Tech
ConvergEx to Provide Real-Time Transaction Cost Analysis
New York-based broker ConvergEx Group has announced it will soon be providing real-time intra-day transaction cost analysis (TCA) to its prime services customers through its TCA product, PerformEx.
Numerix Launches Risk Scenario Framework
Analytics and risk management provider Numerix has released a new scripting language for "defining bespoke risk scenarios, stress tests and greeks."
StatPro Adds New Module to its StatPro Revolution Platform
StatPro Group, a portfolio analytics provider, has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to its portfolio analysis and reporting platform, StatPro Revolution, to aid compliance with UCITS regulations.
Gulf Continues to Exist Between IT and Traders, Says IPC Poll
It is a frequent complaint that IT departments do not understand the needs of the business. Much rarer is when that complaint comes from the IT department itself.
Nasdaq OMX Unveils Pre-Trade Risk Management Service for Commodities
Nasdaq OMX has rollout out a new pre-trade risk management service geared toward the commodities market, dubbed Genium INET PRM.
Numerix, TMX Group Team on Risk Solution
Numerix is partnering with TMX Technology Solutions, the tech arm of TMX Group, where TMX's Razor Risk enterprise risk management product will leverage Numerix's library of risk and pricing models from its solutions for credit risk, market risk and…
Polish Player BRE Securities Turns to SunGard for Connectivity
Dom Inwestycyjny BRE Banku SA (BRE Securities), the broker arm of Polish BRE Bank Group, part of the Commerzbank financial services group, has selected SunGard's Valdi solution, together with the SunGard Global Network (SGN), the company's international…
Goldman to Offer TT Hosting to Futures Clients
Goldman Sachs has added TTNet, the hosting solution from Chicago-based Trading Technologies (TT), to its suite of futures trading systems offered to the firm's institutional clients.
Lighthouse Taps SS&C GlobeOp for CVA
Investment management firm Lighthouse Partners, which serves fund of hedge funds, will use fund administrator SS&C GlobeOp to perform credit value adjustment (CVA) calculations.
Buy-Side Firms Grapple With 24-Hour Global Tech, Operations
At a recent conference in New York, major buy-side firms discussed the significant IT and staffing-related challenges associated with growing their businesses globally.
Broadridge Backs Bloomberg Tradebook
The investor communications provider is now helping Bloomberg's agency brokerage begin self-clearing U.S. equities with its hosted business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions.
Mobile Apps Should Be More User Friendly, Says Buy-Side Panel
Cloud, mobile, predictive analytics, and IBOR among the topics at a TSAM panel on "what's hot, what's not" on the buy side.
OFI Mandats Uses Linedata Chorus in the Cloud
The recently launched software-as-a-service (SaaS) option for Linedata Chorus has been chosen by discretionary fund management specialist OFI Mandats to enable it to reinforce its administrative, accounting and regulatory management services for its…
RTS Advances China Move
RTS Realtime Systems Group, a Frankfurt-based trading solutions provider, has established a Shanghai office and has initiated plans to move its data center to the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) co-location facility by year's end.
Tales from Cloud City
I'm filing this letter from London's Heathrow airport, where I'm preparing to head to Singapore for our inaugural Asia-Pacific Trading Architecture Summit.
The Challenges of 24/7
As more firms look to expand their global presences, operations and technology units are being tested in new ways as they try to support a 24-hour business.
Ex-LSE CTO Paine Goes to London Metal Exchange
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has appointed former London Stock Exchange (LSE) CTO Robin Paine as its new CTO.
Futures Trade Bodies Combine as FIA Global
The Futures and Options Association (FOA) and the Futures Industry Association (FIA), trade groups representing participants in derivatives markets, have agreed to merge, and will become a single organization under the name FIA Global.
E-Trading Corporate Bonds: Act Two?
In part one of his two-part feature on the electronic trading of corporate bonds, Jake Thomases traveled back in time to understand why an early explosion of credit trading platforms disappeared almost as soon as it arrived. In part two, he asks whether…
Icap Invests in Portfolio and Data Analytics Firm EFM
Interdealer broker Icap has invested in portfolio reporting and data analytics firm Enso Financial Management (EFM) to support its growth strategy.
Hyperion AM Joins Calastone’s Network
The Australian equities fund manager, Hyperion Asset Management, has joined the Calastone Global Funds Transaction Network to automate the flows from participating platforms and custodians into Hyperion’s funds.
Investment Managers to Add Staff to Tackle Data Abundance
A large majority of investment management firms are likely to increase their headcounts during 2013 to support information strategy, research by buy-side consultancy Investit has revealed.
Janus Capital Group Taps Equipos Coric for Online Client Reporting Solution
Janus Capital Group has selected Equipos' Coric Client Communications suite, which will provide the Denver-based asset manager with a flexible and customized client reporting platform to respond to its growth in client numbers and regions served.
Santander Takes Fonetic for Dodd-Frank, Mifid Compliance
Spanish voice analytics specialist Fonetics has announced that Santander has deployed its record keeping solution in seven of its international trading rooms.