Trading Tech
Recognia Names CFO MacAskill New CEO
Ottawa, Canada-based technical analysis software vendor Recognia has appointed Kenneth MacAskill chief executive, replacing founder Rick Escher, who has stepped down from the CEO role but will remain actively involved in the company and its board of…
Bond Analytics Vendor Hessegim Adds Fitch ratings data
Israeli fixed income software provider Hessegim Software has added credit rating data from Fitch Solutions-the software arm of ratings agency Fitch-to its Prafis fixed income analytics desktop.
Moody's Analytics Adds Structured Finance Portal
The new web-based platform will provide enhanced content to a range of portfolio managers, underwriters, and risk professionals, with an initial focus on collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).
Indus Valley Partners Launches Cloud-Based Compliance Platform
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a New York-based provider of solutions to alternative asset managers, has introduced IVP Raptor cloud, enabling alternative asset managers to meet their global regulatory reporting needs from a purpose-built cloud platform.
Take Away Spreadsheets? From My Cold, Dead Hands
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets will continue to be widely used at asset management firms for the foreseeable future. But new regulations, technological advancements, and risk management concerns are leading buy-side firms to examine ways to lessen their…
Thomson Reuters Adds Buy-Side Focused Features to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its flagship desktop Eikon platform with a raft of new features designed specifically for buy-side customers.
Redi Adds OTC Markets Data
Trading technology provider Redi Global Technologies has begun distributing real-time Level 1 and Level 2 market data from New York-based over-the-counter equities exchange OTC Markets Group, to offer its clients access to a broader range of traded…
BNY Mellon Survey: Institutional Investors More Focused Than Ever on Risk Management
A recent survey by BNY Mellon, New Frontiers of Risk: Revisiting the 360° Manager, has found that institutional investors are more than ever focusing on their risk management capabilities, and are also on the look-out for new sets of risk tools.
CME Eyes Summer Data Protocol Switch
CME Group is preparing to launch a new version of its market data platform later this year, MDP 3.0, which will feature a binary market data protocol designed to reduce the bandwidth required to deliver CME market data.
Opening Cross: ‘Location, Location, Location’ Is Only Half the Battle
Wherever you feel at home, your location is ultimately only as good as the leverage it provides.
BATS–Direct Edge to Equalize NY4, NY5 Latency, Post-2015 Equinix Move
BATS Global Markets will ensure that trading members of its BATS and Direct Edge exchanges will experience the same latency whether they co-locate in datacenter provider Equinix’s Secaucus, NJ NY4 or NY5 facilities when the US equities and options…
Fidessa Eyes Asia-Pac Data, Connectivity, Co-Lo Expansion
Trading technology and market data provider Fidessa plans to expand its connectivity network to China’s futures markets and may consider setting up new co-location sites in Southeast Asia, including in Thailand and Malaysia, depending on client demand.
Interactive Data Names Brown, Pastro to Senior Roles
Interactive Data last month appointed Sean Brown as president of its 7Ticks low-latency infrastructure unit in Chicago and Al Pastro as chief information officer of application development, based in New York.
UBS Executes First Interest-Rate Swap as Introducing Broker
UBS Investment Bank has completed its first trade as an introducing broker on behalf of a client via UBS Neo, the bank’s global distribution and execution services platform.
All Eyes on Outsourcing
After UBS announced last month that it would outsource most of its fixed-income trading platform to Murex and Ion Trading, Marina Daras looks at how financial services firms intend to manage their IT costs by reassessing their outsourcing options.
Recognia Adds ‘Featured Ideas' to Technical Insight
Ottawa, Canada-based technical analysis software vendor Recognia has released an updated version of its Technical Insight analysis platform, including a new "Featured Ideas" section that makes it easier for active traders to identify pricing trends and…
State Street Launches European Online ETF Platform
State Street Global Exchange has announced the launch of FundConnect, an online trading platform for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) designed to enhance the speed and efficiency in European ETF order-taking process.
ITG Targets Emerging Hedge Funds with New OMS, EMS
Will Geyer, head of platforms at ITG, and John McKeon, managing director of platforms, discuss the broker's latest applications.
FISD Overcomes Non-Display Best Practices Stalemate
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures (BIPPS) Working Group of industry association FISD has reached an agreement on best practices around non-display data usage policies, following 18 months of stalemate on the issue resulting from conflicts between…
Ex-Cantor Team Launches Lucera, Targets High-Frequency FX
The low-latency infrastructure provider has set out to offer the industry a flexible cost scheme that is particularly applicable to trading in fragmented markets like foreign exchange (FX).
Gemini Plumps for SunGard’s Hedge360 Platform
Gemini Hedge Fund Services, the Hauppauge, New York-based hedge fund administrator, has selected SunGard’s Hedge360 application suite as its platform of choice. Hedge360 will enable Gemini Hedge to increase is operational efficiency and by so doing…
Big Data DB Vendor Altibase Taps Intel for Performance Boost
In-memory database provider Altibase has released a version of its HybridDB database running on Intel Xeon E7 V2 processors to provide clients with the ability to process and analyze larger volumes of data in real time.
BATS Taps Equinix as Primary Datacenter, Preps 2015 Move for BATS, Direct Edge Platforms
As part of its efforts to integrate the operations of its recent Direct Edge acquisition, US stock and options exchange operator BATS Global Markets will migrate both markets' trading technology to Equinix's new NY5 datacenter next year under a long-term…
WSE Confirms Acquisition of Aquis Exchange Stake
The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has finalized its acquisition of a 36 percent stake in the newly launched pan-European stock exchange, Aquis Exchange.