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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in August 2000
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CBOT Goes Live with New Internet-Based Order-Entry System
News  |  8/28/2000  | 
To date, 15 members have signed on to use the new browser-based eopenoutcry.com, which is expected to eventually replace the CBOT's incumbent order-entry platform. Another six users are already in the pipeline.
TT Launches New Graphical User Interface
News  |  8/28/2000  | 
Trading Technologies' MD Trader, which has been integrated with TT's front-end workstation products, X Trader and X Trader Mercury, is expected to improve price transparency and enhance trade executions for clients who use those systems.
BlackRock Launches BlackRock Solutions for Institutional Investors
News  |  8/28/2000  | 
Firm announces intention to launch a separate business line targeted at the asset management community in BlackRock Solutions, through which it will market, implement and manage its proprietary investment management tools as an ASP provider.
Advent To Offer Financeware Applications to Financial Advisors
News  |  8/28/2000  | 
A new suite combining Advent's portfolio management and accounting solutions with Financeware's wealth management applications is expected sometime in October.
Princeton Financial Enhances Bloomberg Interface
News  |  8/28/2000  | 
Enhanced version of Bloomberg Data License interface will automate the request and retrieval of market information by users of the PAM investment management system.
IN BRIEF
News  |  8/28/2000  | 
Bridge Information Systems offers customers on-site capacity testing and assessment; American Century chooses Arbortext to build a variety of investment product offerings; Nasdaq plans to start pilot for conversion to decimal notation this week.
Global Link To Connect Through EzeCastle
News  |  8/18/2000  | 
State Street deal with EzeCastle will facilitate routing to exchanges and trading systems worldwide. A new offering combining functionality is expected this week.
New Auction Platform for Bonds Goes Live
News  |  8/18/2000  | 
WR Hambrecht & Co. rolls out OpenBook, an Internet-based auction platform covering new issues in the investment-grade bond market.
IN BRIEF
News  |  8/18/2000  | 
BSE Gets Green Light from SEC To Roll Off-Site Specialist System
News  |  8/18/2000  | 
Boston Stock Exchange will begin beta testing next month for Beacon Remote, a trading system that allows brokerage firms to trade BSE-listed stocks, as specialists, outside the floor of the exchange.
New Auction Platform for Bonds Goes Live
News  |  8/18/2000  | 
WR Hambrecht & Co. rolls out OpenBook, an Internet-based auction platform covering new issues in the investment-grade bond market.
BuySideDirect Set to Go Live
News  |  8/15/2000  | 
Intelligent Markets Inc. launches its subsidiary, BuySideDirect.
A Conversation With Joseph Eng
News  |  8/14/2000  | 
Everyone is wondering what new CIO, Joseph Eng, is planning for S.W.I.F.T.-s next generation of standards. Eng discusses this and other issues with WS&T-s Executive Editor, Kerry Massaro.
Brown Brothers Tackles STP For Overseas Nasdaq Orders
News  |  8/14/2000  | 
Brown Brothers Harriman becomes a one-stop shop for executing small retail orders and providing integrated clearance and settlement services.
Decisions, Decisions
News  |  8/14/2000  | 
The GSTPA mulls its choice for the industry's first model to share post-trade, pre-settlement data on cross border trades.
Guardian Selects Janna and Sailient as its CRM Solution
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
Guardian Capital Advisors chooses to join Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan as users of Janna Contact Enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) software.
TradingLinx Hires Scudder Pro to Focus on Buy Side Relationships
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
TradingLinx.com hires Joel Gallo--former vice president of investment administration and technology--to focus on buy-side relationships
IN BRIEF
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
SuperMontage: ECNs, Nasdaq Make Their Cases in D.C.
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
Sources confirm that a number of ECNs and several high-ranking members of Nasdaq met with SEC Chairman Levitt and Phil Gramm (R-Texas) to present arguments for and against Nasdaq's proposed SuperMontage.
State Street Eyes Expansion for Bond Connect
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
With the incorporation of a European bond database into the electronic fixed-income trading platform, coverage of European debt instruments and U.S. municipal bonds is on the horizon for Q1 next year.
Goldenberg Hehmeyer and A.B. Watley Choose Tradeworx for Decision Support
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
Goldenberg expects to roll out a pair of Tradeworx' front-end applications by October, while Watley in now in the process of integrating the vendor's Limit Order Tool with its internal order-routing and execution system.
IN BRIEF
News  |  8/11/2000  | 
ePIT names Timothy E. Campbell president and chief operating officer; Stephen Ficara and Joel Gallo join TradingLinx.com; The Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch new group of contracts, the FORTUNE e-50 index futures, on Sept. 5.
A Napster for Trading
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
The Second Coming of Merrin
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
Will LiquidNet Succeed Where Others Have Failed?
FNX Releases eSierra, an ASP for Trading
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
FNX Ltd rolls out the eSierra Portfolio, a Web-enabled trading, deal capture and risk management application.
Watcher Introduces Decimal-Ready
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
Watcher Technologies releases a new version of its WatcherPlus trading platform that gives traders the ability to express their orders
Workloads Stress Out IT Staff
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
Traditional Trading Still on the Rise
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
IT Hiring Binge Continues
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
Most CIO's expect to continue hiring information technology (IT) personnel during the third quarter of 2000.
The Big Picture: Account Aggregation
News  |  8/10/2000  | 
Individual investors are increasingly becoming confused over how to manage the various online accounts they hold.
iPhrase Eases Financial Searches
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
iPhrase Technologies hopes to help users navigate and find information on financial Web sites with minimal time and effort.
Black Pearl/LogicSpan Venture to Target Financial Services Sector
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
San Francisco-based Black Pearl Inc., an e-business software provider, and LogicSpan, a consulting firm, joined forces creating a strategic partnership at a Web seminar on July 18
A Conversation with Nick Davidge
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
Nick Davidge explains how his company's brokerage technology and domain expertise.
Innovision Rolls out First Applications using FIXML
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
While the industry considers FIXML, Innovision Corporation takes the step in offering a solution.
Macalla Revs up with Mobility Launch
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
Macalla Software releases its latest version of Mobility.
Buyer Beware: Cutter Points Out Potential Pratfalls to Buying a Trade-Order Management System
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
Although investment managers need to be concerned about functionality when conducting a trade-order management and compliance system search, a report conducted by Cutter Associates highlights the attention that a buyer must pay to the vendor selling the system.
Denver Investments Completes Data Center, Focuses on Internal Portals
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
Centralized Intranet To Bring the Right Info to the Right Employees
Apps on Tap Reach New Levels with Analytics4Rent.com
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
Savvysoft is making its TOPS 2000 software available in a new ASP-type form.
ADIG Selects BARRA's TotalRisk
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
ADIG Investmentgoes live with BARRA's TotalRisk system to manage and control risk across its organization.
BONY and AVT Create New Company to Manage iFX Manager
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
Bank of New York has rolls out iFX Manager into a separate company called Market Marque.
IPC Rolls Out Voice/Video Integration System
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
IPC Information Systems Inc. to release IQmx, its new voice-data-video integration system used to facilitate the trader-client relationship.
OneBond.com to Consolidate Access to Multiple InterDealer Broker Screens
News  |  8/9/2000  | 
The proliferation of proprietary trading systems is starting to exacerbate the fixed-income dealers that must watch five or more screens.
Market Data Guru Feedback
News  |  8/8/2000  | 
Associate Editor Cristina McEachern asked this market data guru how she chose her market data vendors.
Wireless Brokerage: Gains and Pains
News  |  8/8/2000  | 
The wireless channel is spreading throughout retail brokerage and trading as wireless vendors emerge with applications.
Market Data Vendors Moving into STP Sphere
News  |  8/8/2000  | 
With the dreaded T+1 deadline fast approaching, market data vendors are scrambling to forge alliances with STP specialists such as order management experts,so that they can sell more profitable value-added applications.
Reinventing FAME on the Net
News  |  8/8/2000  | 
As Internet delivery puts pressure on firms to create decision support tools, FAME is opening its vast historical databases, analytics and charting tools to financial Web sites and portals.
Support.com Releases Upgrade to Technical Support Information-Gathering Technology
News  |  8/4/2000  | 
Updated version contains a new technology, termed "Smart Issue," that collects information from end users and transmits it over the Internet to help-technicians.
Javelin Releases Coppelia Version To Support FIX 4.2
News  |  8/4/2000  | 
Firms will be able to increase functionality for mass quoting, options and futures trading, book messages or market feed messages, list trading, ECNs and exchanges, as well as Japanese language and business processes.
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