Trading Tech
Unsettling Proposal
BACK OFFICE
State Street's IT Strategy
WATERS Q&A
Age of the EMS?
THE BUY LINE
Nose for Alpha?
ALGO TRADING
Where's Your Data?
COMPLIANCE
Re-Engineering Instinet
WATERS Q&A
Hardcore Hardware
STREAMING QUOTES
Best What?
COMPLIANCE
Derivatives Tech Race
EXCHANGES
Funds at the MTS Gate
FIXED INCOME
Virtual Meeting Places
FUTURE TECH
Laptop Lockdown
SECURITY
Nasdaq's Next Step?
THE DALY CLOSE
Olympia takes Advent Geneva for automated administration
The Olympia Capital Companies, a hedge fund administration service provider with more than $50 billion under administration, has implemented Advent Software's Geneva accounting system and Partner investor servicing platform to automate operations across…
You couldn't make this up
Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…
Trends out of TradeTech
TradeTech, one of the best-attended annual technology gatherings of the year, set out to address a number of current buy-side issues – dark liquidity, best execution, algorithmic trading, transaction cost analysis, Mifid, and the underlying technologies…
Transaction cost analysis – Joel Clark reports that currently only equities are meaningfully supported by the handful of technology vendors active in this space, although TCA support for fixed-income instruments is just around the corner.
Buy-side traders are increasingly asking their employers to make new investments in applications designed to measure transaction cost analysis (TCA). The technology has made big advances in recent years, driven by the global demand for proof of best…
Made to morph
Like a growing number of technologies and services offered by the independent software vendor community, Xenomorph's origins can be traced back to the sell side, where applications were developed in response to acute business needs. But since its…