Trading Tech
AlgoSpan Lands in Lunda Datacenter
Ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and market data connectivity provider AlgoSpan has set up a point of presence in Nasdaq OMX's datacenter in Lunda, just outside Stockholm.
SuperDerivatives Bolsters SDX, DGX Data Coverage with Credit Options
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has added volatility surfaces for a range of credit indexes to its SDX multi-asset pricing platform for pricing structured products and its DGX market data terminal.
Nations and Exchanges
I'm in New York this week, and I can honestly say that I haven't been anywhere that's more beautiful in the autumn. Granted, Long Island and beautiful aren't two words that necessarily go hand in hand for most people, but the colors on display really are…
Singapore Exchange Selects MillenniumIT for Post-Trade Tech
MillenniumIT, the technology vendor arm of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has announced that it will provide the post-trade technology backbone for Singapore Exchange (SGX).
OneMarketData Survey: Growing Interest for Data Services in the Cloud
There is growing interest across the financial industry in leveraging cloud computing technology for data-intensive processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost analysis, though adoption of cloud technology to support…
Will Consolidation or Fragmentation Follow NYSE–ICE, Bats–Direct Edge?
NYSE Euronext–IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Bats–Direct Edge have cleared most regulatory hurdles—NYSE–ICE is days away from being cemented, according to reports, and Bats–Direct Edge just received approval from the US Justice Department. So the…
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
Tech, Mutual Recognition Scheme Spearhead BBH's Asia Push
After 24 years in Hong Kong, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is gearing up for a potentially game-changing development related to Mainland China. Bill Rosensweig, BBH's director of investor services who formerly headed up its Infomediary platform, says the…
Lucena Readies Studies for Bloomberg App Portal, Launches Added-Value Research
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research is adding new event studies to Bloomberg's App portal of third-party applications, to meet demand from customers for out-of-the-box research based on the vendor's QuantDesk decision…
NexxCom Taps ENYX for Network Policing
La Jolla, California,-based NexxCom Wireless has selected the latest nxLink Fair Bandwidth Management (FBM) solution from Paris-based ENYX to enhance its proprietary low-latency wireless networks, supporting financial venues globally.
Interactive Data, Icap Strike Data Distribution Deal
Interactive Data has signed a licensing agreement with Icap Information Services, the data services arm of interdealer broker Icap, to make the entire universe of Icap data available on its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over…
Infront Launches Tweetwires Twitter Data Filtering Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology vendor Infront will today announce a new service, dubbed Infront Tweetwires, which filters Twitter for real-time news and sentiment related to specific industry sectors and news events, to help users extract…
First Call, CCBN Founder Parker Named EidoSearch Chairman
Jeff Parker, founder of First Call and CCBN StreetEvents, and a former chairman and chief executive of Thomson Financial, has joined Toronto-based pattern recognition and analytics provider EidoSearch as chairman of its board, to help guide the vendor to…
TT Connects to Nasdaq OMX eSpeed Platform
Trading Technologies International (TT) has announced it will connect to the Nasdaq OMX eSpeed platform in the first quarter of 2014.
RealTick Users to Get CQG Connectivity
CQG’s Continuum order routing network is now available in Eze Software’s RealTick execution management system (EMS).
Trading Technologies Announces LSEG, Borsa Italiana Links
The provider will introduce connectivity to the London Stock Exchange Group's Derivatives Market in early 2014, which will also provide clients a single gateway into IDEM, the derivatives venue for Borsa Italiana, as well as Norway's Oslo Børs.
KVH Preps JPX Co-Lo
Japanese network provider KVH is to begin offering co-location at the Japan Exchange Group, providing local and international trading firms with low-latency access to the market data and trading on the Osaka Securities Exchange's J-Gate derivatives…
Barchart Bows Android Data-Trading App
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has launched a mobile version of its Barchart Trader market data and commodities trading platform for Android devices.
Enyx Embeds TS-Associates Latency Monitoring Tools into FPGA
Paris-based hardware-accelerated data capture and network technology provider Enyx has integrated latency monitoring software vendor TS-Associates' TipOff network and latency monitoring appliance as well as its Application Tap monitoring API into its…
Post-CEO, Ownership Change, MarketPrizm Ups Colt Collaboration
Market data and trading infrastructure services provider MarketPrizm is planning to align its capital markets business more closely with that of its parent company, London-based network vendor Colt, following the repurchase of Japanese bank Nomura's…
Moody's Analytics Provides Analysis, Economic Forecasts on Fed's 2014 CCAR Scenarios
Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of ratings agency Moody's, has analyzed the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) scenarios for 2014 to produce economic scenarios for more than 50 countries and well as reports…
CameronTec, Object Trading Ally for Expansion of Catalys DMA Platform
FIX messaging engine supplier CameronTec has embedded trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading's direct market access platform into its FIX-based Catalys Market Access offering, expanding the coverage to more than 60 equity,…
Fund Administrator Apex Moves to Eze Private Cloud
Apex Technologies, which provides IT backing for administration of about $25 billion in buy-side assets across both on- and offshore locations, will now operate its strategic IT solutions and private cloud services from an installation with Eze Castle…
Tradesignal Bows Version 7 of Data Platform
German data display and analytics vendor Tradesignal has released version 7.0 of its Enterprise Edition data and analytics workstation, which includes a new user interface to enable more efficient access to Tradesignal's functions.