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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in June 2009
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Wall Street Team Launches Investment Bank Focused on Green Technology
News  |  6/30/2009  | 
Former UBS Banker Jeffrey McDermott has assembled a team from Goldman Sachs, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Barclays to form Greentech Capital Advisors.
Citi Selects TradingScreen EMS Platform
News  |  6/30/2009  | 
Citi to Use TradingScreen’s EMS Platform
News  |  6/30/2009  | 
Integrating TradeSmart EMS with existing Lava order flow technology, migrating buy-side customers over.
ADG Deploys ITRS for Real-Time Monitoring of Trading Systems
News  |  6/29/2009  | 
Traders can view ITRS Geneo dashboard which monitors critical systems in real-time.
London Brokerage Adopts IT Dashboard
News  |  6/29/2009  | 
To help it keep up with traders' technology requests, ADG Holdings has gone live with a monitoring system from ITRS Geneos.
Madoff Learns His Fate
News  |  6/29/2009  | 
Prosecutors want convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff to receive the maximum sentence allowed by law which is 150 years in prison.
NYSE Divulges More Details About Its New Data Centers
News  |  6/26/2009  | 
Latest technology pick: a 10 gigabit Ethernet network from Juniper Networks that's said to provide an internal latency of 50 microseconds roundtrip.
SIFMA Spending Big to Help Financial Industry Revamp Image
News  |  6/26/2009  | 
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Dan Simon, SIFMA, Cognito
Obama to Review Every American; 70% of All Praise is Sarcastic
News  |  6/26/2009  | 
This week, according to the Onion News Network, President Obama began holding job performance reviews with every American in an effort to improve national productivity and a UCLA study found that 70% of all praise is sarcastic. In technology news, Apple announced that the iPhone now makes phone calls.

Obama to Hold Job Performance Review with Every American

According to a report from the Onion, the President's latest financial stimulus efforts include personal ad
A Bridge to Take Wall Street Firms from Grid to Cloud
News  |  6/25/2009  | 
Grid vendor Platform Computing introduced a private cloud offering this week. What does it take to migrate from a grid to cloud computing?
Aleri and TraderTools Create FX Partnership
News  |  6/25/2009  | 
TraderTools will embed Aleri╒s Coral* CEP engine in its liquidity management platform.
BondDesk Selects Progress Apama CEP Platform to Deliver Real-Time Analytics & Decision Support
News  |  6/25/2009  | 
BondDesk will use Progress Apama's CEP platform within the BondDesk ATS.
Advent Adds Algo Access for Moxy OMS
News  |  6/25/2009  | 
RNA Networks Unveils High-Test Boost to Caching
News  |  6/24/2009  | 
RNA cache intended to help ease the migration to multicore servers by adding a pool of shared memory.
Solace Rolls Out Unified Messaging Platform
News  |  6/24/2009  | 
Small appliance delivers market data to various programs and people at high and low speeds.
Market Data Priorities Shifting from Low Latency to Low Cost
News  |  6/24/2009  | 
Buy- and sell-side firms are intensely interested in lowering their market data costs, but the quest for low latency and high throughput isn't over.
Silver Lake’s Hutchins Touts the Cloud, Social Networking as Mega-Trends
News  |  6/24/2009  | 
Private equity veteran predicts slow recovery but urges financial industry to invest in technology and innovation at SunGard City Day event.
Market Crises Could Be Avoided Through Simplicity, Better Data
News  |  6/24/2009  | 
Rick Bookstaber, author of the book A Demon of Our Own Design and a former managing director in charge of firm-wide risk management at Salomon Brothers and a designer of derivatives, proprietary trader and market risk manager at Morgan Stanley, first designing and marketing derivative instruments, then as a proprietary trader, made provocative statements about the state of the markets at the SIFMA show yesterday afternoon.

Wall Street Firms Eye Cloud Computing to Help Counter Budget Challenges
News  |  6/24/2009  | 
A joint IBM/Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) survey reveals an increase in the level of interest in new technologies and computing models, in particular cloud computing, as firms seek to overcome budgetary restrictions and skills shortages.
Algo Traders Connect To Twitter
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
Twitter is catching on as a source of news and information for traders, who can feed tweets into their algorithms in real-time to help them make trading decisions.
Lime Brokerage Connects with Progress Apama
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
High frequency buy-side and broker dealer customers can now employ Apama strategies that can easily connect to Lime Trading System’s high –speed execution platform, with minimal up-front investment.
RTS Announces New Equity Trading Access
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
NYSE, Voltaire Roll Out 10 Gig E Data Fabric
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
New data fabric for market data applications said to achieve 25 microsecond average latencies at one million messages per second.
Finnish Bank Selects Orc to Support Launch of DMA Services
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
Newly established Sofia Bank introduces DMA services for Nordic cash and derivatives markets using the Orc Trading platform and connectivity options.
IBM Demonstrates Cloud Computing and Low Latency Messaging at SIFMA 2009
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
IBM is demonstrating WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging, a messaging transport that is highly optimized for the very high-volume, low-latency requirements of financial firms.
SunGard’s Fame Integrates SIX Telekurs Data
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
SunGard’s Fame Feed and SIX Telekurs’ MDF provide a single data source of world-wide exchange and pricing data.
CME Group Picks StreamBase’s CEP Platform for Options Pricing
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
Derivatives exchange initially will tap the complex event processing platform to develop models for settlement pricing of options on futures with plans to expand CEP's use into risk management and compliance.
Hedge Funds Must Be Prepared For Swine Flu Pandemic
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
The H1N1 virus isn't waning, despite the fact that the media is now largely ignoring the epidemic.
ConvergEx Releases Enhanced Eze OMS
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
CaseCentral Extends eDiscovery Review Platform with Integrated Early Case Assessment
News  |  6/23/2009  | 
CaseCentral's new platform enables clients to start with ECA and extend through analysis, review, production and post-production re-use, facilitating collaborative assessments of new case merits and liabilities.
Credit Suisse Spinoff Fleshes Out Virtual Sprawl Remedy
News  |  6/22/2009  | 
DynamicOps, the technology group that spun out of Credit Suisse last year, has a product that allegedly manages virtual desktops and servers, and lets users come in and order their own.
Cowen’s CIO Focuses on Mobility, As-A-Service, Open Source
News  |  6/22/2009  | 
At New York investment bank Cowen and Company, CIO Daniel Flax has mandated that every new technology project at his firm must meet two of these three criteria.
LIM Advisors Integrates Fidessa LatentZero's Capstone
News  |  6/22/2009  | 
Multi-strategy investment group uses front-office suite for portfolio management, compliance, trading and operations.
Deutsche Boerse to Offer Economic News for Algo Trading
News  |  6/22/2009  | 
The German stock market and its recently acquired news agency, Market News International, have developed a feed of economic indicators that algo engines can instantly read and react to.
NYSE And DTCC To Create Joint Venture
News  |  6/19/2009  | 
The joint venture will be for the clearing of U.S. fixed income securities and derivatives.
TGIF: While Discussing Financial Regs, Obama Slaughters Fly
News  |  6/18/2009  | 
During a CNBC interview about his new proposal for financial regulation, President Barack Obama made major national news when he efficiently yet violently squashed a fly. This version of the footage has been dubbed with ninja-movie style dialogue.
EMS vs. OMS Revisited: What Should the Buyside to Do?
Commentary  |  6/18/2009  | 
Blair Kanter, Consultant, offers his vision and suggestions on steps the buy should take when evaluating the OMS vs. EMS.
High Frequency Trading: Red Flags and Drug Addiction
News  |  6/18/2009  | 
Thoughts from Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading after attending a High Frequency Trading event by STANY.
NYSE Technologies, Jordan & Jordan Offer Market Data Reporting
News  |  6/18/2009  | 
The combination of NYSE's data distribution and reporting product with Jordan & Jordan's vendor reporting technology is designed to help customers manage and reduce market-data expenses.
List Provides Access To CME Group’s Globex Electronic Trading Platform
News  |  6/17/2009  | 
The connection enables List's buy- and sell-side clients to access benchmark products across all major asset classes.
The Urgency and High Price of New Cost Basis Reporting Law
News  |  6/17/2009  | 
Even while many firms are unaware of new cost basis reporting requirements, the deadline for compliance is fast approaching -- and the cost to comply won't be cheap.
Energy Stars: Wall Street Firms' Sustainable IT Efforts
News  |  6/17/2009  | 
Strained budgets combined with advances in virtualization technology and energy-efficient equipment are driving Wall Street firms' efforts to make their data centers and broader IT infrastructures more sustainable.
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Consolidates Trade Processing on Calypso
News  |  6/17/2009  | 
Japanese institution consolidating front- and middle-office trade processing platforms, hopes to improve risk monitoring and system.
Omgeo Extends Central Matching Platform to Broker/Dealers
News  |  6/16/2009  | 
Twelve early adopter brokers have now signed on to Omgeo CTM around the globe, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.
Xpyria Automates Trading Via Simple Workflow
News  |  6/16/2009  | 
Pittsburgh investment advisory firm uses document management software to automate trades, document reviews.
Portware Hires Four to Support Growth
News  |  6/16/2009  | 
To help support the firm’s rapid expansion, Portware has bolstered its global sales team, adding four industry veterans in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Washington Trust Continues CRM Rollout
News  |  6/16/2009  | 
Washington Trust Wealth Management is engaged in an enterprise rollout of customer relationship and business intelligence software.
FlexTrade Proposes Technology Solution for Naked Short Selling in Letter to SEC
News  |  6/15/2009  | 
Lenders of securities should establish real-time databases of stock eligible for borrowing using FIX tagging, advises FlexTrade's CEO.
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