Trading Tech
NorthPoint’s Upgraded Portfolio Management System Targets Price Master, Reporting
Software and services provider NorthPoint Financial has released version 2.0 of its NorthPoint Enhanced Portfolio Management (EPM) System.
New Kurdistan Exchange Gets Help from Nasdaq
The Erbil Stock Exchange (ESX), located in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, will be powered by Nasdaq OMX’s X-stream trading technology. X-stream will provide ESX with a solution to trade equities and debt instruments, and position ESX to…
Edgar Online Eyes ‘Rebirth' of Data Biz with Mashery APIs
Filings and company data provider Edgar Online is seeking to open up its content to a new audience of end-users and application developers, by enlisting integration software vendor Mashery to build custom APIs (application program interfaces) around its…
Apcon Releases TS-Associates Compatible Time-Stamping Blade
Portland, Oregon-based network monitoring switch technology provider Apcon's Intellaflex 36-port, 1/10-gigabit time stamping aggregator blade is now compatible with UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates' Precision Instrumentation…
Nittan Capital Opts for GFI's Fenics Pro
Tokyo-headquartered interdealer broker Nittan Capital has deployed London-based interdealer broker GFI's Fenics Professional pricing and risk management system for foreign exchange options in its Singapore and Hong Kong operations to improve workflow…
RavenPack Crows About Expanded Coverage
Spanish news sentiment analysis provider RavenPack has added more than 22,000 new sources of news and opinion from the online editions of newspapers, journals and trade magazines, as well as specialist financial news sites and blogs to its RavenPack News…
Study: Asset Managers Grapple with Effective Data Aggregation, Analytics
In a survey commissioned by State Street and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, buy-side firms indicated that more stringent risk management standards, a growing volume of trading data, and the need to expand into new regions and asset classes…
New Equities ATS to use Verdande for Surveillance
IEX, a US equities alternative trading system (ATS) launched on Oct. 25, is using the VTEdge case-based reasoning (CBR) platform from Norway-based Verdande Technology for operational surveillance of trading activity.
Interactive Data Dials PrimeTerminal Mobile App for Apple, Android
Interactive Data’s Managed Solutions division has developed a mobile application to accompany its PrimeTerminal data workstation, to enable customers to access the platform via Apple or Android smartphones and tablet devices while away from their desks.
Wolverine Introduces Hedge Agent Applet for Executed Options
The new tool, provided through its Wolverine Execution Services (WEX) arm will allow clients on the firm's trading platform to save resources by automatically calculating hedge quantities based on current delta, and immediately sending out a…
AlgoSpan Lands in Lunda Datacenter
Ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and market data connectivity provider AlgoSpan has set up a point of presence in Nasdaq OMX's datacenter in Lunda, just outside Stockholm.
SuperDerivatives Bolsters SDX, DGX Data Coverage with Credit Options
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has added volatility surfaces for a range of credit indexes to its SDX multi-asset pricing platform for pricing structured products and its DGX market data terminal.
Nations and Exchanges
I'm in New York this week, and I can honestly say that I haven't been anywhere that's more beautiful in the autumn. Granted, Long Island and beautiful aren't two words that necessarily go hand in hand for most people, but the colors on display really are…
Singapore Exchange Selects MillenniumIT for Post-Trade Tech
MillenniumIT, the technology vendor arm of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), has announced that it will provide the post-trade technology backbone for Singapore Exchange (SGX).
OneMarketData Survey: Growing Interest for Data Services in the Cloud
There is growing interest across the financial industry in leveraging cloud computing technology for data-intensive processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost analysis, though adoption of cloud technology to support…
Will Consolidation or Fragmentation Follow NYSE–ICE, Bats–Direct Edge?
NYSE Euronext–IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Bats–Direct Edge have cleared most regulatory hurdles—NYSE–ICE is days away from being cemented, according to reports, and Bats–Direct Edge just received approval from the US Justice Department. So the…
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
Tech, Mutual Recognition Scheme Spearhead BBH's Asia Push
After 24 years in Hong Kong, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is gearing up for a potentially game-changing development related to Mainland China. Bill Rosensweig, BBH's director of investor services who formerly headed up its Infomediary platform, says the…
Lucena Readies Studies for Bloomberg App Portal, Launches Added-Value Research
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research is adding new event studies to Bloomberg's App portal of third-party applications, to meet demand from customers for out-of-the-box research based on the vendor's QuantDesk decision…
NexxCom Taps ENYX for Network Policing
La Jolla, California,-based NexxCom Wireless has selected the latest nxLink Fair Bandwidth Management (FBM) solution from Paris-based ENYX to enhance its proprietary low-latency wireless networks, supporting financial venues globally.
Interactive Data, Icap Strike Data Distribution Deal
Interactive Data has signed a licensing agreement with Icap Information Services, the data services arm of interdealer broker Icap, to make the entire universe of Icap data available on its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over…
Infront Launches Tweetwires Twitter Data Filtering Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology vendor Infront will today announce a new service, dubbed Infront Tweetwires, which filters Twitter for real-time news and sentiment related to specific industry sectors and news events, to help users extract…
First Call, CCBN Founder Parker Named EidoSearch Chairman
Jeff Parker, founder of First Call and CCBN StreetEvents, and a former chairman and chief executive of Thomson Financial, has joined Toronto-based pattern recognition and analytics provider EidoSearch as chairman of its board, to help guide the vendor to…
TT Connects to Nasdaq OMX eSpeed Platform
Trading Technologies International (TT) has announced it will connect to the Nasdaq OMX eSpeed platform in the first quarter of 2014.