Trading Tech
TXC Completes Global Co-Lo Strategy
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-High-frequency trading hosting provider Trading Cross Connects US (TXC) went live with its Tokyo co-location facility on April 15, using a network and datacenter facilities from Tokyo-headquartered KVH.
ITRS, 29West Ally for Messaging Monitoring
UK-based real-time systems monitoring software vendor ITRS and messaging technology provider 29West-recently acquired by Calif.-based integration software vendor Informatica-are developing an adapter that will enable clients to monitor the performance of…
Surveillance's Painful Proposition
Last week at during its board of governors meeting, the Security Traders Association (STA)-a U.S.-based advocacy organization for securities traders-responded to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) concept release on market structure.
Connors Group Powers Up 'The Machine'
Financial information and commentary portal provider Connors Group has rolled out its Web-based analytics platform, The Machine, including a new tool aimed at investment advisers for building quantified portfolios.
Exegy Update Boosts Ticker Plant Performance
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy will this week release version 3.0 of its ticker plant, featuring lower latency, higher capacity and more interfaces for connection to other systems, to meet client demand, as well as new…
STAC to Expand Benchmarking Tools
The Securities Technology Analysis Center is modifying the test environment it uses to benchmark the performance of feed handlers, to enable clients to choose off-the-shelf latency measurement and time synchronization devices from multiple vendors for…
Thomson Reuters Preps Elektron Stream
Thomson Reuters' new Elektron global data network, which the vendor plans to roll out by July, will be key to sourcing data from markets and broker contributors and distributing it to applications, third parties and consumers in future.
Laying the Groundwork for Cross-Asset Trading
As institutional investors' demand for cross-asset trading grows, sell-side firms are challenged to deliver the capability or risk losing order flow. Providing a single trading interface capable of trading multiple asset classes is the relatively easy…
Creating the Proper Cross-Asset Recipe
Since the latter half of 2004, Barclays Capital has been refining its multi-asset-class electronic trading support to meet its client demands.
Cracking the Secret Sauce
Next to low-latency execution, cross-asset trading is one of the biggest buzzwords in the industry today. However, the open secret is that while everyone seems happy to talk about cross-asset trading, very few firms have managed to truly deliver it to…
Winterflood Elects IFS as TCA Provider
LONDON-U.K. broker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis (TCA) platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems (IFS) to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market-making platform.
Fidessa EMS Gains U.S. Options Support
NEW YORK-Market connectivity and trading platform provider Fidessa has integrated real-time market data and trading capabilities for U.S. options into its global EMS Workstation, vendor officials announced today, April 26.
Swift Signals Five-Year Tech Plan
NEW YORK-During its recent Swift Operations Forum-Americas (SOFA), held in Manhattan, industry messaging cooperative Swift laid out its five most important technology focuses for its five-year business strategy, dubbed Swift 2015.
Informatica Eyes Virtual Databases
NEW YORK-Data integration software vendor Informatica is planning to expand the "virtual database" capabilities of its Informatica 9 data integration platform in 2011, vendor officials tell DWT .
Winterflood Deploys IFS BestEx Analytics
UK stockbroker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market making platform by comparing…
FXall Prepares Trade Analytics
NEW YORK-Foreign exchange (FX) ECN operator FXall plans to introduce a set of pre- and post-trade analytics based on the trading trends that officials observe within the FXall's trading platforms, DWT has learned.
Thomson Reuters Charges Ahead with Elektron
LONDON-Market data and trading platform provider Thomson Reuters recently gave the industry a sneak peek of its next-generation data distribution network, dubbed Elektron.
Savvis Deploys Corvil Appliances for Network Latency Monitoring
Network and hosting service provider Savvis is building out a global latency monitoring service to help clients monitor latencies for up to 20 different trading venues using hardware and software from Dublin-based latency monitoring technology vendor…
Sybase, Panopticon Partner on Visualization
LONDON-Database provider Sybase has selected the data visualization platform from Panopticon Software to provide real-time data visualization for its recently acquired Aleri complex event processing (CEP) business, which should be launched this week, DWT…
The Times They Are A-Changing
Now that we have reached mid-April, everyone should be inundated with commencement announcements from friends, family and those distant relations fishing for graduation gifts. Soon we will be in school auditoriums, gymnasiums or on the front lawn…
Arcontech Revs Excelerator Performance
Data technology vendor Arcontech is in the final stages of developing Version 3.0 of its Excelerator add-in for integrating real-time data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, after entering beta testing with bank and hedge fund clients earlier this month.
Thomson Reuters Accelerates Tick Engine
Thomson Reuters has optimized its Tick Capture Engine (RTCE) to process greater volumes of tick data at higher speed for clients to back-test trading strategies when running on the latest Intel Xeon 7500 chips.
Panopticon Taps Progress, Sybase for Data Connectivity
Stockholm-based data visualization software vendor Panopticon has partnered with Sybase and Progress Software to broaden the range of real-time and historical data that it can display, and has developed an updated software development kit (SDK) that…
Industry: HFT Brings Higher Costs to Futures Markets
NEW YORK-Direct market access (DMA) is changing how technology providers and trading venues are working with futures commission merchants (FCMs) in conducting high-frequency trading (HFT) and managing its risks, according to members of the futures…