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CS, Banks Complete Turquoise Latency POC
Credit Suisse and pan-European multilateral trading facility Turquoise, which both use latency monitoring appliances from Dublin-based Corvil, have completed a proof-of-concept project to connect the bank's and MTF's latency monitoring technologies, to…
Kabrik Enlists EquityFeed for Trade Suite
New York Stock Exchange floor broker Kabrik Trading is creating a new suite of data, execution and research tools for its own brokers and institutional buy-side clients using the new EquityPipe data workstation from Montreal-based vendor EquityFeed.
SocGen Aims DART at Bloomberg Spend
Société Générale has expanded a contract with NYSE Technologies to use a service based around the Data Access Reporting Tool (DART) usage monitoring system to cover its Bloomberg terminals and help manage data spend by providing monthly reports on data…
Susquehanna Expands Derivix Options Pricing
Broker-dealer Susquehanna Financial Group is increasing the number of trading positions that use New York-based options pricing and risk analytics software provider Derivix's pricing and analytics platform, to help its traders to quote options prices to…
Essex Radez Grows Data Network
Chicago-based broker and data redistributor Essex Radez has expanded the reach of its data collection network with hosting space in Equinix's NY4 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ, and a point of presence (PoP) in Savvis' Weehawken, NJ datacenter, to provide…
Agora Corretora Deploys Apama CEP
Brazilian broker Agora Corretora de Titulos e Valores Mobiliarios is rolling out Progress Apama's complex event processing engine to support analysis of market data and trading on the country's BM&F Bovespa exchange group.
TriCygnet Adds New Assets to TimeScape
New York-based global macro fund TriCygnet has expanded its use of data management technology vendor Xenomorph's TimeScape product to support trading and analysis of new asset classes within its analytical models.
PhaseCap Rolls Out StreamBase CEP
Boston-based PhaseCapital, a new quantitative investment firm that will launch next month, has rolled out technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems for managing market and trade data within the firm's proprietary…
Start with the Gateway
The benefit of offering cross-asset trading is obvious to any broker-dealer: It simplifies the trading life of institutional clients by giving them a single point of contact with their brokers. However, delivering this capability, especially…
BofA Bows Sybase RAP for Risk Data
Bank of America Securities has begun a project to consolidate data from across different business lines to produce more accurate, real-time risk and pricing metrics, using Sybase's RAP (Risk Analytics Platform) Trading Edition.
Knight Enlists Quant House in Europe
Knight Capital has begun using low-latency data and connectivity to European markets from French data and trading technology vendor Quant House, to support its London operations, officials tell Inside Market Data .
BlueCrest Builds on CEP Data Platform
London-based hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management is expanding the range of data sources and analytics that it makes available to its traders over a market data platform created using technologies from complex event processing software vendor…
Building a Better Brazilian Exchange
Nearly nine months into the integration, officials from Brazilian exchanges Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) and Bovespa are focusing on eliminating redundancies while maintaining technology upgrades. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets…
Decision Time
Automating the election process presents the biggest opportunity for firms to reduce corporate actions-related losses, says Alan Parsons, securities product manager, CheckFree
Thor Hammers Out Quant House Data Deal
New York-based high-frequency-trading hedge fund Thor Asset Management USA is expanding the number of real-time exchange datafeeds it sources via low-latency data vendor Quant House, officials tell Inside Market Data.
Credit Suisse Taps Fixnetix For AES Data
Credit Suisse is to utilize services including market data and hosting from UK-based data and trading connectivity vendor Fixnetix to support the bank's Advanced Execution Services (AES) business, under the terms of a deal signed last week, officials…
Nedbank Cap Taps Aleri for Liquidity Data Analysis
South African investment bank Nedbank Capital is planning to implement Chicago-based complex event processing software vendor Aleri's Liquidity Management System next year, to consolidate data on cash flows and liquidity positions within the bank.
Vhayu, StreamBase Alliance Wins RBC Deal
Tick database and analytics provider Vhayu and complex event processing software vendor StreamBase are claiming success for a partnership the vendors announced in May to deliver a pre-integrated tick analysis platform for historical and real-time data,…
Fear and populism
Plummeting stock prices, rising numbers of house foreclosures and steadily growing unemployment rates have led to loud calls for increased regulation. But countries should avoid knee-jerk reactions to the current financial crisis. By Emily Fraser
Paineiras Readies Xeno Tick Algo Data
Brazilian hedge fund Paineiras Investimentos is in the process of building statistical quantitative trading strategies into a deployment of Xenomorph's TimeScape data management and analysis platform, before using the system to deploy a broader range of…
Knight Unveils Data Capacity Projects
Knight Capital is in the midst of a series of technology upgrade programs designed to enable the broker to cope with ever-increasing volumes of market data, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Winterflood Preps Fixnetix MTF Data
UK-based market maker Winterflood Securities is implementing data and connectivity services from low-latency data infrastructure provider Fixnetix, to support trading on three pan- European multilateral trading facilities, officials tell Inside Market…
BNY ConvergEx Taps StreamBase CEP
Agency brokerage BNY Convergex has rolled out complex event processing software from Lexington, Mass.-based technology provider StreamBase to monitor trading and market data in its US equities trading operations.