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French firm deploys CMA tools for credit derivatives
Paris-based Tikehau Investment Management has become the latest client to roll-out the credit pricing and data products of London-based Credit Market Analysis (CMA).
Editor’s letter: The buy side: more exceptions than rules
It's not often that you come across a buy-side organisation where the level of its technology is considered to be inconsequential to its performance. But that's the impression I got while listening to Simon Hazlitt, co-founder of London-based Majedie…
Adopting a do-it-yourself approach to MBS dealings
Sailing remains anything but smooth for the mortgage-backed securities market, a situation exacerbated by a significant lack of third-party support for trading, pricing, and risk management of these instruments. But that hasn't swayed alternative…
Paladyne integrates NumeriX pricing models
New York-based hedge fund technology provider Paladyne Systems has partnered with pricing and risk analytics specialist NumeriX to enable its clients to better price complex securities.
London Capital contracts Penson for outsourced clearing services
London Capital Group, which provides online foreign exchange trading services to institutional clients under the Capital Forex brand, as well as institutional derivatives and equities broking, has selected Penson Financial Services to provide it with…
Falling into place
Like so many other buy-side practitioners with closely married business and technology remits, Damian Debellotte 'fell' into the position as head of investment management systems at Newton Investment Management after completing a technology…
F&C Investments live with Cadis EDM Suite
London-based asset manager F&C Investments, which has €141 billion under management, has implemented the Cadis EDM Suite simultaneously with the Charles River IMS trading platform.
Positioned in the buy side's sweet spot
It's unlikely that when Quantifi's founders established the firm some six years ago, they would have foreseen the extent to which the buy side would turn to credit as a source of alpha. However, recent events have revealed credit's more perilous side…
More window dressing
The talk-loudly-and-carry-a-small-stick app-roach is alive and well in Washington DC, particularly when it comes to investor protections. The latest egregious example: The US Treasury Department plans to put its weight behind two sets of recently…
Spotlight on the sell side
In the world of investment banking, few organisations have achieved the same degree of penetration and trust across the buy side as Credit Suisse. The bank's algorithmic trading suite, known as Advanced Execution Services (AES), is used globally by…
GemStone Debuts GemFire 5.5
NEW YORK-Enterprise data fabric platform provider GemStone Systems has announced today, April 28, the release of version 5.5 of its GemFire Enterprise offering, vendor officials tell DWT .
AMD Launches Desktop Initiative
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has released its new desktop offering as part of the AMD Business Class initiative, today, April 28.
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Money certainly hasn't found its way to New York City. According to a recently published report by industry analyst firm Celent, brokerage IT spending in North America from 2008 through 2011 will grow at an anemic rate of 1.3 percent, which is down from…
Symbology: A Question of Character
The new Options Symbology Initiative aims to increase listed options' current three- to five-character symbols to a total of 21 characters each-a four-fold jump that will require an overhaul of trading systems before the new symbology goes live sometime…