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Q-Wixx rolls out flagship CDS trading platform
Q-Wixx, a recently-launched utility assisting buy-side credit trading desks with the processing of credit default swaps (CDSs), has launched a new platform to automate the entire process.
Australian manager live on Charles River for fixed income
Australian asset manager, Tyndall Investment Management, with $9.5 billion under management, has deployed Charles River Develop-ment's Charles River Investment Management System (IMS) to support expansion of its fixed-income business in Australia and New…
Essential ingredients
City Practitioners’ Neil Hookway address the numerous communications challenges facing hedge funds and their technology providers when establishing the technical parameters of new projects.
Lessons to be learned
What appears to be the first major demonstration of how problematic pension fund managers' inclination to increase allocations to hedge funds are proving to be, is unfolding in the wake of last year's Amaranth Advisors collapse. By Stewart Eisenhart
Tapping technology – Joel Clark addresses the perennially topical issue of the ASP (application service provider) model across the buy side, and finds that it is not only end-user firms opting for the ASP route – Credit Suisse’s prime brokerage is already
Vendor-hosted technology, or 'apps-on-tap', is not a new phenomenon but it is a changing one. Gone are the days when ASP was confined to back-office technologies at funds on tight IT budgets; ASPs have permeated every facet of the buy side, so that only…
Delaware installs Quantifi XL
Solution. Advisors can deploy the system, add their clients' individual holdings and interests into their Salesforce contacts and the Dow Jones system will immediately return client news matches, enabling them to better engage affluent clients.
Fimat's French connection
Victor Anderson speaks with Philippe Teilhard, managing director of alternative investment solutions at Fimat, about his firm’s reliance on proprietary technology – most notably its cross-margining tools – and the firm’s solid derivatives foundation.
SunGard unveils Asset Arena on the shores of Lake Como
At this year's SunGard Europa conference held in Como, Italy last month, SunGard announced that it had launched Asset Arena, its new 'umbrella' platform comprising the firm's buy-side-focused products and services.
Sky sees scalability benefits with Indata
Sky Investment Group, a $200 million investment and wealth manager primarily serving private clients, has achieved operational scalability and automated data management capabilities following its implementation of Indata's Investment Management System …
European equity markets ripe for electronic advance
Stewart Eisenhart covers the recently published Tabb Group report, European institutional equity trading 2007: The buy-side perspective, concluding that the rise in electronic pan-European execution volumes in the post-Mifid era is set to impact buy-side…
Start-up energy fund takes Kiodex ASP
ETG Capital, a recently launched hedge fund manager focused on energy and commodities, has implemented SunGard's Kiodex Risk Workbench hosted commodity risk management, reporting, market data and valuation platform in order to develop efficient front…
CEP Gains Ground
Attending last week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) technology management conference in midtown Manhattan, you couldn't help but notice the increased interest in complex event processing (CEP).
Bloomberg Integrates Numerix Analytics
Bloomberg is rolling out multi-asset-class analytical tools for pricing structured products and over-the-counter derivatives from New York-based pricing and risk analytics provider Numerix integrated within Bloomberg Professional terminals, the vendors…
Thomson Preps Direct Feed Tests
Thomson Financial will next week begin a test phase with user firms for the low-latency element of its Thomson Data Feed, which is set to begin providing low-latency exchange data to clients in August.
Vendors Jump on Infini-Band-Wagon
Low-latency data rivals Reuters and Wombat Financial Software both unveiled new configuration options last week that utilize InfiniBand inter-application networking technologies from Voltaire to deliver reductions in data latency.
SIFMA Roundup: News From the Floor
With much of the discussion arising from last week's SIFMA show revolving around low latency and measuring latency, the issue threatened to drown out other news announced by vendors in different niches within the market data industry.
Activ: Cut Networking to Cut Latency
Like rivals Reuters and Wombat Financial Software ( see story, page 5 ), ticker plant and data provider Activ Financial is examining ways to reduce internal network latency. But unlike the others, Activ believes the best solution is to migrate more…