Trading Tech
Panel: Latency Monitoring More Important than Low Latency
Whereas 10 years ago, low latency was the preserve of a select few firms whose sole focus was chasing zero, the commoditization and ubiquity of low-latency technologies has made raw speed more of a necessity to keep pace with the rest of the market, and…
IMD Chicago: Firms Outsource Infrastructure to Address Data Storage, Regulation
End-user firms are increasingly turning to outsourcing to deal with the storage challenges associated with big datasets caused by rising data volumes and the ongoing raft of new regulatory initiatives requiring more intensive data collection, according…
The Case for Business Process Outsourcing
As security improves and cost pressures mount, more and more firms are getting comfortable with business process outsourcing (BPO).
Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
Apcon Releases Sub-10ns Timestamping Blade Switch
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon has released a new aggregator blade, dubbed the Intellaflex Timestamping and Packet Slicing Blade, which will enable financial institutions to timestamp message packets with sub…
Panel: Firms Must Master "Dark Art" of Data Analytics to Gain Competitive Advantage
The faster a trading firm can analyze datasets that are growing in both size and complexity to extract meaningful "data about the data," the greater competitive advantage they will have, said participants on a panel discussing how analytics can be…
Nino Options Takes TBricks
Nino Options has selected Tbricks for its market-making software, covering options on German and Dutch equities and indices.
Royal London Asset Management Hits the Cloud Running
Rapid cloud adoption is almost unheard of in the asset management industry, which has traditionally held a conservative view of the technology. When it needed a swift replacement of its core performance engine, however, Royal London Asset Management …
SmartStream Debuts TLM SmartRecs
SmartStream has announced the release of TLM SmartRecs, a new system for the loading and delivery of documented reconciliation results.
Xignite Grows Market Data Cloud Cover
San Mateo-based on-demand data provider Xignite has added two new services-CloudFiles and CloudStreaming─to its Market Data Cloud service, in addition to its existing CloudAPIs for applications and developers to access the vendor's data.
QED Adds Varden Reporting to its Toolbox
QED Financial Systems, a portfolio management solutions provider based in Marlton, New Jersey, has signed an agreement with Boston-based Varden Technologies to resell Varden’s reporting and communications platforms.
Fenics to Provide FX Options Analysis to Shanghai Bank
Bank of Communications (BoC), a financial services group based in Shanghai, has licensed Fenics Professional, a pricing and risk management system for foreign exchange (FX) options from GFI subsidiary Fenics.
MarkitSERV Connects to Nasdaq for FX Clearing
MarkitSERV, Markit’s electronic trade processing service for over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions, will be the first middleware provider to deliver foreign exchange (FX) trades for clearing to Nasdaq OMX.
DCCC Deal Extends Euroclear's Collateral Highway to Middle East
Euroclear has announced that the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has joined its Collateral Highway network, the first firm from the Middle East to do so.
BCS Takes b-next for Market Abuse Surveillance
Russian brokerage BCS Financial Group has announced that it will implement b-next's CMC:Suite, in order to boost its market abuse surveillance and insider trading detection capabilities, at its London trading room.
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
Mariner Trawls MSCI ESG Data for Alpha
New York-based alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group is to use ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings and portfolio analysis tools from MSCI ESG Research, to support the incorporation of ESG factors into Mariner's investment…
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
Charles River Integrates SJ Levinson & Sons for TCA
Charles River Development has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with SJ Levinson & Sons, whereby the broker's equity transaction-cost analysis (TCA) technology will be integrated with the vendor's Investment Management Solution …
Lombard Risk Upgrades Colline
Lombard Risk has announced the release of Colline version 12.3, its collateral management and clearing product.
Mors Survey: Intra-day Liquidity Risk Projects Still Incomplete
Helsinki-based Mors Software, a provider of integrated real-time treasury and risk management technology to the sell side, has published the results of its annual liquidity risk management survey, carried out between May and July this year.
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PensionsFirst, WinTech Partner on Corporate Liability Risk
The new strategic partnership will leverage WinTech's asset liability modeling tool ProVal, with PensionsFirst's analytics software, PFaroe, allowing CFOs and treasurers to more easily migrate external data, monitor daily funded status, and dis-aggregate…
Nasdaq's Genium INET to Power German Exchange
Boerse Stuttgart, a 150-year old exchange serving private investors, has selected Nasdaq OMX’s Genium INET trading technology to power its market.