Trading Tech
Players on Loan: Data Governance, Settlement Automation Nearer as CLOs Reemerge
Leveraged loans are touted as an alternative to uneven bond yields, while collateralized loan obligations are scratching at pre-crisis levels. Yet despite years of collective pushes toward straight-through processing, loan products remain the “last…
Outsourcing: An Example from Marriage
Gone are the days when buy-side firms could choose an outsourcing service provider and then "leave them to it." Today, the process is much more like a marriage, with both parties in it for the long haul.
Capital Dynamics Picks eFront for Reporting, Automation
Capital Dynamics, a Switzerland-based asset management firm, will implement eFront's fund management and reporting software tool, FrontInvest.
GreySpark: HFT Growing Despite Regulation
High-frequency trading (HFT) continues to grow in popularity, despite regulatory efforts to curb the practice, according to a report by London-based consultancy GreySpark.
Chan and Donahue of Fidelity Capital Markets Talk Dark Liquidity Sourcing
Not all dark pool liquidity is the same, says Fidelity Capital Markets' VP of product development, Derrick Chan. Each dark pool brings some unique liquidity to the table. But he has also found a good deal of repackaged liquidity. And just as a lion doesn…
Information Mosaic Integrates Thomson Reuters' Corp Actions Data
The software vendor says integrating the ISO-based data, which covers 94,000 companies in 93 countries, will help clients reduce the time and money they spend on data integration
HKMEx Taps FFastFill for Trade Allocation
The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) has integrated FFastFill's software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology for straight-through processing (STP) support for trade allocation, clearing and settlement.
Janney Capital Takes InData Cloud Product
Janney Capital Management has gone live on InData's Intelligent Portfolio Manager (iPM) Cloud service.
Citadel Technology Preps End-to-End Solutions Suite
Over the next year, Citadel Technology will begin rolling out new risk and compliance solutions, and coupling portfolio construction with its order management capabilities.
SimCorp: Only One in Three Buy-Siders Planning to Upgrade Derivatives Technology
A survey by Copenhagen-based SimCorp lent further evidence to the fact that, while the buy side is not ignoring the new over-the-counter derivatives regime initiated by the Dodd-Frank Act, it is still behind the sell side when it comes to upgrading its…
StatPro Integrates IDC's Fixed-Income Evaluations
StatPro Group, the Wimbledon, UK-based provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics (including risk management and performance and attribution functions) and data solutions to the buy side, has entered into an alliance with Interactive Data Corp. (IDS)…
MST Capital Takes Full SunGard Suite
MST Capital, an Asia-focused global macro hedge fund based in Australia, is live on SunGard’s Hedge360 platform, a hosted, front-to-back office hedge fund investment management suite.
DST and Flametree Announce Fixed-Income Attribution Alliance
Surbiton, UK-based DST Global Solutions, a provider of technology and data management services to the buy side, has announced an alliance with Flametree Investment Analytics designed to enable the embedding of fixed-income attribution models within its…
BNY Mellon Unveils New Risk Service
BNY Mellon announced the launch of Risk View, a service that combines data management, visualization technology, and consulting for clients looking to improve their risk management capabilities through a third-party solution.
Tbricks Goes OnDemand
Tbricks, a Stockholm-based technology provider to prop traders, has debuted Tbricks OnDemand, a fully managed trading infrastructure that is an extension of its existing Tbricks service. It is aimed at smaller desks with little to no internal IT…
IPC Shifts Models with Managed Services Introduction
Trading communications technology provider IPC has developed a new dedicated business unit with 50 staff, which will cover a range of functions from monitoring and voice recording analytics to incident management.
Refereeing Fifty Matches at Once
When it comes to HFT, how much oversight is practical?