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Nyfix unveils high-performance Appia FIX engine
Nyfix has released Appia v5, the latest version of its FIX engine. According to the New York-based vendor, features of Appia v5 include:
Fly to comply
The increased flow of institutional capital and mandates to the buy side means that compliance and risk management considerations have never been more crucial for buy-side firms, especially for those alternative managers that until recently have led a…
BNY ConvergEx Group rolls out buy-side dark pool service
BNY ConvergEx Group, the agency brokerage and technology provider, has launched a new execution service, the Dark Desk, through which the firm's traders can more efficiently execute orders on behalf of buy-side and hedge fund clients across dark venues.
GoldenSource unveils EDM version 8
GoldenSource has launched version 8 of the GoldenSource EDM (enterprise data management) platform. Enhancements include a set of pre-configured connections to content providers, and three data quality improvements providing:
Markit announces new RED licences for the buy side
Markit has announced the availability of the Markit Reference Entity Database (RED), aimed at smaller buy-side firms.
Primed to perform
DSTi is no newcomer to the buy side having been established some 30 years ago. But the Surbiton, UK-based vendor's lengthy pedigree hasn't impeded its ability to bring new products and upgrades to market, one of the most recent of which is the firm's…
Fidessa unveils next-generation algorithms
Sell-side trading platform provider Fidessa has launched a new suite of algorithmic trading strategies into the US market, with long-term plans to roll them out to Europe and Asia.
SunGard rolls out Asset Arena Compliance
SunGard has added a compliance module to its Asset Arena suite of investment management products. Asset Arena Compliance is now available to the vendor's buy-side clients and can provide pre-trade, post-trade and end-of-day management of compliance rules.
New pricing tool from Fitch Solutions
Fitch Solutions has launched Fitch ABCDS Pricing in order to meet the increasing demand for an independent source of pricing data that covers the global ABS product spectrum. The new service adds to the firm's existing single-name CDS and Loan CDS…
Positioned in the buy side's sweet spot
It's unlikely that when Quantifi's founders established the firm some six years ago, they would have foreseen the extent to which the buy side would turn to credit as a source of alpha. However, recent events have revealed credit's more perilous side…
A sense of Unity
Confluence is something of a veteran in the fund administration industry, having been founded in theearly 1990s. But it was the 2007 launch of Unity – the fi rm’s unifi ed data management platform for thefund administration industry – that has provided…
Markit unveils multi-bank valuations service
Markit, the global provider of OTC derivatives trade processing and pricing services, has revealed plans to launch Markit Valuations Manager, a bank-backed cross-asset valuations platform which will aggregate valuations of multiple dealers for the…
Paladyne goes agnostic with SunGard back-office offering
Hedge fund technology provider Paladyne Systems has begun offering SunGard's Visual Portfolio Manager (VPM) portfolio accounting product as an optional component of its browser-based front-to-back platform.
In for a penny...
TKS Solutions' Penny offering is, like a number of buy-side specific technologies, a relatively new addition to the market place, having been 'soft-launched' to client firms 18 months ago. Since then, however, it has established a healthy following…