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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in August 2008
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TGIF: BlackBookBerry
News  |  8/29/2008  | 
New device aimed at those who can't get a BlackBerry.
Outsourcing Provides New Opportunities for Trust Industry
News  |  8/28/2008  | 
To increase profitability and improve the client value proposition of their trust departments, banks can turn operations outsourcing and investment management outsourcing, according to a new report by Celent.
EMS and OMS: Integration on the Horizon?
Commentary  |  8/28/2008  | 
FXAll and Onix Partner
News  |  8/27/2008  | 
Onix hedge fund and asset management clients to use FXAll's foreign exchange platform.
TrendPoint Offers Suggestions for Greener Data Centers
News  |  8/27/2008  | 
Data center energy management company TrendPoint Systems is offering a four-point plan for "green data centers". Although the plan leads into a pitch for TrendPoint's product, it includes some helpful hints for those who find their data centers to be energy hogs.
Moss Adams Chooses Advisor’s Client Acquisition Software
News  |  8/27/2008  | 
Solution to assist with portfolio construction, portfolio diagnostics and proposal generation.
TowerGroup Warns That Without Innovation, Fee Revenue Processing Costs Will Skyrocket
News  |  8/27/2008  | 
If firms fail to innovate their methods to process fee revenue for managed accounts, their costs could jump from the current $20.6 million to $42.4 million by 2012, according to a new report by the TowerGroup.
1010data Introduces Open Database Connectivity Driver
News  |  8/26/2008  | 
New driver allows users to layer business intelligence on existing applications.
New Verari Blades Combine Processing and Storage
News  |  8/26/2008  | 
Latest DataServer blades designed for Web 2.0, cloud and file system applications.
Consolidated Clearing: Obstacles and Evolution
News  |  8/26/2008  | 
Cost savings and efficiency have the buy side taking note of consolidated clearing. But will widespread adoption happen?
Avalon Alpha-Testing Foreign Exchange ECN
News  |  8/25/2008  | 
ECN intended to improve institutional liquidity in the foreign exchange market.
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News  |  8/25/2008  | 
Service to help Savvis's hosting clients to find a market for ISE-traded options.
Nvidia Releases New Programming Environment for Graphics Processors
News  |  8/25/2008  | 
CUDA 2.0 intended for complex computational problems.
Adobe, GemStone to Speed Global Workflows, Document Sharing
News  |  8/22/2008  | 
As Wall Street firms continue to open new offices in foreign countries and to outsource around the globe, one challenge for IT departments is to make sure that work, data and documents flow quickly and smoothly among widespread offices and data centers. Adobe and GemStone are announcing today a joint solution designed to meet this challenge: they've embedded GemStone's GemFire data virtualiza
SunGard Enhances Front Arena
News  |  8/22/2008  | 
TGIF: iFrustration
News  |  8/21/2008  | 
iPhone kinks are starting to bother even people who don't have them.
State Street Completes Derivatives Processing Hub
News  |  8/21/2008  | 
OTC Hub provides customer reporting, electronic trade flow and reconciliation of positions and cash flows between middle and back office.
New Bloomberg Tool Tracks Weather’s Effect on Investments
News  |  8/21/2008  | 
Intended to let investors, traders and financial execs factor weather forecasts into their equity, commodity and derivative strategies.
Northern Trust Launches Performance Dashboard for Institutional Investors
News  |  8/21/2008  | 
Includes daily and monthly analysis of risk, return and market value.
Corvil Unveils Newest Latency Monitor
News  |  8/20/2008  | 
Product designed to meet analytical requirements of high frequency electronic trading.
Janney Montgomery Scott Announces New CIO
News  |  8/20/2008  | 
Robert J. Thielmann, formerly of AIG, will assume duties of CIO, vice president and management committee.
NYC Brokerage Offers Customers Access to BIDS
News  |  8/20/2008  | 
Minority-owned Penserra Securities to give clients access to dark-pool liquidity.
Weeden & Co.
Trading Floors  |  8/20/2008  | 
The trading floor at Weeden & Co.'s Greenwich, Conn., headquarters is designed to foster teamwork, cooperation and communication among the full-service institutional broker's 75-plus traders, sales traders and assistants on the floor, and about 25 other traders in its regional branches in Boston, San Francisco and Chicago.
SEC Unveils IDEA, Successor to 1980s-Era EDGAR Database
News  |  8/19/2008  | 
"IDEA" will make company and fund information interactive, giving investors faster and easier access to data.
Marshall & Ilsley Selects Calypso Software
News  |  8/19/2008  | 
Calypso Solution will support front-to-back derivatives trading.
Huron Consulting Strengthens E-discovery Services with New DSL Partnership
News  |  8/19/2008  | 
Electronic document discovery has become one of the single largest components of litigation, with the review portion accounting for up to 80 percent of the $3 billion a year e-discovery marketplace, Huron said.
Sectoral Selects LongView Trading
News  |  8/19/2008  | 
RIA Firm Fintegra Launches FundQuest’s Platform
News  |  8/18/2008  | 
The Institutional Spectrum platform features five different types of mutual fund managed accounts, as well as a separately managed account and individual stocks and bonds.
Sectoral Asset Management To Lease Trading, Portfolio Management Software
News  |  8/18/2008  | 
Firm to use hosted LongView software from Linedata Services.
Financial Insights Promotes Web 2.0 Collaboration between top C-Level Executives and Analysts
News  |  8/18/2008  | 
The tool will enable senior executives and research analysts to communicate via secure video conferencing, IM, and SMS.
Bank of Beijing Adopting VoIP On Its Trading Floor
News  |  8/18/2008  | 
Purchasing new trader turrets from IPC.
Knowledge Process Outsourcing Represents the Next Generation of Outsourcing Services
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
As financial services expertise increases among BPO providers, knowledge process outsourcing is the next step.
Coral8 Releases Version 5.4 of CEP Solution
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
The new Coral8 Engine release provides greater configuration flexibility, while the Coral8 Portal was enhanced to add more visualization options, including drill-down support.
DTCC Launches New ID Net Service
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
The new service streamlines clearance and settlement, cuts customer costs and reduces fails associated with affirmed institutional equity trades, the utility said.
Financial Firms Try to Protect Themselves Against the Insider Job
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
Following the Societe Generale scandal, Wall Street firms have reexamined their internal security practices. But a number of factors, including the economic downturn and business pressures, continue to make rogue employees a very real threat.
OptionXpress Unveils New Smart Router
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
XpressRouter simultaneously monitors quotes from all U.S. options exchanges and queries alternative liquidity sources to find the best prices.
Bats Reports Record July Volume
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
TGIF: Is it Time for a Performance Review?
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
In the UK version of The Office, David Brent (Ricky Gervais) gives a performance review of accountant Keith, which soon turns into every boss's nightmare.
Rosenblatt Securities Signs Sponsor Agreement with BIDS Trading
News  |  8/15/2008  | 
Later this year, BIDS Trading and the NYSE Euronext plan to launch a joint venture that will allow dark orders to interact with both displayed and reserve orders from the NYSE.
5 Steps for Stopping the Insider Threat
News  |  8/14/2008  | 
Guardium's Phil Neray offers guidance on preventing insider data theft.
EuroCCP and SWIFT Join Forces on Turquoise
News  |  8/14/2008  | 
Access to EuroCCP - which launches Aug 15 - via SWIFT means Turquoise members can reuse existing network infrastructure.
Next Generation Automated Phone Technology Market to Soar
News  |  8/14/2008  | 
Outbound IVR originates and executes outbound calls with customers. According to a new Datamonitor report, the North American Market will grow 20% in the next five years.
Wolters Kluwer Launches Cost Basis Reporting Resource Center
News  |  8/13/2008  | 
The resource center provides news and updates related to the proposed legislation, insight from financial and legal experts who are continually monitoring its developments in Congress, and information about technology that can help them prepare.
Financial Firms Struggle To Keep up with AML Demands
News  |  8/13/2008  | 
AML compliance is recognized as a vital issue by regulators and financial institutions alike. But there is also a constant evolution in compliance strategies and regulations, according to a new Aite Group report.
Keeping Tabs: Industry Moves and Appointments
News  |  8/13/2008  | 
Putnam and Wen join FXall; Fuse joins 29West; Northern Trust promotes Severs; McCoy joins National Stock Exchange.
Fidelity Introduces E-Signature for RIAs to Automate Account Opening
News  |  8/13/2008  | 
Fidelity's e-signature capability will allow advisors and their clients to electronically sign all documents, including Fidelity and advisor-specific forms, required to establish and fund a brokerage account.
Now Is the Time for Firms to Position Themselves for the End of the Economic Downturn
Commentary  |  8/13/2008  | 
Downturns happen -- the industry will survive. But firms need to adjust to changing market dynamics.
EuroCCP to Launch Clearing & Settlement System Friday
News  |  8/13/2008  | 
The DTCC subsidiary ultimately expects to provide clearing and settlement services in more than 20 separate markets in Europe.
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