Trading Tech
Integral Packages FX Feed, History
Foreign exchange trading software vendor Integral will this week begin distributing real-time and historical FX price data from its FX Grid multibank trading platform, to enable retail brokers-particularly those promoting a "no-dealing desk" execution…
Achieving Best Ex
There is one thing that industry participants can agree upon: The global economic recovery is not around the corner, which means best execution is more important today than ever before, especially considering the high levels of competition we are seeing…
Rethink Architecture or Risk Drowning in Data
Increasing volumes of data resulting from the growth of high-frequency trading could overwhelm markets unless firms review their infrastructure requirements, and find new ways to improve their data architectures beyond simply adding hardware or…
Fidessa Melds Data, Trading Platforms
Trading technology and data provider Fidessa has completed the integration of market data from its global ticker plants onto its US hosted trading platform, enabling users to trade on real-time market data and monitor their orders via a single screen.
CQG Grows Emerging Markets Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is adding connectivity to exchanges in emerging markets in Asia, central Europe and Latin America to meet increasing client demand for emerging markets data and the ability to trade on…
SunGard Continues Data Integration
SunGard's Global Trading division will soon roll out data from its MarketMap data terminal product into its GL Win trading terminal, in the latest move to integrate its data architecture and share content across business lines within the SunGard group of…
European Trading Firms Go Loco for Co-lo
Co-location facilities remain in demand, not only as firms seek to reduce the latency of data delivery by locating their trading engines in the same physical premises as exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, but also as a means to cut back on…
Bank of East Asia Signs Up FinIQ
HONG KONG-Bank of East Asia plans to go live with the FinIQ Structured Products System to augment its treasury business in Hong Kong by the end of the year, say vendor officials.
Savvis Slates 2010 Launch for Project Spirit
LONDON-Rolling out the capabilities of a new datacenter might be as simple as clicking a mouse button if cloud computing platform Project Spirit gets off the ground, according to officials from network and hosting facilities provider Savvis.
Front End Vendors Move Spreader Algos to Servers
NEW YORK-Multi-asset traders looking to shave extra milliseconds of latency off their spread-order trade messages have two new options as trading platform providers CQG and Trading Technologies International (TT) move their respective spreading…
Interactive Brokers Readies Mobile Trading Release
GREENWICH, CONN.- Traders who use Apple iPhones will be able to step away from their desks as prime broker Interactive Brokers (IB) is preparing to launch an iPhone-enabled version of its Trader Workstation (TWS) trading front end, dubbed iTWS, brokerage…
Oslo Børs Continues TradElect Migration
OSLO-Operators of the Oslo Børs have confirmed plans to continue the exchange's matching engine migration to the London Stock Exchange's (LSE's) TradElect platform, despite the U.K. exchange's recent acquisition of exchange platform provider MillenniumIT.
Bids Preps for Datacenter Move
NEW YORK-By the end of the year, operators of alternative trading system (ATS) Bids Trading expect to relocate their systems to their own datacenter facility within the Equinix NY-4 datacenter located in Jersey City, N.J., according to Bids officials.
RTI Unveils Data Routing Service
Messaging provider RTI will this week allow early adopters to begin testing its RTI Routing Service, a software router for distributing, transforming and filtering data between DDS (Data Distribution Service) systems that improves integration between…
Putting a Value on Valuations
Valuations aren't just a part of firms' investment and portfolio management strategies; they are also big business, as Thomson Reuters' recent forays into evaluated pricing with the acquisition of part of Moody's Evaluations, and the hires of staff from…
Fidessa Adds OTC Data to Liquidity Analytics
UK-based trading technology and market data vendor Fidessa is planning to incorporate data from over-the-counter trade reporting venues and dark pools into its Fidessa Fragmentation Index (FFI) liquidity analytics service, which traditionally focused on…
European Data Dilemmas: Navigating Fragmented Liquidity
The end of concentration rules brought about by the European Commission's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive has heralded a new age of competition between exchanges and multilateral trading facilities. But what are the implications for the market…
The Future of High-Frequency Trading
The popularity of high-frequency trading is growing by leaps and bounds within the financial services industry, despite the growing political pressure to further regulate it. High-frequency trading adds liquidity to the market, tightens spreads while…
Handling the Growing Buzz
High-frequency trading is at a crossroads. The barriers to entry for high-frequency trading have never been this low for buy-side firms. At the same time, sell-side brokers are facing a low-latency arms race trying to make sure they can deliver the…
Evolving Demands Lead Wedbush to Diversify
Automated trading has been constantly evolving over the past decade as trading technology progresses, but its overall effect on the cash equities markets has not changed: Trading margins continue to come under increasing pressure as more firms want to…