Trading Tech
Ghost in the Shell: AI Expands Beyond Algos
As market movements become faster and more complex, it is impossible for humans to react quickly enough to those changes, requiring machines to step in. Now, artificial intelligence is extending its reach beyond algorithms, permeating other aspects of…
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Datacenter
CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the former Savvis hosting and network business subsidiary acquired by internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink, has opened a new datacenter in Markham, Toronto.
Israeli Bourse Mulls Trading Week Change
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is considering a change in its trading week that will see it line up with standard practice at other exchanges.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Liquid Triples Datacenter Rack Space
The buy-side trading and risk management system provider says it has achieved three and a half times previous capacity at its Equinix datacenters in support of client growth.
BondHawk Launches Fixed-Income Platform
BondHawk Systems has announced the release of its BondHawk Trader platform, focusing on fixed-income trading on both the buy and sell sides.
NRI Releases Private Cloud Solution for Asset Managers
Nomura Research Institute has announced the release of Arena Private Cloud Service, known as Arena Private, which it says will be the first service of its kind for asset managers in Japan and will build off the provider's existing T-Monolix platform-as-a…
Bursa Malaysia Debuts Asean Post-Trade Services
Bursa Malaysia has introduced Asean Post-Trade Services to facilitate the clearing and settlement of outbound trades executed on the Asean Trading Link.
Taiwan Exchange Completes Deployment of Second-Generation Trading System
Trade volumes are increasing and latency is decreasing globally, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region as trading desks become ever-more sophisticated. Participants are expecting, and in many cases demanding, the ability to trade multiple markets using…
CQG Preps Mobile Charting, Cross-Asset Data
Data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is enhancing its CQG M mobile data and trading application with charting tools and data on multiple asset classes in response to customer feedback, as part of an effort by the vendor to make the mobile…
ICBC Taps IBM's Active-Active for DR
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) will employ IBM's mainframe computing solution Active-Active to provide "near-continuous" availability and disaster recovery (DR) in an effort to enhance its business continuity processes.
Kilburn's Comment: Fear is What Keeps Us on the Plateau
As anyone who has tried to get in shape will know, there comes a point in any exercise regime when our bodies start to get used to whatever form of exercise (or torture) we are subjecting it to. Those ten pushups that left you sweating and shaking and…
Selling the Vision of IBOR
The recent fascination by the financial media and others with all things investment book of record, or IBOR for short, has perhaps begun to dilute and even cloud many of the positives around why the concept ever evolved in the first place.
Haifa Mulls Second Israeli Bourse
Israel's third-largest city is planning to open a second stock exchange in the nation, placing it in direct competition with Tel Aviv, media reports claim.
Liquid Takes the Covers off New Cloud Offering
Liquid Holdings unveiled its new cloud-based offering, LiquidFIRM, short for Financial Intermediary Risk Management.
Eris Exchange Taps Perseus, Preps for Greater Prop Trading Demand
The Chicago-based specialist swap futures venue has partnered with Perseus Telecom, providing market participants with low-latency network connectivity capable of handling higher trading speeds.
Eris Exchange Taps Perseus, Preps for Greater Prop Trading Demand
The Chicago-based specialist swap futures venue has partnered with Perseus Telecom, providing market participants with low-latency network connectivity capable of handling higher trading speeds.
Eris Exchange Swap Futures Rolls Out Perseus' Networks
U.S. futures exchange Eris Exchange Swap Futures has rolled out New York-based fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom’s High Precision Time and market-to-market networks, providing clients with fast connectivity to its Eris SwapBook…
CenturyLink Bows Private Cloud Service
Network and datacenter hosting provider CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the subsidiary of internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink formerly known as Savvis, has launched a new private cloud service, dubbed CenturyLink Private Cloud, that will…
Calastone Signs Dimensional Fund Advisors
Calastone has announced that Dimensional Fund Advisors has joined its global fund transaction network service.
Trendrating Releases Momentum Analytics Platform Version 1.0
Switzerland-based Trendrating, a provider of price trend and momentum ratings for equities, exchange-traded funds, indexes and currencies, has launched version 1.0 of its Momentum Analytics platform, which enables asset managers to identify price trends…