Trading Tech
NSX Securities Taps Morgan Stanley for Clearing, Order Routing
NSX Securities, the wholly-owned broker-dealer and exchange facility of the National Stock Exchange, has chosen Morgan Stanley to provide its clearing services and outbound order routing.
Optimize: The How and Who
Collateral optimization is a reality for a few institutions, an attainable goal for a few others, and a pipe dream for the rest. In the second part of his feature on optimization, Jake Thomases checks in on who is optimizing and who isn’t, and on what an…
Collateral Transformation's Influence on Optimization
Some people see collateral transformation and collateral optimization as equivalent solutions to the margin demands of central counterparties. In reality, they should not be considered different sides of the same coin.
Sifma Taps Cullen for Corporate Actions Group
Kevin Cullen, communications and marketing director at Information Mosaic, will serve on the Industry Leadership Committee for Sifma's Corporate Actions Section
Mellanox to Provide Server Interconnects for NLX
Nasdaq OMX NLX has selected the InfiniBand solution of Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of interconnect solutions for data centers, as the server interconnect for its matching engines.
NYSE Enters Sentiment Analysis Market with SMA Alliance
NYSE Technologies, the technology division of NYSE Euronext, has partnered with quantitative analytics firm Social Market Analytics (SMA) to provide its customers with access to sentiment analytics that can be integrated within trading algorithms.
Liability Protection, R&D Needed After Cybersecurity Executive Order
One of the Obama Administration's first actions in the new term is proving controversial. All parties agree on the perils of hacking, but financial firms are skeptical that regulating cybersecurity, alone, is the right approach.
Pulp Fiction: The Case for Dematerialization
Starting around the mid-1980s, securities depositories and the financial services industry as a whole began to move toward a process of converting paper stock certificates to electronic formats. Reasons of market efficiency and risk reduction are cited…
Live Squawk Enlists Market Chartist for Audio-Visual Analysis
Live Squawk adds technical charts and narration to its offering from research analyst Steve Miley
A Crowded Market: Brokers, Vendors Battle with FIX
As FIX connectivity costs have risen over the past five years, more brokers are looking to outsourced or hosted solutions to manage those costs. But vendors must prove much in order to win business in an increasingly commoditized space.
New SimCorp Dimension Platform Offers Enhanced Risk Functionality
Copenhagen-based SimCorp has unveiled version 5.3 of its front-to-back-office investment management platform, SimCorp Dimension. The new version offers users reverse stress-testing functionality, in addition to enhanced collateral management and…
Caplin Systems Adds Android, iPhone 5 Accessibility
London-based web trading technology provider Caplin Systems has launched Caplin StreamLink Android and Caplin StreamLink iOS for greater accessibility to its technology
UK Firms Cite Storage, Processing of Social Media Data as Barrier to Sentiment Trading
Firms wanting to make use of social media data face significant technology challenges, survey says
Activ Financial Extends Pre-Trade Risk Offering to Canada
Risk management vendor Activ Financial has announced that it is extending its Activ TradeDeck product's coverage to include Canadian exchanges.
TS-Associates Turbo-Charges Sixth-Gen TipOff
The new appliance can deliver a 20-fold improvement in network monitoring performance, officials say.
Squawker, Ullink Complete Connectivity
Squawker, the London-based pan-European, sell-side block trading venue, and Ullink, a provider of low-latency connectivity and trading technology, are now connected through Ullink's global trading network.
