Trading Tech
Thomson Reuters Moves Users to New ‘Last Mile’ Comms
Thomson Reuters is migrating customers to a new “last-mile” communications infrastructure, dubbed Thomson Reuters Delivery Direct, to provide more choice over how market data is delivered to customer sites from the vendor’s local points of presence.
Narrative Science Dips Quill into Portfolio Commentary
Chicago based data-to-text automation software vendor Narrative Science has rolled out Quill for Portfolio Commentary, a module to accompany its Quill platform that uses artificial intelligence to transform data into text narratives, developed to…
Markit Corporate Actions Expands
Service Adds Users, Securities
Goldman Sachs AM Launches Money Market Fund Tracker
New tool provides new data in anticipation of greater regulatory oversight.
Scrutinizing Compliance Technology
The increased importance of compliance functions within buy-side and sell-side firms has been extensively documented since the financial crisis. Matt Gibbs (MG) and Dave Hutchinson (DH), product managers at Linedata, explain how compliance technology has…
ITG's Triton to Integrate with FX Connect
Brokerage's execution management system to be combined with State Street's FX platform.
Tora Adds Markit TCA to Compass
Technology vendor Tora has announced that Markit transaction-cost analysis (TCA) tools will be integrated with its execution and order management system, Compass.
Exablaze Grows Low-Latency Data Switch Family
Melbourne, Australia-based low-latency switch provider Exablaze has unveiled ExaLink Fusion, a full-service low-latency switch aimed at high-frequency and algorithmic traders for incoming market data distribution and for sending trade orders back to…
OptionsCity Previews Rebranded Trading Platform, New Functionality
The platform and widgets will be delivered via the web.
Capricorn FM Selects IMS From Cymba Technologies
Cymba Technologies is to provide investment management capabilities to the South-African fund managers.
ASX Upgrades Corporate Actions Back Office With GoldenSource EDM
Exchange Projects 80% Productivity Improvement
Interactive Data Taps Sowa Labs for Social Media Analytics Feed
Interactive Data has rolled out a social media analytics feed from Stuttgart-based data analytics and consulting services provider Sowa Labs, to allow its clients to better assess financial markets and individual stocks.
Industry Takes Proactive Approach to European Equity OTC Clearing
Traiana, CCPs, banks work together on netting times and CFD processes.
WEBB Selects Tbricks for Cash, Derivatives
Market-making firm to consolidate trading functionality onto one platform.
Tradeweb Enters US Corporates Fracas with New Platform
Fixed income specialist looks to shake up market at an "inflection point"
Wall Street Horizon Ups Buy-Side Focus, Hires Research Director
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon is increasing its focus on the buy side after a recent academic study found that the vendor's earnings date revisions data could be used to predict stock movement, and has…
Genscape Brings Power Supply Monitoring Data to UK Market
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has expanded its coverage to monitor power flow and generation monitoring in the UK.
SS&C Adds Explorer to its Portia Platform
New tool turns critical investment data into meaningful information.
SmartTrade Targets Fixed Income with smart-FI Launch
Smart-FI release aims to ease shift to electronic infrastructure in FI derivatives trading.
HFT Turns Sour for North American Exchanges
TMX's changes mark a wider shift in the US and Canadian landscapes.
Eagle Alpha Swoops on Ex-Twitter Architect
Social media data provider Eagle Alpha recently hired former Twitter architect Evan Weaver as technical advisor to add "significant value to [the vendor's] technical architecture roadmap," officials say.
Eagle Alpha Raises $1.2M to Fund Development, Hires
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has raised $1.2 million in its second round of funding this year, which it will invest in product development and use to recruit more engineers.
South Africa's Prudential IM Deploys StatPro Analytics
Cape Town, South Africa-based Prudential Investment Managers has begun rolling out products from UK-based data and portfolio analytics vendor StatPro to support cloud access to sophisticated portfolio analytics.
Global Switch Taps Custom Connect for Connectivity, Managed Services
Alliance will reduce costs for Global Switch clients while expanding their global reach