Trading Tech
Panel: Don't Outsource Your Grid Yet
NEW YORK—Although purchasing processor cycle time from third-party providers might be an economical way to expand a bank's grid infrastructure, now isn't the time to do it, say industry insiders.
HSBC Debuts Global Trading Platform
LONDON—HSBC has completed the global deployment of its new equities trading platform, bank officials tell DWT .
Vendors Split over "Acceleration"
Not all ticker plant technology vendors are turning to hardware-accelerated offerings, despite high-profile product announcements by Exegy and Activ Financial, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Thomson Signs Daiwa; Launches Japanese Version
Thomson Financial last week launched Japanese versions of its Thomson One Investment Banking and Investment Management desktop solutions, and announced a deal with Daiwa Securities for the Thomson One Investment Banking desktop.
Reference Data Hits the Headlines
Since the launch of Inside Reference Data in April last year, I've had little opportunity to keep in touch with my old friends at corporate actions data and software vendor Xcitek and data management provider Asset Control. But both firms graced the…
Tabb: Brace for Spend, Volume Records
Expenditure on technology to keep pace with low-latency trading is likely to be outpaced by market forces, despite a record spend of $1.3 billion per year expected by 2010 on technology to support advanced trading techniques, compared to $789 million…
Kiodex Adds Data, Tools to ASP
Kiodex, SunGard's commodities trading and risk management division, will this week roll out a new version of its ASP-based Risk Workbench, which includes the addition of data on cleared instruments as well as a market data audit function.
Telekurs Grows iD in Germany
Telekurs Financial's browser-based iD market data screens for off-trading floor users has gained further traction among German savings and federal state banks, with a spate of recent deals for the product, say Telekurs officials.
Quant House Partners with TT
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor Quant House has integrated its QuantFactory trading strategy development framework with technology for market data and exchange gateway access from Chicago-based derivatives software vendor Trading…
The Data Challenges of Valuing Complex Securities
How to value growing numbers of increasingly complex fixed-income securities came under discussion at a panel discussion hosted recently by Standard & Poor's. Panelists debated the data inputs required as well as which models to employ to generate the…