Trading Tech
BNY's AccessEdge Collateral Portal Connects to Bloomberg
BNY Mellon has added a link with Bloomberg to its AccessEdge collateral management portal, allowing collateral receivers and providers to instruct collateral trades from the Bloomberg Professional service.
Advent Makes Across-the-Board Upgrades
San Francisco-based Advent Software has added functionality to its Geneva, Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), Moxy, Advent Rules Manager, and Advent Revenue Center products.
Startup Metamako Launches 4ns Switch, Dismisses Zeptonics History
Startup Australian low-latency provider Metamako launched its first product today, Dec. 4, an ultra-fast switch that company officials say combines latency of four nanoseconds with high levels of monitoring functionality.
Heward Takes SS&C's Wealth Management Platform
Heward Investment Management has selected SS&C Technologies' Global Wealth Platform (GWP), the vendor has announced.
Backed by Calypso, OTC Clearing Hong Kong Completes First RMB Swap
The non-deliverable forward renminbi seven-day repo swap was executed last week using the financial technology provider's central counterparty (CCP) over-the-counter (OTC) clearing solution and collateral management module.
Fidelity Adds Conditional Orders to Service Bureau
A catchy name can go a long way toward making a product popular. Fidelity’s bland-branded Service Bureau must be doing it some other way.
BNY Mellon Launches Liquidity Administration Service
BNY Mellon is rolling out a new liquidity administration service for funds of hedge funds and pension plans.
eVestment Adds HFR Hedge Fund Data
Atlanta, GA-based investment analytics software vendor eVestment is integrating alternative investment data and indexes from Hedge Fund Research-a Chicago-based provider of hedge fund industry databases, reports and indexes-into its suite of analytics…
Asian Broker CLSA Uses Ullink for Risk
CLSA has selected Ullink’s pre-trade risk management system for its pan-Asian trading activity.
CIOs Take the Lead on Security
For the December issue of Waters, Tim Murray profiled Allianz CIO Ralf Schneider. Anthony looks at some of the more interesting takeaways.
Markit Selected by ASIFMA for Hong Kong Electronic Equities Compliance
The financial information provider's Counterparty Manager technology will be deployed by buy-side and brokerage members of the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association ahead of new Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) rules…
Perseus Launches London Metro Microwave Data Network
New York-based low-latency network provider Perseus Telecom has launched a new microwave data distribution service that allows customers to connect wirelessly to major London financial markets.
Object Trading Adds OpenMAMA Interface to FrontRunner
Trading technology and data platform provider Object Trading is adding support for NYSE Technologies' OpenMAMA messaging layer framework-the open-source version of its Middleware Agnostic Messaging API-to its Frontrunner direct market access suite, to…
Euroclear Confirms UK T+2 Settlement from Next Year
Euroclear UK and Ireland has said it is coordinating with a number of UK venues to ensure that shortened local settlement cycles will be in effect from 2014, in line with regulatory mandates.
ICE, DTCC Announce Closure of NYPC
The IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have announced that New York Portfolio Clearing (NYPC) will be wound down, with interest-rate futures listed on NYSE Liffe US moving to ICE Clear Europe.
Execs Exit Iress in Canada, South Africa
Australia-headquartered data and trading technology provider Iress Market Technology last week announced the departure of two senior executives at its subsidiaries in Canada and South Africa.
Eze Adds Workflow and Reporting Enhancements to Tradar 5.1
Eze Software Group has released version 5.1 of its Tradar PMS portfolio management system for the buy side.
Infront Re-org Boosts Data Quality, Service
Norwegian market data and trading technology provider Infront has increased its focus on market data quality following a recent revamp of its client services team that has also allowed the company to provide its customers with quicker and better answers…
Wall Street Horizon Creates Historical Event Analytics
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon is developing a number of new products based on its historical dataset of information on corporate earnings releases and other single-stock events, to support the back…
Open Platform: The Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data in Finance
Big Data grabbed the attention of CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs in 2013, who focused resources on analyzing, managing, storing and securing the rapid growth in data volumes. But, asks David Lauer, market structure and technology architecture consultant at…
James Rundle: Round Pegs, Square Holes
James takes away several key points from this year’s European Trading Architecture Summit, the most pertinent of which is that sometimes, the benefits of projects and technology initiatives are often hard to see at the start.
Max Bowie: Analytics—The Next Generation of Opportunity
A new breed of predictive analytical tools is finding its way into traders’ toolkits. But, says Max, the implications for these technologies have the potential to extend much further into other areas of a data consumer’s workflow, from the type of data…
Portfolio-Compression Algorithms Proving Useful in New SEF Landscape
As SEFs’ swaps execution gets off the ground, post-trade activities like portfolio-compression algorithms are proving increasingly popular as dealers and their futures commission merchant clearing arms cope with new demands, and potentially, new styles…
ICE and CME Receive Trade Repository Approvals
Intercontinental Exchange Group and the CME Group have both received regulatory approval to operate a Trade Repository (TR) for the reporting of swaps and futures trade data under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).