Sell-Side Technology/News
Introducing Brokers Ramp Up Application Spending
BOSTON-U.S. introducing brokerage firms are poised to increase spending on business applications this year, while clearing firms will compete to get more of that spending, according to the authors of a recent white paper from industry research firm Aite…
StreamBase Opens Developers Sandbox
NEW YORK-Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider StreamBase Systems has built an online service that will allow financial industry IT developers to download and share reusable components in a global community, vendor officials announced today,…
Options IT Expands London Footprint
LONDON-Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Options IT has rounded out its connectivity offering for firms seeking to trade in the London-based markets with the deployment of its Options Pipe infrastructure in datacenter host Interxion's City of…
Beta-Gamma Debuts FX Algo Offering
LONDON-Foreign exchange (FX) tools provider Beta-Gamma Research has launched Trigger Trader, an algorithmic trading product aimed at lower- and mid-tier banks, vendor officials announced today, Feb. 15.
Cloud Computing Must Overcome Cost, Security Concerns
LONDON-The twin issues of cost and security have major global banks wary of adopting cloud computing on a massive scale, according to industry participants who spoke during a recent cloud computing conference held in London.
LSE Shuffles Execs, Hires New CIO
LONDON-In preparation for integrating the Turquoise multilateral trading facility (MTF) with its Baikal dark liquidity pool and rolling out its MillenniumIT Exchange, the operators of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have hired Antoine Shagoury to be CIO.
MarketAxess to Integrate CTT, RFQs
NEW YORK-Electronic fixed-income trading venue provider MarketAxess plans to integrate its click-to-trade (CTT) capability with its request-for-quote (RFQ) capabilities for its European market, vendor officials tell DWT .
TT Targets Proximity-Based Trading Strategies
NEW YORK-Multi-asset trading technology provider Trading Technologies International (TT) expects to add proximity-based strategies to a yet-named new product in its Strategy Engine (SE) product line.
Omega ATS Adds New Backer
TORONTO-Financial services advisory firm Tactico has purchased approximately a 25 percent interest in Canadian alternative trading system (ATS) operator Omega for an undisclosed sum.
Thomson Reuters Steps into DMA with Aegisoft Buy
NEW YORK-Thomson Reuters has filled out its trading platform portfolio with the recent acquisition of execution management system (EMS) provider Aegisoft.
Bond MTF Vega-Chi Set to Go Live
LONDON-European convertible bond traders will have a new source of liquidity as the Vega-Chi multilateral trading facility (MTF) commences trading on Feb. 17, according to MTF officials.
Pragma Establishes Crossing ATS
NEW YORK-Quantitative trading services provider Pragma Securities recently launched Onecross, a multi-benchmark alternative trading system (ATS) and dark crossing network that allows traders to pair off on market-on-open and market-on-close orders,…
Microsoft SQL Server to Gain Native CEP
NEW YORK-Software giant Microsoft expects to include its complex-event processing (CEP) platform as a standard feature in the next release of its Microsoft SQL Server line, due out before the end of the second quarter, DWT has learned.
Colt Enters PaaS, IaaS Provider Space
PALO ALTO, CALIF.-European telecom provider Colt plans to offer financial services and other clients the ability to deploy and manage enterprise applications across physical, virtual and compute cloud infrastructures, vendor officials announced today,…
Nordic, Baltic Exchanges Make Switch to Inet
STOCKHOLM-Global exchange operator Nasdaq OMX has started running the Nordic and Baltic markets on its Inet matching engine beginning today, Feb. 8, in order to lower cost "substantially" and to woo more high-frequency traders to the Nordic region,…
Calypso Makes Regulatory Update to Workstation
SAN FRANCISCO-Calypso recently released an upgraded version of its front-office system, Calypso Workstation, version 11.1, to account for U.K. Financial Services Authority (FSA) liquidity regulations that took effect in December 2009.
Sell Side: Trading Venue Diversity Increasing
LONDON-As European markets and their regulators struggle to balance market liquidity with transparency, industry participants expect liquidity fragmentation to rise as the types of trading venues continue to diversify.
LSE Sets Roadmap for Millennium Exchange
LONDON-LSE Group, operator of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), has prepared the migration roadmap for its new Millennium Exchange platform, which is slated to go live Sept. 13, according to a document obtained by DWT .
Zircon Computing Improves Load Balancing
NEW YORK-To improve the performance of its grid-enabling middleware, dubbed Zircon Software Product Suite, Zircon Computing has included a separate service pool for the platform's internal load balancer in version 3.1, which was made generally available…