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Mexican Broker Gives the Skinny on LatAm
Colocation and regulation are good in Latin America, but market data feeds are failing, says Mexican technologist.
Morgan Stanley Joins FXSpotStream as a Liquidity Provider
FXSpotStream, an industry utility that provides a multibank FX service to clients for the purpose of executing spot trades, has added Morgan Stanley as a liquidity provider.
Esma Recommends Use of LEI For Emir
Paris-based regulatory body says that if a global legal entity identifier is available and endorsed by the European Union, it should be used as part of reforms to the over-the-counter derivatives market in Europe. Otherwise, an interim entity identifier,…
SunGard Launches Platform for Boutiques
Asset Arena 360 supports the entire investment value chain from portfolio analysis to reconciliation.
DST Corporate Actions Module Links Data Cleansing And Accounting System
Software vendor expects strong take-up in Asia and Australia of its HiPortfolio corporate actions module, which it says solves a persistent industry problem
Level 3 Buys FibreSpan to Bolster London Metro Network, Hedge Fund Services
Acquisition will provide Level 3 with access to hedge funds in London's West End
Daiwa Europe Consolidates Back-Office Ops With Torstone
Investment bank hopes to benefit from improved efficiency and cost reduction by using Torstone Technology's Inferno application for all back-office operations
Swift to Focus on IT at New Malaysian Hub
The corporate center, based in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, is part of an aggressive regional plan for the messaging provider.
Banco Penta Selects Calypso for Interest Rate Derivates
The Chilean bank settled on Calypso after more than a year of searching.
Daiwa Europe Lights Torstone's Inferno in Back Office
Daiwa Europe, the investment banking subsidiary of Japanese brokerage firm Daiwa Securities Group, has chosen Torstone Technology's Inferno for its post-trade securities processing and trade accounting.
Gain Capital's Haines Joins Scivantage as CIO
Scivantage has named Andrew Haines, who was previously with Gain Capital, as its new CIO.
Digiterre Prepares Communica Platform Launch
London-based investment management software vendor Digiterre is set to launch its Communica platform next month.
Nasdaq, Amazon Launch Data Management Platform
The cloud service is intended to ease the burden of regulation-mandated data storage and granularity.
iTB Launches New Fixed Income Trading Platform
Software provider iTB Holdings, which caters to institutional fixed income traders, has launched a new platform, dubbed iTBconnect, that will allow buy-side firms to connect to electronic fixed income trading venues.
Advise Taps Sullivan for President
Software provider Advise Technologies has named Sean Sullivan as its new president.
SmartTrade Adds to LiquidityFX
Pricing, price distribution, and risk management are among the components being added in December.
MT5 Platform Adds Access to Knight's Hotspot FX Network
MetaQuotes Software Corp. has integrated its MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platform with Knight Capital Group's Hostpot foreign exchange (FX) electronic communications network (ECN).