Trading Tech
Exegy Grows FX Coverage with Bloomberg, Currenex, Gain Feed Handlers
St. Louis, MO-based low-latency feed handler and data platform appliance vendor Exegy has rolled out new feed handlers for foreign exchange trading platforms Bloomberg Tradebook, Currenex ITCH and Gain GTX within its Exegy Ticker Plant to expand its…
Outsourced But Not Out of Mind
The UK's asset management industry has responded to regulators' concerns about managing risks associated with outsourcing, but continued change will be needed in the years to come
Data Lineage, Credit Management Lead iLevel 6.5 Enhancements
The platform provider to private investors has updated its flagship private capital data platform to reflect the range of new clients' needs as well as their investors' greater data demands.
LCH.Clearnet's CDSClear Now Handling Single-Name CDS
LCH.Clearnet has announced that its credit-default swap (CDS) clearing service, CDSClear, will now offer single-name CDS clearing.
VWD Preps Metals App for iPhone, iPad
Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD will this week launch a new iPhone and iPad app for metals traders, in a move designed to meet increasing demand from its desktop users for more targeted mobile products.
Hard Shell, Soft Center: Waters Panelists Talk Information Security
Three buy-side chief technologists told the audience at Waters USA in New York on Monday that managing information security is like rummaging through a box of mystery chocolates—only less sweet.
Conning Turns to Markit for Depth and Scope of Corporates Pricing
Conning, an $82 billion Hartford, Conn.-based global asset manager, holds a majority of its assets, much of them on behalf of insurance clients, in bonds. In switching to Markit's pricing service, Conning's chief data officer Brian Baczyk says the…
WFE Creates Global Cybersecurity Committee
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has announced the formation of a new committee tasked with developing best-practice guidelines for information security when it comes to market infrastructures.
Commerzbank Taps Regis-TR for Trade Reporting
Commerzbank, has selected European trade repository Regis-TR to ensure its trade reporting service is in line with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) obligation to report over-the-counter and listed derivative transactions.
SIA-Colt Wins Monte Titoli T2S Connection Mandate
The SIA-Colt partnership will connect Italian central securities depository (CSD) Monte Titoli to the Target2-Securities (T2S) platform for the first wave of migration, the firms have announced.
Banks Consolidating Screen Real Estate on Their Platforms, Says Waters USA Panel
The three keys to real estate are location, location, location. The three keys to keeping customers on your front end technology? Real estate, real estate, real estate. As in, screen real estate. There's only so much space to go around, and any provider…
Daiwa Europe Transfers Repo Business to Torstone’s Inferno
Torstone Technology, a London-based provider of derivatives processing software, announced it has migrated Daiwa Capital Markets Europe’s clearance and settlement repo business onto its back-office processing platform, Inferno.
Calypso Extends Clearing Solution to Support SEF Connectivity
Software vendor Calypso Technology has announced it has extended its over-the-counter (OTC) clearing solution for end-users to support swap execution facility (SEF) connectivity.
Collateral Transformation, Agency Execution to Reinforce Swap Dealers' 'Stickiness'
As the buy side ramps up simulation of electronic swaps execution ahead of next year, panelists say old questions remain about what sell-side services will gain steam, and which are technologically feasible at all.
Collateral Transformation, Agency Execution to Reinforce Swap Dealers' 'Stickiness'
As the buy side ramps up simulation of electronic swaps execution ahead of next year, panelists say old questions remain about what sell-side services will gain steam, and which are technologically feasible at all.
Markham to Head Updata's Houston Office
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has named William Markham senior vice president of business development at of the vendor's new office in Houston, Texas, which is due to open in early 2014 to meet the needs of a growing customer base in…
SpryWare Adds Data to Cloud Ticker Plant
Chicago-based low-latency feed handler and ticker plant provider SpryWare has expanded its Proximity Cloud hosted ticker plant to include full order book data, including 45 days of historical full order book data and a calculated top-of-book price, with…
B-next Taps Data Vet Rhoden
Market surveillance and compliance software provider B-next has hired Mike Rhoden as product consultant, based in London, to strengthen the vendor's UK operations and expand its international client base.
Bank of Beirut Extends Misys Relationship with Value Implementation
One of Lebanon's largest commercial banks, Bank of Beirut will use Misys' Sophis Value platform to support its expanding treasury, asset management, and brokerage functions.
DataArt Adds AIFMD Reporting to Form PF Solution
The new software enables automated filing for the alternative investment fund managers directive (AIFMD), and can also be fit into customized, back-end data integrations.
Single-Dealer Platforms Still Work for FX, Fixed Income
Commentators have predicted the demise of single-dealers platforms for years, said JPMorgan’s Alexander Nacht, but they may be focused too much on equities.
ITG Introduces Algo Prism in Canada
Agency broker and technology provider ITG has introduced ITG Algorithms Prism to the Canadian market, providing traders with up-to-the-second visibility into the behavior of its algorithms.
SIX FinInfo Unveils ‘Ticks by SIX' Historical Data Service
SIX Financial Information, the data vendor business of Swiss exchange operator and clearing organization SIX Group, has launched a new historical data service of trade and quote data back to June 2007 for its universe of global equities, bonds, indices,…
Waters USA 2013 Keynote: UBS CTO Voo on Data Sovereignty, Managing Cloud Perceptions
Correy Voo, UBS CTO for platform services and applied innovation, used his keynote to assess the cloud: its reality, its perception, and the reasons regulatory trends could temporarily hold its wider adoption back.