Kx Systems Embarks on Middle-Office Expansion

The vendor is pushing its kdb+ database for middle office applications including real-time portfolio risk modelling, monitoring traders' behavior, and reacting instantly to regime-changing market events

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Many existing bank customers of kdb+ have implemented the database in their back or front office, with back office applications taking advantage of kdb+'s historical database capabilities, and front office applications focusing on real time, and using kdb+'s in-memory database and streaming capabilities, Sykes says. However, clients could also use kdb+ to perform other functions in other parts of their business that also processes huge amounts of data.

"We would hope that whichever case current

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Systematic tools gain favor in fixed income

Automation is enabling systematic strategies in fixed income that were previously reserved for equities trading. The tech gap between the two may be closing, but differences remain.

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