Trading Tech
Addicticks Adds Scenario Builder to TR Emulator Tool
Dutch market data technology provider Addicticks is developing new functionality for its TRemulator tool, which simulates data from Thomson Reuters sources─namely, the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real Time (TREP-RT), the vendor's Elektron…
Options Adds Velocimetrics Latency, Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated Velocimetrics' monitoring and performance analysis technology with its Velocity low-latency market data and connectivity product.
Barchart Expands Web Services Data
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart.com has released a number of new web services APIs for commodity futures data via its Barchart OnDemand service, which leverages Amazon Web Services' cloud.
LCH.Clearnet Limited Receives EMIR Approval
LCH.Clearnet Limited, the UK-based central counterparty (CCP) operated by the LCH.Clearnet Group, has received regulatory approval from the Bank of England to operate as a central counterparty under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
Asia Pacific Stock Exchange to Employ Nasdaq Technology
Nasdaq OMX will deliver its trading technology, X-stream, as well as Genium FIX, to Asia Pacific Stock Exchange to power its APeX trading platform, which is expected to go live in late 2014.
Thomson Reuters Hopes to Strike Gold by Adding GFMS Mine Data to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added global gold mine information from precious and industrial metals markets research and analysis subsidiary GFMS Mine Economics to its Eikon desktop platform to provide metals traders and analysts with predictive indicators for…
Colt ‘Unifies' Colt, MarketPrizm Capital Markets Teams
UK-based network and hosting services provider Colt has created a new unified Colt Capital Markets team that covers sales, product operations and delivery across Europe, drawing from its own staff and from employees from MarketPrizm, the UK-based market…
Mizuho Trust & Banking Luxembourg Taps SimCorp
The custody, fund administration, and securities services arm of the Japanese bank, operating in the micro-state and known as MHTBL, will use SimCorp's Dimension to maintain compliance with impending EMIR and AIFMD regulation and for other business…
Markit Plugs Real-Time Data into Valuations Service
Markit has integrated real-time trade data from its MarkitServ electronic trade processing service for over-the-counter derivatives with its Portfolio Valuations valuation service that provides independent mark-to-market valuations and risk analytics for…
Rapid Addition Partners with DET Technologies
As part of a partnership between London-based technology provider Rapid Addition and Prague-based trading platform support specialists DET Technologies, Rapid Addition’s RA-Cheetah FIX engine will support DET Technologies’ flagship DET Hub.
Moscow Exchange Taps Fincad for OTC Analytics
The Moscow Exchange has rolled out Vancouver-based over-the-counter deriveatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad's F3 Platform to allow quantitative analysts and credit officers at member trading firms to perform risk analysis, compute…
REDI Buys, Integrates BAML's InstaQuote EMS
Execution management system (EMS) provider REDI Global Technologies has completed its year-long acquisition of BofA Merill Lynch's multi-asset InstaQuote platform, clients, and personnel.
Moscow Exchange Uses Fincad F3 for Trading and Clearing
The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has chosen Vancouver-based Fincad’s F3 Platform to support its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading and clearing services.
FCA Chief Highlights Struggle against “Dystopian” Tech Scenario
Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has said that the role of regulators in the modern world is to strike a balance between realizing the benefits of market technology, while not allowing it to run amok.
CFD Platform CeFDex Adds NetDania Charts
German contracts for difference (CFDs) market maker and technology provider CeFDex has incorporated the charting package of Danish financial software provider NetDania into its trading platform, the companies said on Wednesday, announcing that three…
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Former CFTC General Counsel: US Swaps Reform a Mixed Bag of Outcomes
Terry Arbit, former deputy general counsel for legislative and intergovernmental affairs at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and now partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, gave attendees at this morning's Waters Breakfast Briefing a first-hand…
Genscape Grows Ship-Tracking Network
Energy supply data provider Genscape has expanded its VesselTracker shipping tracking and monitoring network with the addition of 436 new AIS (Automatic Identification System) antennas, allowing the vendor to more accurately collect information on ship…
Wexford Capital Expands SS&C Relationship
Greenwich, Connecticut-based Wexford Capital has selected SS&C GlobeOp to provide an expanded suite of services including middle- and back-office, regulatory reporting and investor solutions for Wexford’s private equity funds and hedge funds.
Object Trading Gets Data Net Vet Peck
Trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading has appointed Des Peck as new business sales executive in Europe, responsible for leading the company's sales and development.
Meriten Signs for Charles River
Düsseldorf, Germany-based Meriten Investment Management has gone live with Charles River's Investment Management System (IMS), the vendor announced today.
Crédit Agricole Deploys Solace Appliances for Low-Latency Data
Crédit Agricole's Corporate and Investment Bank is rolling out data routing appliances from hardware-based messaging technology vendor Solace Systems to provide a low-latency data distribution backbone for its foreign exchange, rates and bonds trading…
S&P Cap IQ Joins Markit Collaboration Services Network
McGraw Hill Financial-owned S&P Capital IQ has become the latest vendor to join Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.
SunGard Adds Cross-Asset Risk and Margin Solution to Front Arena
SunGard has added a cross-asset risk and margin solution to its Front Arena flagship product, to provide brokers and futures commission merchants (FCMs) with a real-time way of measuring risk, exposure and margin requirements across entire portfolios.