Trading Tech
The Welch Way
With the klaxons sounding over the credit crunch, there's a quieter revolution happening in IT. Between the cost cutting and rising demand for faster and more exhaustive risk calculations, major financial firms are being pushed into deploying compute and…
Quant House Expands Equinix Co-location
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has expanded its hosting partnership with Equinix to provide clients with low-latency data and co-location services in Chicago, officials tell Inside Market Data .
DWT Panel: Apps Hinder Firms' Latency Efforts
Trading firms are being hampered in their efforts to achieve nanosecond-fast data by applications and other parts of the trading process that introduce latency, according to panelists at the London conference of sibling publication Dealing With…
Quodd Preps Filtering, Display Upgrade
Jersey City, NJ-based Quodd Financial Information Services, a provider of real-time North American equities and options market data, will beef up its Equity+ MarketMonitor Web-based data display product, with enhanced filtering and display capabilities…
Aleri Readies Live OLAP Tool
Complex event processing software vendor Aleri will next month launch a new version of Aleri Live OLAP, an engine for performing visual analysis of multidimensional data sets on live, streaming data, sourced from the vendor's CEP platform.
Aite: CEP Integration Costly and Complex
The biggest hurdle to deploying complex event processing technology is the cost of integrating CEP software with market data feeds and other applications, according to new research from financial technology consultancy Aite Group.
Barchart Launches AgriCharts Mobile Service
AgriCharts, the commodities data subsidiary of Chicago-based futures data and charting vendor Barchart, will this week unveil a new mobile data product aimed at brokers of agricultural commodities and farmers and agricultural suppliers looking for price…
Tech, Culture Hamper Cross-Asset Adoption
More markets going electronic and certain trading technologies becoming increasingly commoditized are two of the reasons for the rise in cross-asset trading seen recently, according to industry experts.
Aegisoft Updates AthenaTrader
NEW YORK-Several Aegisoft clients are in the process of testing and will be going into production with version 4.0 of AthenaTrader, an algorithmic multi-asset execution management system (EMS).
Should IT Be Profit Center Or Service?
As IT organizations gain finer management capabilities over their shared infrastructure, such as compute and data grids, many people are finding their roles changing as well.
SGX Readies Proximity Hosting
SINGAPORE-Traders on the Singapore Exchange's (SGX's) equities and derivatives markets can expect sub-millisecond trade executions in August as SGX rolls out a proximity hosting service, say SGX officials.
Bleeding Out Latency
Establishing a low-latency infrastructure within a firm consists of more than deploying the fattest networking pipe or deploying simple point solutions, according to industry participants.
GS, MS, UBS Link U.S. Dark Pools
NEW YORK-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS have opened their respective dark pools of liquidity to partnering firms, say officials from the three firms.
MTFs' Sentiments on Settlements
At the DWT 2008 conference and exhibition, Eli Lederman, CEO of Turquoise, and Peter Randall, CEO of Chi-X, were brought together to discuss the evolving European market structure. What follows are highlights of the lively conversation.
MUSI Preps for Algo Rates Trading
NEW YORK-The interest rates trading group of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI), the European hub of the global securities and investment banking business of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., plans to start algorithmic trading by the end of the…
Nasdaq OMX Picks SOR Partner
LONDON-Global exchange operator Nasdaq OMX is set to reveal the vendor selected to provide low-latency data to support smart order routing on its Pan European Market multilateral trading facility (MTF), and will launch a hosting facility next month to…
LSE Charts MTF Response
LONDON-The operators of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) expect to double the messaging capacity of its TradElect matching platform by September to 10,000 continuous messages per second and eventually scale it to 50,000 continuous messages per second with…
West Highland Launches Status Monitoring for Wombat
West Highland Support Services, a New York-based provider of remote systems support and monitoring for financial institutions' market data platform installations, is rolling out a new tool to its engineers and clients, in response to increasing demand…
Infinancials Releases New Analytics for Stock Comparison
Paris-based analytics provider Infinancials has developed a new graphical display for visually comparing key ratios between stocks, and to benchmark stocks against sector averages or bespoke portfolios.
Sinara Launches Market Data Platform
UK-based data technology vendor Sinara Consultants will this week launch its Sinara Market Data Platform (SinaraMDP), which incorporates a new component for streaming real-time data to mobile display applications and a data contribution API for…
XAP Set for Summer Upgrade
NEW YORK-In a planned August general release, grid computing vendor GigaSpaces Technologies will add support for dynamic languages, such as JavaScript and Groovy, to version 6.5 of its Extreme Application Platform (XAP), GigaSpaces officials tell DWT .
Smaller Is Better for E-FX in China
BEIJING-Smaller institutions and retail organizations are finding it easier to penetrate the emerging domestic electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) market in China compared to the larger banks, say industry insiders.