Trading Tech
NYSE Floor Brokers Experience Handheld Outage
NEW YORK-Operators of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are investigating the cause of an outage that disabled floor brokers' handheld order management systems (OMSes) for about two hours on the morning of May 5, and are trying to develop preventive…
Kiss Your Naked Access Goodbye
Listening to the talking heads on television, it seems as if the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index last Thursday means the world is coming to an end. No, it's not. The national market structure has rules and procedures in place…
Bids Trading UI Gets Facelift
NEW YORK-Users of alternative trading system (ATS) Bids Trading's Bids Trader front end will see some major changes to the platform's user interface (UI) as the ATS operator rolls out its latest version, 6.22, of the trading platform.
Peresys Sets for EMS Update
JOHANNESBURG-FIX services and connectivity provider Peresys is currently developing a new front end for its browser-based PerFIX Trader execution management system (EMS), which is slated to launch in August, vendor officials tell DWT .
Thomson Reuters Readies ‘Insider' Info
Thomson Reuters will this week officially unveil its Reuters Insider multimedia platform, which will provide access to searchable video and text content from the vendor's proprietary news bureau, in addition to contributed content from more than 150…
Quod to Focus on Benchmarking Capabilities
NEW YORK-As part of the next release of its trading execution platform, QF Adaptive Execution Platform (AEP), which is expected to launch in several weeks, Quod Financial will add features to the existing statistical engine to provide post-trade…
Atrium Adds Nasdaq Stockholm PoP
Atrium Network has set up a Point of Presence (PoP) in the Stockholm-based datacenter where Nasdaq OMX offers co-located access to its Inet matching engine technology, to provide Atrium clients in London and Europe with low-latency access to the exchange…
OptionsXpress Bows Activ Hardware Ticker
Online derivatives broker OptionsXpress is rolling out Chicago-based low-latency data provider Activ Financial's MPU (Market Data Processing Unit) hardware-accelerated ticker plant to support low-latency and high-throughput processing of incoming market…
Progress Releases Single-Bank Portal FX Adapters
NEW YORK-Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider Progress Apama has expanded its presence in the foreign exchange (FX) market with the introduction of a suite of single-bank portal adapters for its Apama Capital Markets Framework, which are…
SunGard Launches Post-Trade Derivatives Link
NEW YORK-In an attempt to standardize communications between buy-side and sell-side traders of listed derivatives, SunGard rolled out today, May 3, its post-trade communications platform, dubbed Cliq.
Nasdaq OMX Shutters Neuro, Turns to Equiduct
LONDON-An overcrowded and competitive European market has led Nasdaq OMX to announce the planned closure of its Nasdaq OMX Europe multilateral trading facility (MTF), dubbed Neuro, on May 21.
Opening Cross: The Technology Trickle-Down-and Up-Effect
Although Inside Market Data does not directly cover the retail financial markets, it can sometimes prove interesting to examine how developments in one market drive trading trends in the other, and how technologies or content created with a specific user…
eSignal, Morningstar Grow Mobile Apps
Interactive Data's eSignal unit has released versions of its QuoTrek mobile data application for Apple's iPhone and iPad, while Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar has launched a BlackBerry app as both vendors seek to round…
RNA Preps Analysis Memory Cloud
Virtual network provider RNA Networks is preparing to release version 2.5 of its RNA MVX virtual memory cloud, which will increase the performance of data-intensive applications by using memory from other servers in the same datacenter.
BT Boosts Ultra, Expands Datacenters
Network and hosting provider BT is rolling out updated technology that will reduce the latency taken to upload data from marketplaces onto its low-latency Radianz Ultra Access network and to trading firms connected to the network.
CME Taps Xignite for On-Demand OTC Data
CME Group is readying a Web-services platform for on-demand access to prices and other content on over-the-counter asset classes cleared via its ClearPort system, using technology from on-demand data provider Xignite.
BM&FBovespa Girds for HFT Growth
NEW YORK-Looking to attract more high-frequency traders, Brazilian exchange BM&FBovespa plans to deploy a co-location offering for equities trading similar to what it currently offers to derivatives traders in its São Paulo facilities, pending regulatory…
BOX Sets For May Switchover
NEW YORK-Operators of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX), expect to take the exchange's new operations platform-consisting of its matching engine that is housed in the Equinix NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter located in Secaucus, N.J…
Industry Calls for Exchange-Based Risk Management Tools
NEW YORK-Early last week, the Market Access Working Group of the Futures Industry Association (FIA)-the U.S.-based trade association for the futures and options industry-released its recommendations on managing direct access trading risk, which primarily…
CEP Moves Beyond Algos
LONDON-Over the last year spending on complex event processing (CEP) has been on the rise within the capital markets, concludes the author of a report from industry analyst firm Ovum, to be released on June 18, officials inform DWT .
The Age of Collaboration
Increased complexity of events and a growing focus on risk have resulted in Australian corporate actions professionals coming together for a united approach. Collaborative efforts are set to improve consistency and standardization in the market, and…
Under Scrutiny
Regulatory focus on data is on the rise, and growing pressure to increase transparency has placed firms even more in the spotlight. Carla Mangado explores what the recent regulatory scrutiny in transaction reporting means for the data industry