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Content tagged with Infrastructure posted in March 2009
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LSE to Offer Post-Trade Routing Technology
News  |  3/31/2009  | 
Wall Street Inspired Its Nehalem Chip, Intel Says
News  |  3/30/2009  | 
New Xeon 5500-based servers said to provide 70% to 125% higher performance — including faster input and output of data — than the previous generation.
Orange Business Services Connects to Chi-X Europe
News  |  3/30/2009  | 
Adds new liquidity pools to help customers meet best execution requirements under MiFID.
Savvis Connects with Chi-X Canada and Turquoise MTF
News  |  3/30/2009  | 
Expands global footprint in response to demand for low-latency access to liquidity venues.
SocGen Signs Deal with NYSE Technologies
News  |  3/30/2009  | 
Mashups Slowly Gain Traction on Wall Street
News  |  3/27/2009  | 
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.
Instinet Europe Connects to Atrium Network
News  |  3/27/2009  | 
CME Expands Views of Order Book Data
News  |  3/26/2009  | 
Uses FIX/FAST protocol to transmit more data with less bandwidth.
SWIFT CEO Joins XBRL Board
News  |  3/26/2009  | 
Enterprise Mobility Investments Provide Big Payback
News  |  3/25/2009  | 
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
News  |  3/25/2009  | 
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
News  |  3/25/2009  | 
The new tool enables organizations to deliver important content in a secure multi-dimensional message combining web, audio, video and print content.
Burgundy Selects BT Radianz for Connectivity and Market Data
News  |  3/25/2009  | 
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
News  |  3/25/2009  | 
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.
The Winter Of Our Discontent May Not Be Over
Commentary  |  3/24/2009  | 
In our zest to find scapegoats, many good people are being unfairly disparaged and reckless statements about our system are being bandied about.
Capis Research Network Adds Morningstar
News  |  3/24/2009  | 
Catalina Partners Launches As Independent Risk Advisory Firm
News  |  3/23/2009  | 
Addresses hedge fund due diligence, screening for fraud and broad array of risk management needs.
SGX to Migrate to NASDAQ OMX GENIUM
News  |  3/23/2009  | 
Hardware Acceleration Is On the Radar Screen, Say Low-Latency Experts.
News  |  3/20/2009  | 
Wall Street is filling up its low-latency toolbox with CEP, co-location and messaging middleware.
Citi Expands Automated Trading to Malaysian Securities
News  |  3/20/2009  | 
The firm adds Malaysia to its Asian portfolio, which includes Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia.
Good Design is Critical To Stay in Low Latency Race
News  |  3/19/2009  | 
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.
Vhayu, NetApp Partner to Store Tick Data
News  |  3/19/2009  | 
A cheap place to stash multiterabytes of data, the two vendors say.
Low Latency, It’s Not Just for Hedge Funds Anymore
News  |  3/19/2009  | 
Will 'Chief Latency Officer' be the newest title on Wall Street?
Brokers Tap Execution Cost Management Technology
News  |  3/19/2009  | 
Brokers use ECM technology to manage trading costs, measure client profitability and improve relationships.
Software is Low Latency’s Weakest Link
News  |  3/19/2009  | 
Panel at Accelerating Wall Street conference says improving older or poorly written code has greater potential to lower latency than new hardware.
UBS Wealth Management Americas Picks Thomson Reuters News
News  |  3/17/2009  | 
News will be integrated into the firm's ConsultWorks platform.
Trading Metrics Co-founder Joins Correlix
News  |  3/17/2009  | 
Richard Huddleston has been named senior solutions architect of Correlix.
FailStation Selects Financial Tradeware For Failed Trade Reporting
News  |  3/17/2009  | 
This connectivity will allow custodian banks to automatically send failed trade data to FailStation to streamline exception handling for its clients.
Battlelines Are Drawn As CME/Citadel Win SEC Approval for CDS Clearinghouse
News  |  3/17/2009  | 
Turf war breaks out as clearing in credit default swaps gets underway.
Tullett Prebon Uses Orc for Derivatives Trading
News  |  3/17/2009  | 
Tullet Prebon selects Orc Trading for listed derivatives trading in Paris.
Nasdaq OMX Europe Intends to Launch Dark Pool
News  |  3/17/2009  | 
Neuro Dark will address all order sizes, not just block or large in scale orders.
Hodgkinson Appointed CEO of SmartPool
News  |  3/16/2009  | 
FXall Launches Active Trader Solution
News  |  3/16/2009  | 
FXall’s system for active traders integrates multiple execution strategies and has multiple services available through a single interface.
Nasdaq OMX Signs MOU with Taiwan Futures Exchange
News  |  3/13/2009  | 
Nasdaq OMX seeks to boost its position in Asia-Pacific region.
Chi-X Global Names New Chairman and CEO
News  |  3/12/2009  | 
SIX Swiss Exchange fines Dresdner Bank AG London Branch
News  |  3/12/2009  | 
Bank violated rules on reporting off-order book trades with a delay of five days.
SunGard Upgrades Cross-Asset Trading System
News  |  3/12/2009  | 
Front Arena 4.3, includes high volume FX trading capabilities, straight-through processing, scalable architecture and real-time pricing.
Network Admins Report Shrinking IT Budgets, Little Hope for IT Efficiency Tools
News  |  3/11/2009  | 
Survey finds that 62% of network administrators say IT budgets will flatten or diminish this year, less than half see a need for IT management tools.
Ocean State Chooses ClariFI ModelStation
News  |  3/11/2009  | 
The provider of investment advisory services to institutional and high-net-worth clients plans to use ClariFI’s ModelStation to streamline its domestic equities investment management and research process.
Pipeline to Bring Block Trading Competition to Europe
News  |  3/11/2009  | 
Pipeline has announced it will take its Block Board and Algorithm Switching Engine offerings abroad.
Switch & Data Hires Panzica to Spearhead Financial Services Practice
News  |  3/10/2009  | 
Targets collocation services for electronic trading with new data center in North Bergen, New Jersey
LSE and TMX Partner in European Derivatives
News  |  3/10/2009  | 
LSE and TMX Partner in European Derivatives
Chi-X Europe Names Mark Howarth Interim CEO
News  |  3/10/2009  | 
Chi-X Europe Names Mark Howarth Interim CEO
Adapting Legacy Applications to Multicore Servers
News  |  3/9/2009  | 
Even as chip makers roll out ever-more-powerful servers to meet Wall Street's demand for low-latency, high-speed performance, legacy applications and new multicore servers tend to be a poor fit. But firms are finding ways to adapt aging programs to take advantage of multiple cores.
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