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Mob Index Shows 'Smart' Flows
A Wall Street data technology executive has created an online analytical tool, dubbed the Mob Index, that consolidates data on trading volume and open interest across different countries and exchanges, to provide an indicator of institutional sentiment…
Agora Corretora Deploys Apama CEP
Brazilian broker Agora Corretora de Titulos e Valores Mobiliarios is rolling out Progress Apama's complex event processing engine to support analysis of market data and trading on the country's BM&F Bovespa exchange group.
TraderPlanet to Track Sentiment
TraderPlanet.com, a social networking portal that provides commentary, price data and news for active traders, will this week unveil a new feature, dubbed TraderPlanet Index, that tracks market sentiment based on input from participating traders.
Thomson Reuters Deepens NewsScope
Thomson Reuters will this week expand its NewsScope Archive to provide access to more than 20 years' of news stories tagged with metadata for use in algorithmic trading applications, and has added more third-party data sources as inputs for building or…
Misys Looks to Global Expansion
NEW YORK-To cope with the current state of the U.S. economy, applications software and services vendor Misys is looking to expand more aggressively into new geographic locations and strengthen its operations globally in 2009, DWT has learned.
dynaTrace Debuts Full-Cycle System
BOSTON-Application performance management solution provider dynaTrace software has launched the third version of its dynaTrace product, officials say.
Firms: Business as Usual as Snow Snarls U.K.
LONDON-Despite the disruption caused by the heaviest snowfall the southeast of the U.K. has seen in 18 years on Monday, Feb. 2, investment banks officials claim they were able to operate and have not suffered any major problems.
Virtualizing the Grid
Investment firms with any technology vision already have a grid in place and, if they want to stay ahead of the pack, they have more than one. The next step is making sure the grid is ready to operate at a moment's notice for the next major project. This…
Panel: Multi-Asset Trading Set to Grow
LONDON-Although multi-asset trading has been gaining traction in the financial industry in the last few years, firms have yet to adopt it across a wide range of instruments, say industry participants.
TriCygnet Adds New Assets to TimeScape
New York-based global macro fund TriCygnet has expanded its use of data management technology vendor Xenomorph's TimeScape product to support trading and analysis of new asset classes within its analytical models.
NYSE Arca Europe Plans to Go Live in Q1
PARIS-Exchange operator NYSE Euronext plans to launch its NYSE Arca Europe multilateral trading facility (MTF) later this quarter, after the migration of the exchange's equities trading to its new Universal Trading Platform (UTP), officials tell DWT .
BGC to Distribute ELX Market Data
ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange, a new futures exchange founded by a consortium of broker-dealers and trading firms, is to use BGCantor Market Data, the data arm of interdealer broker BGC Partners, as its exclusive distributor of market data.
Ágora Deploys Progress Apama CEP Platform
São Paulo, BRAZIL-Ágora Corretora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários, a division of Banco Bradesco, has selected Progress Apama's complex event processing (CEP) technology to power its algorithmic trading strategies, officials announced today, Feb. 9.
IG Taps SkylerTech for Consolidated Data
UK-based derivatives trading firm IG Group has deployed Skyler Technology's C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution (LDS) to support market making in contracts for difference (CFDs) and financial spread betting markets.
CME Focuses on Globex, Integration in 2009
CHICAGO-Exchange operator CME Group plans to integrate the membership systems of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the acquired New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) by the end of this quarter.
3Tera Ups Operating Systems Support
ALISO VIEJO, CALIF.-Cloud computing technology provider 3Tera plans to roll out the general release version of its AppLogic grid operating system-designed to enable utility computing for running and scaling Web applications-tomorrow, Feb. 3, say…
FISD OKs Data Certification Plans
Data industry association FISD is proceeding with plans for a certification program for data professionals, which it hopes to bring to market in the third quarter of this year.
MDSL Shuffles Execs
UK-based market data cost management software vendor MDSL has realigned its senior staff to take over the duties of David Toomey-Wilson, president of its US operations, who left MDSL last week.
Thompson Back on Top at Tervela
Low-latency hardware messaging provider Tervela has parted ways with chief executive Robert Cramer, who held the position for just over a year.
Aleri Bolsters Risk Analytics
Chicago-based software vendor Aleri is developing a risk analytics library to help clients address growing demand for real-time risk analysis in their trading operations.