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Genescape Acquires EnvaPower
Genscape, an industry source for real-time power plant output and transmission status information, has acquired EnvaPower, provider of real-time power market intelligence, Genscape officials say.
The Search for Transparency
For a long time, the energy markets have been spared the demand for heightened transparency that has been the norm for other investment classes. However, with the credit market meltdown and the ever-tightening spreads in the cash equities markets,…
ETRM Integration Challenges
As investment banks look to become more active in energy markets, many are just getting up to speed and learning the challenges of integrating their energy trading into their existing trading portfolio. With this in mind, Dealing with Technology has…
Allegheny Completes Integration Project
Energy utility Allegheny Energy has recently completed an integration project to streamline daily practices associated with energy transacting and related accounting processes by reducing the number of "handoffs" between operational groups, say officials…
Selecting the Proper ETRM Platform
After the collapse of Enron, the California energy crisis and misreporting of gas prices, the market for software to support energy trading and risk management (ETRM), hit a low point. In the last two years, however, the market has picked up, largely…
Industry Debuts Hybrid Emission Trading
The emissions market has taken its first steps to greater transparency as inter-dealer broker GFI Group recently launched its Web-based EnergyMatch trading platform for over-the-counter (OTC) energy derivatives.
Aite: Data Tech Spend to Rise
New research from financial technology consultancy Aite Group is predicting a rapid rise in spending on high-performance market data infrastructures over the next three years, from $4.9 billion in 2007 to $7.8 billion by the end of 2010.
2008: The Year of ...?
There's an old Roman saying: "Always follow a fat Pope with a skinny one." After 2007, when Regulation NMS and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) went into full effect and the credit market melted down, what can the industry expect…
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SPECIAL REPORT
The drive to kill operational latency
Last month Omgeo hosted a roundtable in London where the role of the back office in increasing efficiencies across multiple markets and asset classes came under the spotlight. Participants agreed that even though back-office staff remain the unsung…
Anticipation grows for increased buy-side use of equity derivatives
Over-the-counter equity derivatives markets are growing at a slower rate than their credit derivative brethren, but the steady expansion of these instruments, combined with their risk characteristics and the changing requirements of pension funds and…
Credit: the long and short of it
Credit-based hedge funds were particularly hard hit by the US sub-prime fiasco and the ensuing liquidity crisis, most notably in the CDO market. But as Matthew Atwood discovered during Credit magazine's roundtable held last November, credit still has an…
Guest Editorial - Prepare to Shift Gears
With globalization, algorithmic trading and regulatory initiatives forcing vendors to 'walk the walk' this year, remaining focused on basic client needs will be a key differentiator in 2008. In this exclusive guest editorial column, Thomson Financial…
Thomson-Reuters Overshadows Consolidation Frenzy
After years of buying up smaller competitors to boost their own assets, Thomson and Reuters finally agreed to pool their resources this year, making 2007 the year of the largest-ever single takeover deal to hit the market data industry.
Exchanges Jostle for Position with New Venues
The global exchange landscape saw a slew of merger and acquisition stories unfurl over the course of 2007. But while the largest exchanges develop into global powerhouses of data and trading activity, expanding both geographic and asset class coverage,…
CEP Becomes Less Complex
Complex event processing took steps towards standardization during 2007, with vendors seeking to simplify the mystique surrounding the CEP and stream-processing space, opening themselves more to partnership and collaboration, and calling for measurable…
Data Volume Explosion Continues
US options and equities exchanges experienced a continuation of unprecedented growth in message rates during 2007, causing vendors' and user firms' data infrastructures to struggle under the sheer volumes of market data, and spurring adoption of new…
Algos, Latency Force Asia Upgrades
Rising trade volumes in Asia Pacific, and growing demand for access by offshore investors, along with the spread of algorithmic trading spurred exchanges to improve their trading and data systems during 2007 to allow for greater message-handling capacity…
Latency, CEP Drive Change as Firms Favor Incumbents
The demands of low latency and the complexities of event processing technologies for data and pricing were the main drivers for new deals and deployments during 2007, as-for the most part-end-user firms expanded agreements with trusted providers rather…
Hardware Data Solutions "Accelerate"
Since Exegy unveiled its first hardware-based ticker plant "appliance" at 2006's SIFMA show, the concept of hardware acceleration has become more common throughout the data industry. But while its benefits seem compelling, some barriers to adoption still…
Algo News Feeds Evolve, Seek Traction
The evolution of so-called newsflow algorithms-tagged news feeds designed to trigger orders within algorithmic trading applications-continued during 2007, though take-up among end-users still remains muted.