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OCL Adds a DealHub Deployment
LONDON-Options Computer Limited (OCL) has deployed its DealHub internal trade netting tool with an existing client-bank, enabling it to reduce more than 100,000 component trades to 1,000 aggregate trades, say vendor officials.
IT Spending to Drop in 2009
LONDON-Sell-side IT organizations should plan to do more with less as industry experts predict a double-digit decline in IT spending for next year.
Broadridge Expands Ascendis Suite
NEW YORK-Financial technology outsourcing provider Broadridge Financial Solutions will add institutional brokerage features to a product in its Ascendis suite of offerings, say vendor officials.
Seamico Selects GL Net for DMA
BANGKOK-Starting in early 2009, clients of Thai broker Seamico Securities will be able to route its orders to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) via a new direct market access (DMA) offering from Seamico, according brokerage officials.
Transparency worries persist in post-Mifid era
More than a year after Mifid's implementation, the European buy side continues to suffer from poor market data and inadequate post-trade transparency. When the regulation came into force in November last year, it required that all trades executed in the…
Oceanwood live on LZ front-office platform
Oceanwood Capital, the London and Boston-based investment manager with $1.7 billion under management, is live on Capstone, Fidessa LatentZero's integrated front-office platform. The implementation saw Fidessa LatentZero partner with CITCO Fund Services,…
McDonnell IM switches to ASP version of Eagle system
McDonnell Investment Management, a Chicago-based fixed-income manager with approximately $12 billion under management, has switched from an installed version of Eagle Investment Systems' accounting platform to the vendor's hosted offering, Eagle Access,…
SunGard, Algo, RiskMetrics top Chartis risk rankings
In its annual ranking of risk technology vendors, Chartis Research has rated SunGard as the top provider for the third successive year, closely followed by Oracle, Algorithmics and RiskMetrics.