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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in December 2009
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Pricing Partners Incorporates the Portfolio Function Into Price-It Library
News  |  12/23/2009  | 
Designed for all major assets like interest rates, equity, inflation, credit, foreign exchange, commodities, and life insurance to hybrid products, Price-it comes either as a software tools or an internet platform.
Evaluating Outsourcing Options
News  |  12/23/2009  | 
The technology and capabilities of outsourced portfolio management systems offer functionality that is comparable to their installed counterparts. But not all outsourced solutions are created equal.
What Is the Middle-Office Role in Data Management?
News  |  12/23/2009  | 
Firms' middle offices must validate data in near real time before it is sent downstream.
SunGard Releases New VPM Portfolio Accounting Solution For Hedge Funds
News  |  12/22/2009  | 
SunGard's VPM version 9.0 provides hedge funds with an enterprise-level portfolio accounting application that is built on a service-oriented architecture for plug-and-play integration with a firm's existing applications.
FBI Investigates $10 million Citigroup Hack
News  |  12/22/2009  | 
It is not yet known whether thieves gained access to Citibank's systems directly or through third parties, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Congress Stirs Debate As It Considers Tax On Financial Transactions
News  |  12/21/2009  | 
Congress is considering a tax on financial transactions that takes targets Wall Street with the aim of providing relief to Main Street. But Wall Street says the tax could end up hitting some pension funds and regular investors.
LSE Takes Control Of Rival Trading Platform Turquoise
News  |  12/21/2009  | 
Turquoise was set up four years ago by Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and UBS.
Deutsche Borse Systems Deploys Corvil's Precision Latency Monitoring Service
News  |  12/21/2009  | 
Deutsche Borse becomes the first exchange to provide latency distribution statistics and member latency ranking.
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibi Explains Wall Street to Steven Colbert
News  |  12/18/2009  | 
Taibi explains his critiques of Wall Street and Goldman Sachs to Steven Colbert on The Colbert Report.
China Businesswoman Sentenced To Death for $56m Investor Fraud
News  |  12/18/2009  | 
Wu Ying used the money for personal use and operating costs and to pay off loans, according to reports.
Optimism Fades Heading Into 2010
News  |  12/18/2009  | 
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll tells that the economic crisis is taking its toll on the national psyche.
BATS To Compete with NYSE and Nasdaq for Listings
News  |  12/18/2009  | 
Kansas City exchange hopes to offer listings next summer, to attract small companies, exchange-traded funds and companies that don't meet the existing U.S. exchanges' standards.
TGIF: Holiday Songs, Gift-Wrapping Guide
News  |  12/18/2009  | 
Martin Short offers holiday advice in his song on David Letterman, Adam Sandler's Hanukkah classic, Jimmy Kimmel and Norah Jones celebrate 12 days of YouTube memories, Jimmy Fallon's guide to gift wrapping. Martin Short's Holiday Song on David Letterman With an unusual holiday message for all.
Deutsche Bank Completes Solar Power Project
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
Solar panels to generate 12% of the power consumed by the firm's Piscataway, N.J. office.
Putnam Investments Survey Finds Americans Hopeful About 2010 Economy
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
Consumers make "saving more" their top New Year's resolution.
Is Moynihan the Right Choice for BofA's CEO Spot?
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
Edward Najarian, head of bank research, ISI Group, says that Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's new CEO, is the best choice (the bank could find) for the company.
Barclays' President Bob Diamond Talks Universal Banking
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
Barclays' President Bob Diamond talks with the Wall Street Journal's David Weidner about the relevancy of the the universal banking model.
Who Benefits from Citi's New Tax Break?
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
The IRS has extended favorable tax treatment worth billions to struggling banks like Citigroup that benefited from government bailout money.
Integral Offers Hosted Solution For FX Algorithmic Trading Firms
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
Co-located in data centers with FX Grid, Integral's global inter-institutional connectivity and trading network, the service virtually eliminates latency, according to the vendor.
New Book Takes a Broad Look at High Frequency Trading
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
As the high frequency trading topic continues to cause a stir on Wall Street and with regulators, a new book has been released to explore the topic further.
Delaware Investments to Outsource Back Office to BNY Mellon
News  |  12/17/2009  | 
Extends long-term relationship with new investment accounting, performance and risk analytics and back-office services utilizing BNY Mellon's Eagle technology platform.
SEC Charges Former Employees of Global Firms in Serial Insider Trading Scheme
News  |  12/16/2009  | 
Executives exchanged illegal tips through coded text messages and yellow sticky notes.
Trading Technologies and Mizuho Securities USA Expand Global Relationship
News  |  12/16/2009  | 
They will co-market Trading Technologies' high-speed X_TRADER order-entry software to Mizuho's existing and prospective global customer base.
Chi-X Global Hires Steven Silberstein As CIO
News  |  12/16/2009  | 
Former Lehman executive will oversee technology used by the international operator of alternative trading venues.
Newedge Appoints John Fay as Head of Americas Region
News  |  12/16/2009  | 
Newedge Appoints John Fay as Head of Americas Region
RealTick Integrates Latest Deutsche Bank Algos, Futures Execution
News  |  12/15/2009  | 
RealTick has integrated Deutsche Bank’s latest suite of equity algorithms and futures execution capabilities.
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Forms Outsourcing Group
News  |  12/15/2009  | 
Lou Maiuri, CEO and chairman of Eagle Investment Systems, becomes global head of outsourcing.
Bank of America's Rosy 2010 Forecast Based on Strong Emerging Markets, Low Inflation
News  |  12/14/2009  | 
Despite the 10% unemployment and 3.9 million foreclosures in the U.S. this year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's global research group are highly optimistic about economic growth for the U.S. and the world for the coming year, economists in the group said at a press conference today. These economists forecast global domestic product will grow 4.4% in 2010, led by China at 10%. Inflation will be low, U.S. equities will perform well, and t
Credit Suisse Goes Live with Traiana for Retail FX
News  |  12/14/2009  | 
Credit Suisse will use Traiana's post-trade processing solution to match and aggregate forex trades from retail brokers.
Quod Financial Connects To NYSE Arca Europe And Smartpool
News  |  12/14/2009  | 
Adaptive smart order router identifies most efficient dark and lit execution venues for European securities.
U.K. Spread-Betting Firm to Price Options Using Streambase CEP
News  |  12/13/2009  | 
City Index hopes that performing Black Scholes and other pricing calculations in a complex event processing toolkit will allow it to quickly offer new products to retail "investors" who bet on the markets.
Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS)
Trading Floors  |  12/12/2009  | 
Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) is an independent agency firm that provides 24-hour global execution services, commission management solutions and independent research.
Cantor Fitzgerald Hopes to Bring Spread Betting to Las Vegas Casinos
News  |  12/11/2009  | 
Brokerage's Cantor Gaming subsidiary already makes markets for spread betting in the U.K. and sports wagering in Las Vegas resorts. Next, it hopes regulators will permit spread betting in Nevada.
Quant Fund Athena Capital Says FPGA-Based Feed Handler Lowers Latency
News  |  12/11/2009  | 
Altera- or Xilinx-based Platforms Offer Low Latency and Reduced Power Consumption
Andrew Ross Sorkin Bashes Wall Street; SNL on Tiger Woods; Al Gore on What Up With That?
News  |  12/11/2009  | 
Jon Stewart calls Sorkin's new book Too Big to Fail too big to read; Saturday Night Live's take on the Tiger Woods saga; Al Gore visits SNL's What Up With That? New York Times' Sorkin on the Daily Show Although Jon Stewart calls New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book Too Big to Fail "too big to read," he gives a soft interview to the Wall Street critic, who says a year after the $784 billion financial bailout, we're no better off. SWIFT's Restructuring in North America Includes Layoffs
News  |  12/10/2009  | 
SWIFT's Commercial group reduces staff as part of plan to cut $132 million in global operating expenses.
Cynergy Financial Using Egnyte Cloud Storage Hybrid
News  |  12/10/2009  | 
For a financial services firm concerned about accessing files over the internet, a local network-attached storage setup that replicates data to Egnyte's cloud offers an answer.
IBM Survey Finds Companies Rely Heavily on Business Intelligence
News  |  12/10/2009  | 
Among 400 business and IT leaders surveyed, most use dashboards and visualization tools.
Nord/LB Chooses CQG for High-Volume Futures Trading
News  |  12/10/2009  | 
Nord/LB will give customers and internal trading desks access to CQG's electronic trading, decision-making tools and consolidated market data.
First Trust Leverages Moxy for Growing Trade Volumes
News  |  12/10/2009  | 
First Trust Advisors has implemented Advent Software’s Moxy trade order management system to handle its increasing trading volumes and accounts.
RTS Realtime Systems Offers Low-Latency Access to London Stock Exchange Group Markets
News  |  12/9/2009  | 
RTS is providing hosted-access to LSE Markets through the RTS London primary and secondary data centers.
SunGard Enhances FastVal Independent Valuation Service
News  |  12/9/2009  | 
SunGard’s FastVal 3.0 provides financial institutions with transparency of the models and underlying market data used in the valuation.
SunGard Enhances FastVal Independent Valuation Service
News  |  12/9/2009  | 
SunGard's FastVal 3.0 provides financial institutions with transparency of the models and underlying market data used in the valuation, as well as enhanced Greeks, greater functionality in the running of intra-day valuations, and coverage of market data across a multitude of securities.
Bursa Malaysia to Upgrade Its Ticker Plant
News  |  12/9/2009  | 
Growing trade volumes at the tropical exchange have driven it to implement Thomson Reuters' RMDS.
Xignite Offers Options Data On Demand
News  |  12/8/2009  | 
iVerit to launch a new iPhone application for options traders in 2010 using the Xignite services.
Cisco, Savvis Partner to Support Private Clouds
News  |  12/8/2009  | 
Savvis to use Cisco's all-in-one server/network/storage device in its data centers.
7th Annual Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting
News  |  12/8/2009  | 
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of being invited to the 7th Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting in New York. While the atmosphere was definitely upbeat, it was also sign of the times that the ceremony which last year was held at the Rainbow Room was this year held at Fordham University. (The storied Rainbow Room on the 65th floor of the Rockefeller Center closed down in June, although the restaurant's website continues to optimistically boast "Rainbow Room: Then, Now, Forever"
Quod Integrates Algos into Smart Order Router
News  |  12/8/2009  | 
Quod Financial has pre-loaded its Adaptive Smart Order Router (QF ASOR) with a library of trading algorithms for improving execution and lowering market impact.
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