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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in January 2010
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Why the Industry Is Changing Options Symbology
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
The options industry has outgrown five-character options symbols and is converting to a more-descriptive format that will help investors understand the instruments they are trading.
Insider Trading: Can It Be Stopped?
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
With the SEC under pressure to salvage its battered reputation, the regulator has been acting with new-found zeal to eliminate insider trading.
New Options Symbology Phased In
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
New options symbology was phased in on Feb. 12, seemingly without any problems. But given the far-reaching nature of the conversion for brokers, exchanges, clearing firms and vendors, some kinks still could arise.
SEC Asks Public Companies to Disclose Climate-Related Risks to Investors
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
Faith-based organization, ICCR, warns that compliance with SEC's guidance on climate risks will create "lag time."
Bain Capital Ventures Anticipates XBRL Boom With EDGAR Online Investment
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
$12 million stock purchase to help EDGAR grow and invest in technology for 2012 SEC XBRL deadline.
Continuity Software Releases RecoverGuard 5.0 For Business Continuity
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
Customers can track and remedy violations, breaches and risks to data and application availability faster and more easily than before.
TGIF: Why Is The Evening News So Boring? (video)
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
BBC reporter Chris Booker gives a special report on every boring special report that you've ever seen on the news.
ExlService Announces Four New Services To Reduce Cost
News  |  1/29/2010  | 
The provider of outsourcing and transformation services said its new offerings will also help clients achieve greater operational effectiveness and efficiency.
Wesley Clover Announces Enhanced Directory Application for IP Voice Trading Platform
News  |  1/28/2010  | 
The enhanced directory application will triple the number of button appearances on the IP Turret to 296 and to 248 for the IP Traderphone.
iPad: Will It Become a Must-Have Tool for the Capital Markets?
News  |  1/28/2010  | 
Those who stand to benefit the most from the iPad are financial advisers who are constantly meeting clients on the go, says Doug Dannemiller, senior analyst at Aite Group.
TheMarkets.com Adds 100 Asian Brokers Contributing Research
News  |  1/28/2010  | 
Global research platform now has 700 brokers publishing content, quadrupling the number from one year ago.
Back Office: Time to Pay the Piper
Commentary  |  1/27/2010  | 
With increasing complexity and the need for more highly automated operations, the back office will require increased innovation and continued investment.
Fidessa Ready With High-Speed Interface To Korea
News  |  1/27/2010  | 
New development is a pioneering initiative to the Korean market, where many systems continue to run under limited speed, according to a release.
Brinker Capital Signs Multi-Year Contract With Fiserv For Trading Solutions
News  |  1/27/2010  | 
Under the extended agreement, Brinker Capital, which manages approximately 20,000 accounts on the Fiserv platform, will use three flagship Investment Services solutions: APL(SM), Investment Management Solution and Model Management Solution(SM).
What They're Really Doing in Davos
News  |  1/27/2010  | 
Some of the world's most high-powered people are meeting in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) not to make decisions, but to get to know each other and face the problems together.
High Frequency Equities Trading: From the U.S. to Asia?
Commentary  |  1/27/2010  | 
The adoption of HFT in Europe is less than here in the U.S. but is growing while at the same time, HFT will most certainly expand in Asia over the next several years.
RBC Capital Markets Transforms Its Trading Floor
News  |  1/26/2010  | 
RBC has built a new 700 seat trading floor that houses equity, options and fixed-income trading.
FDIC May Securitize Bad Assets
News  |  1/26/2010  | 
The FDIC is planning on securitizing the assets and selling it off to investors.
Voltaire Announces Industry's First 40 Gb/s InfiniBand Switch
News  |  1/26/2010  | 
Delivers sub-microsecond latency in a compact device and is ideal for co-located low-latency trading, vendor says.
Celfin Capital Develops Electronic Trading Capabilities With Fidessa
News  |  1/25/2010  | 
The partnership will allow Celfin Capital to receive Chilean and Peruvian equity flow, opening up an essential conduit to Latin American markets for brokers and asset managers globally.
Corvil Releases Latency Management Center
News  |  1/25/2010  | 
The Latency Management Center will provide a single access point to monitor and manage latency in large or geographically dispersed trading environments.
Thomson Reuters Launches NewsScope Direct for Traders Out of London and Chicago
News  |  1/25/2010  | 
Provides market-moving machine readable news to high frequency traders in London and Chicago.
Celfin Capital Develops Electronic Trading Capabilities with Fidessa
News  |  1/25/2010  | 
Celfin Capital Develops Electronic Trading Capabilities with Fidessa
SEC Debates Sponsored Access Ban (video)
News  |  1/22/2010  | 
Regulators are examining sponsored access, which allows high-speed traders and others to trade directly on exchanges. Larry Tabb, CEO and founder of TABB Group, talks to Advanced Trading Editor-in-Chief Kerry Massaro about the implications of the SEC's proposed ban of sponsored, or naked, access.
TGIF: Wall Street Bonuses Under Fire
News  |  1/22/2010  | 
In this Daily Show video clip, Jon Stewart focuses on record unemployment rates and Wall Street bonuses...
What's Driving Goldman's Earnings and Bonus Plans?
News  |  1/22/2010  | 
Goldman Sachs made around $5 billion in profits last quarter and has slightly reduced its bonus plan, likely to avoid a further populist and political backlash to excessive compensation.
Accounting for Stock Options Requires Comprehensive System, Says OptionEase CEO
News  |  1/21/2010  | 
OptionEase CEO Kim Kovacs says on-demand system can help companies comply with complex stock option accounting rules and avoid penalties.
What's Next For Wall Street?
News  |  1/21/2010  | 
Obama's new banking regulation will not be about bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act, although it will give regulators the authority to limit risky activity by banks. William Rudin, Rudin Mgmt. vice chairman & CEO and Alan Greenberg, JP Morgan vice chairman emeritus, discuss upcoming new regulations in this CNBC video.
Neonet Will Open Hong Kong Office
News  |  1/21/2010  | 
Hong Kong office will strengthen its execution services in the Asian region.
Transamerica Finds Back-Office Efficiency, Accuracy Through Insourcing
News  |  1/20/2010  | 
Asset manager saves money and improves the accuracy of data by pulling fund administration back in-house.
Futures Exchange ELX Blends Hosted and Homegrown Ops Platforms
News  |  1/20/2010  | 
Billing and member communications are two of the functions for which the nascent exchange has turned to software as a service.
Document Automation Helps Diversified Investment Advisors Decrease Ops Budget by $1.3 Million
News  |  1/20/2010  | 
Print-on-demand capabilities help investment advisory firm eliminate manual document generation processes.
BlockCross ATS Picks FIX Flyer's FIX Engine and Daytona for Monitoring
News  |  1/20/2010  | 
Block trading ATS uses FIX Flyer's Daytona to monitor FIX sessions with counterparties in real time.
Equinoxe AIS Implements SunGard's Asset Arena Investment Accounting Solution
News  |  1/20/2010  | 
Equinoxe is a full-service alternative investment fund administration company headquartered in Bermuda with subsidiaries licensed and regulated in Ireland and Mauritius.
Guidance Software Releases Version 4 of E-Discovery Solution
News  |  1/19/2010  | 
New Version 4 expands EnCase eDiscovery to include early case assessment and first-pass review, delivered through a user-friendly web interface.
Quant Capital Deploys Aleri CEP Technology for Algorithmic Trading
News  |  1/15/2010  | 
The investment firm chose Aleri for its performance capabilities and added benefits like its visual optimization features, it said.
Bloomberg Launches VICON Interface into CDS Clearing Facilities
News  |  1/15/2010  | 
Provides first neutral interface that connects buy-and sell-side to two central clearing counterparties for OTC credit derivatives.
TGIF: What Trends To Watch in 2010?
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
In this Daily Show video clip, Senior Trendologist Jason Jones sees a big movement toward "experts" on the air making meaningless claims.
Nasdaq's Efficiency Drive (Video)
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
In this video, WS&T Senior Editor Melanie Rodier speaks to Eric Noll, Head of Nasdaq Transaction Services, about the latest technology developments at Nasdaq, including the exchange's drive to make transparent markets more effective for all users.
The Search for Alpha: Analyzing Unstructured Data
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
Researchers and Wall Street firms are analyzing the avalanche of Internet content -- including news feeds, blogs and Twitter posts -- to help improve trading performance.
CME Elevates Ian Wall To Head Enterpise Architecture
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
After completing the Nymex Clearport integration for OTC products, Wall was tapped for larger IT role at CME.
Jefferies Joins Tradeweb's Government Bond Electronic Trading Platform
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
Jefferies further expands its fixed income product offering by joining Tradeweb's electronic marketplace for government bonds.
Algos Gone Wild
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
Panelists debate whether an algo gone wild could bring down the market.
Deutsche Bank Hires Credit Suisse E-Trading Exec
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
Deutsche Bank has appointed Jose Marques Managing Director and Head of Equity Electronic Trading in the firm’s Global Markets Division.
FaceTime and YellowJacket Partner on Integrated Message Compliance Solution
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
YellowJacket's IM transaction and interaction logs can now be seamlessly stored in FaceTime IMAuditor, which also archives messages from Reuters and Bloomberg, in addition to traffic from other instant messaging and unified communications platforms.
NYSE Technologies Launches a New Class of Liquidity Discovery Solution
News  |  1/14/2010  | 
ioinet v2 aims to provide traders with new perspectives on IOIs and advertised trades.
FINCAD and SAS Collaborate to Provide Banks with Enterprise Risk Management
News  |  1/13/2010  | 
FINCAD and SAS said together they will give clients one of the broadest cross-asset class derivatives and fixed income analytics libraries that uses industry-standard models.
Bank Julius Baer Deploys GFI FENICS Enterprise As Global System
News  |  1/13/2010  | 
Swiss bank utilizes GFI FENICS Enterprise for pricing of FX options and analyzing portfolios.
ConvergEx Opens Sydney Office for its Eze OMS
News  |  1/13/2010  | 
ConvergEx Group has opened a new sales office for its Eze OMS in Sydney and appointed Chris O’Connor head of Australian sales for the product.
10 Trends That Are Reshaping the Wall Street Back Office
News  |  1/12/2010  | 
With new regulations on the way and calls for greater scrutiny and transparency into how financial instruments are priced and cleared, the importance of a strong back office is destined to receive a lift this year. Here are 10 developments that are reshaping Wall Street's operations departments and the technology they use.
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