Articles by Jake Thomases
New European Fixed Income Market to Launch
The stock exchanges of Ireland and Malta are collaborating on the fixed-income debt securities market.
Deutsche Bank Americas CEO Waugh to Step Down
After 12 years on the job, Deutsche Bank's local head is moving to an advisory role.
Fidessa Releases Japanese Version of its Fragmentation Index
Fragmentation in Japan has increased enough that Fidessa thought it was time to release a product tailored for that market.
TradeKing Automates Internal Monitoring
As social media became a larger part of the broker's marketing strategy, it could no longer manually monitor and archive it for compliance purposes.
Direct Edge CEO William O'Brien Plans to Go Global
William O’Brien, who once rejected his exchange roots, took over a tiny ECN and grew it into one of the biggest equity exchanges in the world. Now he’s looking at new markets for Direct Edge. By Jake Thomases
Call Auctions: Trading in a New Old-Fashioned Way
Call auctions are one of the oldest forms of stock trading. Plenty of people would like to have an auction option, yet no such system has existed for more than a decade. AX Trading is giving an electronic version another shot. By Jake Thomases
Direct FX Partners with First Derivatives for Forex
FD's Delta Flow technology was selected to fulfill Direct FX's execution and liquidity needs.
Equinix to Build Secure DC-area Data Center
The new facility will use tight security courtesy of Carpathia and host federal agencies and healthcare companies in addition to financial services.
GATElab Adopts Solarflare Hardware for HFT
Solarflare's server adapters will provide low latency performance for GATElab's HFT customers.
RTS Connects with Hong Kong Exchange
Clients of the Frankfurt platform provider will now be able to arbitrage gold and silver contracts, among other things, at HKMEx.
Oman Migrates to NYSE Technologies Trading Platform
Omani exchange hooks up with NYSE Technologies.
State Street to Launch a SEF
SwapEx is a derivatives platform designed to comply with Dodd-Frank and EMiR regulation regarding the new trading of OTC derivatives.
Hammond Takes on Sales Job at MarketAxess
Robert Hammond moves from CME to drive European and Middle East sales for the fixed-income platform vendor.
Portware Signs with Cuttone for Floor Broker Services
Portware clients will be able to jump into the short floor broker fill line at NYSE.
Tri-Party Repo Platform Aims to Get Short-Term Money Moving
Newedge and MTS have collaborated on an MTF that will marry buy-side cash lenders with sell-side collateral providers.
Tri-Party Repo Platform Aims to Get Short-Term Money Moving
Newedge and MTS have collaborated on an MTF that will marry buy-side cash lenders with sell-side collateral providers.
SunGard Adds Fox River Technology to Consolidated Brokerage
The consolidated broker-dealer will offer a single relationship to clients, as well as Fox River's suite of algo and ATS services.
Deutsche Bank Gets New Global Strategist and US Equity Strategist
Binky Chadha fills the newly created global role.
NYSE Technologies Launches Post-Trade Monitoring Tool
Trade Exception Radar completes NYSE Technologies' risk protection suite, which now covers the whole trade cycle.
Sabrient Hires Culcuoglu as Senior Vice President
The former Thomson Reuters head of product management will be in charge of global product management.
Eurex to Roll Out New Trading System in Q4
The new platform will be based on Deutsche Börse’s proprietary architecture, already in use at ISE.
Avaloq Opens Philippines Center
Partnering with Sofgen, the Swiss company will use the software center for basic support tasks.
Why Regulatory Consensus Is Bad
Yale Law professor Roberta Romano says global banking regulations like Basel are misguided precisely because they involve so much collaboration.
JPMorgan Launches Frames for Mutual Funds
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services launches a site for mutual fund administration as part of its Access web-based platform.