Trading Tech
Thomson Reuters Launches New Autex Tool, Moves Another
Thomson Reuters has added two enhancements to its Autex FIX order routing.
Bitcoin Tanks as RMB Spigot Dries Up
BTC China, the country's largest exchange for the virtual currency, was forced to stop trading after a recent dictate handed down from the Chinese central bank and other regulators banned local financial institutions from dealing in it.
Open Platform: Cash in on Your Cache─Using CPU Cache, Hybrid Models and Vectors to Ditch Database Delays
As data volumes continue to rise, processing this data efficiently requires database developers to employ new methods of storing and processing data, says Steve Graves, chief executive of in-memory database provider McObject
Liquid Introduces Performance Simulator for Emerging Managers
Liquid Holdings, an OEMS and risk reporting paltform provider, says the new scheme will allow nascent hedge funds to beta-test their strategies.
Bloomberg's Compliance Center Move Marks Wider Chat Concerns
Bloomberg has announced the consolidation of its existing communications-related compliance tools into Compliance Center, a single dashboard containing administration, monitoring, search, and retention capabilities supporting real-time views into firm…
Compliance Edges Indata for Quantum Capital
Quantum Capital, a San Francisco, Calif.-based investment manager, has gone live with Indata's Intelligent Portfolio Management (iPM) software.
Increasingly Multi-Asset, City Financial Taps SunGard for Risk
The London-based investment manager, which distributes 14 different funds and is eyeing further acquisitions, has installed SunGard's APT solution for risk analysis and reporting, covering position- and portfolio-level information across its multiple…
Numerix Catches Carley for EMEA Sales
Derivatives valuation and analytics provider Numerix has hired Tim Carley as EMEA managing director to oversee the vendor's direct sales operations in the region, covering its London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm and Dubai sales and development…
Michael Villain Joins NanoSpeed as Head of Business Development
Low-latency FPGA provider NanoSpeed has appointed Michael Villain as global head of business development.
Aquis Exchange Appoints Graham Dick to Lead Sales
Pan-European equities trading venue Aquis Exchange has hired Graham Dick, co-founder of consolidated tape think-tank The COBA Project, to head its sales team.
Chaikin Bows Desktop App, ETF Data
Chaikin Analytics has adapted its Chaikin Analytics for iPad app to create a desktop workstation, incorporating its Chaikin Power Gauge alpha model of 20 fundamental and technical factors that provides a bullish or bearish rating, and six pairs of buy…
Eris Exchange Connects to RTS
Realtime Systems Group (RTS), an algorithmic trading solutions provider, says it clients will now have direct connectivity to Eris's SwapBook platform.
MarketAxess Expands Match to Wider User Base
MarketAxess has announced that its MarketAxess Trade Crossing Hub (Match) now offers a wider range of single-name credit-default swaps (CDS) to a larger universe of potential institutions.
AltExchange Publishes PE Data Standard
The alliance of more than 45 private equity general partners (GPs) and limited partners (LPs) says it has wrapped up work on the Group One standard, a detailed template for exchange of capital account, investment schedule, and cash flow activity data.
OptionsCity Unveils Global Hosting Service
OptionsCity has launched OptionsCity Hosting, a global hosting solution for its flagship trading software.
MAT Design Seen as Strange by FCMs, SEFs
Panelists on a recent Waters webcast regarding the future of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives reform discussed the US Made Available to Trade (MAT) rules, saying that the design of the regulation was perplexing.
Keler Taps SIX for Settlement and Custody Services
Swiss post-trade services provider SIX Securities Services has signed an agreement with Hungarian central securities depository (CSD) Keler to optimize Keler’s international settlement and custody capabilities.
IRD's Senior Reporter on the FCA's Review of Outsourcing
Nicholas Hamilton discusses calls from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority for asset managers to develop better contingency plans in case one of their third-party service providers fails
IEX Taps Redline Ticker NBBO Feed for Price Matching
Mutual fund-owned alternative trading system IEX Group has confirmed it is using Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency data technology provider Redline Trading Solutions' InRush 3 hardware-accelerated ticker plant to capture US equity market data to support…
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.