Trading Tech
IBM Readies Diskless On-Demand Environment
NEW YORK-IBM is working on releasing a diskless environment for the Dynamic option of its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) offering to debut early in the second quarter, DWT has learned.
Study: Green IT Adoption Wanting
LONDON-European firms are increasingly alert to the green IT agenda, but lack an understanding of what environmental technology options are available in the market, according to a white paper published by IT market research firm Vanson Bourne.
Egenera Expands OEM Partnerships
MARLBORO, MASS.-Datacenter virtualization software and hardware provider Egenera is on the verge of announcing a newly inked original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with a "global firm," DWT has learned.
Microsoft Integrates Turrets
LONDON-Global software and technology provider Microsoft announced today, March 17, the launch of its Institutional Client Platform (ICP) that enables firms to integrate their entire communication infrastructure including instant messaging (IM), e-mail…
CLSA to Outsource Datacenters to BT
HONG KONG-Broker-dealer Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) has contracted BT to manage its global datacenter, according to a vendor spokesperson.
Centralized Order Books Take Hit Under Mifid
LONDON-Reconstructing a centralized order book in a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) environment is proving a serious challenge for many investment banks, according to research by Mifid think tank JWG-IT, which will be released in April.
Coral8 Release Boosts Query, Pattern-Tracking Capabilities
Complex event processing engine provider Coral8 has released version 5.2 of its Coral8 Engine, which includes enhancements for narrowing the range of queries and creating audit trails.
Skyler to Integrate European Data
Skyler Technologies, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based data software vendor, will this week announce plans to integrate data from European and Asian markets into its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution to enable firms to locate liquidity and the best price for…
Skyler Enters European Markets
CONCORD, CALIF.-Low-latency trading products provider Skyler Technology announced today, March 10, that it has expanded the latest version of its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution product to cover the European markets.
Schneider Adopts VoIP Turrets
LONDON-Execution broker Schneider Trading Associates has replaced its legacy hardwired Reuters dealerboards with Voice over IP (VoIP)-enabled turrets from Belgian turret vendor IP Trade, DWT has learned.
Pimp My CPU
As the introduction and adoption of grid computing revolutionized the financial services industry, another disruptive technology is just off in the wings waiting to burst onto the scene-massive parallel processing.
CEP Comes of Age
With the early adoption phase over, complex event processing technologies will not only enter the mainstream during 2008, but permeate it completely. By John Morrell, director of product marketing at Coral8.
Independence Day
Competitive pressures are constantly prompting vendors to review their offerings and look for new opportunities. One such vendor is Knowledge Technology Solutions and the Arcontech business it bought last year, which is not only deciding the best way to…
CodeStreet Adds Latency Monitor Tools
NEW YORK-based data software vendor CodeStreet will this week unveil a solution for monitoring and charting latency within Market Data Metrics, a component of the vendor's Market Data Works product suite.
AMD Preps GPU-CPU Hybrid for 2009 Launch
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will release the first products featuring its new microprocessor design in 2009, officials tell DWT .
StanChart Adds API Link to 360T
Global wholesale bank Standard Chartered recently went live with a FIX-based application programming interface (API) that will provide users access to a number of pools of liquidity via the bank's Straight2Bank Stream electronic trading platform or the…
Tabb: Fragmentation Now the Norm
NEW YORK-Brokerages hoping to limit the number of U.S. liquidity pools to which they need to connect are in for a disappointment as the U.S. equity market is heading toward further fragmentation, according to a research note from industry analyst firm…
Archangel Plans June Flight
NEW HOPE, PA.-Listed options block traders will have a new execution venue in a few months as alternative trading system (ATS) Archangel from software and network provider 3D Markets is set to go into full production by early June, vendor officials tell…
The Future of E-FX
Since the beginning 2007, the electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) market has gone through dramatic changes with the adoption of algorithmic execution as volume and volatility have reached record levels.
Reuters Bows Latency Tool
Reuters will this week launch Reuters Latency Monitor (RLM), based on technology from New York-based data technology vendor Trading Metrics, to help clients determine the speed of market data delivery over Reuters' RMDS data distribution platform to data…
No Country For Old Men
In a recent posting on his blog, Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer suggested his own addendum to Clayton Christensen's theories in The Innovator's Dilemma about why it is hard for large companies to innovate as much as their smaller competitors. While…
BT Preps Low-Latency 'Ultra' Europe
Network and hosting provider BT Global Financial Services is poised to launch a low-latency service for access to market data and order routing for European markets, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tervela Claims Breakthrough Tests
Low-latency, hardware messaging provider Tervela is claiming that tests conducted with hardware manufacturer AMD produced record-breaking throughput and latency figures in an environment designed to simulate a live production scenario.