Senior Management
NEW YORK-Startup compute cloud provisioner FlexiSphere has expanded its management team with the hire of Bob DeSantis as the vendor's president and COO, officials tell DWT .
Algo Tech Readies Low-Latency Feeds
The new venture of Hirander Misra, former chief operating officer of pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X, plans to launch ultra-low-latency market data services by this summer, as part of a suite of services including smart order-routing and…
What's Old Is New Again
If there is one truism in the markets it is that everything is cyclical. The length of the cycles may vary, but hang around long enough and you will see the same trend, or variation of it, come around again.
Pink OTC to Launch Third Market
NEW YORK-Over-the-counter (OTC) securities market operator Pink OTC Markets is planning an April launch for a new market that trades companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), DWT has learned.
TipOff Gains Solace Support
NEW YORK-As a result of a mutual banking client's request to cut its latency, latency monitoring platform provider and consultancy TS-Associates is adding support for Solace Systems' hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform middleware to its TipOff…