Sell-Side Technology/News
AMQP 1.0 Nears Completion
LONDON-The council governing the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an open-source business messaging protocol, will vote to finalize version 1.0 of the protocol when they convene at an AMQP conference on June 8 in San Diego, Calif.
ITG Ventures into FX TCA
NEW YORK-Transaction cost analysis (TCA) provider and agency broker Investment Technology Group (ITG) has recently expanded its asset class coverage with the launch of its ITG TCA for FX, a post-trade analysis tool that ITG developed in conjunction with…
UNX Expands Execution Tools
NEW YORK-Trading platform and connectivity provider UNX has recently added the electronic trading services and equity trading algorithms from Knight Capital's Knight Direct trading system to its stable of trading tools available on its UNX Catalyst…
Equinix Takes NY4 Expansion Live
NEW YORK-Datacenter provider Equinix has opened the latest expansion of its NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter, adding about 1,250 cabinet equivalents, in Secaucus, N.J., according to vendor officials.
Portware Revamp Targets Options Support
NEW YORK-As part of its version 5.0 release of its Portware Enterprise platform, execution management system (EMS) provider Portware tailored the latest update to sport greater support for options trading by re-engineering the platform's Portware Options…
Industry Girds for Mifid II
LONDON-The financial services industry is gearing up for the second version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), according to participants who spoke during a recent industry roundtable on the effects of Mifid, adding that they…
NYSE Floor Brokers Experience Handheld Outage
NEW YORK-Operators of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are investigating the cause of an outage that disabled floor brokers' handheld order management systems (OMSes) for about two hours on the morning of May 5, and are trying to develop preventive…
Bids Trading UI Gets Facelift
NEW YORK-Users of alternative trading system (ATS) Bids Trading's Bids Trader front end will see some major changes to the platform's user interface (UI) as the ATS operator rolls out its latest version, 6.22, of the trading platform.
Peresys Sets for EMS Update
JOHANNESBURG-FIX services and connectivity provider Peresys is currently developing a new front end for its browser-based PerFIX Trader execution management system (EMS), which is slated to launch in August, vendor officials tell DWT .
Quod to Focus on Benchmarking Capabilities
NEW YORK-As part of the next release of its trading execution platform, QF Adaptive Execution Platform (AEP), which is expected to launch in several weeks, Quod Financial will add features to the existing statistical engine to provide post-trade…
Progress Releases Single-Bank Portal FX Adapters
NEW YORK-Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider Progress Apama has expanded its presence in the foreign exchange (FX) market with the introduction of a suite of single-bank portal adapters for its Apama Capital Markets Framework, which are…
SunGard Launches Post-Trade Derivatives Link
NEW YORK-In an attempt to standardize communications between buy-side and sell-side traders of listed derivatives, SunGard rolled out today, May 3, its post-trade communications platform, dubbed Cliq.