Trading Tech
Locking Down Liquidity
On October 5, the UK's Financial Services Authority released 09/16, Strengthening Liquidity Standards Policy Statement, the final version of the UK's long-awaited liquidity risk regulation. Carla Mangado explores how this will impact the back office and…
Standard Shifts
Standardization and the use of internationally recognized corporate actions messages has been one of the main topics of discussion at industry events this year. 2010 now promises to be a turning point. Carla Mangado explores the changes the coming year…
Editor's Letter - We're doing very nicely, thank you
I was at a presentation fairly recently where a research company claimed that there would be a significant contraction in the number of third-party technology vendors as a result of (among other things) buy-side firms reducing their third-party…
Prescient signs ASP contract with Eagle
Prescient Investment Management, a Cape Town-based independent quantitative investment manager with approximately $8 billion under management, has selected Eagle Investment Systems to deliver its integrated investment management suite via its application…
StatPro Group enhances CAP offering
StatPro Group, the Wimbledon, UK-based provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, has made two enhancements to its system for pricing complex financial assets: T+0 pricing for credit default swaps has…
Thomson Reuters unveils Portia v10.0
Thomson Reuters has launched an enhanced version of its Portia investment accounting system. Portia v10.0 includes:
Schroders live with SimCorp Dimension in Asia Pacific
Schroder Investment Management has completed the implementation of SimCorp Dimension for valuation and settlement functions across four countries within its Asia-Pacific operation.
TCA plugs into the front office
The rise of TCA data over the past few years has caused some head scratching among investment managers. How to incorporate this data into a broader investment process beyond a means of evaluating execution quality has proven tricky, although progress in…
Spotlight on Ben Jackson
With energy and commodities markets facing the prospect of more hands-on regulatory reform in the US, SunGard has merged its Kiodex and Energy businesses into a single unit, with Ben Jackson at the helm. Former chief operating officer at Kiodex, Jackson…
SEC shows its hand on dark pool regulation
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed more concrete proposals aimed at increasing transparency within dark liquidity venues, potentially weakening the primary value proposition dark pool providers have brought to capital markets in…
Schroders opts for MoneyMate's hosted data service
Schroders, the UK-based $185 billion asset manager, has contracted Dublin-based data management service provider MoneyMate to host its global network of client-facing websites, to help centralise and validate fund information across its operations.
StreamBase unveils order execution strategies for high-frequency trading
StreamBase Systems, the Lexington, MA-based provider of complex event processing (CEP) technology has released a new library of order execution trading strategies supporting high-frequency trading initiatives.
Euro market ushers in next-generation trading platforms
The financial services industry is constantly evolving the tools and capabilities to trade greater volumes faster and more efficiently, and just as we witnessed phone-based trading supersede the open outcry model, we are now seeing screen-based trading…
Third Rome live with Triple'A Plus
Third Rome, a financial advisor specialising in wealth management services for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals of Russian origin, is in production after a three-month Accenture-managed implementation with Triple'A Plus from Odyssey…
How fast is too fast?
Progress Apama's Giles Nelson speaks to Victor Anderson about high-frequency trading In the US markets, and how this practice is currently polarising opinions on both sides of the Atlantic. He also explains how his firm's technology supports these…
Month in Numbers
"A growing trend in the industry involves managers and traders using pre-trade analysis to not only select algorithms but also as part of the portfolio construction process"
Gulfmena selects Asset Arena for AM ops
Gulfmena, an asset manager operating from the Dubai International Financial Centre specialising in the Middle East and North Africa, has selected SunGard's Asset Arena portfolio management platform to help automate its front- to-back-office operations.
Bloomberg Preps Move to Open Architecture
Bloomberg is set to dispel its perception as a closed system with a range of initiatives designed to open up the data and functionality contained within its flagship data display and feed products, to make it easier for clients to integrate the vendor's…
Data Warehouse to Boost Performance for Pink OTC
NEW YORK-Over-the-counter (OTC) securities trading venue Pink OTC Markets expects to see a trading system performance boost as it moves its analytic and reporting functions from its trading database onto a recently deployed data warehouse, DWT has…