Trading Tech
Crow Point Partners Picks LiquidityBook's POEMS
Hedge fund replaces Eze Software investment suite with LBX Buyside POEMS.
Tilera Co-Founder Aggarwal Joins xCelor as CEO
Aggarwal's 30 years of experience in network engineering and business developement will help drive xCelor's strategy and growth.
Barclays Launches Online Portal for Order Handling
Specs enables buy-side traders to view, verify and request changes to equities order-handling settings.
MSCI Beefs Up Fixed-Income Analytics, Modeling Suite
The upgrade comes ahead of the Barclays Point–Bloomberg Port integration.
Exegy Taps FX Vet Wilson for FX Solutions Account Management
Wilson's end-user background will anable Exegy to present its solutions in a way that resonates with FX business executives.
Redline Boosts Treasuries Support with Brokertec Feed Handler
The feed handler gives Redline support for the key electronic US Treasuries markets, following the release of a handler for eSpeed last year.
Qineqt Eyes ‘Quantamental’ Datasets
The startup is getting ready to roll out "the most stock-specific product... ever" to a small group of charter clients.
Taiwanese and Korean Exchanges Cross List ETFs
Both ETFs will be the first index-based products to track Korean and Taiwanese securities in each market.
Symphony's CEO Outlines Latest Announcements, Future Plans
David Gurle, Symphony CEO, describes the timeline and thought process for the new capabilities added to the collaboration platform.
Pound Crashes Versus Dollar, Questions Remain Around Cause
The British pound plummeted during the early hours of Asia's trading day Friday, but a clear cause of the crash has yet to be identified.
OpenMAMA Enlists Miller for Adoption Drive
Miller will bring more than 30 years of experience in business development and management roles in the market data industry.
Mandating LEIs in Asia
Registration of legal entity identifiers has been far more common in the US and Europe than in Asia, with regulations the driving force. Wei-Shen Wong finds out if regulators in Asia are following suit and mandating their use
The Business and Operational Benefits of Implementing a Single, Integrated Front-Office Platform
The notion of a single, "all singing all dancing" front-office platform has been around for a while, but still many buy-side firms are being hamstrung by sub-standard front-office technologies.
Symphony Orchestrates Partner Expansion
Symphony unveiled the new partners at its Symphony Innovate conference in New York on Oct. 6.
Symphony Announces Video Conference Feature, Partner Program, Webhooks API
The vendor held its annual event in New York on Thursday.
McKay Lowers Latency Between NJ ‘Treasury Triangle' Datacenters
The initiative reduces latency between the two main cash markets for US Treasuries.
C-Level Execs Share Cybersecurity War Stories
Panelists at this year's Chicago Trading Technology Summit discussed how they are addressing cybersecurity demands in the face of increased attacks.
OpenGamma Raises $13.3 Million, Shuffles Execs
Officials say the investment will enable OpenGamma to grow into a "world-class" player in the OTC derivatives analytics
Redi Releases New Version of Spread Trader
Application is written in HTML5 and has been rolled out on Redi's new platform.
Blockchain: The Revolution Has Been Over-Hyped
Anthony Malakian talks to several capital markets executives to determine whether irrational exuberance has overtaken common sense.
Bloomberg Point/Port Apprehensions Are Not Going Away
Surveys of fixed-income market participants not showing any increased optimism over Bloomberg’s acquisition of Barclays Point risk analytics platform.
Advent Outsourcing Services: A Puzzle Where No Two Pieces Are Alike
Following its purchase last year by SS&C, Advent has jumped into hosted technology and outsourcing services by revamping its limited On Demand offering into a robust set of Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS). While many buy-side shops have moved…
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 38: Bruno Campenon, BNP Paribas Securities Services
Dan talks to with Bruno Campenon, Americas head of custody and clearing services for BNP Paribas Securities Services, about the bank gaining approval to be a custodian for CME Clearing.
CME Clearing Names BNP Paribas an Approved Custodian
French bank will serve as a custodian for CME Clearing for US Treasury and federal agency securities.