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The Future of Liquidity Management
It's safe to assume that everyone would agree that liquidity management systems (LMSes) are still in their infancy as various voices within the industry are still trying to define what the term truly means. At one end of the spectrum, many vendors are…
Like a Bull to the Slaughter
Whether you fall into the camp that says governments should intervene to protect orderly markets by supporting companies such as AIG that threaten to collapse, or the group that says market forces should be allowed to run their course even if that means…
CAPIS Co-Lo Boosts Data Bandwidth
Dallas-based broker Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) will next month move its market data operations to co-location facilities provided by third-party datacenter operator Data Bank, and will discontinue use of its two in-house datacenters.
Portuguese Bank Rolls Out Etrali Turrets
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HighStep Adds Connotate Data to Models
Mamaroneck, NY-based start-up hedge fund HighStep Capital is incorporating market trends-identified from fundamental data sourced from the Internet using a series of software "agents" from New Brunswick, NJ-based vendor Connotate-into the firm's…
Think Trade Preps PrismTech Platform
Encinitas, CA-based proprietary trading firm Think Trade will later this year roll out the OpenSplice DDS (Data Distribution Service) platform from Burlington, MA-based middleware provider PrismTech, to manage data latency within the firm's automated…
Energy Firm GasTerra Squeezes Data Spend
Dutch energy trading firm GasTerra has initiated a project to review its market data consumption and spend in order to help ensure compliance with usage policies, rationalize costs and better prepare for future contract negotiations.
Augustus Adds CMA Data to Risk System
Augustus Asset Managers has integrated end-of-day credit default swap data from credit and derivatives pricing vendor Credit Market Analysis into its Derivation risk management system, officials say.
Terra Nova Adds TSX via Hosted SpryWare
Chicago-based broker and clearer Terra Nova Financial is preparing to roll out data from the Toronto Stock Exchange to institutional and active trader clients of the firm's electronic trading workstation from its Tradient Technologies subsidiary, using…
MUSI Preps Contributions Data Upgrade
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International is planning a global pricing system for rates and exotic derivative products contributed by dealers, made possible by the latest version of Gissing Software's ConteX price contribution system, which the firm will…
BGI Deploys OMD OneTick
Barclays Global Investors has rolled out the OneTick solution for processing historical and real-time tick data from tick data management vendor OneMarketData, vendor officials tell Inside Market Data .
Schneider Trading Cuts Latency as Volumes Rise
London-based execution broker Schneider Trading Associates expects to cut the latency of its data network by at least half in September, when the firm will complete an upgrade of its internal network infrastructure to cope with rising data volumes,…
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Kempen Deploys CMA for CDS Pricing
Kempen Capital Management, the buy-side subsidiary of Dutch merchant bank Kempen & Co., is sourcing credit derivatives pricing data from UK-based vendor Credit Market Analysis to support daily valuations for its credit derivative funds, officials tell…
South Africa's Nedbank Rolls Out Coral8
Johannesburg-based investment bank Nedbank Capital, a division of Nedbank Ltd., last month deployed software vendor Coral 8's complex event processing engine, to support the bank's migration to new trading systems.
Options Trading Goes Ballistic
As asset managers and hedge funds continue to grow their appetite for listed equities options, a number of new firms are springing up to handle the special needs associated with institutional orders. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with Ballista's CEO Rob…
LaCrosse Grows Valuations with CMA Data
LaCrosse Global Fund Services, a New York-based provider of fund administration and operations services to hedge funds, is looking to migrate its global client base to daily credit derivative valuations from credit data provider CMA's DataVision service.
Landsbanki Deploys Infront Terminals
Icelandic banking group Landsbanki is rolling out data displays from Norwegian vendor Infront across its business lines in Iceland, and is negotiating an enterprise license to deploy the product in other regions, officials say.
Santander Plans Data 'Service Center'
Spanish banking group Santander is planning to create a global service center for IT and operations, covering market and reference data, to establish service benchmarks and define roadmaps for future data usage, officials say.
Pioneer Expands TheMarkets.com Rollout
Dublin-based asset manager Pioneer Investments plans to deploy TheMarkets.com's equity and fixed-income research platform for investment staff at offices in Eastern Europe, in an ongoing rollout of the vendor's platform as part of an internal research…
Liberate the Datacenter
It's time to shake up the organization chart a bit. For the longest time, corporate datacenters have been managed by banks' operations and real estate organizations. This needs to stop-and stop now. Administering a datacenter should be in the hands of…
DZ Bank Readies VWD Terminal Rollout
Frankfurt-based Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank (DZ Bank) is preparing a major initiative to roll out new market data terminals from local vendor VWD to service thousands of end users over the course of 2008, sources tell Inside Market Data .
Weisel Taps Pivot for Research Distribution
San Francisco-based investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners is rolling out technology from messaging and collaboration infrastructure vendor Pivot for distributing research, prices and indications of interest via instant messaging, officials say.