Making Multi-Prime Work for You [ Source: Advent Software ]
April 2009- Based on conversations with leading hedge funds, prime brokers, and fund administrators, we firmly believe that investor assets and returns can no longer remain vulnerable to the risk of the single-prime model. To effectively manage business and thrive in today�s rapidly evolving market, it is imperative that funds operate within a multiprime model to mitigate potential risk and manage transaction costs effectively. This is the opening installment of a series and shares our findings ...

Manage Time, Effort, and Risk Associated with FIX Protocol Testing [ Source: HP ]
June 2009- FIX Protocol has become the industry standard for message exchange in the Financial Services Industry. However, the popularity of FIX is also associated with inherent challenges involved in testing this protocol. Complicated tag library, customized messages and constant upgrades are just a few of the challenges that testing teams have to manage. These challenges can be mitigated by bringing standardization and digitization to the testing process through the implementation of QA best practices, leading industry ...

Introduction to Complex Event Processing (CEP) in Capital Markets [ Source: Sybase ]
April 2012- This free Sybase presentation provides a high-level overview of Complex Event Processing (CEP). It begins by defining CEP and its capital markets applications, and culminates with the powerful Sybase CEP platform and its features and benefits.

Real Time Risk Monitoring [ Source: Sybase ]
January 2012- The credit crisis is demonstrating that financial institutions have inadequate tools to manage strong forces of risk. This white paper shows the success of using a visual data analytics platform to monitor and manage positions/exposure in real time.

Manage Time, Effort, and Risk Associated with FIX Protocol Testing [ Source: HP ]
June 2009- FIX Protocol has become the industry standard for message exchange in the Financial Services Industry. However, the popularity of FIX is also associated with inherent challenges involved in testing this protocol. Complicated tag library, customized messages and constant upgrades are just a few of the challenges that testing teams have to manage. These challenges can be mitigated by bringing standardization and digitization to the testing process through the implementation of QA best practices, leading industry ...

Complex Event Processing with Coral8 [ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2008- Complex event processing (CEP) solutions are particularly suited to high-volume, low-latency applications such as those in financial trading, real-time best execution metrics, real-time Web commerce traffic analysis, RFID and sensor network processing, communications network record processing, and more. CEP software provide the platform to quickly analyze the high-speed, high-volume event streams to uncover the opportunities and threads buried inside, and drive immediate actions.

The Advantages of Enabling Order Execution in Hardware [ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008- In order to avoid lost opportunities and customers, sell-side firms need to guarantee the rapid delivery of trade-related messages to avoid lost and late messages through back-office order processing systems. Traditionally, firms have relied on software- and server-based systems to process trades. With the increasing volume of orders, the widespread adoption of algorithmic trading systems and the demand for lower latency, existing systems are not able to keep up with the demand. Solace Systems' hardware ...