Emerging Technologies
Liquidnet Launches Trade Advisory and Execution Solutions
New hires to deliver Liquidnet's next gen of execution services & quant trading strategies
BGC Further Extends GFI Offer Deadline
BGC Partners' determined efforts to acquire rival interdealer broker GFI Group continued last night, as the firm extended the deadline for its offer to January 6, 2015, the second time that it has done so.
SmartTrade Opens Singapore Office
SmartTrade has seen the need to increase its local presence due to growing demand for its solutions.
CJC Expands Managed Services Offering
Cleint demand for managed services drives CJC to build out development team
Waters USA Panel: Traders, Vendors Eye Convergence of Latency, Analytics
Panel says it's not just how fast you are, but what you can analyze that fast that counts
Public Cloud Gets Vote of Approval from Panelists at Waters USA
Finra's CIO says public clouds are more secure than traditional DCs
Options Takes Space in Equinix Tokyo Co-Lo Center
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has expanded into Equinix's TY3 datacenter in Tokyo to provide co-location services and access to global foreign exchange markets in response to increased customer demand.
Waters USA 2014 C-Level Panel: Measuring Tech's Cost—While It's Under Siege
Tech & ops chiefs say budget cuts, cyber threats to continue in 2015
Waters USA 2014: IEX Chief Strategy Officer: Our 'Magic Shoebox' Doesn't Make Us Anti-HFT
Ronan Ryan brings down the house at Waters USA
Redline Taps Chen to Drive Product Development
Former Broadridge, Thomson Financial exec joins ticker plant vendor
Cyber Monday for Financial Markets
Vendors go on a shopping spree.
Big Deals and Rouble Rousing
It's that time of year.
Opening Cross: Location, Location, Consolidation and Diversification
Today’s data industry certainly isn’t that of 25 years ago, or even a dozen years ago when I started writing about it. A key difference is the change in pace of modern markets, shifting to low-latency trading where location—i.e. proximity of trading…
Quincy Taps O’Sullivan’s USAM for US Sales Push
Oakland, Calif-based low-latency microwave connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data is to use USAM Group—a New York-based outsourced sales agency recently set up by Feargal O’Sullivan, a former sales and solutions executive at NYSE Technologies,…
Sales Agency USAM Hires in NY, Chicago
Hires will allow USAM to offer outsourced sales agents in New York and Chicago to startups
The Waters Weekly Wrap: December 1-5, 2014
Introducing a new best-of roundup
Swedish Pension Fund Opts for Advent’s Geneva Platform
Stockholm-based two billion dollar pension fund will access the Geneva platform via a hosted provider.
Quandl Adds ORATS Options Data to Financial Data Search Engine
Toronto-based economic and financial search engine Quandl is adding fee-liable options data from Chicago-based options analytics provider Option Research and Technology Services (ORATS) to its online data portal to support users' equities technical…
Icap to Merge EBS and BrokerTec
The FX and fixed income trading platforms will be combined to form EBS-BrokerTec
Japan, Singapore Exchanges Cooperate on Co-Lo Centers
The agreement between JPX and SGX will boost connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Crédit Agricole Launches Derivatives Post-Trade Utility with FIS
The solution will allow investment banks to share IT services and resources, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
Data Boiler Taps Ex-Goldman Exec as CTO
Big Data management and analytics provider Data Boiler Technologies has hired former Goldman Sachs executive Homer Cheng as chief technology officer, based in Irvine, Calif.
Data Boiler Hires CTO
Homer Cheng Joins From Goldman Sachs
Burton-Taylor Report: Exchange Data Revenues Grow as Marketplaces Diversify
Higher revenues reflect increased focus on data services and indexes among exchanges, according to the Burton-Taylor report.