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Clearstream Opens Dublin Office
Deutsche Börse's clearing and settlement arm, Clearstream, has announced the opening of a location in Dublin, to better serve hedge fund clients.
TS-Associates Chooses NYI to Implement Instrumentation Solutions
TS-Associates, a provider of latency monitoring technology, has chosen New York-based NYI to host the reference implementations of its instrumentation solutions.
FTN Financial Implements SunGard's Stream Securities for Fixed Income
FTN Financial Capital Markets and FTN Financial Securities, subsidiaries of First Tennessee Bank, have implemented SunGard's Stream Securities to support their fixed income businesses.
PFSoft Introduces Module for Algo Trading
Ukraine-based PFSoft introduced AlgoStudio, a tool for algorithmic strategy development that supports MQSL and C# languages, as part of the ProTrader 2 direct market access (DMA) platform for trading strategies creation, optimization and back-testing.
BST Awards 2012: The Winners and Why They Won
Earlier this month, Waters magazine announced the category winners in the sixth annual Buy-Side Technology Awards. Below follows a brief explanation outlining a number of noteworthy performances in this year's awards, plus the list of winning companies…
FSA Approves HKEx Purchase of LME
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has given the green light for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) to acquire the London Metal Exchange (LME).
Advent and IntraLinks Combine for Research Offering
Advent Software has announced a partnership with IntraLinks, to create an automated interface between Tamale Research Management System (RMS) and IntraLinks.
Preventing Internal Breaches: The Call is Coming From Inside the House!
Hedge funds' internal networks are at risk more from internal breaches than external, say a pair of fund security experts. Though some kind of problem is going to happen to anything bigger than a family shop, there are basic steps the IT and operations…
Liquid Rarity Exchange to Launch Tangible Asset Class
Liquid Rarity Exchange (LRE), a St. Louis, Michigan-headquartered firm, is planning to launch a new asset class within the capital markets.
SunGard Upgrades Asset Arena InvestOne Accounting Solution
SunGard has launched a new version of its Asset Arena InvestOne global accounting solution for the investment management industry.
Getco Makes Takeover Bid for Troubled Knight
Chicago-based Getco has tabled a bid to buy fellow electronic market-maker Knight Capital Group, which has been struggling since an expensive technical glitch cost the firm $460 million in August.
Thunderhead Doing Trade Documentation on the Cloud
Thunderhead.com, a UK-based automator of trade documentation, has launched ONE for Capital Markets for the cloud. The solution, which automates trade and relationship documentation processing and all paper transactions throughout the trade lifecycle, is…
Banque Morval Live on SunGard's Core Banking Platform
Banque Morval, a Swiss private banking institution, has implemented SunGard's Ambit Private Banking solution as its new core banking platform.
Xactium Opens London Office
Governance, risk and compliance vendor Xactium has opened an office in the City of London due to increasing business.
Hubscher to Lead Marketing at Object
Dan Hubscher has been taken on the newly created position of marketing director at direct market access (DMA) provider Object Trading.
Swift: Compliance Costs Doubling Every Four Years
Operational costs of compliance for sell-side organizations are doubling every four years, according to a new whitepaper released by Swift today.
iTB to Offer Access to NYSE Bonds
The move will provide firm quotes for listed debt on iTBconnect, with twin goals of increased liquidity and lesser fragmentation.
Omgeo Releases Solution for CFTC Mark-to-Market Requirements
ProtoColl will enable sell-side firms to meet daily mark-to-market and counterparty reporting mandates for their derivative positions.
Numerix Unveils Latest Version of CrossAsset
Numerix has released version 10.2 of CrossAsset, its flagship analytics framework for structuring, pricing and risk managing any derivative.
Rimes' Steve Cheng on Rationalizing Benchmark Data
Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, speaks to Rimes Technologies' Steve Cheng at a Rimes and BI-SAM co-sponsored industry roundtable held in New York.
BI-SAM's Volard on the Benefits of Moving to Daily Reporting
BI-SAM's Christophe Volard speaks with Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, at a Rimes and BI-SAM co-sponsored industry roundtable held in New York.
OppenheimerFunds' Allu on Centralizing Data Feeds
Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief of Waters, speaks to OppenheimerFunds' Ramesh Allu at a Rimes and BI-SAM co-sponsored industry roundtable held in New York.
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Trading Technologies
Once again, winning the Buy-Side Technology Award for Best Buy-Side Commodities Trading Platform/Service, Trading Technologies is going from strength to strength. Tom Haldes, head of buy-side technology at the Chicago-based vendor, talks about the…
BST Awards 2012: Winners' Circle─Rimes Technologies
Rimes Technologies further cements its dominance in the data field this year with another win at the awards. Alessandro Ferrari, senior vice president of global marketing for the company, talks about what’s next for Rimes, the challenges of sourcing…