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Spanish alternative industry primed for boom
Stewart Eisenhart looks at the recently published Tabb Group report, Cross-asset trading systems: Controlling the trader’s desktop, and finds the broker community under increasing pressure to provide their buy-side clients with more integrated, multi…
Spotlight on Gavin Little-Gill
Stewart Eisenhart speaks with Gavin Little-Gill about his move from the financial services analyst community where he was research director at TowerGroup to Linedata Services where he now heads up front-office product development.
Rise of the replicants – Duncan Wood scrutinises the recent emergence of bank-launched indexes and their attempts to replicate certain hedge fund strategies through quantitative, rules-based products.
Investment banks are upping their efforts to mimc hedge fund strategies through quantitative, rules-based products. A variety of indexes have emerged that claim to replicate the major hedge fund strategies, although some fund managers are sceptical of…
Riskdata offers 'bias ratio' to detect return smoothing
Riskdata, the Paris-based provider of buy-side risk management systems, has enhanced its core offering to prevent hedge funds from 'smoothing' their returns.
The Sweet Sound of Success
Somewhere over the drone of the air conditioner struggling to keep pace with the New York summer, I hear another faint sound…. Do you hear it? It sounds like the rustle of crisp dollar bills. It's the sound of the dealmakers rubbing their hands together…
Chi-X Takes On LSE with UK Stock Data
Chi-X, the European equity market operated by broker Instinet, earlier this month began providing data and trading with continuous two-sided quotes on around a dozen large-cap stocks from the FTSE 100 index listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Citi Signs for FTSE Infrastructure Index
Citigroup is the first investment bank to license the FTSE-IDFC India Infrastructure 30 Index—one of a new series of Indian infrastructure indexes launched by index provider FTSE Group last week in partnership with India's Infrastructure Development…
MSCI Barra: Index Transition Costs Not Unreasonable
Index provider MSCI Barra is rejecting suggestions that changes to its global indexes over the coming year will cause investment managers to review their relationship with the vendor or even switch to alternative providers.
Huber Wraps TQA-Datastream Integration
German research firm and investment manager Huber Portfolio has finalized the integration of Thomson Financial's Datastream historical time-series and economic database with a recent deployment of Thomson's Quantitative Analytics (TQA) product, to enable…
NYSE Gives ArcaBook a Multicast Facelift
The New York Stock Exchange's NYSE Arca division will next week roll out a new version of its ArcaBook feed of limit order book data based on technology used by existing NYSE feeds, dubbed ArcaBook Multicast for Equities.
ISE Broadens Sentiment Data Lineup
The International Securities Exchange has announced plans to launch a new addition to its suite of products for measuring market sentiment, to include a broader and more granular range of data than is currently available in the ISE's other sentiment…
Bank Consortium to Build Unregistered Securities Platform
LONDON—A group of investment banks, including Citi, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, are developing a multi-bank electronic trading platform for unregistered securities, according recent media reports.
Paladyne Integrates S&P Ratings for Hedge Funds
Buy-side software vendor Paladyne Systems has begun providing ratings data from Standard & Poor's to its hedge fund clients for use in their risk management and trading operations.
A Fox in the Henhouse
Dear John: By the time you read this, I may be gone. We had some good times, but it had to end someday, and I've met another man with lots of money and an exotic accent. Love always, Dow Jones.
SWX, Virt-x Prep FAST Datafeed
Swiss exchange operator SWX will next year roll out a datafeed that incorporates the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) and bandwidth-reducing FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocols in a bid to drastically reduce latency over the exchange's…
Wiener Börse Integrates Romanian Data
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse has added Romanian equity data from the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) onto its recently launched Alliance Data Highway (ADH) feed, as part of a broader strategy to expand the range of data carried on Wiener Börse's feed…