Trading Tech
Zürcher Kantonalbank Taps Corvil for Enhanced Trading Performance
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), has deployed Corvil’s Operational Performance Monitoring (OPM) system to monitor the performance of its market making and foreign-exchange (FX) business, including market data quality, transaction analysis and FX order flow.
Markit Eyes Front-Office Push with thinkFolio Acquisition
Markit has acquired London-based portfolio management system (PMS) provider thinkFolio, in a deal that will see the buy-side stalwart join Markit’s enterprise software division.
S&P Cap IQ Adds SGX Data to Low-Latency Feed
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions (formerly French low-latency data vendor QuantHouse, which S&P acquired in 2012) has added the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to its QuantFeed consolidated datafeed and QuantLink fiber-optic network.
REDI Adds Credit Suisse's AES to its Multi-Broker EMS; Pushes Forward with Citadel OEMS
REDI Global Technologies has added Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services (AES) to it REDIPlus execution management system (EMS).
iLevel, Atlantic-Pacific Capital Seal Strategic Partnership
The technology provider to private investment firms says it has signed a formal partner agreement with Atlantic-Pacific Capital, an independent global placement agent for private equity that has raised around $50 billion.
BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley Join Eurex OTC Clear
BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley have joined Eurex Clearing's central counterparty service for OTC derivatives, Eurex OTC Clear, for interest rate swaps (IRS).
AQR Capital Management Selects Fidessa Sentinel
Connecticut-based AQR Capital Management has implemented Fidessa's Sentinel pre- and post-trade solution to automate its trade compliance management across all business lines.
Principal Global Investors Taps Vermilion
The Des Moines, Iowa-based money manager and provider of specialist boutique funds with approximately $300 billion under management, will use Vermilion's reporting suite to back its expanding European operations.
Exegy Readies Software-Based Trading Application Platform
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy is preparing to launch a lightweight version of its ticker plant, dubbed Trading Application Platform (TAP), that will enable users to quickly deploy data and trading applications in globally…
ORATS Adds Quarterly Analysis to TOES, Readies Enhanced Dividend Forecasts
Chicago-based options analytics provider Option Research and Technology Services has rolled out new quarterly analysis as part of its TOES (Tested Option Environment Strategies) service, to enable users to back-test US equity option strategies over…
The Challenges of Managing Liquidity in a Multi-Tranche Universe
Ledgex's Brian Macallister discusses the need for firms to mix liquidity and portfolio management into the same system.
Spread Connects NYSE Mahwah Datacenter to Chicago
Ridgeland, MS-based low-latency fiber network operator Spread Networks has set up a point of presence for its wavelength data network between New York and Chicago at NYSE Euronext's datacenter at Mahwah, NJ, creating roundtrip latency of around 14…
Russian, Armenian CSDs to Cooperate on Cross-Border Settlement
The National Settlement Depository (NSD) in Russia and the Central Depository of Armenia (CDA), the central securities depositories (CSDs) of their respective nations, have signed a memorandum of cooperation related to cross-border settlement.
IBM Signs DBS to Fledgling Watson Group
Singapore-based DBS has signed IBM's Watson Group to handle big data requirements in its wealth management division.
Eagle AM Goes Live with SimCorp Dimension
Eagle Asset Management, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, has selected the buy-side technology provider's Dimension platform to cover investment accounting, performance measurement, client reporting, and compliance.
Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
S&P Cap IQ Expands Asia Connectivity via HKEx Orion
S&P Capital IQ is making its QuantFeed and QuantLink low-latency datafeed and network available via Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's Orion technology platform, in a move to meet increasing demand for connectivity and high-speed data in Asia.
ABN Amro Clearing Joins EurexOTC Clear
EurexOTC Clear, the central counterparty (CCP) operated by Deutsche Börse, has signed ABN Amro Clearing as a clearing member for interest-rate swaps (IRS).
GRC Partners Regis-TR for Emir Reporting
Global Reporting Company (GRC) has announced a partnership with Regis-TR, in order to provide European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir) reporting services ahead of the February 12 deadline.
Max Bowie: Cost, Regs, Volumes, Analytics to Drive Data Innovation in 2014
With economic woes hampering innovation in recent years, Max says the winds of change blowing from different directions may create a perfect storm of pressures that force the industry to consider new options in 2014.
James Rundle: Imperfect Solutions
Most Western exchanges have implemented safety measures to mitigate share-price swings, but others are beginning to experience the algorithmic troubles that brought trading firms to their knees in recent years. Kill switches and circuit breakers don’t…
License to Kill: The Complexity of Circuit Breakers
As regulators collaborate to review different concepts to protect the integrity of the US financial markets and reduce potential technology failures, Marina Daras looks at the technical challenges of implementing circuit breakers for brokers and…
Japan Eyes Further Transformation after Exchange Merger
The Japanese capital markets have undergone a series of changes over the past few years, first in response to the natural disasters that affected Asia’s regional hub, and later with the merger of the Osaka Securities Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange…
Utility Models: SmartStream Discusses Reconciliations
Dr. Darryl Twiggs, head of product at SmartStream Technologies, discusses the changing role of reconciliations as a process, and how new technologies are affecting its evolution within the back-office environment. Interview by James Rundle