Trading Tech
Deutsche Bank Singapore Taps Avaloq for its Wealth Management Back Office Services
Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management, a division of the Deutsche Bank Group, has selected Avaloq Sourcing Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of Avaloq Group, to provide back offices services to its wealth management arm in Singapore.
Fenergo and BMO Continue Compliance Partnership
Software provider Fenergo and Bank of Montreal Capital Markets (BMO) are preparing to launch phase two of their onboarding project, designed to meet regulatory deadlines in July.
Nobody Reads These Things Anyway, Right?
Deutsche's FCA penalty leads this week's coverage.
September 2014: Change Is the Only Constant
Machine learning and artificial intelligences are reshaping algorithms into adaptive programs that can adjust on the fly, which Victor says could end up all but eradicating losses.
Barclays Plans Texas Tech Center
Barclays will open a technology campus located in McKinney, Texas, and aims to move in by fall 2014, the town's development body has announced.
Dark Pools in the Firing Line
As the New York attorney general, the SEC and Finra set their sights on dark pool trading, larger market structure issues are coming to the fore that will force institutional traders to reexamine how they seek out liquidity. By Anthony Malakian
Opening Cross: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks... But New Tricks Still Need Old Dogs
It takes a certain blend of skills to combine the experience that comes with age and the dynamism of youth. For eternity, mankind has tried both to put old heads on young shoulders, and find ways to teach old dogs new tricks and recapture the energy and…
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
BondHawk Launches Fixed-Income Platform
BondHawk Systems has announced the release of its BondHawk Trader platform, focusing on fixed-income trading on both the buy and sell sides.
Firms Eye Disaster Recovery Amid Increasingly Interconnected Markets
After the recent cyber-attack against the European Central Bank, the financial industry is taking another look at business continuity and resilience. As the marketplace grows in complexity and participants become increasingly interconnected, disaster…
Morningstar iPad App Ups Content, Capabilities
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar recently updated its Morningstar for iPad research, market monitoring and portfolio management app with new content and capabilities.
KRX Adds Real-Time Price Banding
The Korea Exchange (KRX) has announced new safety measures for its derivatives market, introducing real-time price banding to prevent mass fluctuations.
Ghost in the Shell: AI Expands Beyond Algos
As market movements become faster and more complex, it is impossible for humans to react quickly enough to those changes, requiring machines to step in. Now, artificial intelligence is extending its reach beyond algorithms, permeating other aspects of…
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Bucharest Exchange Bows Tablet App
The Bucharest Stock Exchange has rolled out a tablet app that supplies users with market information, in an effort to increase investors' interaction with the exchange.
CenturyLink Opens Second Toronto Datacenter
CenturyLink Technology Solutions, the former Savvis hosting and network business subsidiary acquired by internet and telecoms service provider CenturyLink, has opened a new datacenter in Markham, Toronto.
Israeli Bourse Mulls Trading Week Change
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) is considering a change in its trading week that will see it line up with standard practice at other exchanges.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Liquid Triples Datacenter Rack Space
The buy-side trading and risk management system provider says it has achieved three and a half times previous capacity at its Equinix datacenters in support of client growth.
BondHawk Launches Fixed-Income Platform
BondHawk Systems has announced the release of its BondHawk Trader platform, focusing on fixed-income trading on both the buy and sell sides.
NRI Releases Private Cloud Solution for Asset Managers
Nomura Research Institute has announced the release of Arena Private Cloud Service, known as Arena Private, which it says will be the first service of its kind for asset managers in Japan and will build off the provider's existing T-Monolix platform-as-a…
Bursa Malaysia Debuts Asean Post-Trade Services
Bursa Malaysia has introduced Asean Post-Trade Services to facilitate the clearing and settlement of outbound trades executed on the Asean Trading Link.
Taiwan Exchange Completes Deployment of Second-Generation Trading System
Trade volumes are increasing and latency is decreasing globally, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region as trading desks become ever-more sophisticated. Participants are expecting, and in many cases demanding, the ability to trade multiple markets using…