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May 2013: Talk Can Prove Costly
Most vendors that service capital markets firms have top-notch offerings—anything less, and they wouldn't survive. So how do firms choose? Victor argues that civility can go a long way toward securing a deal.
Broadridge Debuts Swift Trade Confirmation Product
Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced the launch of its service for Swift Global Electronic Trade Confirmation (GETC), allowing institutional brokers a higher degree of automation when dealing with buy-side clients.
Marathon CTO's Model for Building Your Own HPC
Klay Stack didn't let his firm's small size hold it back from an architecture upgrade. Marathon Asset Management has a new high-performance computing (HPC) system to show for his confidence.
Pine River's Rapid Current: CTO David Kelly
Expanding on famously effective relative-value strategies in fixed income and mortgage arbitrage, and operating with a fully global footprint, Minnesota’s Pine River Capital had an eye for a technologist who knows buy-side products, prime brokerage, and…
Paladyne Makes a Play for Control of Numerix Risk Tool
Paladyne Systems has secured the rights to the source code, development rights, and unlimited distribution rights for the Portfolio Risk product from analytics provider Numerix. Paladyne has also hired the Toronto- and Hong Kong-based development teams…
Alpha Completes Conversion to TMX Trading Engine
Alpha, the Canadian alternative trading system acquired by TMX Group, has completed its migration to TMX Group's proprietary trading engine, TMX Quantum.
Bonaire's Revport Makes Sell-Side Splash
Boston-based fee tracking and reconciliation software provider Bonaire, which historically targets buy-side managers, has beefed up its recent foray into vendor agreement optimization for capital markets.
Max Bowie: A ‘Search Party’ to Find Missing Alpha in Financial Data
Although bleeding-edge technologies have focused on developing lightning-fast algorithms that cut humans out of the trading process, Max believes natural-language processing, and the often-overlooked fundamentals of search engine technologies, will play…
Michael Shashoua: Pricing’s Progress
A growing drumbeat for greater transparency and credibility in the sourcing of pricing and valuations data is stirring data professionals to improve functions serving these needs. Michael explains how the industry is calling the tune.
Bermuda Stock Exchange Adopts Nasdaq Trading Platform
The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) has launched Nasdaq OMX’s X-stream trading platform in an effort to gain the best latency and throughput among Caribbean exchanges.
Algorithms, Arbitrage and Broken Things
Settling for a settled debate over high-frequency trading.
ITG Takes XIP OMS to the Cloud
Execution and research broker ITG has announced that its ITG Order Management System (OMS), formerly known as Macgregor XIP, has been relaunched with a hosted solution offering.
TradingScreen Clears CFTC's FX Mid-Point Pricing Hurdle
The regulation, going into effect on May 1st, requires firms to display mid-point prices for foreign exchange (FX) pre-spot, forward outrights, non-deliverable forwards, and swap trades.
James Rundle: The Heat of the Moment
There’s often a pressure to be seen to be nimble and adaptive to the latest technologies, whether it’s cloud, mobility, Big Data or anything else. However, according to James, as budgets get leaner, it’s important for firms to assess whether technologies…
Anthony Malakian: HFT: Enemy of the State
With high-frequency trading existing in a state of uncertainty, the FBI is looking to join the SEC in examining the role algorithmic trading plays in the capital markets. Anthony says this is a good thing.
Capital Banking Solutions to Package IBM Middleware
Technology vendor Capital Banking Solutions (CBS) has announced that IBM will provide certain middleware modules for its CapitalBanker platform.
NATAS Panel: Big Data Governance, Mindset, Needs Work
Jennifer Costley, director of enterprise architecture at Credit Suisse, is critical of existing data governance structures at large financial institutions. Costley, who spoke at this week’s North American Trading Architecture Summit, says they need to…
Latency Hardware: Threading the Needle
From proprietary field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to flexible kill switches, North American Trading Architecture Summit panelists say good strategy always fits the right hardware to purpose.
IndusInd Bank Selects Calypso
The Indian private bank, based in Mumbai, says it will use Calypso's cross-asset solution to ramp up treasury activities, offer new derivatives, and monitor risk limits as it expands its client base.
IPC Enters China with Minsheng Deployment
IPC Systems has announced that Minsheng Life Insurance, based in mainland China, has selected and rolled out its Unigy trading communications system.
BNP Paribas Integrates Swift for Collateral Protection
Global custodian bank BNP Paribas has announced that it has partnered Swift in order to enhance its Margin Protect software, by integrated standardized messages.
Sapient's CMRS to Facilitate Portfolio Reconcilation
The Compliance Management and Reporting System (CMRS) from Sapient Global Markets can now facilitate portfolio reconciliation.