Trading Tech
Floating on a system for fixed income
The world may have fallen out of love with collateralised debt, but even in difficult trading conditions portfolio managers still need to look at complex fixed-income instruments to deliver alpha to their clients. Fidessa LatentZero's David Blocker…
Dark diligence
“Who do you trust?” As that question gains pertinence among buy-side managers, aspects of their relationships with broker-dealers have come under scrutiny. In the midst of sell-side upheavals and ongoing volatility, buy-side traders might presume to find…
Tackling Transparency
It goes without saying that derivatives pricing has been one of the most acute and ever-present challenges facing buy-side firms of all sizes since the start of the new Millennium, and if the slew of recent derivatives research is anything to go by, buy…
AllianceBernstein completes global rollout of Portware's EMS
AllianceBernstein, the $429 billion global investment manager, has completed its phased roll-out of Portware's Portware Enterprise execution management system at its operations in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Spotlight on Robert Hegarty
After a ten-year career at TowerGroup heading the consultancy's securities and investments practice, Robert Hegarty has moved to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). As managing director of market structure at the DTCC, Hegarty will lead…
Fund investor accounting technology market set to contract
In the face of more cautious IT budgeting across the hedge fund and fund of funds industries, the market for investor accounting platforms will shrink over the next two years as managers make do with their existing infrastructures. A new Celent…
Tough times call for new ideas
By now, readers are probably as sick of hearing about the recession as financial technology journalists are of writing about it. But, like it or not, the economic downturn defines and shapes every major technology decision currently being made at…
Iberdrola selects GlobalVision for energy trading
Iberdrola, the Bilbao, Spain-based energy company is set to use Trayport's GlobalVision Trading Gateway for energy trading in Europe. According to Trayport, the GlobalVision Trading Gateway will allow Iberdrola's traders to view and trade market data…
DTCC, Markit agree further integration
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Markit are collaborating to automate syndicated loan reconciliation for institutional investors and other buy-side firms by creating a link between DTCC's Loan/SERV Reconciliation Service and Markit…
Going wholly hosted
MFC Global Investment Management, the investment management arm of Canadian financial services firm Manulife Financial Corporation, recently faced a challenge familiar to many buy-side managers with global infrastructures: moving operations scattered…
CEP - Strategic or tactical weapon?
Complex event processing (CEP) technology has existed in the capital markets for some time, but it has gained traction primarily in the algorithmic trading space. Today, CEP technology that analyses large quantities of streaming data in real time has a…
QuantHouse Grows S&D Space
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor QuantHouse has expanded its footprint in hosting service provider Switch and Data's datacenter at 111, Eighth Avenue in New York, to gain access to more markets through Switch and Data's hosting…
Options IT Re-Plumbs PIPE Feed
Provider of infrastructure-as-a-service Options IT has made the components of its Options Pipe direct feeds and infrastructure management product suite available as four separate products this month, in response to demand for outsourced services as a…