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Low-Latency Startup Metamako to Launch European Operations
Metamako, the Australian startup that provides ultra-low latency tools to exchanges and proprietary trading firms, has announced it will expand its services to Europe with the help of Kevin Covington, managing director and founder of Change Alley, a…
CTA, UTP Revisit Consolidated Tape Fees
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) and the Unlisted Trading Privileges (UTP) Plan, which together oversee the collection and distribution of the consolidated tapes of quote and trade data for US equity markets, have proposed new fee policies for the…
Lucena Enables Trading from Analytics via Interactive Brokers Integration
Atlanta, Ga.-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research is integrating direct trading capabilities from US brokerage firm Interactive Brokers into the vendor’s QuantDesk predictive analytics platform, to enable joint customers among…
American Financial Technology Awards 2014 Extension
We will be extending the deadline for entry into this year's American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) by one week, until Friday, October 17, 2014. The site will close at midnight, October 18.
State Street TruCross/FX Platform Goes Live
State Street Global Markets has announced that its TruCross/FX foreign exchange (FX) spot benchmark execution platform, overseen by State Street Global Markets' agency FX unit, is now live.
Kx Names Quill Global Head, Sales Engineering
Tick database provider Kx Systems has promoted Fintan Quill from senior engineer to global head of sales engineering, expanding his prior role beyond just North America and to cover more technical sales and support the vendor's push into new industries,…
TeraExchange Claims First Bitcoin Swap Trade
Swap execution facility (SEF) operator TeraExchange has said that the first ever Bitcoin derivative trade has taken place on its venue.
Post-Launch and Funding, Vetr Eyes Institutional Clients for Crowd-Sourced Ratings
Crowd-sourced stock ratings provider Vetr has completed the second stage of a $1 million investment round, and is now focusing on attracting more users and contributors to its portal, to make its content more appealing to institutional traders and hedge…
WorkFusion's ‘Automation Notification' Boosts Data Extraction Options
New York-based software-as-a-service vendor WorkFusion has launched new "automation recommendation" functionality on its WorkFusion data extraction platform to automatically notify customers when the software is able to automate data extraction processes…
SimCorp Poll: Only 23 Percent on Buy Side Can Perform Intraday Calculations
Investment management solutions provider SimCorp has released a poll that surveyed 60 executives from North American-based capital market firms about performing intraday calculations on the impact of position-driving events.
MDSL Taps Ex-Deutsche Bank Data Exec DeMaio as COO
UK-based cost and inventory management software vendor MDSL has hired Lou DeMaio, former global head of market data service delivery at Deutsche Bank, as Americas chief operating officer to spearhead growth of the vendor's MDX (Market Data Expert)…
eClerx Launches KYC Solution
Knowing your customer is a major priority for firms in an age of strict regulation and massive fines, says eClerx principal Alan Paris.
ITRS Adds Bloomberg B-Pipe Monitoring to Geneos
ITRS Group, a provider of performance monitoring technology for real-time systems, has launched an interface that provides monitoring support for customers of Bloomberg's B-Pipe real-time market data feed within ITRS' Geneos monitoring platform via a new…
FICO Updates Analytic Model Management Tool
FICO has announced the release of Model Central 5.0, an updated version of its analytic-model management solution.
BATS Pushes MMT for BXTR Reporting
Pan-European equity exchange BATS Chi-X Europe has made the Market Model Typology a key component of its BXTR trade reporting service, to help boost market transparency and contribute to creating the underlying conditions to support a European…
Standard Bank Selects Eagle for Data Management, Accounting
Standard Bank South Africa will use Eagle Investment Systems' accounting and enterprise data management platform, taking the services on a hosted basis through the vendor's private cloud, Eagle Access.
SS&C Debuts Integrated Platform Offering
SS&C Technologies has announced the release of an integrated technology platform that spans the front, middle and back offices, aimed specifically at hedge funds.
ISO Committee Proposes LEI Form Standard
Members of the ISO Technical Committee for Financial Services (ISO/TC 68) will vote during early December on whether to develop a new standard for Entity Legal Forms
YCharts Preps Unstructured Company IR Datasets for Screening, Research
Chicago-based fundamental analysis provider YCharts has begun collecting, parsing and tagging information from investor relations websites to provide traders with more idea generation and stock-screening tools that leverage unstructured and text-based…
NY Fed: Capital Markets Must Be More Wary of Data Cyber Threats
Capital markets firms must take more steps to protect sensitive information and market data from cyber-terrorists intent on stealing and reselling valuable data, including carefully guarding their internal data architectures and external providers,…
NY Fed: Capital Markets Must Be More Wary of Data Cyber Threats
Capital markets firms must take more steps to protect sensitive information and market data from cyber-terrorists intent on stealing and reselling valuable data, including carefully guarding their internal data architectures and external providers,…
Portware to Offer S3's Counterparty Intel Analytics Platform to Clients
S3 announced its Basel III analytics solution, Blacklight, will be available for all Portware clients.
CounterpartyLink Chooses Datactics For Data Matching
The data quality and matching software provider Datactics will supply its FlowDesigner matching and research product to the legal entity data source
Liquid Introduces Beta Mobile Application
OEMS provider Liquid Holdings has begun rolling out the beta version of LiquidMobile to select platform users.