Trading Tech
Interactive hedging
A low-inflation environment and an ageing population proved to be a fatal combination for pure-play bond and equity portfolios - the returns expected by corporate investors simply did not materialise. And so the days of target-based long portfolios have…
Dresdner Van Moer Courtens live on Thaler Wealth Management platform
Dresdner Van Moer Courtens is live on the Thaler Wealth Management platform from technology provider Callataÿ & Wouters to support the further development of its private wealth management operations in Belgium. Dresdner Van Moer Courtens is operating…
The hedge fund bubble
Now that the numbers have come in, it's safe to say that most of us have had better Septembers. By many accounts, worries among hedge fund managers that their investors would opt for redemptions in the face of uglier and uglier market conditions appear…
Hermes Fund Managers enters five-year risk partnership with Algorithmics
London-based Hermes Fund Managers , which manages the BT Pension Scheme, the UK's largest pension fund, has signed a five-year contract for Algorithmics' Algo Risk Service, an outsourced risk management and portfolio construction offering. This contract…
Spotlight on Jon Anderson
No stranger to the finer points of derivatives trading and processing, Jon Anderson has left New York-based hedge fund manager BlueMountain Capital Management to serve as global head of OTC derivatives at fund administrator GlobeOp Financial Services. He…
StanChart Deploys FX Aggregator
SINGAPORE-Standard Chartered (StanChart) has gone live with a liquidity aggregator developed by Progress Apama for its FX electronic pricing and trading division in Singapore, bank officials tell DWT.
InfoReach Goes High-Frequency
NEW YORK-Traders using the execution management system (EMS) from electronic trading technology vendor InfoReach now have the ability to create high-frequency trading strategies on the same system.
Fixnetix Selects Corvil To Monitor Latency
LONDON-U.K.-based low-latency trading connectivity and market data-distribution vendor Fixnetix is deploying CorvilNet from networking and latency management tools vendor Corvil, to monitor latency and demonstrate record performance speed to its…
Citi Preps European Cross
NEW YORK-Investment banking giant Citi plans to roll out its Citi Match crossing network in Europe early next year, DWT has learned.
Millisecond Latency Sufficient for Asia
Demand for low-latency data to support algorithmic trading is growing in Asia, though the speed required by user firms in the region differs from the more evolved and higher-frequency US and European markets, according to a panel at last week's…
Vendors Urge Respect for Local Cultures
Asia may offer a hotbed of opportunity for data vendors and brokers alike, but those looking to set up or grow operations in the region still face a number of basic challenges, not least of which will be growing their local presence as firms manage spend…
Data Misuse: Piracy or Just Uncharted Waters?
Unauthorized distribution of data remains an issue for exchanges and vendors in Asia and worldwide, though misuse is frequently unintentional, and could perhaps be solved with greater education about the contractual obligations on data consumers and…
Quant House Adds Feeds; Opens Network
French low-latency market data and trading technology vendor Quant House has added support for a range of European equity and derivatives market data feeds.
Savvis Expands European Proximity Service
Network and hosting facilities provider Savvis is building out its proximity service in Europe with the addition of a managed hosting and low-latency connectivity service to provide investment firms with access to all European Multilateral Trading…
MTF Growth Expected to Be Short-Lived
LONDON-Multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) continue to sprout up in Europe, but many industry participants expect that venue consolidation is just around the corner.