Trading Tech
IDC's Russell Takes ‘Evangelist' Role at Tradier
Tradier, a provider of cloud-based brokerage infrastructure platforms and applications, has hired Craig Russell as senior vice president of product and chief evangelist to lead the vendor's sales, marketing and client and partner engagement activities…
Open Platform: In Big Data, What Works for B2C Markets Won’t Bring the Same Benefits in B2B
With most demonstrable Big Data success stories in business-to-consumer markets, Kelvin To, founder and president of Data Boiler Technologies, asks whether Big Data has real opportunities for business-to-business financial firms and technology providers?
Fixnetix Co-Founder Moore Becomes Non-Exec
Alasdair Moore, a co-founder of UK-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Fixnetix is stepping down from his executive role as business development director at the vendor and will take up a new non-executive position on Fixnetix's…
SMA Increases Coverage, Frequency of Sentiment Scores
Social Market Analytics, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of trading signals based on social media sentiment, is expanding its asset class coverage and increasing the frequency of its intraday sentiment scores, to meet demand for data from traders…
TCW Group Implements Bonaire for Revenue and Expense Management
Investment manager TCW Group has signed Bonaire for its revenue and expense management platform, the vendor has announced.
Clearstream Bolsters Global Liquidity Hub with OTC Collateral
International central securities depository Clearstream has announced the introduction of OTC Collateral, a bilateral collateral management service, to its risk and liquidity management platform Global Liquidity Hub.
Measuring the Operational Benefits of Embracing Emerging Technologies
In part two of this five-part feature on emerging technologies, participants discuss the business and operational opportunities around embracing emerging technologies, specifically the reduced cost and speed to market offered by on-demand consumption of…
ZE PowerGroup Improves Data Platform Navigation, Display; Opens Netherlands Office
Energy data management software provider and consultancy ZE PowerGroup is adding new functionality to its ZEMA data management and analytics suite to enable users to better navigate the capabilities of the platform, and has also opened a new office in…
Options Reduces Latency on New Jersey Fiber
Options, the New York-based private financial cloud provider, has upgraded its route between the NJ2 Savvis facility in Weehawken, New Jersey, and the NY4 Equinix facility in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Corvil Names Partner Program Participants
Dublin-based latency monitoring technology provider Corvil has unveiled an Industry Alliance Partner Program to drive development of solutions for analyzing and storing real-time data by providing timestamped data capture from firms' networks, lossless…
OpenGamma Gets ReMatch: CDS Risk Service Taps OpenGamma Analytics
Icap-owned credit default swap portfolio rebalancing and market risk mitigation service Rematch has selected risk management and analytics provider OpenGamma's platform to provide on-demand market risk analytics for single-name credit default swaps.
Options Upgrades NJ Datacenter Connectivity
Managed technology services provider Options (formerly Options IT) has upgraded the connectivity between its hosting presences in the NJ2 Weehawken, NJ datacenter operated by CenturyLink Technology Solutions (formerly Savvis) and Equinix's NY4 datacenter…
Infront Adds Morningstar Mutual Funds Data, Fund Search Tool
Norwegian data vendor Infront has added new mutual funds content to its data terminal to meet increasing demand from portfolio managers and financial advisors for coverage of the US and European funds markets.
Assessing the Evolving OTC Landscape: New Opportunities and Challenges ─ Webcast
WatersTechnology gathered a number of industry experts for a webcast on March 4, 2014 to discuss what financial trading firms are doing to regards to enforcing regulation affecting over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and the impact on their trading…
MDX Bows Server-Side Data Cache, Eyes Multi-Vendor Contributions System
UK-based MDX Technology, a provider of Microsoft Excel add-ins for real-time data publishing and distribution, has released version 3 of its MDXT Connect spreadsheet platform, featuring enhancements that will pave the way for the vendor to expand its…
Cinnober Debuts Cross-Asset Client Clearing Platform
Technology vendor Cinnober has announced the launch of TRADExpress Client Clearing, a system for consolidating the service offering at banks into a single system.
Emerging Technologies special report
March 2014 - sponsored by: Advent: CenturyLink Technology Solutions; Cloudera; Green Key Technologies; Maxeler Technologies
Emerging Technologies and the Advantages they Offer Early Adopters
In a recent virtual roundtable on the benefits and challenges around the adoption of emerging technologies, respondents discussed how capital markets firms might evaluate such technologies with the view to creating a competitive advantage. In part one of…
ABN Amro Launches AMG Global Platform
ABN Amro Clearing, part of ABN Amro Bank, has announced the launch of its global execution platform, ABN Amro Market Gateway Global (AMG Global), providing clients with seamless routing capabilities between Asia, the US and Europe via a single FIX…
Kinetix Taps Swaps Broker Bullingham for Compliance Solution Sales
Data-driven trading and risk systems provider Kinetix Trading Solutions has hired John Bullingham as New York-based director of sales, responsible for promoting the vendor's Monaco trade management system and its PTV (Pre-Trade Verification) compliance…
Barchart Bolsters Equity Options Web Data
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has unveiled an Equity Option Center on its website, in response to demand from users for more extensive coverage of the asset class.
BT Launches New Integrated Voice Service
The telecommunications provider has launched One Voice Radianz, an integrated service that will bring together voice, mobile, and data services for financial services users of its flagship BT Radianz Cloud.
Nasdaq Unveils Capital Venue for Private Companies
Nasdaq OMX has launched Nasdaq Private Market, its new capital marketplace for private companies.
Dutch Pension Fund Selects Misys for Portfolio Management
Blue Sky Group, a EUR 17b pension fund based in the Netherlands, has chosen Misys Sophis Value as its core portfolio management platform.