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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in November 2009
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CBOE to Use Aqumin Business Intelligence Tools
News  |  11/30/2009  | 
To turn data into easily interpreted visuals.
Fidessa Enhances EMS Workstation Program Trading
News  |  11/30/2009  | 
Fidessa has launched enhanced program trading functionality for its EMS Workstation that allows users to manage lists or programs of orders through one trading blotter.
Alpha Trading to Measure Latency Using Corvil
News  |  11/30/2009  | 
Latency monitoring software said to be good at detecting "microbursts" or microsecond-long spikes in traffic.
Trade Bank of Iraq Enters FX Community via Thomson Reuters Dealing
News  |  11/25/2009  | 
TBI is the first bank in Iraq to connect to the international FX community using Thomson Reuters Dealing trading service, giving it access to liquidity and counterparties.
South Africa's PIC Live on Charles River Investment Management System
News  |  11/25/2009  | 
PIC has become one of the largest fixed income and money market investment managers in Africa, with approximately $100 billion in assets under management.
BGCantor Market Data Partners With Thomas Ho on Real-Time Analytics
News  |  11/24/2009  | 
New analytics products are designed for traders, portfolio managers, risk analysts and market professionals who require fast, flexible analytical tools to gain market insights and support their investment strategies.
Bloomberg Launches Tradebook Order API
News  |  11/24/2009  | 
Bloomberg Tradebook has launched Tradebook Order API, which enables users to send orders directly from a desktop model to stock, option, futures and FX smart order routers.
ConvergEx Acquires NorthPoint Trading Partners Prime Broker Business
News  |  11/23/2009  | 
Acquisition of NorthPoint adds established boutique prime broker platform to ConvergEx's suite of services.
Economists Upbeat About Jobs
News  |  11/23/2009  | 
The National Association of Business Economists (NABE) has upgraded its employment forecast for 2010.
Parametric Portfolio Associates Selects Fidessa LatentZero’s Minerva OEMS
News  |  11/23/2009  | 
Minerva OEMS is a fully integrated front-office position analysis and trading solution that provides support for all asset classes, including OTC derivatives, with real-time positions and P&L, integrated market data, order management and trading, with integrated compliance in a single application.
Deutsche Borse Acquires Algo Trading News Provider
News  |  11/23/2009  | 
In an effort to expand its Market Data & Analytics segment, Deutsche Borse has acquired U.S. financial news service Need to Know News, a provider of machine-readable news for algorithmic trading.
StreamBase Connects to Chi-X Canada
News  |  11/23/2009  | 
The extended connectivity offers a new venue on which StreamBase users can trade Canadian equities.
CFTC Chairman Calls for Comprehensive Reform to OTC Derivatives Market
News  |  11/20/2009  | 
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), says that most important thing that needs to happen to the over the counter derivatives market is comprehensive reform.
Most Financial Advisors Long to Be Independent, Schwab Survey Says
News  |  11/20/2009  | 
Six out of 10 financial advisors at major firms are interested in becoming independent; 80% believe their clients would follow them, the survey found.
TGIF: Things Not to Be Grateful For: Goldman Sachs, Silverdome, Congressional Recess
News  |  11/20/2009  | 
Jon Stewart helps reduce the list of things we need to to be thankful for, saving us all kinds of time; ideas for making an elevator ride less boring.
Tbricks Announces ICE Connection
News  |  11/19/2009  | 
Mereor Absolute Return Fund Picks GlobeOp as Fund Administrator
News  |  11/19/2009  | 
Merger and credit arbitrage fund cited GlobeOp's middle- and back-office support, integrated reporting and SAS 70 certification as factors.
OTC Derivatives Market Reform Update (VIDEO)
Commentary  |  11/19/2009  | 
Tabb Group Senior Analyst Kevin McPartland discusses OTC derivatives reform and broader financial reform in this video.
IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging Completes STAC-M2 Testing
News  |  11/19/2009  | 
IBM sets performance standard in independent low latency benchmark for financial markets.
Did Geithner Do Right By AIG?
News  |  11/18/2009  | 
A report from the TARP Inspector General Neal Barofsky suggests the government overpaid a good deal to rescue AIG.
Citi To Extend Electronic Options Trading to Buy Side Clients
News  |  11/18/2009  | 
Institutional Clients Can Now Access Citi's Market Leading Options Platform
Nasdaq to Provide Customers Latency Measurement from Correlix
News  |  11/18/2009  | 
Follows NYSE and Bats exchanges in providing information to members about the latency of its trading and data applications.
OTC Derivatives Reform Doesn't Go Far Enough
News  |  11/18/2009  | 
Independent consultant calls for more competition between securities and futures clearinghouses, allowing ATSs into futures and combining the CFTC and SEC into one agency.
Capco Launches Wealth Management Group
News  |  11/18/2009  | 
Capco has launched a North American Wealth and Investment Management Group to service wealth managers, investment institutions and investor services firms.
Financial Firm CIOs Strongly Favor IBM, Aite Survey Finds
News  |  11/18/2009  | 
HP, Microsoft and EMC also popular among the 80 CIO respondents.
Industry Aims to Secure Cloud
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
The obstacle to large financial firms' use of public clouds has been security, but industry groups and vendors are working to fix this. And internal clouds, protected within a firm's own firewalls, are under construction.
Capital Markets to Broaden Use of Hosted Software in 2010
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
Still-tight budgets and small IT staffs will drive Wall Street firms' preference for renting software rather than buying it.
WS&T Presents the Capital Markets Outlook 2010
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
Wall Street & Technology editors examine the top 10 trends that will shape the capital markets in the coming year.
Northern Trust Building Better Views of Liquidity for Asset Managers
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
How the custodian is renovating IT and operations to support intra-day calculations, dashboards, and a five-petabyte data store intended to help hedge fund and private equity investors know precisely who and what they're dealing with.
Institutions, Financial Advisers High on Hedge Funds, Survey Finds
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
Majority expect alternative investments such as hedge funds to make up more than 10% of their portfolios over the next five years.
UBS Launches Algo Trading in Hot Spot Brazil
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
The Brazilian market has become increasingly popular for US and European firms, as investors seek to tap into the country’s abundant investment opportunities.
Prognosticating About 2010 and the Magic 8-Ball
Commentary  |  11/17/2009  | 
Regulatory changes, electronic trading solutions and international policy will dominate 2010. How so? 'Reply hazy, try again.'
Dynamics of Technology Economy Are Key to Mastering Balance of Expense and Value
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
Companies that take charge of their internal technology economy microclimates today by balancing quantitative and qualitative analysis will be in the best position to leverage technology for extreme competitive advantage.
SunGard Adds Trading Support for Xetra International Market
News  |  11/17/2009  | 
Xetra International Market (XIM) is a pan-European blue-chip trading platform recently launched by Deutsche Börse. It provides members in 19 countries with trading for European blue-chip stocks.
Swedbank to Use CEP to Assess Liquidity Risk
News  |  11/16/2009  | 
Swedish financial firm rolling out new liquidity risk management software to perform stress tests and calculate the impact of unusual market events intraday, says Erik Ohman, head of operations.
Risk Management Technology Now Key Part of Prime Brokerages Offering
News  |  11/16/2009  | 
Many low-cost systems providers are now coming to the market with sophisticated technology that was once inaccessible to smaller mid-tier hedge funds.
Gravitas Offers Cloud Computing to Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms
News  |  11/16/2009  | 
Service allows small- and medium-sized financial alternative asset management firms to rent computing resources.
IPC Upgrades U.S. Network for Voice, Electronic Trading
News  |  11/16/2009  | 
Connects six point-of-presence facilities in New York, Chicago and Houston via an optical network.
RTS Offers Low Latency Access to LME
News  |  11/16/2009  | 
Traders will now have access to London Metal Exchange via hosted software located in RTS local data centers in London, Frankfurt, New York, Chicago and soon Singapore.
Market Maker CMC to Use Streambase CEP to Build FX Apps
News  |  11/16/2009  | 
Built-in connectors to foreign exchange market data and visual debuggers helped clinch the sale, CMC Markets' CIO says.
Bloomberg Enhances CMBS Tools
News  |  11/13/2009  | 
Blooomberg has introduced new capabilities that allow users to view more information around an issue based on detailed economic and interest rate conditions.
Bloomberg Enhances CMBS Tools
News  |  11/13/2009  | 
Bloomberg has further enhanced its analytical tools for the CMBS market with the introduction of new capabilities that allow users to view more information around an issue based on detailed economic and interest rate conditions.
Hedge Fund Research Firm Aksia to Use Risk Analytics from JP Morgan/Measurisk
News  |  11/12/2009  | 
Offering clients reports that model the positions of 1,000 hedge funds.
Tullett Prebon Launches tpMatch for FRAs
News  |  11/12/2009  | 
tpMatch is the latest in a series of electronic trading solutions that the global IDB has rolled out across a broad range of products.
OptionsCity Forms Strategic Relationship with ACTIV Financial
News  |  11/12/2009  | 
ACTIV Financial will provide direct and consolidated options data feeds for traders and market makers using OptionCity's electronic trading platform.
Kingland to Use IBM Software in Wall Street Data Projects
News  |  11/11/2009  | 
In one scenario, Kingland and IBM software and unique identifiers could give a firm's risk operation access to a comprehensive view of all enterprise holdings, clients, subsidiaries, and complex business relationships from across multiple lines of business.
Knight Capital Brings Brokerage Service to Europe
News  |  11/11/2009  | 
Knight Link said to provide Mifid-compliant best execution.
HFT Shops Influence Job Market on Wall Street
News  |  11/10/2009  | 
High-frequency trading firms are influencing the hiring trends on the Street as demand for quantitative skills increases.
Morgan Keegan to Save $400,000 Deploying Exchange Server 2010
News  |  11/10/2009  | 
Users' mailbox storage to grow from 500 megabytes to 2 gigabytes at the same time, CIO John Threadgill says.
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