Tech
Dalglish to Head SmartStream’s Transformation Services
SmartStream Technologies has announced the appointment of Tom Dalglish as a senior vice president and global head of transformation services.
FBI Investigating Cyber Attacks on US Banks
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is working with the Secret Service, in order to investigate recent cyber attacks on American banks.
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.
With Swap Volumes Slacking, Tech to Serve as SEFs' Differentiator
As the new world of SEF clearing starts to shape, TrueEX's Sunil Hirani says that smaller venues will have differentiate themselves against the larger players by being better at second-order functions.
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.
Little Boxes
One of the big perks of this job is the amount of people that you get to meet and speak to, all over the world. A case in point was talking to the president of the Taiwan Stock Exchange this morning, last week it was a conversation with a technology…
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…
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.
Former CFTC Commissioner Chilton to Advise HFT Lobbying Firm
Bart Chilton, one of the commission's most vocal opponents of high-frequency trading (HFT) during his time with the regulator, will now serve as an advisor to Modern Markets Initiative (MMI), a group which advocates on behalf of and is backed by a…
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.
EMIR Coming Into Focus with Quieter Second Deadline
With the passing of the second deadline occurring with relative ease, firms are slowly getting a better grasp of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in terms of participation, particularly…
EMIR Coming Into Focus with Quieter Second Deadline
With the passing of the second deadline occurring with relative ease, firms are slowly getting a better grasp of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, but there is still plenty of room for improvement in terms of participation, particularly…
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.
LCH.Clearnet Appoints Robinson to Head SwapClear Australia
LCH.Clearnet has announced the appointment of Marcus Robinson, who will fill the role of CEO for SwapClear Australia.
Broadridge Pegs Perry as New President of Global Sales, Marketing and Client Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced the hiring of Christopher Perry as its new president of global sales, marketing and client solutions.
Calastone Signs Dimensional Fund Advisors
Calastone has announced that Dimensional Fund Advisors has joined its global fund transaction network service.
Trendrating Unveils v1.0 of Momentum Analytics Platform
Trendrating, which provides momentum factor analytics to asset managers, has released version 1.0 of its Momentum Analytics platform.
CloudFX Plans Cloud Services Brokerage Platform
Singapore-based cloud technology vendor CloudFX Group has announced plans to launch CloudSelect, a cloud services brokerage (CSB) platform that enables firms and service providers to offer "Anything-as-a-Service", ranging from infrastructure through to…