Wall Street & Technology is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

News & Commentary
Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in December 2010
Page 1 / 2   >   >>
The Buy Side Looks to the Cloud to Reign In 2011 IT Costs
News  |  12/23/2010  | 
The post-credit crisis freeze has begun to thaw across Wall Street but experts predict buy-side firms will still be a bit gun shy when the time comes to invest aggressively in their information technology infrastructures in 2011.
SEC Fines Hedge Fund for Self-Dealing
News  |  12/23/2010  | 
The fund has been ordered to pay $1.2 million for car-loan investments.
9 IT Priorities for 2011
News  |  12/22/2010  | 
The IT function will play a key role in Wall Street's efforts to grow and innovate while meeting emerging regulatory requirements.
2011 Hiring Trends for Wall Street
News  |  12/22/2010  | 
Wall Street shed thousands of jobs in 2009. But the outlook for restaffing in 2011 is limited, with a few specialties fairing better than others.
2011 to be a Defining Moment for Swap Execution Facilities
News  |  12/22/2010  | 
Industry players are jockeying for position to compete as Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs). But regulators are still writing the rules.
For Wall Street Firms, Cloud Computing to Gain Momentum in 2011
News  |  12/22/2010  | 
With computing power and data center efficiency more important than ever, Wall Street firms must optimize their resource allocation in order to maximize performance while minimizing cost.
Wall Street Firms Going Mobile in 2011
News  |  12/22/2010  | 
To thrive in today's ultracompetitive and economically uncertain market, Wall Street firms need to adapt to the desire of bankers, traders, advisers and clients to always be connected while on the go.
Social Media Site LinkedFA Launches New Features For Finance Professionals
News  |  12/22/2010  | 
Features include a public search function for finance executives and a People You May Know feature which introduces peers based on geography, company and network connections.
Fidelity Launches App For Android
News  |  12/20/2010  | 
With the new Android app, investors can access up-to-the-minute domestic and world market data, streaming news headlines, full news stories with graphical content, real-time quotes, interactive charting, and links to Fidelity's Twitter and Facebook pages.
Firm58 Provides Online Billing for CBOE Holdings' C2 Options Exchange
News  |  12/20/2010  | 
Firm58 will equip the new all-electronic exchange and its participants with online access to trade details and end-to-end billing information.
Ernst & Young Subject to Fraud Lawsuit
Commentary  |  12/20/2010  | 
How's Twitter Doing Today?
News  |  12/17/2010  | 
Derwint Capital Markets will use microblog site to predict the market's mood.
Apple To Launch New App Store Selling Programs For Laptops and Desktops
News  |  12/17/2010  | 
The store will work like iTunes, Apple's popular online store for smartphone applications, with programs likely to cost from $10 to thousands of dollars.
Research Management Solution Can Save Firms 40% On Labor Costs, Says Advent
News  |  12/17/2010  | 
Based on a survey of 360 portfolio managers, research directors and analysts, the study found that highly compensated professionals spend an inordinate amount of time searching and sifting for information that is already in their firms' possession.
ConvergEx Agrees to Acquire RealTick from Barclays Capital
News  |  12/16/2010  | 
With EMS consolidation on the horizon, ConvergEx snatches up RealTick and looks to expand its multi-broker network globally.
NASDAQ OMX To Acquire Risk Management Vendor FTEN
News  |  12/16/2010  | 
FTEN is well positioned to grow as the industry is becoming more focused on solutions for effectively managing risk, according to NASDAQ.
Wedbush Securities Launches Colocated Execution Service For The Buy-Side
News  |  12/16/2010  | 
The colocated platform is designed to put the buy side on a level playing field with high frequency trading shops.
Gain Capital's IPO Raises $81 Million In Gross Proceeds
News  |  12/15/2010  | 
The online foreign exchange platform operator offered 9 million of common stock to the public today at $9 per share.
Omega ATS to Offer Fixed Income Trading
News  |  12/15/2010  | 
Omega ATS, a high speed alternative trading platform for Canadian exchange-listed stocks, announced that it will now allow fixed income trading on the system.
AlphaMetrix Buys Spectrum Global Hedge Fund
News  |  12/15/2010  | 
I-Banking, Trading Push Wall Street Over the Top
Commentary  |  12/14/2010  | 
Just two years after the nation’s financial sector nearly fell off a cliff, only to be rescued by an unprecedented bailout, the industry’s titans have roared back.
BofA Merrill Global Research Hits the iPad
News  |  12/14/2010  | 
The research library app is aimed at institutional clients.
Sky Road Offers Fincad Analytics on its Motion Platform
News  |  12/14/2010  | 
Users now have access to derivatives analytics.
Hiring Rebounds In Wealth Management Industry
News  |  12/14/2010  | 
As firms focus more on product development and research, hiring activity around CIOs and CTOs increased.
Barclays Capital Names Bill White Head of Equities Electronic Trading
News  |  12/13/2010  | 
White was tapped for his success in growing Barclays Capital's DMM business on the NYSE as well as in building option trading platforms.
FXall Releases New 4.0 FX Trading Platform
News  |  12/13/2010  | 
The new 4.0 integrates sophisticated functionality and liquidity with acquisition of Citi's LavaFX.
Itau BBA Securites Goes Live With SunGard Valdi OMS
News  |  12/13/2010  | 
Brazilian broker will tap SunGard 's Valdi, Valdi OMS, Liquidity Services and GL Selector to manage execution, trading and risk from a single platform.
Mark Madoff, In Passing
Commentary  |  12/13/2010  | 
The latest victim of the Madoff Ponzi scheme just might have been the man's son.
BofA Merrill Debuts eFX Trading Platform
News  |  12/13/2010  | 
DTCC Goes Live with Customer Billing System from MetraTech
News  |  12/13/2010  | 
DTCC can adapt to pricing changes faster and customers have greater billing transparency.
Thomson Reuters Hires Robert Hegarty and Tim Lind
News  |  12/10/2010  | 
The financial data powerhouse taps the former DTCC and Omgeo executives for senior roles in its enterprise division.
2011: The Year Of Dodd-Frank
Commentary  |  12/9/2010  | 
After two years of uncertainty, everyone is looking forward to a year of steady progress and growth.
Tabb Report Says New Algos for Buy Side Need to Adopt HFT Techniques
News  |  12/9/2010  | 
The buy side should look to algorithmic providers that mimic high frequency traders, according to Tabb analyst Cheyenne Morgan, report's author.
IP Telephony Comes of Age on the Trading Floor
News  |  12/9/2010  | 
With quality and overhead concerns a thing of the past, Wall Street firms are building out their Internet Protocol infrastructures to leverage new capabilities enabled by the convergence of voice and data.
Firms Can Find Efficiency in Technology Commons
Commentary  |  12/9/2010  | 
Technology Commons provide banks with opportunities to utilize their IT investments more cost-effectively, drive down their fixed IT costs and free up more capital for discretionary projects.
Apple iPad is the New Investment Management Tool of Choice
News  |  12/9/2010  | 
Apple's state-of-the-art digital tablet is the new investment management tool of choice for the sales and marketing team at Dreyfus, the distribution arm of BNY Mellon Asset Management.
Merrill Lynch Navigates the New Relationship-Centric Paradigm
News  |  12/9/2010  | 
With investors decidedly shifting away from products and toward relationships, Merrill Lynch and other financial firms are adopting new types of real-time predictive analytics solutions to help them build stronger ties with clients.
Barclays Capital Launches Automated Limit Order Functionality On Fixed Income Platform
News  |  12/9/2010  | 
The fully automated limit-order service allows clients to buy or sell government bonds or interest rate swaps when a certain price is reached in the market.
Russell Investments: Managing Risk in a Recession
News  |  12/8/2010  | 
With the release of new indexes, the dual-role investment firm discusses how it stays within the lines.
Nasdaq OMX Nordic Deploys Correlix’s Latency Measurement Service
News  |  12/8/2010  | 
Nasdaq OMX said it will expand its use of Correlix’s real-time latency measurement service to its Nordic segment, a move it said will improve trade execution for members of that exchange.
BBH Capital Partners Invest $22 Million in Scivantage
News  |  12/8/2010  | 
Scivantage's Maxit product helps firms comply with new IRS cost-basis reporting requirements.
Maintaining Data Quality to Manage Operational Risk
News  |  12/7/2010  | 
Financial services firms can deal with uncertainty by controlling the operations process to reduce the risk and costs associated with exception processing and failed trades.
Are You WikiLeaks Proof?
Commentary  |  12/7/2010  | 
Just because Julian Assange has surrendered to British officials it doesn't mean that the story of WikiLeaks is over. Especially for your buy side firm.
Bloomberg & Information Mosaic Tackle Corporate Actions
News  |  12/7/2010  | 
In a new partnership, clients will have access to Bloomberg data and IM's corp actions tools.
Deutsche Borse expands algo news feed in Asia
News  |  12/7/2010  | 
AlphaFlash delivers macroeconomic data from China, Japan and Australia
CQG Colocates Servers at NYSE Liffe's Basildon Data Center
News  |  12/7/2010  | 
Proximity to NYSE Liffe system in Basedon, gives ultra-low latency traders an edge in spread trading, contends CQG.
ACTIV Financial To Open Low-Latency Ticker Plant at Equinix's Toronto Data Center
News  |  12/6/2010  | 
ACTIV continues expansion and brings feeds to Toronto-based clients.
Will Regulators Aim to Slow Down High-Frequency Trading in 2011?
News  |  12/6/2010  | 
Since the Flash Crash on May 6, high-frequency traders face a raft of potential new rules, including market maker obligations, taxes on canceled orders and even colocation restrictions.
Page 1 / 2   >   >>


Register for Wall Street & Technology Newsletters
Video
Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
Advanced Trading takes you on an exclusive tour of the New York trading floor of GETCO Execution Services, the solutions arm of GETCO.