Sell-Side Technology/News
Swift to Revamp Global Network
NEW YORK—The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) is preparing a global upgrade of its network infrastructure, which will include a new redundant operations center located somewhere in Europe, Swift officials tell DWT .
3D Markets Preps Options ATS
NEW HOPE, PA.—A new equities options alternative trading system (ATS) from start-up vendor 3D Markets is preparing to take flight, vendor officials tell DWT .
Citi Poised for ATD Acquisition
NEW YORK—Global banking giant Citi is in advanced negotiations to purchase Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based electronic brokerage firm Automated Trading Desk (ATD), according to media reports.
Fidessa Rolls Out DLA Service
NEW YORK—Order management system (OMS) and market data provider Fidessa announced the launch of its Fidessa Global Direct Liquidity Access offering last week.
Amex Suffers Trading Outage
NEW YORK—Traders on the American Stock Exchange (Amex) experienced an interruption in equity and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) last Thursday as the exchange halted trading in both instruments at 12:20 p.m. local time.
Borsa Italiana Fights Heating with Blade Servers
MILAN—In a drive to increase trading performance and reduce cooling costs and the amount of server real estate required, Borsa Italiana has recently adopted AMD Opteron-powered Hewlett-Packard (HP) ProLiant BL blade servers, say exchange officials.
Need for Speed Dominates Sifma 2007
NEW YORK—Attendees to last week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's (Sifma's) technology management conference faced more than just a new name forthe show.
SGX to Offer Radianz Proximity
LONDON—To address the rising tide of foreign algorithmic traders, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that it has adopted the Radianz Proxmity Solution from BT for the exchange's derivatives market, say SGX officials who spoke at a jointly hosted…
Panel: Industry Puts Low-Latency in Check
LONDON—The quest for ultra-low-latency execution in algorithmic trading was put in check by industry participants at the FIA/FOA International Derivatives Conference 2007, held in London last week.
Icap Upgrades
It's never a dull moment in the world of the inter-dealer community as firms integrate voice- and electronic-trading businesses in order to maintain their positions within the competitive landscape. DWT editor Rob Daly sat down with Icap's Global CIO Jay…
LSE Takes TradElect Live
LONDON—TradElect, the London Stock Exchange's (LSE's) new trading platform, has gone live today, June 18.
BNY ConvergEx Launches EMS
NEW YORK—Global agency broker BNY ConvergEx announced that it has added execution management system (EMS) functionality to version 5.7 of its Eze Castle order management system (OMS), vendor officials announced last week.
GigaSpaces Releases Middleware Platform
LONDON—Grid computing vendor GigaSpaces Technologies announced the version 6.0 release of its Space-based architecture platform under its new name, eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), during its first European user conference last week.
GS, CS See Algo Growth in Asia
HONG KONG—Although Asia has been a late joiner to the game of algorithmic trading, the region is seeing rapid adoption of the technology due to increasing buy-side demand and larger and more sophisticated trades, which in turn are spurring greater…
Report: Time to Redefine FX Liquidity Management
LONDON—When it comes to liquidity management for foreign exchange (FX) trading, banks are in need of a radical overhaul of their liquidity management systems, according to a whitepaper released today by London-based research and advisory firm…
WestLB Outsources Data Hosting to Reuters
LONDON—German bank WestLB has migrated its market data infrastructure to a solution supported by Reuters, which is now hosting the bank's Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) data backbone and all data feed connectivity at BT Radianz sites in London and…
Dubai Exchange Braces for Growth
DUBAI—After having to delay its first day of trading for one month due to regulatory clearing arrangements, the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) is in full production.
Pivot Debuts Collaboration Platform
NEW YORK—Secure instant messaging (IM) solutions provider Pivot Solutions plans to debut its inter-enterprise collaboration platform, dubbed Pivot 360, at next week's Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) technology management…