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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in February 2010
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Statistical Research Teams Up with Progress Software on HFT Algo Trading
News  |  2/26/2010  | 
SRL will use Progress Apama's CEP platform to offer one-stop shop for quantitative and algorithmic trading to brokers and hedge funds.
TGIF: A Bad Office Is Bad For Business (video)
News  |  2/26/2010  | 
This humorous video clip from Regus.com shows how a bad office is definitely bad for business...
Pershing Launches Multi-Asset Agency Execution Service
News  |  2/26/2010  | 
Pershing has introduced its Nexus Execution Services, a new multi-asset execution service for private clients.
What's the Future of Climate Change and Carbon Trading?
News  |  2/25/2010  | 
In a video interview, Editor-at-Large Ivy Schmerken spoke with Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of Tabb Group, about the likelihood of the U.S. Senate passing climate change legislation this year.
TSI Launches First Fully Automated Distressed Loan Settlement Platform
News  |  2/25/2010  | 
The new platform streamlines the process of trading and settling distressed loans, creating substantial time and cost efficiencies for all market participants, according to the vendor.
Incentive Capital Management Selects Pricing Partners
News  |  2/25/2010  | 
Dublin-based asset manager chooses Price-It Excel to price and risk manage its inflation linked derivatives business.
Bloomberg Tradebook Launches Futures Pairs Algo
News  |  2/25/2010  | 
Bloomberg Tradebook has launched its new MTRX algorithm for risk-based spread trading in futures markets.
Deutsche Bank's Marques Is Focused on Developing Smarter Algos to Access Dark Liquidity
News  |  2/24/2010  | 
Jose Marques is heading up algo development and DMA trading at Deutsche Bank.
Configurable 'Ticker Processors' Accelerate Automated Trading
News  |  2/24/2010  | 
FPGA-based computers minimize the latency of feed-handling algorithms.
ConvergEx Offers Prime Brokerage Clients Commission Management Tech
News  |  2/24/2010  | 
ConvergEx offers North Point clients commission management technology.
Charles River IMS selected by Italy's Market Leader Eurizon Capital
News  |  2/24/2010  | 
Integrated trading platform streamlines front-office operations across asset classes.
Integral Development Corp. Jumpstarts FX Algo Development
News  |  2/22/2010  | 
Launches FX Inside Alpha for firms to develop algorithms, backtest and host them in a single environment.
Hedge Funds Make Operational Changes, Says Study
News  |  2/22/2010  | 
About 70 percent of hedge funds have altered their operations to reduce counterparty risk, reports Omgeo-sponsored/Greenwich Associates study.
BlackRock Selects Pyxis Mobile Platform For Multiple Business Units
News  |  2/22/2010  | 
The Pyxis Mobile platform is extending multiple CRM systems to BlackRock's mobile workforce, aggregating and accessing all the systems through native applications on employee devices.
TGIF: New Sneak Preview of Wall Street 2 - Money Never Sleeps
News  |  2/19/2010  | 
Greedy Gordon Gekko is Back. 20th Century Fox has just unleashed a new international trailer for "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps", coming out with brand new footage.
Obama's Controversial Stimulus Did Help Growth
News  |  2/19/2010  | 
Marking the first anniversary of President Obama's controversial stimulus, WSJ's Gerald Seib discusses how the package, along with interest-rate moves and a shoring-up of bank balance sheets has allowed the U.S. to outstrip European economic growth.
StreamBase Launches Industry's First Developer Community to Advance CEP Innovation
News  |  2/19/2010  | 
The StreamBase Component Exchange allows developers to download and share reusable components in a global community, as a means to spark innovation in CEP through the development and sharing of applications and ideas.
Bloomberg Expands Machine-Readable News Offering With Analytics
News  |  2/19/2010  | 
Bloomberg adds metrics such as most read Bloomberg-only stories and "news heat" — analysis of the most-written about companies and topics.
No Word On the Options Symbology Conversion
News  |  2/18/2010  | 
I didn't see the Options Symbology Initiative landing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or other media outlets.
Introducing Broker-Dealers Compete With Big Boys
News  |  2/18/2010  | 
Introducing brokers' technology budgets are small, but many of these firms can, and do, compete with the largest firms' platforms simply by being smart shoppers, says a new Aite Group report.
TradingScreen Expands Transaction Cost Analysis Capabilities
News  |  2/18/2010  | 
The TCA services will be integrated into the TradingScreen infrastructure.
Options IT Expands its Options PIPE Platform to Interxion's London Collocation Financial Hub
News  |  2/17/2010  | 
Agreement extends Options IT's high-performance technology infrastructure, managed hosting, market data and connectivity services to Interxion's collocation facility.
Five Major Brokers Added to UNX Trading Network
News  |  2/17/2010  | 
UNX has added five major brokerage firms to its trading connectivity network: Girard Securities, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET), Mizuho Securities USA, Rosenblatt Securities and UBS Investment Bank.
CastleOak Securities Flips Switch on Fidessa Trading Platform
News  |  2/17/2010  | 
Boutique investment bank upgrades its trading technology with Fidessa hosted trading platform.
TradingScreen Connects to Societe Generale For FX Trading
News  |  2/17/2010  | 
According to the agreement, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking will offer the TradingScreen Buy Side client base a full foreign exchange execution suite covering Spot, Forward and Swap deal types supported through RFQs and RFSs.
Lightspeed and Recognia Launch Intraday Trade Setup Notification Tool
News  |  2/16/2010  | 
Tool alerts traders of all skill levels to 'trade setups' throughout the day.
New Book Blames Quants for Credit Crisis
News  |  2/16/2010  | 
Should the average American with a 401-K worry about the rise of quants on Wall Street? That is the focus of a new book, "The Quants," by Scott Patterson, staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal.
List Group Releases CEP and Algo Trading Engine
News  |  2/16/2010  | 
List Group, the electronic trading software provider behind 15 European electronic markets, has launched its Brain3 (B3) advanced CEP and algorithmic trading engine.
ConvergEx Launches Tactical Trading Algo
News  |  2/16/2010  | 
ConvergEx Group has launched its Abraxas tactical trading algorithm, which utilizes a proprietary multi-dimensional sensitivity profile to exploit dark liquidity, favorable price movements and volatility changes.
Baird Partners with Fox River Execution for Algo Trading
News  |  2/12/2010  | 
Baird will provide Fox River's execution software, Fox Trader, to its institutional equity clients.
TGIF: "Stop Driving Toyotas - We're Trying!" (video)
News  |  2/12/2010  | 
Seth Meyers gives his update of the week's news in this Saturday Night Live clip, including a look at Toyota and Democratic results...
Asia Trading Volumes To Grow 20-30% Per Year
News  |  2/12/2010  | 
Still, while undergoing change, the Asian landscape has real need for improvement, according to a new report from Celent.
Thomson Reuters to Offer Securities Class Action Claims Filing Solution through PORTIA
News  |  2/11/2010  | 
More than $42 billion has been available to investors in securities class action settlements in the past five years and there is more than $11 billion in settlements currently available to investors, according to Thomson Reuters.
AIG Plans to Revamp Compensation Model
News  |  2/11/2010  | 
AIG CEO Bob Benmosche plans to revamp the compensation model at the troubled insurer. The
Thomson Reuters Acquires Aegisoft to Expand DMA Offering
News  |  2/10/2010  | 
Aegisoft's Athena product line brings exchange connectivity and expands Thomson Reuter's target market into buy-side quants and hedge funds doing algo trading.
OptionEase Attains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status
News  |  2/10/2010  | 
Recognizes OptionEase's expertise in using Microsoft technologies to deliver SaaS applications for compliance with complex FAS 123 regulations.
Pragma Introduces ONECROSS Multi-Benchmark Dark Crossing Network
News  |  2/10/2010  | 
The dark venue allows traders to pair off on market-on-open and market-on-close orders without displaying their orders in the open-market or being constrained by exchange order windows.
International Center for Financial Regulation Launches Activities in Asia
News  |  2/9/2010  | 
The ICFR, headquartered in London, is the product of cooperation between 19 leading financial services companies and provides training, scholarship and thought leadership on financial regulation.
Thomson Reuters Acquires Aegisoft
News  |  2/9/2010  | 
Thomson Reuters has acquired Aegisoft, a provider of electronic trading and testing tools, in an effort to increase its direct market access (DMA) capabilities.
Wall Street Firms, Hedge Funds, Recruit CIA, Ex-Military Intelligence
News  |  2/8/2010  | 
Wall Street firms and hedge funds are actively recruiting former CIA and military intelligence officers in a bid to boost their security and risk management practices.
LCH.Clearnet and SIX x-clear Publish Interoperability Link Summary
News  |  2/8/2010  | 
Maintains that interoperability can be safe for CCPs across Europe, and this model withstood the Lehman default.
NYSE Technologies Selected to Build Technology Solution for ASEAN Exchange Network
News  |  2/8/2010  | 
The ASEAN Exchange Network will link capital markets in Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Trading Technologies Sues Cunningham Trading Systems and Interactive Brokers
News  |  2/5/2010  | 
Some of the patents relate to its MD Trader product, the order-entry screen incorporated in its X_Trader software.
Optimum Lightpath Introduces 40 Gigbit Service In New York Metro Area
News  |  2/5/2010  | 
The new service is geared to meeting the bandwidth, speed, low latency and security demands of the financial community.
TGIF: What Is That Banker Looking At?
News  |  2/5/2010  | 
An oblivious investment banker is looking at pictures of model Miranda Kerr without realizing he's been caught on the local news...Check out this Break.com video around 1'05"...
Low-Latency Not Required: Trading Stock for Food
News  |  2/5/2010  | 
The famous New York steakhouse Smith & Wollensky's is allowing patrons to trade stock for food.
Forex Social Network Announces Relationship with Thomson Reuters IFR Markets
News  |  2/4/2010  | 
Currensee is the first Forex trading social network that connects traders from around the world based on real-time trades.
Boston Options Exchange Selects Firm58 For On-Demand Billing
News  |  2/4/2010  | 
Firm58 replaces BOX's in-house billing system and provides exchange participants with online access to trade details and balances.
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