Trading Tech
Glocer's go-to man
Andrew White was appointed global head of Reuters trade and risk management by Reuters' chief executive Tom Glocer just over a year ago. Victor Anderson recently chatted with White about his ambitious five-year plan to grow the firm's market share,…
It does what it says on the tin
SuperDerivatives has been synonymous with derivatives pricing – most specifically options pricing – since its inception some seven years ago. But is was the launch of SD Funds in March this year that positioned the London-based vendor as one of the…
Buy-side use of equity derivatives outpaces automation
Tabb Group’s Exchange-traded equity derivatives report charts the increase in the use of such instruments across the buy side and predicts substantial changes in the way buy-side firms currently trade as they move from phone- and faxed-based systems to…
Blueprint for the future
The correlation between a buy-side firm's technology and its ability to trade fast and efficiently has never been stronger. Amy Muddimer explains this dependency by scrutinising technologies on the buy side that underpin the continuous drive for straight…
For the love of grid – Joel Clark investigates the rise in popularity of computer grids supporting a variety of compute-intensive processes on the sell side and looks at how buy-side firms might benefit by deploying such technologies.
Computer grids have been around for quite some time on the sell side, allowing banks to maximise latent computing power on their networks for a range of processes. But what about the buy side; will hedge funds' and asset managers' more modest…
Is DMA on the rocks? – Stewart Eisenhart’s feature focuses on the benefits to buy-side players of accessing the markets directly, and the primary stumbling block of integrating DMA technologies with other front-office applications, currently inhibiting mo
Since direct market access (DMA) tools began gaining traction with buy-side firms, the benefits of managers taking more control over their trading operations in terms of best execution and greater efficiency have been tempered by significant challenges…
Spotlight on Andrew Shrimpton
Andrew Shrimpton , recently appointed senior advisor at London-based buy-side consultancy Kinetic Partners, speaks with Stewart Eisenhart about the experience gleaned during his time at the FSA, and how his FSA-tenure put him in the ideal position to…
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US Senator Charles Grassley and German Chancellor Angela Merkel make unlikely partners in commiseration. But both politicians face dim prospects in their attempts to assert more control over hedge funds, which seems to reflect a general lack of interest…
Multi-asset class trading systems...still a pipe dream?
Paul Miller and Jonathan Hammond discuss the current shortcomings of multi-asset class trading systems initiatives, and propose a new approach to this growing conundrum which involves meaningful collaboration between technology producers and consumers
The Third Time’s the Charm
With much fanfare earlier this year, the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext finalized their merger into NYSE Euronext. Several weeks later, Eurex announced its acquisition of the International Securities Exchange (ISE). And late last week, corks were…
New LIM Releases Simplify Queries, Fix Java Bug
Logical Information Machines, a Chicago-based provider of financial, energy and commodities data, last week released the latest version of its XMIM analytical software that simplifies the way that users construct queries to run on market data.
Latency Top Priority, but Firms Cool on Proximity Hosting
Latency remains a priority to support trading strategies such as high-frequency statistical arbitrage, though firms are examining a variety of options to achieve optimal performance, according to a panel organized by Reuters in London last week.
BEA Announces CEP, Real-Time Platform
Enterprise software vendor BEA Systems will this week announce the upcoming launch of WebLogic Event Server and the release of version 2.0 of its WebLogic Real-Time platform this summer, which will improve the ability of Java-coded applications to handle…
Turquoise Reveals Plans for Hybrid Model
LONDON—Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid)-inspired multilateral trading facility (MTF) Project Turquoise will offer a hybrid trading model—incorporating both displayed and non-displayed liquidity—once the bank-led consortium goes live…
BEA Leaps Into Complex Event Processing
NEW YORK—To address Java’s shortcomings in complex event processing (CEP) environments, BEA Systems announced today the planned summer launch of its WebLogic Event Server (WLES) and version 2.0 of its WebLogic Real-Time (WLRT) platform.
FIX City to Launch Fixed-Income IOI
LONDON—Officials from FIX City, a provider of software for FIX-based indications of interest (IOI) announced last week plans to launch a multi-asset support for the vendor’s IOI platform Ioinet this summer.
Nasdaq Makes Tech Buy with OMX
NEW YORK—The Nasdaq Stock Market plans to acquire exchange operator and technology provider OMX Group in a deal valued at SEK25.1 billion ($3.7 billion) and re-brand the new entity Nasdaq OMX Group, officials from both exchanges announced on Friday.
CIB Taps Etrali for Shanghai Trading Floor
SHANGHAI—As part of a new dealing room deployment, China Industrial Bank (CIB) plans to roll out 70 Mach 3D turrets from Orange Business Services (OBS)–Trading Solutions, née Etrali, in early June, a vendor official tells DWT.