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UBS to Expand European Smart Routing
LONDON-Global broker-dealer UBS Investment Bank plans to expand its recently debuted smart order routing in Europe to other asset classes, including exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs), officials tell DWT .
Credit Suisse Adds Exotic FX Options Trading
LONDON-Credit Suisse has enabled trading in structured exotic foreign exchange (FX) options on its proprietary electronic trading platform, Merlin, with select institutional clients globally, dealer officials announced recently.
Virtualization Set to Grow
LONDON-Investment banks facing the challenges of maintaining physical servers in crowded datacenters have stopped experimenting with server virtualization and have made it a key component of their grid computing strategy, say industry insiders.
LSE, Borsa Italiana Detail New Structure
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Borsa Italiana have outlined their combined organizational structure in an internal document distributed to staff last week following the completion of their merger in October ( DWT , Oct. 8), a copy of which…
On Point Migrates Networks
NEW YORK-Users of agency brokerage On Point Executions' smart order routing platform and matching engine for equities options, Sting, will have their connections migrated onto an updated version of the platform over the next few weeks, say firm officials.
Platform to Update Symphony
NEW YORK-The latest version of grid computing platform Symphony from Platform Computing will be available in pre-release form this week, DWT has learned.
Turquoise Preps Data Plans, Mulls FAST
Bank-backed European multilateral trading facility Turquoise has begun the process of determining the best means for distributing quote and trade data from its trading platform, which is scheduled to go live next year.
Toffler, We Are Here
A reader took me to task for The Daly Open column I wrote last month on Web 2.0 ( DWT , Nov. 12), arguing that mashups and social networking platforms should not be avoided-as I suggested in my editorial-but rather, should be adopted because of their…
Bad Credit? You're Fired!
We've all seen the TV ads: "Bad credit? No credit? No problem! Call 1-800-LOAN-SHARK." ... Or something like that. But could this year's credit crunch have more personal ramifications? Apparently, because at a briefing hosted by sibling Inside Reference…
S&P Upgrades Backtester
Standard & Poor's Compustat division last week rolled out version 1.5 of its Backtester quantitative analysis tool for back-testing trading and investment strategies by simulating portfolio strategies and investment conditions at specific points in time.
Tibco Cuts RV Latency
Tibco Software has slashed the latency of its Rendezvous messaging layer in response to rising message rates and increases in the number of applications that consume real-time data.
Gissing Preps ConteX 4.0 Beta Tests
UK-based data technology vendor Gissing Software has begun beta testing the latest release of its ConteX price contribution system, and is in the final stages of completing interfaces between ConteX and other systems in place at end-user firms.
Aleri Unveils Liquidity Consolidation, Analysis Tool
Chicago-based event processing software vendor Aleri will this week announce it has built a new liquidity aggregation and analysis tool designed to help users deal with the demands of trading in a fragmented marketplace by consolidating and analyzing…
MarketAxess Makes OMS Buy
NEW YORK-Electronic fixed-income trading venue MarketAxess has acquired order management system (OMS) and connectivity provider Trade West Systems (TWS) in an effort to deepen its integration into investor and dealer trading workflows, say MarketAxess…
Goldman Sachs to Launch FX Algos
LONDON-Goldman Sachs plans to debut its foreign exchange (FX) trading algorithms in the first half of 2008 as part of its strategy to gain market share, firm officials tell DWT .
Cross-Asset Trading to Become Reality in Europe
LONDON-Trading multiple instrument types simultaneously will be commonplace in European markets within the new few years, predict industry insiders.
SOA Faces Tough Asian Slog
DELHI-Although uptake of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in Asia is still in the nascent stage, global financial institutions in the region are leading the way in a growing awareness of SOA, according to a newly released report from IT market…
Hotspot FXi Revamps Platform
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-Electronic foreign exchange (FX) venue Hotspot FXi expects to replace its single matching engine with several new matching engines in January 2008 to improve the platform's performance, DWT has learned.
Smart Routing No Longer Just an Option
LONDON-With the rise of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) in the post-Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) environment, investment banks can't delay implementing smart order routing if they wish to remain competitive, say industry…
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