Articles by James Rundle
Trapets Introduces Outsourced Market Surveillance
Trapets AB has announced the launch of Outsourced Market Surveillance, its new, fully out-of-house program for handling surveillance requirements at trading firms.
Numerix, S&P Cap IQ Ink Pricing Partnership
S&P Capital IQ and Numerix have announced a multi-year partnership that will see the former's pricing models integrated within the latter's Portfolio Risk platform.
Rimes Adds Buy-Side Clients Amid Q1 Growth
Rimes has announced a number of client wins in North America at the end of Q1 2014, as its presence continues to grow with the opening of an office in San Francisco.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Richard Bentley, Software AG
James Rundle, deputy editor, sell side of Waters and WatersTechnology.com, speaks with Richard Bentley, vice president, financial services at Software AG about the firm's recent Sell-Side Technology Awards win.
The Cost of Credit
Features from this month's issue lead coverage for the first week of May.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side — BT Radianz
The word “infrastructure” can mean different things to different people. But while the specifics can be contested—hardware, software, or something in between—the basic principle of infrastructure is its ability to provide a backbone for any organization…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Market Surveillance Product — Nasdaq OMX (Smarts Broker)
It wasn’t long ago that compliance and market surveillance were sidelined divisions, generally consisting of a couple of people seen as distinctly separate, even opposed to a bank’s other employees. But given the enhanced focus on and the need to comply…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side — BT Radianz Cloud
It wasn’t more than a few years ago that cloud computing was treated with outright suspicion by the financial services industry. Now, it’s a critical and widespread component of sell-side infrastructure and system architecture. Initial concerns around…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Web-Based Development Environment — Caplin Systems
Caplin Systems has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in the industry over the past few years, having been an early mover in the adoption and evolution of HTML5 and its leading-edge applications developed specifically for the capital markets. With the…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014 Winners' Circle: Software AG
Last year, Software AG acquired the Apama complex-event processing platform from Progress Software, a move that has done nothing to diminish the platform’s excellence in this field, underscored by another win in the best CEP platform category at this…
James Rundle: A Different View of Data
While regulators struggle to adapt to the volume and variety of data they receive from market participants, James examines other ways of looking at systemic risk issues.
London Metal Exchange Insources IT
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has announced that it has brought its previously outsourced IT team in-house.
JPMorgan Expands UK South-Coast Facility Investment
JPMorgan Chase has announced a $48 million investment in its Technology and Operations Center, located in Bournemouth, UK.
European Derivatives Reporting Continues to Cause Headaches
Since February 12, parties to derivative trades in Europe have been obliged to report transactions to designated repositories. But with an unsteady launch, complaints about tough regulatory deadlines, and varying quality in the data reported, buy-side…
After Adjustments, Aequitas Still Set for 2015 Launch
Given the public opprobrium that surrounds high-frequency trading (HFT) at the moment, it’s easy to forget that some firms have been talking about the issues described in Michael Lewis’ book, Flash Boys, for a while now. One of those is Aequitas…
SEI Selects SmartStream for Reconciliations
Fund administrator SEI has selected SmartStream for a joint project that will create a single reconciliations utility within the firm.
DTCC Adds Trade Reporting for Australia, Singapore
The US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced the extension of its Global Trade Repository (GTR) service to Australia and Singapore.
Eze Castle Integration Links with SunGard
Eze Castle Integration (ECI) has announced that its UK buy-side clients using the ECI Link Private Network will now have access to the SunGard Global Network (SGN).
Volant Expands Execution Services through REDIPlus
Market-maker Volant Trading has rolled out extensions to its execution services for options traders, allowing them new capabilities through the REDIPlus execution management system (EMS).
CME Europe Goes Live
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) has launched its new London-based derivatives venue, CME Europe.
Batteries Not Included
Japanese exchanges and the Waters Rankings lead this week's coverage.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Geoff Patsch, Bloomberg
Anthony Malakian, US editor of Waters and WatersTechnology.com, speaks with Geoff Patsch, global head of Bloomberg SSEOMS at the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Kirk Wylie, OpenGamma
Anthony Malakian, US editor of Waters and WatersTechnology.com, speaks with Kirk Wylie, chairman and co-founder of OpenGamma, at the 2014 Sell-Side Technology Awards.
Ashmore Selects Vermilion for Client Reporting
Software vendor Vermilion has announced that Ashmore Group has gone live with its Vermilion Reporting Suite (VRS), following a four-month implementation.