Sell-Side Technology/News
HKEx Preps Five-Fold Capacity Increase
HONG KONG-Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) will be investing heavily in a series of IT upgrades over the next six months, say exchange officials.
Oracle to Acquire BEA Systems
REDWOOD SHORES, CALIF.-In a deal valued at $8.5 billion database giant Oracle plans to acquire all outstanding shares of San Jose, Calif.-headquartered middleware vendor BEA Systems, say vendor officials.
GL Trade to Take Warsaw Link Live
PARIS-Trading software and services provider GL Trade will launch several new connectivity hubs this year, DWT has learned.
NYSE Euronext to Debut Trading Algos
NEW YORK-Global exchange operator NYSE Euronext plans to release a set of vanilla trading algorithms, along with an algorithm development toolkit sometime in mid-2008 through its services and products business, NYSE TransactTools, DWT has learned.
Progress Launches Smart Order Router
BEDFORD, MASS.-Progress Software will announce today, Jan. 21, the launch of its Progress Apama Smart Order Router (SOR) Accelerator, DWT has learned.
BoA to Exit Equity Prime Brokerage
NEW YORK-As investment banks north and south of the U.S.-Canadian border are restructuring in response to the credit meltdown, Bank of America (BoA) plans to sell its equity prime brokerage business and separately, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce …
NYSE Euronext's Expansion Plan
As NYSE Euronext continues its aggressive mergers and acquisition strategy ( see story, this issue ), growth seems to be the name of the game. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with NYSE Euronext CIO Steven Rubinow to discuss the exchange's…
Commodities ECN to Launch This Year
KANSAS CITY, MO.-Institutional commodities traders will soon have a new trading venue for over-the-counter (OTC) commodity options contracts with the expected mid-year launch of the Agora-X ECN, say ECN officials.
BEA, Lab49 Offer Joint Event Processing Strategy
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Middleware provider BEA Systems and financial services technology applications developer Lab49 have teamed up to create a framework approach to utilize the BEA WebLogic Event Server, officials announced today, Jan. 14.
DataSynapse Adds Microsoft Support
NEW YORK-Application virtualization software provider DataSynapse has announced the release of the latest version of its grid computing software FabricServer 2.5 today, Jan. 14, which includes support for Microsoft application platforms, including .Net…
GL Trade to Debut TASE Link
PARIS & TEL AVIV-Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) officials expect to raise their exchange's international profile by connecting to GL Trade's pan-European application service provider (ASP) platform in April, say vendor officials.
InfoReach to Adopt FIXATDL
CHICAGO-BrokerReach, a light-weight Web-based execution management system (EMS) from financial trading software vendor InfoReach, should be sporting support for FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXATDL) in its wizard function in the near…
TSE Set to Take Derivatives Engine Live
TOKYO-The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is going live on a new derivatives trading engine this Tuesday, Jan. 15, and at the same time, will launch an electronic off-auction trading market for derivatives.
IT Spending Up in 2007
BOSTON & LONDON-Despite the credit crunch, financial services firms have spent more on IT investments in 2007 than previous years, say industry watchers.
Fidessa to Launch Next-Gen Trading Algos
NEW YORK-Order management system (OMS) and market connectivity provider Fidessa plans to release a new suite of advanced trading algorithms for the U.S. markets, dubbed BlueBox Execution Strategies, in the coming weeks, Fidessa officials tell DWT .
Sicom Preps for Condico Rollout
SINGAPORE-Traders on the Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom) will have a chance to start training on the exchange's new Condico energy and commodities trading platform from Nordic exchange provider OMX in the second quarter when the exchange commences…