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Deutsche Postbank Financial Services implements BarraOne
Deutsche Postbank Financial Services, part of one of Germany's leading retail banks, is now using BarraOne to help it identify and manage risk across its equity and fixed-income portfolios.
Stockhouse Shutters EU Mobile Business
Canadian market data provider Stockhouse is transitioning European clients of its pager and smartphone mobile data products to other providers, following the vendor's decision to close its business in the region last month, officials say.
Infobolsa, CarryQuote Ally for Mobile Data
Spanish data provider Infobolsa, a joint venture between Deutsche Börse and Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME), is using Swiss mobile data provider CarryQuote to provide its institutional clients with real-time, on-demand quote data…
Cognitive Capital Takes Orc for Low Latency
NEW YORK-Chicago-headquartered proprietary trading firm Cognitive Capital has selected FIX protocol connectivity and risk management tools from trading platform and market connectivity provider Orc Software, officials announced today, Aug. 31.
Activ Boosts Content Management, Sales
Low-latency data vendor Activ Financial is building a content management team to support its growing number of exchange data sources, and has expanded its sales team in response to growth in the high-frequency trading space.
Fixnetix, RTS Eye Further Data Deals
UK-based data vendor Fixnetix and trading technology provider RTS are exploring further opportunities to jointly leverage their data and technology assets, following last week's launch of a hosted Direct Market Access service integrating low-latency…
Caplin Steps Up Quality Focus
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Caplin Systems has recently bolstered its software quality assurance (QA) function, which officials say has become of increasing strategic importance as a result of changes to the vendor's product focus and…
Deutsche Börse Hit by Index Glitch
German exchange group Deutsche Börse experienced an 18-minute outage for some of its benchmark DAX indexes last week, as a result of technical problems with its index data distribution systems.
GFI, Quick Expand Japanese Data Deal
Interdealer broker GFI is increasing its penetration of the Japanese market with an extended currency data redistribution deal with local information vendor Quick Corporation, officials tell sibling publication FX Week .
MSCI Barra Unveils Risk Reports
Index and analytics provider MSCI Barra rolled out a new reporting module as an add-on to its BarraOne risk analytics platform at the beginning of August, to provide more detailed, time-series risk reports on clients' trading data.
BT Shuffles Capital Markets Execs
LONDON-In an effort to fine tune the management of its recently launched Global Banking and Financial Markets (GB&FM) division, global telecom giant BT has made two new appointments, DWT has learned.
RTS, Fixnetix Roll Out Hosted DMA Offering
LONDON-Trading platform provider RTS and low-latency market data provider Fixnetix have teamed up to deliver a fully hosted direct market access (DMA) offering, according to officials from both vendors.
Deutsche Börse Selects WebSphere for Trading Platform
New York-International exchange operator Deutsche Börse Group will incorporate version 2.2 of IBM's WebSphere MQ Low Latency as the messaging architecture for a new common trading system that it plans to roll out to all of its exchanges in the coming…
TMX Plans 10 Gbps Upgrade to Network
TORONTO-As part of a multi-phase project to upgrade infrastructure across its enterprise, Canadian exchange operator TMX Group plans to upgrade its internal 1 Gbps Ethernet network to 10 Gbps Ethernet networks, TMX officials tell DWT .
FIX Offerings Spur NYSE Technologies' Nyfix Purchase
NEW YORK-Nyfix's customer base and its FIX network community, Nyfix Marketplace, were the key drivers in NYSE Technologies, a wholly owned commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, acquiring the global alternative trading system (ATS) operator and…
Instinet Ramps Up Options Coverage with Torc Buy
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage Instinet is in the midst of purchasing options trading platform provider and agency brokerage Torc Financial in a transaction that is expected to close in the coming weeks.
A Meeting of the Latency Minds
Low-latency trading is getting a bad rap in the general media theses days, but broker-dealers cannot ignore how message latency affects their trading strategies and bottom lines. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with leading technologists from brokerages…
Millistream Begins Nordic Expansion With Interactive Data Deal
Gothenburg-based data vendor Millistream Market Data is establishing a local sales and support organization across the Nordic region and has broadened the range of data that it offers via a recent partnership with Interactive Data-though Millistream…
QuantHouse Preps Strategy Back-testing Service
Low-latency data and trading technology vendor QuantHouse is preparing to roll out a new service for high-frequency trading firms that want to back-test trading strategies without making significant investments in data technology, officials tell Inside…