Trading Tech
Reduced latency for SunGard's GL Net global order-routing service
SunGard has deployed new ultra-low latency market data distribution (MDD) servers for GL Net, its market-data and order-routing network. GL Net customers are now able to access highly scalable and enriched market-data flows delivered at a microsecond…
Stralem live on Advent's APX platform
Stralem & Company, a New York-based investment manager with $2.2 billion under management, has implemented the performance analytics capabilities of Advent Software's Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) platform to better compare its portfolios internally…
Prop trading: RIP?
Once when I was 16, about six months after I started driving to school and work, my heavy foot got me two speeding tickets within 24 hours. A major component of the parental wrath incurred was the loss of my car keys for a fortnight. The thrill (and…
Interactive Data adds new features to PrimeTerminal offering
Interactive Data Corporation has added a range of portfolio analysis functions to its PrimeTerminal Professional financial desktop. The enhancements are designed to allow investment advisers and wealth managers to access and analyse their customer…
Operations: the way forward
The last decade has produced a remarkable transformation in the front office - especially from a buy-side perspective - although current trends suggest that operations and risk management will hold the spotlight over the next 10 years. More than ever,…
Transaction monitoring: driving efficiency in real-time trading
The dire effects of the recession on certain financial services firms has forced CIOs and other IT managers to examine new technologies that could improve online transactional efficiencies across all aspects of the business. As early adopters of…
Spotlight on John Lehner
Having served as president of Eagle Investment Systems for many years, John Lehner has now assumed greater control of the buy-side technology provider after his promotion to chief executive. He talks with Stewart Eisenhart about the parameters of his new…
Charles River launches Charles River IMS Version 9.1
Charles River Development has released Version 9.1 of the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS). This release, which completes Charles River's transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), integrates order and execution…
Progressive embraces business continuity challenge
Business continuity rose to prominence in the wake of the September 11 attacks, as firms of all sizes sought to develop contingency plans as a way of mitigating the business and operational risks resulting from systems failures. By Victor Anderson*
BGC Taps Xignite for On-Demand Data
Interdealer broker BGC Partners will this week roll out an on-demand data service for its market data, using white-labeled technology from Web services data provider Xignite.
Lightspeed Preps for Multi-Asset Algo Trading
NEW YORK-Low-latency execution broker Lightspeed Financial is paving the way to offer algorithmic trading in equities options and futures enabled by a backend consolidation between its Lightspeed Trader direct market access (DMA) and Lightspeed Gateway…
Thomson Reuters Takes Hosted RMDS Global
NEW YORK-Market data and trading platform provider Thomson Reuters imminently plans to complete the initial global deployment of the hosted version of its Thomson Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) with facilities serving the Tokyo and Frankfurt markets,…
Thomson Reuters Preps Global Hosted Feeds
Thomson Reuters will unveil an expanded, global hosting solution for supporting managed datafeeds and hosted data distribution platforms over the first quarter of this year, using hosting facilities operated by network and hosting provider Savvis.
TXC Adds Tokyo Co-Location Site
NEW YORK-Trading Cross Connects US (TXC)-an incubator for high-frequency traders seeking to trade on the foreign exchange (FX), fixed-income, listed derivatives, energy and commodities markets-expects to have a co-location facility in production next…