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.
Charles Schwab Strikes Alliance with AARP
Schwab will offer a new financial guidance program to AARP millions of members nationwide.
A Surprising Bestseller: The 576-Page Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
Perhaps readers were lured by the literary prose of the commission's chairman, Phil Angelides.
BATS Introduces Real-Time Latency Monitoring Service
Allows BZX and BYX members to monitor order latency in real time via a dashboard on BATS's web site.
Fidelity Introduces New Web-based Streaming Tools For Active Traders
Active traders can compare multiple symbols in one chart and can view multiple charts in a single layout.
Banks Cry Wolf Over IT Budgets
As Dodd-Frank rolls into Wall Street, banks will claim they don't have the funds to operate in compliance. Cry me a river.
Nuance Communications Releases New Voice Biometrics Platform
Nuance’s VocalPassword targets automated remote verification based on an individual’s voice, while Nuance FreeSpeech performs verification and fraud detection in the background of conversations between callers and agents in the contact center.
SmartStream Hires Industry Veteran Hugh Stewart
Stewart will serve as director of DClear, an evolving utility and reference data services business.
Trading Technologies Settles Patent Lawsuit with Cunningham Trading Systems
CTS agrees to take a 10-year royalty bearing license under the vast majority of TT's patent portfolio.
FIX Flyer Delivers Trading Solutions Via Equinix
The managed service provider of FIX connectivity leverages Equinix global data centers.
State Street, ING Join Enterprise Cloud Initiative
Seven new companies, including State Street and ING, have joined the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council.
Blame The Government For The Financial Crisis
"The fault lies not in the stars, but in us," report finds.
Omega ATS Extends Fee-Free Trading of Fixed Income
Aggressive pricing model challenges Omega's competitors in Canadian marketplace, company claims.
SEC Tightens Rules for Hedge Funds
Large private funds must reveal potential levels of risk to US marketplace.
Did The SEC Make A Rash (And Unfortunate) Real Estate Decision?
The SEC's internal watchdog has opened an investigation into the agency's leasing activity, in particular its decision to lease almost 1 million square feet in downtown Washington.
Deutsche Borse Taps Cinnover For Market Surveillance Technology
The technology called Scila Surveillance will replace Deutsche Boerse's in-house solution.
Little Named Calypso's Head of Securities Finance
Formerly of Rule Financial, David Little will focus on business development.
Insider Trading Probe Is Felt Beyond World Of Hedge Funds
A Morgan Stanley banker has become the first Wall Street banker publicly drawn into the Galleon investigation.
Richard Fleischman & Assoc. to Host EZE OMS
RFA will offer the multi-asset class OMS via outsourced IT to over 400 alternative asset firms.
EMS Growing Pains
As brokers debate the economics of execution management systems, Barclays and Citi have quit the EMS game. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs has gone broker-neutral and Morgan Stanley has decided to fly solo.
The Next Rogue Algo
After the May 6 Flash Crash, buy-side firms are wary of a wave of disruptive algorithms that could trigger the next trading tsunami. To shore up the markets, regulators are pursuing sharper algo audits and stricter certification.
Deploying an OMS, Natcan Takes on Pre-Trade Risk
Canadian investment firms did not have the same exposure to the credit collapse as their U.S. counterparts. Asset manager Natcan shows how even the choice of a trade order management system can help in the quest for greater risk oversight.
Lack Of SEC Resources Could Be Biggest Hurdle For Volcker Rule
The SEC is getting stretched thin and Congress doesn't seem interested in providing more resources...
Capital Markets Outlook 2011
What will the hot technology trends be for capital markets firms in 2011?
Buy Side Taps Trade Ideas from the Sell Side
Are trade-ideas an alternative to expert research networks?
SWIFT Expands Securities Focus with Two New Appointments
Fabian Vandenreydt and Brett Lancaster named to SWIFT's securities team.
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Expands Offerings to India
Through its regulatory expertise and technology offerings, the company will help financial professionals comply with industry regulations, including those enforced by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
Beware: Hackers Now Targeting Your Social Network And SmartPhones
The security firm Sophos released its annual Security Threat Report, revealing that hackers are now gaining access to accounts and computers through social networks and mobile phones.
SS&C Announces Update To Private Equity Technology Platform
TNR Solution's private equity platform is designed to aggregate information across investment teams, accountants and investor reporting.
Is It (Finally) Time For Banks To Worry About WikiLeaks?
A former Swiss banker has 'publicly' handed over data to Julian Assange.
Occitan Capital Partners Chooses Options IT
London-based hedge fund manager selects Options Pipe Core Service as its business technology infrastructure.
TGIF: What On Earth Is An A:Drive?
If you've grown up with nothing but iPods and cellphones, you're probably not going to know what an A:Drive is or what to do with a dial telephone or a Game Boy.
PCs Continue To Lose Their Shine
The rising popularity of the iPad and waning sales of the mini Notebook are partly to blame.
NYSE Euronext's U.S. Options Exchanges Will Double Processing Capacity
NYSE Euronext upgraded the core matching engines and trading platforms of its U.S. options exchanges, completing phase one of its tech overhaul.
ConvergEx's LiquidPoint Introduces New BLAZE Execution Technology
The BLAZE software and architecture is paired with an enhanced and upgraded routing subsystem known as AORS v2 to offer ultra-low latency, high-capacity data processing and routing.
Buy-Side Must Pay to Play in New OTC Derivatives Market
But some firms may not be able to afford the table stakes in a market that's still unruly.
Dozens Of Traders, Execs, Lawyers, Become Government Informants
For months, one former UBS banker secretly recorded telephone calls with four friends about pending deals and told investigators all he knew about their insider trading.
Markit Acquires Risk Analytics Vendor QuIC
QuIC provides financial organisations with risk analytics solutions to test market and credit risk tolerance in financial portfolios and simulate risk at the enterprise level.
Barclays CEO Diamond: Bad Banks Should Fail
During testimony in London, Barclays' CEO Bob Diamond says governments need to give control of banks back to the private sector so financial institutions can grow.
Bloomberg Tradebook Algo Automates Global Portfolio Trading
Agency broker Bloomberg Tradebook announced the launch of an algorithm that fully automates global equity portfolio trading, connecting to more than 70 liquidity venues around the world.
Vietnam Commodity Exchange Chooses Patsystems
Asia's new commodity exchange will utilize Patsystem's complete exchange solution when it launches early in 2012.
Algo Group To Lease SSET's London Dark Fiber Network
Plans to provide extreme low-latency services to algorithmic trading firms as well as connectivity to major liquidity venues and market data feeds.
|