Trading Tech
Manulife selects Broadridge's Dataphile platform
Canadian broker-dealer, Manulife Securities, a division of Manulife Financial, has implemented Broad-ridge Financial Solutions' Dataphile platform for over 1,500 advisors in both its securities and mutual funds businesses. Manulife Securities acquired…
Tibco Rolls Out Rendezvous Appliance
PALO ALTO, CALIF.-Later this week, Tibco Software plans to announce the availability of the new appliance-based version of its Rendezvous messaging platform.
Tibco Debuts Messaging ‘Appliance'
Tibco will this week unveil its new hardware-based messaging appliance, which embeds the vendor's Rendezvous middleware product into networking hardware to reduce messaging latency and server space requirements while handling rising data throughput.
Equiduct Trading Sets New Launch Date
LONDON-After pushing back the launch date for Equiduct Trading, the multilateral trading facility's (MTF's) officials expect the venue to go live later this quarter.
Baikal Selects TradElect
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange's (LSE's) dark-liquidity trading platform, Baikal, will run on the exchange's TradElect trading platform and is scheduled to go live in June this year, according to recent industry reports.
Reliance Boosts European Coverage
Network provider Reliance Globalcom has expanded the coverage of European trading venues available via its FinancialConnect extranet with the addition of access to multilateral trading facilities Chi-X, Nasdaq OMX Europe and BATS Europe.
Trade Secrets
Shocking revelations broke last week that the US National Security Agency systematically spied on news organizations and collected data on ordinary citizens under the veil of national security. The amount of data alleged to have been collected is…
Creating a Savvy ‘Network Effect'
The relentless march of trading venues has put pressure on network and hosting service providers, as trading firms seek low-latency access to multiple liquidity sources. But how do you keep pace with the changing market landscape when budgets are being…
European CCP Expands into Spain
LONDON-The European subsidiary of the U.S. Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. (DTCC), the European Central Counterparty (EuroCCP), expects to start offering clearing and settlement of equities from Spain next month.
Experts Predict Portfolio Platform Growth
NEW YORK-The industry is ripe for a growth spurt of portfolio trading technologies and tools to help traders better execute their strategies, according to a recent industry report.
Laying the Cornerstone for Cross-Asset Trading
Whether it's an issue of providing new services to institutional investors or deploying a cost-saving maneuver in a down market, setting up electronic cross-asset trading capabilities is a difficult task for any broker-dealer. DWT assembled Steve Grob,…
Market Slump Prompts Orc Realignment
STOCKHOLM-Trading technology and connectivity provider Orc Software is set to shut 20 percent of its offices worldwide as well as implement a 15 percent reduction to its workforce, according to vendor officials.
Reliance Expands With MTF Hat Trick
NEW YORK-In an effort to expand its services in Europe, network provider Reliance Globalcom has connected its Ethernet-based financial extranet, FinancialConnect, to three multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), vendor officials announced today, Jan. 26.
StanChart Rolls Out FX Aggregation
SINGAPORE-Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) has completed the first phase of its implementation of Progress Apama technology by going live in four cities on the vendor's foreign exchange (FX) liquidity aggregator.
UNX Adopts 4th Story
NEW YORK-Direct market access (DMA) clients of agency brokerage UNX now have access to trading algorithms via automated-trading technology provider 4th Story's 4S.BlueRidge algorithm trading server, vendor officials announced today, Jan. 26.
The Rise of the Boutiques
Nature truly abhors a vacuum and so do the markets. While Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit tolls the official death knell of the "supermarket model" for financial institutions as he cleaves his firm into Citigroup and Citi Holdings, many firms and vendors are…
Thomson Reuters Bows News Indexes
Thomson Reuters last week unveiled NewsScope Event Indices, a real-time feed of news analytics that separates news into different indexes to price movements and volatility based on deviations in the amount of news within specific categories.
EquityFeed Revamps Data App
Montreal-based data workstation provider EquityFeed has released an upgrade to its platform, designed to target new users among the active retail trader community, and to provide a series of specialized, new displays targeted separately at institutional…
NYSE Euronext Launches Unified Order Book
PARIS-Exchange operator NYSE Euronext has reached a recent milestone in consolidating its order books. Traders on the Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris bourses can trade on a single consolidated order book.