Trading Tech
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.
Invea Bows FPGA Data, Trading Appliance
Invea-Tech, a provider of hardware acceleration technologies based in Brno in the Czech Republic, has released an FPGA (field-programmable gate array)-based trading system, TradeCope, which combines software management with hardware for handling market…
ITG Releases Trade Management Systems for Hedge Funds
New York-based execution and research broker ITG has launched a product suite for hedge funds that includes a hosted order management system (OMS) and execution management system (EMS).
Fidessa Sets Up SGX Data, Trading Co-Lo
Trading technology and market data provider Fidessa will establish a point of presence at the Singapore Exchange's datacenter to provide the vendor's clients in Southeast Asia with sub-millisecond access to the SGX matching engine and market data.
Société Générale Extends Securities Services to West Africa
Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) has announced that it will offer securities services in West Africa through Societe Generale de Banques en Côte d'Ivoire (SGBCI), the French bank's subsidiary in the state.
Parkins to Lead Lombard Risk’s Sales Efforts
Lombard Risk Management, the London-based provider integrated regulatory reporting, compliance, and collateral management technology and services to the capital markets, has appointed Simon Parkins as the firm's global sales director as part of its…
Fidessa Co-Locates in Singapore, Adds Vietnamese Broker
Trading technology vendor Fidessa has announced that it will co-locate in the Singapore Exchange's (SGX) datacenter, in addition to signing up the first Vietnam-based broker to its global network.
Brazilian Asset Manager Switches to Eze OMS
Rio de Janeiro-based asset manager Dynamo Administração de Recursos is now live on the Eze Order Management System (OMS).
Real-Time Risk: Keeping It Real
Pitches for real-time risk solutions focus more on the sell side than the buy side. Jake Thomases set out to determine how much hedge funds and asset managers care about calculating risk in the blink of an eye. Some do, but it’s largely dependent on…
HSE Rolls Out Trayport GlobalVision For Energy Market Overview, Trading
Slovenian wholesale electricity trading firm Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) has rolled out Trayport’s GlobalVision Trading Gateway to enable its traders to view over-the-counter energy prices and trade on twenty European markets, power exchanges and…
For Eaton Vance, SEF Aggregation Demonstrates 'Art of the Possible'
Ahead of the functional made-available-to-trade (MAT) deadline for certain fixed-to-floating interest-rate swaps, Boston-based asset manager Eaton Vance sought to combine familiarity of trading protocol with control over information leakage. The result…
Saxo Bank Adds Futures Spread Trading for Mobile
The e-trading specialist says clients can now trade futures spreads across its platforms, including SaxoTrader smartphone and tablet apps, covering intra-market spreads as well as named calendar spreads on a range of gold, oil and commodities, rates,…
S&P CapIQ Adds Credit Risk Models to Capital IQ Desktop; XpressFeed Next
Data, research and analytics provider S&P Capital IQ will this week add new credit analysis functionality to its Capital IQ desktop, to support financial institutions’ credit risk monitoring activities.
Dhaka Bourse Goes Live with Trapets Surveillance System
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has implemented the InstantWatch Market surveillance suite from vendor Trapets, and gone live with the system.
ICBC Turns to AxiomSL for Euro Compliance Support
Beijing-headquartered ICBC, formerly known as the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, has contracted New York-based Axiom Software Laboratories to support its European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) over-the-counter (OTC) transaction…
Etrali Rolls Out Mobile Voice Recording in Japan
Etrali Trading Solutions has extended its mobile voice-recording service to Japan, and will partner Natterbox to help banks in the region complying with record-keeping requirements.
Scotiabank Deploys Fenergo for Compliance
Scotiabank's global banking and markets division has implemented Fenergo's Regulatory Onboarding product to support its existing systems for compliance.
EFG Asset Management Selects Quartal Commission
EFG Asset Management, part of the EFG International private banking group, has selected Quartal Commission, the commission management component of Quartal Financial Solutions' broader software suite.
Collateral Optimization Still Not Widespread, But Growing
A survey by InteDelta and SunGard conducted last summer revealed a dismally low adoption rate of collateral-optimization systems. Only three percent of respondents called their optimization processes advanced or fully automated.