Content tagged with Trading Technology posted in March 2009
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EMoney Advisor Launches Enhanced Wealth Management Solutions
Developed for financial advisors who provide all-inclusive planning for affluent and high net worth clients, the new version's enhancements include a framework for generating investment proposals monitored by predetermined thresholds that trigger an alert every time a policy control is exceeded.
Morgan Stanley Deploys Tool to Monitor Fixed-Income Trading Apps
Morgan Stanley is using OpTier's CoreFirst software to monitor performance and find bottlenecks in institutional trading.
Broadridge, Beacon To Help Clients Find Fixed-Income Liquidity
Trading clients allowed to pore over daily fixed-income securities transaction records.
Wall Street Inspired Its Nehalem Chip, Intel Says
New Xeon 5500-based servers said to provide 70% to 125% higher performance — including faster input and output of data — than the previous generation.
Vhayu Launches Velocity for TCA
Vhayu launches velocity for transaction cost analysis to enable trading firms to conduct real-time TCA internally
Nomura to Distribute Algo Suite Through TradingScreen
Model Ex, Nomura's execution suite, will be distributed by TradingScreen in Asia.
New Automated Data Feed Between Omgeo’s Crosscheck and DTCC
The link is designed to reduce operational risks in the over-the-counter (OTC) credit derivatives market by enabling market participants to align their portfolios with contract records maintained by the DTCC Warehouse.
Vhayu Launches Real-Time Transaction Cost Analyzer
Velocity TCA provides benchmarks to measure and analyze performance on trades sent from any FIX-compliant EMS or OMS.
1st Discount Brokerage Selects Scivantage Maxit For Automated Cost Basis Reporting
The tax management and portfolio reporting capabilities can be integrated into 1DB's professional and online brokerage platforms.
Mashups Slowly Gain Traction on Wall Street
While adoption of mashups by capital markets firms has been slow, the technology promises to empower business users, improve information sharing, boost productivity and strengthen customer relationships -- if security concerns can be overcome.
Fiserv Launches Message WorkFlow Manager for Managed Accounts
Centralized messaging solution is designed to enable operational efficiencies and cost savings.
Obama Meets with Senior Bankers Today
WSJ.com is reporting that President Obama is expected to meet with several high profile bankers in Washington as he seeks to gain support for the latest plan to stabilize the financial sector.
South Park's Stan, Lex Luthor Ask for Government Bailouts
Stan in South Park and villain Lex Luthor apply for government bailouts, office workers visit the Twittersphere, a flight attendant tries a new way of presenting safety information, and a hamster eats popcorn on a piano.
South Park's Stan Asks for a Government Bailout
Stan finds out how Washington makes its handout decisions.
LiquidityHub Achieves 2 Millisecond Latency
New messaging middleware from Fiorano has enabled the U.K. fixed-income data provider to accelerate its streaming price updates.
Simplify Launches Hosted Managed Platform for Asset Management Industry
The platform provides hedge funds, funds of funds, pensions and administrators with capabilities for shareholder management, tax, private equity management, fund of funds portfolio management, and performance and attribution risk reporting.
Enterprise Mobility Investments Provide Big Payback
Top-performing companies increased their investment in enterprise mobility by 19 percent over the past two years, fueling a 36 percent jump in employee productivity, according to Aberdeen Group.
E*Trade Accelerates Mobile Trading
Upgrading from a basic WAP app to a thick client helped drive a 139 percent increase in daily average revenue trades.
Sendside Releases New Communications Solution for Hedge Fund and Brokerage Clients
The new tool enables organizations to deliver important content in a secure multi-dimensional message combining web, audio, video and print content.
Equinix Hosts Algorithmic News Feed in Germany
Need to Know News has launched its Lightning Bolt algorithmic news feed service for trading operations within Equinix's Frankfurt data center.
Burgundy Selects BT Radianz for Connectivity and Market Data
Nordic MTF says BT Radianz Market Infrastructure provides easy access to financial community and meets its delivery timetable.
Need to Know News Offers Algo News Feed
The service will be available to the community of financial trading companies currently operating within the center, including buy and sell side firms which rely on real-time news feeds to improve their trading operations.
Clearwater Analytics Releases New Tool for Private Wealth Investors
The solution provides visibility and transparency across multiple portfolios, asset classes, security types and currencies.
Are Those Assets 'Toxic,' 'Dodgy,' 'Devalued' or Just 'Legacy'?
There's a widening dichotomy in the way industry observers describe subprime-related financial instruments, such as those included in the financial rescue plan the Treasury Department announced yesterday: what some call "toxic," "troubled" or "dodgy" assets, others (such as the current Administration) refer to as simply "legacy" assets. They've certainly been suffering a liquidity problem and probably performance issues, but are these assets truly "toxic"? On the other hand, are they a gift, as
Intel To Install SeaNet Latency Monitoring in its Low Latency Lab
Clients such as Nomura will measure trading system latency using the SeaView tool.
NYSE Euronext Reduces Fees for Trading Pan-European Cash Markets
Integrated fee structure ties in with trading on NYSE Arca Europe and SmartPool.
SailPoint Adds Virtualization, Hosted and Managed Services Options to ID Governance Solution
Identity governance remains a top priority, but many organizations lack the internal resources needed to deploy and manage new applications, according to SailPoint.
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The exchange's use of Reuters' Data Feed Direct will enable direct market access in India
Goldman Adds New Electronic Options Trading Features
Goldman augments electronic options trading with three new algos, auto-hedging and added broker connectivity.
Markit Launches CDS Data Portal
Information portal intended to increase transparency in the credit default swap market.
Hardware Acceleration Is On the Radar Screen, Say Low-Latency Experts.
Wall Street is filling up its low-latency toolbox with CEP, co-location and messaging middleware.
Citi Expands Automated Trading to Malaysian Securities
The firm adds Malaysia to its Asian portfolio, which includes Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia.
Obama Works the Tonight Show; Sesame Street Explains the Madoff Scandal
It's been a good week in financial-crisis comedy. President Obama starred on the Tonight Show last night, talked about bonuses and the financial industry and cracked a few good jokes; Sesame Street's Ernie and Cookie Monster came up with a concise explanation of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme; Samantha Bee at the Daily Show crafted a witty, cutting segment on short sellers.
Obama Works the Tonight Show
President Barack Obama's interview with Jay Leno last night was more dignif
Credit Suisse, Equiduct Trading, LiquidNet Share CEP Use Cases
Pre-trade analytics, liquidity seeking and anti-gaming top Wall Street's list of CEP applications.
Cogent Consulting Makes CSA Cloud System Available To Small Brokers
Previously, Cogent only marketed Cloud packages for larger brokers with 100+ accounts, and medium-sized firms with 25+ accounts.
Asset Managers Must Use Web for Cost-Effective Distribution
Firms that find a way to sell by using inexpensive and scalable resources, such as the advisor Web site, to reduce their dependence on expensive wholesaling forces, will be betterpositioned for profitability in coming years, according to a new report from kasina.
Good Design is Critical To Stay in Low Latency Race
The low latency race shows no signs of slowing down and is driving an increase in orders. But these are not always translating to more trades, according to Stephen Goldman, at CME Group.
Citi CIO Out, Replacement Sought
Meredith Levinson, senior online editor of CIO magazine, just told me that Citi's CIO, Marty Lippert, left the organization earlier this week. She got a copy of the memo the company released internally announcing Lippert's departure and wrote a story about it. According to the memo, Lippert is going back home to Canada for personal reasons.
Vhayu, NetApp Partner to Store Tick Data
A cheap place to stash multiterabytes of data, the two vendors say.
Low Latency, It’s Not Just for Hedge Funds Anymore
Will 'Chief Latency Officer' be the newest title on Wall Street?
Brokers Tap Execution Cost Management Technology
Brokers use ECM technology to manage trading costs, measure client profitability and improve relationships.
Software is Low Latency’s Weakest Link
Panel at Accelerating Wall Street conference says improving older or poorly written code has greater potential to lower latency than new hardware.
Divining the Future of Professional Media in a Web 2.0 World
What does the disintermediation of professional media mean for an industry focused on high-speed, accurate and intelligent information?
Thomson Reuters Offers Account Data Feed to Financial Advisors
Delivering transaction, position, balance and price data from multiple sources as a single feed on wealth platform eXimius, using a service from ByAllAccounts.
Pegasystems Releases New Solution for Financial Crimes Case Management
The new capability enhances organizations' ability to identify critical breaches and to reduce false positive processing, according to the vendor.
Trading Metrics Co-founder Joins Correlix
Richard Huddleston has been named senior solutions architect of Correlix.
FailStation Selects Financial Tradeware For Failed Trade Reporting
This connectivity will allow custodian banks to automatically send failed trade data to FailStation to streamline exception handling for its clients.
Tullett Prebon Uses Orc for Derivatives Trading
Tullet Prebon selects Orc Trading for listed derivatives trading in Paris.
UBS Provides Thomson Reuters News For Its Financial Advisors
Thomson Reuters North American Wealth Management news integrated on UBS ConsultWorks desktops.
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