Trading Tech
Tiger Sinks Claws into Hudson Fiber
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investing in mid-market infrastructure assets, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Paramus, NJ-based low-latency network provider Hudson Fiber Network, to expand the vendor's…
SEC Taps SmartStream for Reconciliations Data
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has selected SmartStream's TLM Reconciliations Premium and SmartRecs products to enhance its front-line oversight division's capabilities.
OMD Builds Social Media Data ‘Sandbox’
Tick database and complex event processing system provider OneMarketData has launched a new web-based social media analysis platform that combines market data, reference data and social media sentiment scores with analytics and visualization tools, to…
Thomson Reuters Integrates Markit Directory into Eikon Messenger
Thomson Reuters has integrated the Markit Directory "phone book" component of Markit's Collaboration Services messaging platform into its Eikon Messenger chat tool, as part of an ongoing industry project to build an open messaging network for financial…
Eczacıbaşı Securities Selects Catalys for Market Connectivity
Turkish broker Eczacıbaşı Securities has chosen CameronTec's Catalys FIX gateway for connectivity to Borsa Istanbul's equities and derivatives markets.
iLevel Opens UK-Based Datacenter
The software provider to private capital markets has opened a new European datacenter at Rackspace's UK facility to support a growing client base and presence in the region.
BVL Extends Relationship with CameronTec
The Peruvian Exchange, Bolsa de Valores de Lime (BVL), will further expand its relationship with CameronTec by using its VeriFIX automated testing tools on its new Millennium trading platform.
Sparinvest picks SunGard
Denmark-based asset manager Sparinvest will use SunGard’s XSPrisa to automate its global corporate actions processing.
1010 Says 10-4 to ‘Easy-to-Use' Analysis Interface
1010Data, a New York-based provider of Big Data analytics tools for fixed income and other markets, has released a new interface to its database, to allow bond traders to more easily perform loan-level analysis on mortgage-backed securities, in addition…
Dion Debuts AlphaClick
Dion Global Solutions has announced the launch of AlphaClick, a portfolio analytics tool aimed at venture capital and private equity firms.
Sparinvest Chooses SunGard’s XSPrisa for Corporate Actions Processing
International asset management firm Sparinvest will implement SunGard's XSPrisa software-as-a-service offering to help mitigate its operational risk and more efficiently process corporate actions events
StatPro Taps Thompson for Client Integrations
Data and portfolio analytics provider StatPro has hired Ian Thompson as client integration director, responsible for helping the vendor's product development teams to smoothly transition clients to its cloud-based StatPro Revolution analytics platform…
RBS Adopts Single-Platform Transaction Messaging for Corporates
Royal Bank of Scotland will now support Swift's Corporate Access (SCA) members using the MT798 messaging standard for corporate-to-bank trade transactions.
City Index Rolls Out Velocimetrics for Data Quality Monitoring
City Index, a provider of equities, options, indexes and contracts for difference trading and financial spread betting, has implemented technology from latency monitoring provider Velocimetrics to monitor the quality of market data feeding its equities…
Singapore Exchange Upgrades Reporting
The exchange, working with a market practice group, is requiring completion of structured data fields to better support corporate actions reporting
PDQ Rolls Out New Auction Venue
Alternative trading system PDQ has unveiled Auction1, an electronic equity auction designed for larger orders with heightened sensitivity to market impact.
Brazil's Valemobi Taps Numerix for Pricing Analytics
The São Paulo-based brokerage will use Numerix's advanced analytical framework to produce pricing and portfolio analytics across multiple asset classes for its buy side-focused Valebroker platform.
FX Manipulation Targeted with b-next Release
Surveillance vendor b-next has announced the release of a tool for its Capital Market Compliance (CMC) offering, aimed at detected suspicious trading activity around the foreign exchange (FX) fix.
BATS Makes Early Move on ETF Reporting
BATS Chi-X Europe has announced the impending launch of a centralized reporting service for exchange-traded funds (ETF), set for October 1.
All Derivatives, All the Time
IT spend and T+2 lead this week's coverage.
SunGard Introduces APT Enterprise
The technology mainstay says its updated buy-side offering, APT Enterprise, now includes a risk dashboard for a single view of market and liquidity risk that can incorporate multiple trading strategies and metrics covered under several global reporting…
BCS Financial Taps Horizon’s Market-Making Platform
Russian broker BCS Financial Group has selected Horizon Software's derivatives market-making capabilities and exchange connectivity throughout Europe.
SEF Establishment Forces Big Decisions for Sell-Side Firms
The launch of swap execution facilities (SEFs) was always going to mean tremendous change for the derivatives market. For the sell side it’s also prompted soul searching around how they differentiate themselves for institutional clients.
Unique Boutiques: Smaller Hedge Funds Demand Bespoke Tech
Boutique hedge funds are prime targets for third-party technology providers, but they have also become more complicated to win and to service, in part because their back-stories—and clients’ demands—are more diverse than ever. Tim Bourgaize Murray speaks…