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Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in May 2009
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DTCC, SWIFT, XBRL US Team to Automate Corporate Actions
News  |  5/29/2009  | 
Organizations working to make XBRL-formatted corporate actions announcements sharable throughout the industry.
SunGard To Launch Derivatives Clearing Gateways
News  |  5/29/2009  | 
Developed in Java and based on industry standards such as FIX messaging, SunGard’s smart gateways can be rolled out in a number of different technical environments.
TGIF: Daily Show Comments on the Economy; Client/Vendor Relationships in Real Life
News  |  5/29/2009  | 
Reporters on the Daily Show address economic issues; what happens when business technology clients take their vendor demands out into real-life situations; monologue of a stand-up economist.

Daily Show Correspondents on a Possible Economic Collapse

New and existing staff members at the Daily Show explain what they would do in the event of a complete economic collapse.

World Federation of Exchanges Pledges International Regulatory Cooperation
News  |  5/28/2009  | 
The WFE, based in Paris, France, is an association of more than 50 regulated stock, futures and options exchanges worldwide.
Still Stressed Over Bank Stress Tests
Commentary  |  5/28/2009  | 
Although investors greeted the results of the government's banking stress tests with cheers, were the tests strict enough to help prevent another financial meltdown?
Green IT Budgets Expected to Grow
News  |  5/28/2009  | 
Survey of large-company IT execs finds 97% are at least discussing a green IT strategy; 64% said they'd spend at least 10% more for energy efficient technology.
Murex selects Capco as a Solution Integrator
News  |  5/28/2009  | 
Capco and Murex sign partnership agreement.
UAT Launches Trading Oversight System For Investment Industry
News  |  5/27/2009  | 
Technology provides pre-trade compliance, real-time reporting, and lower brokerage costs for sub-advised platforms, says UAT.
Northern Trust Strengthens OTC Derivative Services
News  |  5/27/2009  | 
Northern Trust Strengthens OTC Derivative Services
Thomson Reuters Offers Commodity, Energy News Analytics
News  |  5/27/2009  | 
Adds machine-readable news sentiment scores for algo trading.
youDevise Introduces New Version of Forex Exposure Module for Funds of Hedge Funds
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
The solution aims to reduce the negative effects of volatile currency fluctuations that have been plaguing the funds of hedge funds.
Teradici Rolls Out Long-Distance Virtual Desktops
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
One partner said to be running low-latency financial applications between London and New York.
MetaBit Selects Solace Systems for Next-Gen Trading Platform
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
Hardware-Based Routers Provide Performance Boost to FIX-Based Trading Platforms.
Instinet Launches Enhanced Newport EMS
News  |  5/26/2009  | 
Newport 3, the third-generation platform, offers performance enhancements as well as new TCA analytics integration and complete broker-neutrality.
Photo Gallery: Celebs Help BTIG Raise $3 Million for Charity
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
Celebrities and athletes including Eli Manning, Michael J. Fox and Johnny Damon, came to the firm's trading floor to help raise money.
Northern Trust Offers Liquidity Monitor for FoHFs
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
Northern Trust Offers Liquidity Monitor for FoHFs is available to Northern Trust’s FoHF clients worldwide, through its Hedge Fund Monitor product, which is available through Northern Trust’s relationship with financial applications company youDevise.
Mellanox Demos 3-Microsecond Latency Ethernet for Data Centers
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
Vendor says its RDMA solution can provide low latency connectors for servers and storage networks.
TGIF: Jim Cramer on How to Get Mad; Human Flight Demo; Keyboard Cat Remixes
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
Mad Money host Jim Cramer teaches Jimmy Fallon how to say "booyah" and "shedaddy"; the Martin Aircraft Company shows off its human flight equipment; some of the best of the keyboard cat remixes.

Jim Cramer on How to Get Fired Up

The Mad Money host shows Jimmy Fallon how he gets ready for a show.

What Went Wrong When Bear Stearns Fell?
News  |  5/22/2009  | 
It took 72 hours for Bear Stearns to crumble. In one day, Bear Stearns went from $18 billion in cash on hand to $3 billion, as investors panicked.
'Kill the Comatose Servers,' Says IT Guru Ken Brill
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
Kenneth Brill, technology industry icon and executive director of the Uptime Institute, offers his secrets to an efficient data center in this exclusive Q&A.
DTCC Creates New Web Portal To Its Managed Accounts Service
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
Web Portal to Streamline Access for Investment Managers.
Breakaway Brokers Taking Client Assets With Them
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
Not surprisingly, financial advisers say they are leaving brokerage and captive firms out of discontent and two-thirds are taking huge hunks of business with them, an Aite survey finds.
NYSE Rolls Out Algorithms Supplied by Deep Value to Floor Brokers
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
Exchange introduces concept of Deep Value 'microstrategies' to boost trading floor brokers' choice of automated capabilties.
Exclusive: Lightspeed Financial Integrates Trading Platform With Wedbush’s Clearing Capabilities
News  |  5/21/2009  | 
New model will allow Lightspeed to serve growing market of new small, prop trading firms.
Citi's Green Data Centers Provide Environmental and Business Benefits
News  |  5/20/2009  | 
Citi has completed three LEED-certified energy-efficient data centers and is sticking to its $50 billion commitment to environmental efforts, which it says make good business sense.
In Support of Short Sale Restrictions
Commentary  |  5/20/2009  | 
Waddell & Reed Deploys Investment Management System
News  |  5/20/2009  | 
Phase one rollout of Charles River platform across four equity desks said to streamline workflows and FIX trading.
Citi Releases Mobile FX Trading Application
News  |  5/20/2009  | 
Intalio Launches Enterprise Cloud Appliance
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
A behind-the-firewall, soup-to-nuts enterprise-cloud-in-a-box or software stack, according to Intalio.
Spitzer Offers Advice to the Fed
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
Unready though I am to see disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer leap out of the doghouse and back into self-righteous sermonizing mode (am I the only one?), his latest column in Slate, How To Fix the New York Fed, is provocative.
HedgeOp Launches Compliance Platform For RIAs
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
New web-based software application helps investment advisers meet adviser act requirements.
Citi Offers Foreign Exchange App for iPhones, BlackBerries
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
Lets individuals and small institutions trade 130 currency pairs on any device with a web browser.
China's New GEB Exchange takes on Nasdaq to Nurture Tech
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
China's new Growth Enterprise Board (GEB) hopes to reward the country's tech stars the same way Nasdaq helped companies like Google and eBay. But the GEB exchange comes with a different set of rules for investors.
CME Group Completes Consolidation of Two New York Trading Floors
News  |  5/19/2009  | 
Derivatives exchange is on track to save $60 million following NYMEX acquisition.
Wall Street IT Budgets Are Fatter Than You Think, Aite Says
News  |  5/18/2009  | 
Reports of budget hemorrhaging are overblown; money is still being spent this year on OMS, EMS, risk and compliance technology, analyst Adam Honore says.
Aleri, RavenPack to Feed News into Trading Algos
News  |  5/15/2009  | 
News stories to be gathered from media sources and turned into numbers that are fed into Aleri CEP-based trading models.
The Life Management Group Selects Adhesion’s Wealth Management Platform
News  |  5/15/2009  | 
The Life Management Group (TLMG) has introduced clients to its next-generation wealth management platform, which includes Adhesion's WealthADV Unified Managed Account (UMA) and Client Reporting platform
Northern Trust Issues RFI for Minority and Women-Owned Broker Dealers
News  |  5/15/2009  | 
Preferred equity trading partners must meet requirements for for execution, technology platforms, capital and performance.
TGIF: Geithner Announces Written Stress Test Results
News  |  5/15/2009  | 
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (portrayed by the droll Will Forte) shares the lesser-known results of the written portion of the recent stress tests taken by the 19 largest banks, on Saturday Night Live.
Blade Network To Release Cloud-Ready Products
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
New switches will embody the five elements of cloud-appropriate networking — high-bandwidth/low-latency, convergence to Ethernet, massive virtualization, scalable management and energy efficiency — according to Blade.
Mitigating New Risks: Q&A With Catalina Partners' Patty Watters
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
Patty Watters, cofounder of Catalina Partners, a risk advisory business launched in March, discusses the new risk challenges facing institutional investors and advisers as they try to win back investor confidence.
Book Dissects J.P. Morgan During the Financial Meltdown
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
A new book dissects J.P. Morgan's role in the financial crisis and how JPM managed to both help create the products that would ultimately derail the markets and also how JPM avoided some of the huge losses tied to the credit crisis.
StoredIQ Releases New Federation Capabilities for eDiscovery
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
The new release enables firms whose information management needs stretch beyond a single appliance or single geographic location to gain more visibility into distributed data environments and centralized management of multiple StoredIQ appliances.
Wolverine Asset Management Selects Citadel for Fund Admin
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
Firm cites Citadel's "solid technology" and experienced team as reasons for the choice.
Sybase Adds Time Series Analytics to Its Capital Markets Platform
News  |  5/14/2009  | 
The addition of high performance time series analytics to RAP – The Trading Edition Enterprise makes developing risk and trading models quicker and easier with faster, deeper time-series analysis of financial data.
Sybase to Offer Its Software Through Amazon’s Cloud
News  |  5/13/2009  | 
Data management, analytics and mobile technologies to be available through Amazon's EC2.
Doing More with Less: Leveraging Technology to Reduce Costs
Commentary  |  5/13/2009  | 
Firms that look to make changes now will not only reduce costs in the short term, they will increase their operational efficiency, enhance compliance and position themselves for growth when the market comes back.
Chinese Securities Firm Selects SunGard OMS
News  |  5/13/2009  | 
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