Trading Tech
Broadridge Adds Confirmation Matching Capabilities to its PROactive Suite
Broadridge Financial Solutions has released an update of its reconciliation and process management suite, PROactive, to bolster operational efficiency and servicing between buy and sell firms by adding confirmation matching capabilities.
BLK Taps VeriFIX to Enhance Quality Assurance Functionalities
Brazilian algorithmic trading technology vendor BLK Sistemas Financeiros has chosen CameronTec’s VeriFIX automated testing tools to enhance quality assurance (QA) capabilities on its RoboTrader platform.
Options Grows Velocity Feed Coverage, Eyes Wider Reach
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options (formerly Options IT) has added new European markets to its connectivity and managed co-location platform, providing customers with direct access to equities and derivatives feeds from Spanish exchange group…
KCG Launches HotSpot QT
KCG Holdings has debuted a dark crossing venue for foreign exchange (FX), HotSpot QT.
Bred Banque Populaire Chooses SunGard’s Hosted Trading Services for Euronext Access
BRED Banque Populaire, the commercial arm of Groupe Banque Populaire Caisses d’Epargne (BPCE), one of France's largest banking groups, has extended its relationship with SunGard and is now using the vendor's Valdi Market Access platform to add hosted…
Updated Version of Linedata Global Hedge Released
Linedata announced an upgrade to its technology platform for hedge fund managers, Linedata Global Hedge.
ConvergEx Launches IEX Order Routing Strategy
New York-based broker ConvergEx Group has launched a dynamic order routing strategy developed in collaboration with IEX that will allow its clients to split their orders between IEX’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) and ConvergEx's Darkest algorithm.
OptionsPlay Ideas Available on Scivantage Investment Platforms
Scivantage will offer OptionsPlay Ideas, an equities and options investing tool, through its Scivantage Investor and Scivantage Professional platforms.
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.