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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in March 2010
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Brand Name Managers Join Covestor, Giving Legitimacy to Social Investing
News  |  3/31/2010  | 
Social investing site Covestor.com has attracted top wealth managers, such as Navelier & Associates, and four other established investment firms, allowing everyday investors to mirror their moves.
Citi Launches Next Generation Algorithmic Trading Platform
News  |  3/31/2010  | 
The new platform enables clients to get self monitoring alerts for exceptional conditions with multiple levels of severity; real-time information on strategy progress and performance and enhanced stability, redundancy, and recovery framework.
Derivix Adds J.P. Morgan and S.A.C. Venture Investments As Strategic Investors
News  |  3/31/2010  | 
New investments enable continued product innovation, and expansion of the company's sales and customer support infrastructure.
Northern Trust Finds Success in Unity
News  |  3/30/2010  | 
Northern Trust consolidated its trading operations in time to weather the financial crisis and streamline the trading process.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Gives Traders A Break
News  |  3/30/2010  | 
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has built an Execution Optimizer, or EO, that will further automate the trade workflow by utilizing TCA and portfolio manager profiling to generate and execute on strategies.
Hard at Work: The Buy Side Rebuilds and Refocuses for a New Trading World
News  |  3/30/2010  | 
Buy-side firms aren't waiting for the next big thing to lift the industry. They're undertaking large-scale projects to improve the trading desk and emerge from these trying times more efficient than ever.
Colonial First State Global Asset Management Appoints ASSET4 As Its ESG Research Provider
News  |  3/30/2010  | 
ASSET4, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in November 2009, has developed the world's largest database of transparent, objective and auditable ESG information covering over 3,000 publicly listed companies worldwide, as well as a variety of other entities including countries, local authorities, state-owned companies and supranational entities.
Eze OMS Integrates LocateStock’s Matador Stock Locate Platform
News  |  3/30/2010  | 
LocateStock’s Matador real-time stock locate platform is now available through ConvergEx Group’s Eze order management system (OMS).
Computing Return on IT (ROIT): The Holy Grail of the Business Value of IT
Commentary  |  3/29/2010  | 
The development of a return on IT measure ensures that business and IT management can understand current technology investment in terms of business outcomes, according to Howard Rubin, founder of Rubin Worldwide.
Commodities Traders Increasingly Adopt Algorithms
News  |  3/29/2010  | 
Commodities traders increasingly are adopting algorithms, but these aren't the equity markets' automated trading strategies, as commodities algos often make room for human discretion. By Ivy Schmerken
Fiserv's TradeFlow Extends Pre- and Post-FX Automation for Continuous Linked Settlement
News  |  3/29/2010  | 
With this enhancement, TradeFlow from Fiserv can automatically identify trades eligible for CLS settlement and eliminate the need to work with custodians for exception management.
Vendor Risk Top of Mind for Wall Street Firms
Commentary  |  3/29/2010  | 
As firms search for stability in their technology partners, larger vendors have the edge. But eventually smaller, innovative providers will make a comeback.
Kuwait and Middle East Investment Company Picks Quod Financial
News  |  3/29/2010  | 
Quod Financial will provide new online trading platform for retail and high-net worth investors in Kuwait.
Capital Markets Firms Turn to Cloud Computing
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
Despite disagreement on the actual definition of 'cloud computing,' capital markets firms increasingly are turning to the technology to achieve scale, cut costs and improve time to market. But not everything about the cloud is white and fluffy.
Proactive IT Monitoring Strategy Emerges for Complex, Low Latency Infrastructures
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
A new strategy, Business Transaction Processing, has emerged for monitoring and troubleshooting high-volume, complex environments in investment banks.
OptionsXpress Embraces Virtualization
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
While brokerage optionsXpress has embraced virtualization, don't tell EVP Ben Stein that the firm is using a cloud.
Boston Options Exchange Taps SaaS for Billing
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
The Boston Options Exchange's decision to move to a software-as-a-service billing solution was chiefly driven by its need to free up resources to tackle industry initiatives.
Riding the Cloud to Market: Q&A With Marc Chaikin
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
Marc Chaikin, who developed the first real-time analytics workstation for stock traders and portfolio managers, talks to WS&T about his latest venture and how he is using the cloud to deliver data to investors' smartphones.
TGIF: It's A Twitter Frenzy
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
Don't get left behind! Just about everyone - and we do mean everyone - is tweeting nowadays. Jon Stewart discusses the trend in this clip from the Daily Show...
Thomson Reuters CEO on Encouraging Innovation
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
In this video clip from the Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer discusses how he asks employees to play with new technologies.
Digits: Will Apple's iPad Live Up to the Hype?
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
Apple's iPad makes its much-awaited debut in just 8 days. AllThingsD.com's Kara Swisher discusses whether she believes the tablet computer will live up to the hype.
Redline Trading Solutions Announces New High-Performance Market Data Platform
News  |  3/26/2010  | 
InRush 10G provides significant latency and throughput advantages as well as adding support for dual 10Gbit Ethernet market data connections.
Industry Working to Build Infrastructure to Enable Central Clearing of OTC Derivatives
News  |  3/25/2010  | 
While Congress hammers out details of OTC derivatives reform, buy-side firms and dealers are working to connect to central counterparty clearinghouses to enable central clearing and reduce counterparty risk.
The Tangled OTC Derivatives Marketplace
News  |  3/25/2010  | 
Rather than build connections to multiple central counterparty clearinghouses, many buy-side firms will rely on third-party services to bridge the gap in OTC derivatives clearing.
The Speed of Change
Commentary  |  3/25/2010  | 
Unlike regulatory reform, the pace of technology innovation has quickened to help facilitate change in the financial markets.
A Leap Forward in U.S. Stock Analysis
News  |  3/25/2010  | 
I recently spoke with Jonathan Greenberg, CEO of OCE Interactive, the developer of Market Topographer, an interactive Web-based platform for benchmarking and valuation analysis of U.S. stocks.
Liquidnet Ranked No. 1 Broker for Best Ex in ITG Broker Edge Study
News  |  3/25/2010  | 
Liquidnet ranked first in three major categories, from Q4 2008 through Q3 2009.
Nomura Makes Key Program Trading Appointments
News  |  3/25/2010  | 
Nomura Securities International has named several new senior leaders for its program trading team to support the expansion of its U.S. capabilities and the build out of its global portfolio trading offerings.
TMX Group Taps NetScout Systems for Latency Monitoring
News  |  3/24/2010  | 
Operator of cash and derivatives markets deploys nGenius Assurance Solution to track order messages, market data feeds as well as the performance of communications protocols.
RealTick Expands Relationship With Nomura Adding Latest U.S. Electronic Equity Trading Capabilities
News  |  3/24/2010  | 
RealTick users can access Nomura's latest ModelEx suite of algorithms, Smart Router and dark crossing platform NX, as well as make use of Nomura's direct market access, Program Trading and Worked Order capabilities for U.S., European and Asian equity execution.
Global Parallels Prime Canadian Traders to Find Alpha
Commentary  |  3/23/2010  | 
As U.S. and European firms respond to their changing environments and the dispersal of liquidity along with high frequency trading, Canadian traders are also looking to speed and automation to secure alpha.
Deutsche Bank Launches Super X Algo
News  |  3/23/2010  | 
Super X enables the client to manage access to dark liquidity, while avoiding adverse selection and minimizing the trade footprint, according to Deutsche Bank.
RealTick Adds Nomura Equity Trading Capabilities
News  |  3/23/2010  | 
RealTick has added Nomura’s latest U.S. equity trading products to its execution management system (EMS) platform.
CQG Adds Full Suite of Indian Market Data
News  |  3/22/2010  | 
The MCX is India's leading commodity exchange, and the NSE is one of the highest volume futures and options exchanges in the world. CQG already has connectivity to the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
Celoxica Extends Market Data Coverage to Europe
News  |  3/22/2010  | 
Releases ultra low latency feed handlers for the LSE, BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe..
NYSE Euronext Joins Forces with Bloomberg on Market Data Open Symbology
News  |  3/19/2010  | 
NYSE Euronext will distribute Bloomberg Open Symbology (BSYM) for NYSE-listed companies, to support need for open standards in reference data.
List of Indicted Madoff Aides Grows
News  |  3/19/2010  | 
Two former computer programmers at Bernie Madoff's firm have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, bringing to five the number of Madoff aides who have been arrested since the scandal began to unfold 15 months ago.
TGIF: Hey Bernie!! Why Did You Do Me So Bad?
News  |  3/19/2010  | 
Here's a catchy Funny or Die video about Bernie Madoff as he whiles away his days in prison..."Hey Bernie! Why Did You Do Me So Bad? With All Of Our Cash...Turned Me Into Trash..."
Omnium Launches Software Suite Providing Real-Time Access to Data
News  |  3/18/2010  | 
OmniumAccess provides clients with direct access to their data and the processes that support their entire post-trade lifecycle.
RealTick Adds Knight Algos, Liquidity
News  |  3/18/2010  | 
RealTick has added expanded access to Knight Capital’s algorithms and liquidity through Knight Direct.
Verticlear Launches With Broker-Centric Data And Account Management Solutions
News  |  3/17/2010  | 
Verticlear plans to release additional solutions that improve on legacy data models and provide a better framework for brokers to integrate with downstream data systems.
Jefferies Releases New Algo Suite
News  |  3/17/2010  | 
Jefferies has launched a new suite of algorithms for the U.S., Canadian and European markets offering a number of features to address price volatility and liquidity in fragmented and less visible market environments.
Jefferies Launches New Suite Of Algorithmic Trading Strategies For Equity Markets In the U.S., Canada And Europe
News  |  3/17/2010  | 
The algorithms are built to address two features coveted by algorithmic traders: ease of use in terms of switching seamlessly between working algorithms, and the ability to have more control over the algorithm's execution logic.
Bank Debt Deals Pose Operational Risk
News  |  3/16/2010  | 
Alternative investments firms are realizing they cannot manage an entire asset class in a non-systematic manner.
Knight Capital Markets Attempts to Solve the Pain of Pairs
News  |  3/16/2010  | 
Knight Capital Markets introduces a new pairs trading platform and pairs algorithms to help traders more effectively and more efficiently execute their pairs strategies.
GoldenSource Releases Market Data Solution for End-To-End Data Transparency
News  |  3/16/2010  | 
The GoldenSource Market Data Solution unifies traditional reference data with more time-critical market data and offers increased data quality, consistency and transparency across the investment process, the vendors says.
Credit Suisse Introduces Block Algos to Tap Liquidity In CrossFinder ATS and Other Venues Simultaneously
News  |  3/16/2010  | 
Credit Suisse has enabled all of its AES algorithms to sweep both lit and dark destinations simultaneously for block liquidity.
CQG Connects to MathWorks MATLAB to Advance Automated Trading
News  |  3/16/2010  | 
CQG is a provider of integrated global market data, low-latency trade routing, and advanced technical analysis software, while MathWorks is a developer of mathematical computing software.
Cross-Asset Algorithms Begin to Make Their Mark
News  |  3/16/2010  | 
Following the proliferation of multi-asset trading systems, the buy side is beginning to put cross-asset algos to work for more complex trades and hedges.
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