Articles by Jake Thomases
Tradeweb Plants its Flag With First Pre-Trade OTC Credit Check
Late last week, Tradeweb Markets supported the first electronic indicative pre-trade credit check between a buy-side client and a futures commission merchant (FCM) for an over-the-counter derivatives transaction. Using the electronic credit checking…
Bank of Korea Turns to Calypso for Portfolio Management
Bank of Korea, responsible for managing the world’s seventh largest foreign reserve of $329 billion, has gone live with Calypso Technology’s portfolio management solution.
Liquidity Fragmentation in Fixed Income is Here to Stay, Says iTB CEO
Michael Chuang has made a big bet that history will not repeat itself when it comes to a massive collapse in the number of fixed income trading platforms.
Gravitas and IBM to Offer Risk Services to Small Hedge Funds
Gravitas, a New York-based provider of hedge fund technology, has chosen the IBM Risk Analytics engine to provide risk-as-a-service for emerging and mid-sized hedge funds.
Trading Technologies Connects to Eris Exchange
Trading Technologies (TT), a Chicago-based provider of trading software for derivatives traders, has connected to SwapBook, the trading platform of Chicago-based swap futures exchange Eris Exchange.
Another Poll Indicts Buy Side on Central Clearing
As of March, a majority of buy-side firms were still not ready to centrally clear over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, according to a poll by SimCorp, a Copenhagen-based software provider.
Nasdaq to Monitor Performance With Corvil
Nasdaq OMX continued the evolution of its operational risk management tools and its relationship with Irish performance monitoring specialist Corvil with its implementation of CorvilNet. By providing greater visibility into trading events, CorvilNet will…
Nasdaq Completes Purchase of Thomson Reuters Businesses
Nasdaq OMX has completed its acquisition of Thomson Reuters' investor relations, public relations and multimedia solutions businesses, which will be integrated with Nasdaq's global technology solutions business.
Nomura Turns to NRI for Mobile CRM
Nomura Securities has implemented the customer relationship management (CRM) solution for mobile devices from Nomura Research Institute (NRI), an unaffiliated Japanese vendor.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Low-Latency Network ─ Anova Technologies
To win the award for best sell-side low-latency network, Anova Technologies followed Icarus’ lead and took to the air. Thus far it’s been a significantly more successful trip than that of the mythical winged Greek.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Data Center Provider to the Sell Side ─ NYSE Technologies
Certainly among the exchange-owned datacenters, NYSE Euronext’s state-of-the-art facilities in the New York and London metropolitan areas spring to mind when one thinks of datacenter investment.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side ─ IBM
If any computing company can offer end-to-end infrastructure solutions, it’s IBM. It’s reliable, it’s massive, and it’s got quite a few software engineers under its roof. The company has seen a shift among the sell side from home-grown grid software to…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Automated Trading Platform ─ FlexTrade
Name a feature, and the FlexTrader execution management system has it. The ability to control multiple portfolios comprised of several sub accounts from one blotter? Check. Access to over 200 trading destinations? Check. A formula-building template for…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Sell-Side Front-Office Execution Platform ─ Bloomberg
Aggregate the power of an execution management system (EMS), an order management system (OMS), and the resources of Bloomberg, and you’ve got an execution tool to be reckoned with. The Sell-Side Execution & Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) leverages…
Object Trading to Provide DMA to Dubai Exchange
Object Trading's flagship direct market access suite FrontRunner is now live with clients connected to the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), and is available to provide direct market data and risk-managed trade execution.
The Lost Generation of Corporate Bond Platforms
Corporate bonds today remain among the most manual instruments to trade. But it did not have to be this way. Starting as far back as the late 1990s, attempts have been made to automate institutional credit trading. In part one of this two-part feature,…
SST Awards 2013: Patrick Myles, Caplin Systems
Patrick Myles, CTO of Caplin Systems, speaks to Waters' Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
SST Awards 2013: Jeff Britell, IPC
Jeff Britell, vice president of carrier & exchange relations at IPC Systems, speaks to Waters' Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
SST Awards 2013: Louis Lovas, OneMarketData
Louis Lovas, director of solutions at OneMarketData, speaks to Waters’ Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
SST Awards 2013: William Kennedy, Activ Financial Systems
William Kennedy, global head of business development at Activ Financial Systems, speaks to Waters’ Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
SST Awards 2013: Kurt Eldridge, SmartStream
Kurt Eldridge, sales director for the US for SmartStream, speaks to Waters’ Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
SST Awards 2013: John Bates, Progress Software
John Bates, the CTO and founder of Progress Software, speaks to Waters’ Jake Thomases at the 2013 Sell-Side Technology Awards, held in the New York Marriott Marquis.
Exit Stage Left For JPMorgan CIO Chiarello
JPMorgan CIO Guy Chiarello is stepping down, according to an internal memo circulated within the bank and seen by the Wall Street Journal.
New Vernon Capital Moves to Gravitas Cloud
Jersey City-based asset manager New Vernon Capital has migrated its infrastructure to Gravitas Private Cloud.