Trading Tech
Martone Co-Locates at CenturyLink
Datacenter and hosting provider CenturyLink Technology Solutions has hired Kindra Martone as senior vice president of co-location sales, with responsibility for the vendor's global datacenter co-location strategy and initiatives.
EEX's COO Discusses TT Partnership & What's Ahead
European Energy Exchange (EEX) chief operating officer Steffen Köehler talks about how the Germany-based exchange will look to continue to grow through the use of Trading Technologies' front-end trading platform.
Fenergo Expands to Asia-Pacific
Company appoints Brett Hodge, former head of Asia at Avox, as head of sales for new Sydney office, in response to new regulatory compliance services demands for OTC derivatives
EEX Goes With TT's Trading Platform
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has decided to implement Trading Technologies' SaaS-based trading platform.
Anova Unveils Sub-185us CME Wireless Net
Chicago-based low-latency connectivity provider Anova Technologies has rolled out a new network connection that offers data latency of sub-185 microseconds between CME Group's co-location datacenter in Aurora, Illinois and the Digital Realty Trust…
ConvergEx Enhances Open-Close Algorithms
New York-headquartered brokerage ConvergEx has upgraded its opening and closing auction algorithms for the NYSE, NYSE Arca and Nasdaq exchanges.
Quincy Adds Eurex Futures Data to QED Microwave Data Service
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency market data vendor Quincy Data has added futures data from Deutsche Borse's Eurex derivatives exchange to its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service, a normalized feed of market data sourced from exchanges worldwide and…
SR Labs Taps Lava Founder for CEO, Post-Wombat Buy
New York-based low-latency data platform and feed handler provider SR Labs has appointed veteran technology industry executive Richard Korhammer as chief executive, following its recent acquisition of the Wombat data platform business from…
smartTrade Adds New OMS Functionality
smartTrade Technologies has added new functionality to its Order Management System (OMS) to support both e-orders and manual trading books and optimize clients' trading flow across multiple desks on a global scale.
CME Clearing Europe Selects BNY Mellon as CSD
CME Clearing Europe has become a client of the central securities depository (CSD) operated by BNY Mellon, the bank has announced.
SunGard Wins Big in Singapore
SunGard has announced a raft of contract wins in Singapore for its managed services offering.
ITB Unveils New Data Display in Updated Trading Interface
ITB, a New York-based provider of fixed income liquidity aggregation and trading software, has rolled out a new trading interface with enhanced data displays geared towards better serving the data requirements of institutional bond traders and creating…
Ex-Millennium Partners CTA Spinoff Taps Liquid
The Mada Group, a recently-launched commodity trading advisor (CTA) specializing in energy, agriculture, and metals futures, has chosen Liquid for its investment processes and middle-office operations.
Deutsche Bank Singapore Taps Avaloq for its Wealth Management Back Office Services
Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management, a division of the Deutsche Bank Group, has selected Avaloq Sourcing Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of Avaloq Group, to provide back offices services to its wealth management arm in Singapore.
Fenergo and BMO Continue Compliance Partnership
Software provider Fenergo and Bank of Montreal Capital Markets (BMO) are preparing to launch phase two of their onboarding project, designed to meet regulatory deadlines in July.
Nobody Reads These Things Anyway, Right?
Deutsche's FCA penalty leads this week's coverage.
September 2014: Change Is the Only Constant
Machine learning and artificial intelligences are reshaping algorithms into adaptive programs that can adjust on the fly, which Victor says could end up all but eradicating losses.
Barclays Plans Texas Tech Center
Barclays will open a technology campus located in McKinney, Texas, and aims to move in by fall 2014, the town's development body has announced.
Dark Pools in the Firing Line
As the New York attorney general, the SEC and Finra set their sights on dark pool trading, larger market structure issues are coming to the fore that will force institutional traders to reexamine how they seek out liquidity. By Anthony Malakian
Opening Cross: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks... But New Tricks Still Need Old Dogs
It takes a certain blend of skills to combine the experience that comes with age and the dynamism of youth. For eternity, mankind has tried both to put old heads on young shoulders, and find ways to teach old dogs new tricks and recapture the energy and…
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
BondHawk Launches Fixed-Income Platform
BondHawk Systems has announced the release of its BondHawk Trader platform, focusing on fixed-income trading on both the buy and sell sides.
Firms Eye Disaster Recovery Amid Increasingly Interconnected Markets
After the recent cyber-attack against the European Central Bank, the financial industry is taking another look at business continuity and resilience. As the marketplace grows in complexity and participants become increasingly interconnected, disaster…
Morningstar iPad App Ups Content, Capabilities
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar recently updated its Morningstar for iPad research, market monitoring and portfolio management app with new content and capabilities.