Trading Tech
BAML Exec: "Granular Data Creates Aggregation Challenges"
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch director told delegates at this week's North American Financial Information Summit that firms face challenges aggregating the more granular data now required for risk management
BGI’s IBOR System Offered Strengths, But Also Weaknesses
During a case study presentation at the recent Buy-Side Technology European Summit 2013, Jon Rushman, professor of practice in the finance group at Warwick Business School, outlined construction methods for an Investment Book of Record (IBOR) system,…
Société Générale Bank & Trust Migrates to Private Cloud
Société Générale Bank & Trust (SGBT), the Luxembourg-based private banking arm of Société Générale, has completed a two-year project to migrate its core banking system to a cloud-based architecture.
ConvergEx Upgrades MillenniumSM ATS
New York-based agency broker, ConvergEx Group, has upgraded its MillenniumSM Alternative Trading System (ATS), reducing its trading latency by 75 percent.
Bloomberg Releases IB Dealing for FX Traders
The chat-based platform, called Instant Bloomberg (IB) Dealing, is now being used for trade negotiation and execution by more than 100 banks globally.
Westpac Taps Broadway Technology for Global FX
The Sydney-based bank's institutional arm says it will deploy Broadway's high-performance TOC software platform to back increased trading activities in Australian (AUD) and New Zealand (NZD) dollars, key Asian currencies, and the mainstay G3: US dollars,…
Technology and People Make Cross-Asset Platforms Challenging, Panelists Say
Panelists at the Buy-Side Technology European Summit 2013 in London this week debated the challenges associated with developing and deploying single platforms to support cross-asset trading operations. Some argued that smaller buy-side firms are better…
IRD Awards Results
The results of the Inside Reference Data Awards for 2013 were announced at a dinner in New York on May 21
SunGard Extends FoxRiver Algo Suite to Japanese Equities
SunGard Financial Systems has extended the international reach of its Fox River algorithm suite to support trading in the Japanese equities market.
S&P Capital IQ Extends QuantLINK Solution to HKEx
S&P Capital IQ’s Real Time Solutions has extended QuantLINK, its high-performance global trading infrastructure and co-location hosting service, to the Hong Kong Exchange's (HKEx) datacenter to capture the growth still occurring in the region.
Gill appointed CEO of Millennium IT
Trading technology firm Millennium Information Technologies (MillenniumIT) has appointed Mack Gill as its new CEO to support the firm's global expansion.
RSJ Implements Kx Systems' kdb+
The Prague-based proprietary trading shop, among the leaders in derivatives trading on NYSE Liffe, will use Kx's database and time-series analysis platform to support modeling for its algorithmic trading systems.
Data Centralization Key to Effective Compliance, CTOs Argue
Panelists at the Buy-Side Technology European Summit 2013 in London debated growing levels of transparency and reporting required by regulatory agencies and clients, saying that in order to stay compliant, a thorough data strategy was essential to any…
GFI Builds Out SEF, DCM Capacity with Violin Memory
Wholesale brokerage and electronic execution provider GFI will deploy Violin's solid-state Flash Memory Arrays for increased speed and capacity across all its trading platforms.