Trading Tech
Activ Preps Brazilian Low-Latency Play
Low-latency data vendor Activ Financial is setting up a datacenter in Brazil that will house a locally deployed ticker plant for collecting market data from Brazilian exchange group BM&F Bovespa to distribute to local trading firms, and North American…
EPFR Tests Emerging Markets Currency Flows
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global is testing a new dataset that shows money flows into and out of different emerging market and global currencies, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CME Readies BM&F Data Rollout
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is preparing to roll out data from Brazilian exchange BM&F in the next few days to trading firms in North America via its market data feed, officials tell Inside Market Data , though the exchange has not yet confirmed a…
Celoxica Readies European Feed Handlers
UK-based hardware acceleration technology vendor Celoxica plans to roll out new feed handlers to support a range of European markets, after the vendor completes its initial line-up of handlers for US markets in the coming months, officials tell Inside…
Emerging Markets Go Mainstream
As emerging markets attract ever-increasing interest from Western investors, Inside Market Data quizzes a panel of companies operating in and sourcing data from emerging markets around the globe on the challenges and opportunities facing firms looking to…
Orc Preps CameronFIX 'FAST Engine'
Swedish trading technology vendor Orc Software is planning a new release of its CameronFIX FIX engine for the fourth quarter of this year, which will drastically improve its embedded FAST compression technologies, essentially creating a "FAST engine,"…
Nasdaq OMX Eyes 'Market Replay for MiFID' European Display
Nasdaq OMX is set to roll out a European version of its Market Replay tool for analyzing historical data to help firms evaluate their trade executions and ensure they are meeting requirements set out under the European Commission's Markets in Financial…
Datacenter Risk Management Key for 2009
NEW YORK-Updating datacenter risk management technologies is going to be at the forefront for many financial services firms in the next 12 months, according to industry observers.
GigaSpaces Updates XAP
NEW YORK-In an effort to bring access to high-performance application servers to a broader market, grid computing vendor GigaSpaces Technologies has released the latest version of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP).
Aleri Preps Risk Module for LMS
CHICAGO-Complex event processing (CEP) technologies vendor Aleri is currently developing a module for its Liquidity Management System (LMS) that will allow financial firms to measure and manage liquidity risk in real time, officials say.
Wiener Börse Gears Up for Engine Revamp
VIENNA-Officials from the Wiener Börse expect to take version 9.1 of the Xetra trading platform into production Nov. 24, according to a bourse spokesperson.
Achieving Best Execution: The Quick and the Dead
If there is one universal desire shared both by the buy side and sell side, it is to achieve best execution with their trades. As keynote speaker at the inaugural Best Execution conference, hosted by DWT and sibling publication Buy-Side Technology , last…
Complex Structures Fuel Cross Asset Drive
LONDON-Demand for trading multiple instruments from a single desktop from the buy and sell side has grown consistently over the past few years due to multiple drivers, a number of industry participants recently conclude.
OMS Vendors Tackle Multi-Asset Risk
LONDON-To address the growing trend among financial institutions of broadening the asset classes and geographies in which they trade, trading platform vendors are enhancing their multi-asset pre-trade analytics, say vendor officials.
Burgundy Jumps On TradExpress
STOCKHOLM-The consortium behind Nordic multilateral trading facility (MTF) Burgundy has selected the TradExpress trading engine from Swedish exchange technology vendor Cinnober, according to MTF officials.
Fidessa Expands Pre-Trade Analytics
NEW YORK-Order management system (OMS) and connectivity provider Fidessa has launched a number of custom and industry-standard pre-trade analytics for basket traders in the U.S. today, Sept. 29, vendor officials tell DWT .
Business Is Still Business
All eyes in the market are turned to the negotiations between the Democrat-led Congress and the Bush administration about a proposed $700 billion bailout of the U.S. economy. But last week, for at least one rainy day in Manhattan, a large number of buy…
Microsoft Debuts HPC Server
NEW YORK-To help traders' and analysts' compute problems that have grown beyond the capability of desktop systems, Microsoft recently debuted its new high-performance computing (HPC) platform, Windows HPC Server 2008.
Tibco Adds to CEP Engine
Tibco will this week unveil version 3.0 of its BusinessEvents complex event processing engine, which adds new features designed to make the product more accessible to non-technical business users, and to provide consistent access to data for users…
Xasax Expands Exegy Install
Naples, Fla-based data, software and proximity hosting provider Xasax is in the process of implementing a series of hardware-accelerated ticker plants from St Louis, MO-based Exegy, as part of a rollout of new hosting datacenters onto the vendor's…
S&P Compustat Opens Up Xpressfeed, Assists Integration
Standard & Poor's Compustat division has created a data-loading platform for firms to integrate data from the vendor's Xpressfeed fundamental and market data service into their proprietary analytics platforms, and has set up a specialist team to provide…
Liquidity Management Systems: Their Place in Today's Trading Infrastructure Trio
Occasionally confused with a controller's cash management system, liquidity management systems (LMSes) have quickly emerged from infancy to near-adulthood status.
Sibos: MTFs Making Material Progress
VIENNA-European multi-lateral trading facilities (MTFs) are making good progress in challenging the traditional market structure for equity trading in Europe, according to representatives of MTFs Chi-X and Turquoise, as well as NYSE Euronext, Morgan…