Trading Tech
Updata Integrates Eikon, Datastream Data
UK-based technical analysis software provider Updata has integrated data from Thomson Reuters’ real-time Eikon terminal and Datastream economic research tool into its Professional analytics workstation, to enable customers to carry out advanced analytics…
Morningstar Begins Historical Tick Database Revamp
The real-time data business of Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar is in the middle of a project to make its database of historical tick data more flexible and accessible to different types of users and use cases.
Millistream Database Application Upgrade Targets Performance Gains
Swedish market data vendor Millistream has released an upgraded version of its Millistream Database Application (MDA), to provide clients with quicker access to market data and to simplify future upgrades, officials say.
Northern Trust Sets Up Delegated Reporting with Sapient
Northern Trust is now able to offer delegated reporting to its buy-side clients, after implementing the Compliance Management Reporting Service (CMRS) platform from Sapient Global Markets.
Windy Apple Tech Says Low-Latency Transatlantic Wireless Net Possible in 18 Months
Jersey City, NJ-based Windy Apple Technologies, which operates a low-latency microwave network between New York and Chicago for high-frequency traders, is claiming that it can construct a similar wireless network over the Atlantic Ocean, drastically…
Northern Trust Appoints Deustche Bank, Euroclear Ahead of T2S Implementation
Northern Trust has selected Deutsche Bank and Euroclear to support its strategy ahead of the implementation of Target2-Securities, or T2S, the centralized securities settlement system aiming at harmonizing settlement infrastructure across Europe.
Investor, Regulatory Demands Drive Latest Linedata Rollout
Yesterday, it was announced that Linedata had enhanced Linedata Global Hedge, its overarching platform for hedge fund managers.
Born Taps NYSE's Dimtsis for Canada Sales
Born Technology, a Chicago-based exchange connectivity and co-location technology provider, has hired Paul Dimtsis as managing director of sales, based in Toronto.
Broadridge Adds Confirmation Matching Capabilities to its PROactive Suite
Broadridge Financial Solutions has released an update of its reconciliation and process management suite, PROactive, to bolster operational efficiency and servicing between buy and sell firms by adding confirmation matching capabilities.
BLK Taps VeriFIX to Enhance Quality Assurance Functionalities
Brazilian algorithmic trading technology vendor BLK Sistemas Financeiros has chosen CameronTec’s VeriFIX automated testing tools to enhance quality assurance (QA) capabilities on its RoboTrader platform.
Options Grows Velocity Feed Coverage, Eyes Wider Reach
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has added new European markets to its connectivity and managed co-location platform, providing customers with direct access to equities and derivatives feeds from Spanish exchange group…
KCG Launches HotSpot QT
KCG Holdings has debuted a dark crossing venue for foreign exchange (FX), HotSpot QT.
Bred Banque Populaire Chooses SunGard’s Hosted Trading Services for Euronext Access
BRED Banque Populaire, the commercial arm of Groupe Banque Populaire Caisses d’Epargne (BPCE), one of France's largest banking groups, has extended its relationship with SunGard and is now using the vendor's Valdi Market Access platform to add hosted…
Updated Version of Linedata Global Hedge Released
Linedata announced an upgrade to its technology platform for hedge fund managers, Linedata Global Hedge.
ConvergEx Launches IEX Order Routing Strategy
New York-based broker ConvergEx Group has launched a dynamic order routing strategy developed in collaboration with IEX that will allow its clients to split their orders between IEX’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) and ConvergEx's Darkest algorithm.
OptionsPlay Ideas Available on Scivantage Investment Platforms
Scivantage will offer OptionsPlay Ideas, an equities and options investing tool, through its Scivantage Investor and Scivantage Professional platforms.
Tiger Sinks Claws into Hudson Fiber
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investing in mid-market infrastructure assets, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Paramus, NJ-based low-latency network provider Hudson Fiber Network, to expand the vendor's…
SEC Taps SmartStream for Reconciliations Data
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has selected SmartStream's TLM Reconciliations Premium and SmartRecs products to enhance its front-line oversight division's capabilities.
OMD Builds Social Media Data ‘Sandbox’
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData has launched a new web-based social media analysis platform that combines market data, reference data and social media sentiment scores with analytics and visualization tools, to…
Thomson Reuters Integrates Markit Directory into Eikon Messenger
Thomson Reuters has integrated the Markit Directory "phone book" component of Markit's Collaboration Services messaging platform into its Eikon Messenger chat tool, as part of an ongoing industry project to build an open messaging network for financial…
Eczacıbaşı Securities Selects Catalys for Market Connectivity
Turkish broker Eczacıbaşı Securities has chosen CameronTec's Catalys FIX gateway for connectivity to Borsa Istanbul's equities and derivatives markets.
iLevel Opens UK-Based Datacenter
The software provider to private capital markets has opened a new European datacenter at Rackspace's UK facility to support a growing client base and presence in the region.
BVL Extends Relationship with CameronTec
The Peruvian Exchange, Bolsa de Valores de Lime (BVL), will further expand its relationship with CameronTec by using its VeriFIX automated testing tools on its new Millennium trading platform.
Sparinvest picks SunGard
Denmark-based asset manager Sparinvest will use SunGard’s XSPrisa to automate its global corporate actions processing.