Trading Tech
Winterflood Deploys IFS BestEx Analytics
UK stockbroker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market making platform by comparing…
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.
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.
Savvis Deploys Corvil Appliances for Network Latency Monitoring
Network and hosting service provider Savvis is building out a global latency monitoring service to help clients monitor latencies for up to 20 different trading venues using hardware and software from Dublin-based latency monitoring technology vendor…
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…
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…
Arcontech Revs Excelerator Performance
Data technology vendor Arcontech is in the final stages of developing Version 3.0 of its Excelerator add-in for integrating real-time data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, after entering beta testing with bank and hedge fund clients earlier this month.
Thomson Reuters Accelerates Tick Engine
Thomson Reuters has optimized its Tick Capture Engine (RTCE) to process greater volumes of tick data at higher speed for clients to back-test trading strategies when running on the latest Intel Xeon 7500 chips.
Panopticon Taps Progress, Sybase for Data Connectivity
Stockholm-based data visualization software vendor Panopticon has partnered with Sybase and Progress Software to broaden the range of real-time and historical data that it can display, and has developed an updated software development kit (SDK) that…
Industry: HFT Brings Higher Costs to Futures Markets
NEW YORK-Direct market access (DMA) is changing how technology providers and trading venues are working with futures commission merchants (FCMs) in conducting high-frequency trading (HFT) and managing its risks, according to members of the futures…
CLS, Traiana To Take Fourth Bank Live
LONDON-Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is set to become the fourth bank to go into production on the CLS-Traiana joint-venture trade aggregation service by early May, according to an official at the bank in London.
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…
TSE Arrowhead Targets Algo Flow
The operators of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) began this year with the deployment of a next-generation equities matching engine, Arrowhead, for equities trading. DWT European reporter Tanzeel Akhtar speaks with Yoshinori Suzuki, senior executive…
IPC Upgrades Toronto PoP
TORONTO-Financial services communications provider IPC Systems has upgraded the Toronto point of presence (PoP) serving its Electronic Connectivity Services (ECS) and Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) for the Canadian market, officials announced today, April…
GigaSpaces Brings Cloud to the Grid
NEW YORK-Grid-enabling platform provider GigaSpaces Technologies has released version 7.1 of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is designed to make data and application scaling simpler, according to vendor officials.
Algo Technologies Launches First Deliverables
LONDON-Trading infrastructure start-up Algo Technologies has debuted its new matching engine offering today, April 19, officials tell DWT .
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…
Options IT Revamps Pipe-Lines
Infrastructure-as-a-service vendor Options IT has re-architected the network links between its European datacenters and exchanges to support higher message rates and the low-latency needs of high-frequency traders.
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…
Trayport Docks Gateway System at CME Globex Markets
LONDON-Commodities trading system provider Trayport is launching a new connectivity option to certain CME Globex markets in its Trader Gateway system by incorporating systems from Australian trading infrastructure provider Object Trading, officials tell…
Interxion Stockholm Center Key to Lower Latency
Stockholm-European datacenter provider Interxion has inked an agreement with Stockholm-based Nordic Growth Market (NGM) to locate NGM's matching engine at Interxion's Stockholm datacenter.
Options IT Reduces Latency in Fragmented Europe
LONDON-Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider Options IT has lowered the latency of its Options Pipe Velocity market connectivity service for major European trading venues by an average of 200 microseconds among all European markets, vendor…
Opening Cross: Is the Pad Just a Fad, or Should BlackBerry Beware?
No sooner does Apple invent something new to distract us from the daily grind of work than someone else invents a way to force our work back in front of us, using that very distraction to do it.
Atrium Opens EU Access to Nasdaq US Feeds
London-based network connectivity provider Atrium Network has begun distributing direct feeds of US market data from Nasdaq OMX to clients across Europe and North America, who can access the data via any of the vendor's network points of presence (PoPs),…