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Canadian advisor live on LongView ASP
Montreal-based Sectoral Asset Management, a $3.7 billion investment advisor focused on the healthcare and biotechnology industries, has implemented the hosted version of Linedata Service's LongView Trading order management system to better integrate its…
Prism Expands GFI Data Deal
UK-based valuations provider Prism Valuation has struck a deal to use credit derivatives data from interdealer broker GFI in its valuation process, expanding a licensing agreement originally signed earlier this year.
Celoxica Readies European Feed Handlers
UK-based hardware acceleration technology vendor Celoxica plans to roll out new feed handlers to support a range of European markets, after the vendor completes its initial line-up of handlers for US markets in the coming months, officials tell Inside…
XTF Launches ETF Ratings
XTF, the exchange-traded fund research arm of FIX network provider Marco Polo Network, will this week launch a commercial service providing ratings on ETFs via its Web site, officials say.
Orc Preps CameronFIX 'FAST Engine'
Swedish trading technology vendor Orc Software is planning a new release of its CameronFIX FIX engine for the fourth quarter of this year, which will drastically improve its embedded FAST compression technologies, essentially creating a "FAST engine,"…
Nasdaq OMX Eyes 'Market Replay for MiFID' European Display
Nasdaq OMX is set to roll out a European version of its Market Replay tool for analyzing historical data to help firms evaluate their trade executions and ensure they are meeting requirements set out under the European Commission's Markets in Financial…
Datacenter Risk Management Key for 2009
NEW YORK-Updating datacenter risk management technologies is going to be at the forefront for many financial services firms in the next 12 months, according to industry observers.
GigaSpaces Updates XAP
NEW YORK-In an effort to bring access to high-performance application servers to a broader market, grid computing vendor GigaSpaces Technologies has released the latest version of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP).
Aleri Preps Risk Module for LMS
CHICAGO-Complex event processing (CEP) technologies vendor Aleri is currently developing a module for its Liquidity Management System (LMS) that will allow financial firms to measure and manage liquidity risk in real time, officials say.
Wiener Börse Gears Up for Engine Revamp
VIENNA-Officials from the Wiener Börse expect to take version 9.1 of the Xetra trading platform into production Nov. 24, according to a bourse spokesperson.
Achieving Best Execution: The Quick and the Dead
If there is one universal desire shared both by the buy side and sell side, it is to achieve best execution with their trades. As keynote speaker at the inaugural Best Execution conference, hosted by DWT and sibling publication Buy-Side Technology , last…
Complex Structures Fuel Cross Asset Drive
LONDON-Demand for trading multiple instruments from a single desktop from the buy and sell side has grown consistently over the past few years due to multiple drivers, a number of industry participants recently conclude.
OMS Vendors Tackle Multi-Asset Risk
LONDON-To address the growing trend among financial institutions of broadening the asset classes and geographies in which they trade, trading platform vendors are enhancing their multi-asset pre-trade analytics, say vendor officials.
Burgundy Jumps On TradExpress
STOCKHOLM-The consortium behind Nordic multilateral trading facility (MTF) Burgundy has selected the TradExpress trading engine from Swedish exchange technology vendor Cinnober, according to MTF officials.
Fidessa Expands Pre-Trade Analytics
NEW YORK-Order management system (OMS) and connectivity provider Fidessa has launched a number of custom and industry-standard pre-trade analytics for basket traders in the U.S. today, Sept. 29, vendor officials tell DWT .
Microsoft Debuts HPC Server
NEW YORK-To help traders' and analysts' compute problems that have grown beyond the capability of desktop systems, Microsoft recently debuted its new high-performance computing (HPC) platform, Windows HPC Server 2008.
Euro MTFs Ally for Consolidated Data
Several European market operators have formed a working group that aims to provide a consolidated, pan-European data service, aggregating both real-time quotes from visible order books, and time and sales data from visible and dark liquidity pools.
NYSE Euronext Preps Euro SFTI, Superfeed
NYSE Euronext is expanding its SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure) network in Europe, with the goal of offering the same functionality provided by its US equivalent, which connects all key market operators via a high-bandwidth backbone…